question on property rights

[Swimmer]

For the prelims go to your local tax assessors office and check if the have an "as built" plan the builder or developer is/has filed when the house was built. Short of that at least grab a copy of your plot plan that I'm sure they have and use to tax your property. If your house is on it, figure out what scale it is in and using a ruler with that scale on it measure from the foundation lines on the plot plan to the edge of the property line as noted on the plot plan. Using this information take the metal tape your going to buy thats long enough to reach from the house perpendicularly to where the line is supposed to be from your foundation of your house to the closest point in a staight line. This is only an approximation and not to be used as a legal survey but it will surely give you an idea about where your lot line is within a foot or so if you measure carefully. This is the same method used by surveyors whom banks hire to check your property lines of the hosue your buying before you can pass papers. The surveyors survey for this bank service is only an approximation and it works for them. I know I spent five years as a transit man on a survey crew. Like I said its not exact but it should give you an idea.