A Missouri Standards Property Boundary Survey is by far the most common type of survey likely to meet your needs. We will find or set your property corners and provide you with a detailed bird’s-eye view map of the property, showing where your property lines are relative to the improvements on it. This means you can finally know which side of the line your and your neighbor’s fences are on!
If you are preparing to buy or sell a house, we strongly recommend that you order a boundary survey, because they are so good at catching potential problems with the property that might hold up the sale. If you are working with a title company or have an existing title policy, we can apply it to our survey to show the location of easements. Those easements might surprise you, and can affect future plans for the property, such as where you can build a garage or a pool. Boundary surveys are a critical part of any informed real estate transaction. Know where your land starts and stops before you try to buy or sell it!
This is also the best type of survey to order if you are preparing to:
- install a fence or dog fence
- do any landscaping projects
- install a sprinkler system
- get a new driveway
Before doing these types of projects, you’ll want to contact your local department of planning, because many will require a boundary survey before issuing you a work permit anyway! In addition to clearly marking your property corners, we can also set wooden stakes along your property lines in the areas you plan to work to make sure that you and your contractors stay inside your property and don’t cause any problems with the neighbors. If your neighbors are doing this type of work without a survey, get one to make sure they don’t cross the line either!
Boundary surveys are fundamental to most other types of surveys, so you can think of them as “included” in the other options that have more detailed requirements.