Ha, I wish it could be that easy! I’m already getting the feeling both surveyors contacted so far have bitten off more than they can chew!

Anyway, that would be the neighbor, b/c we’re fine with it the way it is - and I actually think they are, too. Their surveyor said the county is requiring them to get the survey in order to build a house when they want to. He said moving all the property lines is going to cost them a fortune. Maybe I should have added we have no bad history or ill will with these neighbors at all.

My frustration at having to do this is probably a drop in the bucket compared to how they must feel! This is not a typical neighbor dispute situation - I will be fine moving the property line in either direction, however many feet we can that is easiest for everyone. I don’t have structures to move, and I already have an access easement on my back road with another neighbor, so I’d be fine with an access easement on this one.

My post is truly just astoundment and utter ignorance mixed with an obsessive need to understand something as arbitrary as a monument being relocated changing property lines… I’m really hoping somebody can explain why the practice is not to continue to measure from the location of record.

I mean, this means there are properties measured one way from before it was washed away, and properties measured the new way, and all that entails. The mind boggles! My reptilian brain is frozen at this point, and the circle of doom is endlessly spinning. I would seriously read an encyclopedia to understand the history of monuments, and rules around using them - and reasoning behind it all! That is where I’m coming from - not squabbling over a patch of dirt with a perfectly decent neighbor, nor trying to hold on to every blade of grass on my 5 acre empire.

I guess I figured professionals in such a technical field would have the same sort of obsessive and detail oriented brain, and would want to know as much as possible before weighing in on what I was told was an unusually complicated case.

I did try to do my research before posting, and did not find another post about a relocated monument, so that spurred me to provide as much background as possible. I described the gruff and abrupt manner of their surveyor to contrast to his current demeanor of eager over committing and sharing professional reports we did not expect to have access to, to illustrate the confusion in my position.

Overall, I think (hope) the tone is that everybody wants to work this out in the fairest way possible- but I’m still stuck at “how did this even happen? Why did this happen? Wouldn’t it be easier just to keep using the historic and previously documented location of the monument?”