Getting Lucky

The permit office rejected my drawings for the driveway addition we are planning. They recommended I hire a surveyor to prepare the proper documentation. It was going to cost me around $500 to get this done. I was bummed.

I had a copy of a survey done for a previous owner. The permit office said that survey was skewed. Momoko recommended that I contact the original surveyor to get a copy of the orignal. They were on the Internet. So I called them up. For a nice $25 they would send me some copies. Yes.

I just got the docs today. Now I see what went wrong. I had a copy on a normal 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper. The originals were on long 8.5 x 14 paper. Now I am ready to go back and get my permit approved.

The Fence Guys

Our house has a fence surrounding the back yard. At least part of the back is fenced. But we have many different fences on the different sides. One of them is falling apart. The other got broken by a falling tree. The last one is made of chain link and does not look good.

So I got the fence guy to come out. Actually I had two of them come out. Both of them said a new fence would cost a lot of $$$. They also said they could not find out where the edge of our yard was. For that I would need to hire a surveyor.

I called up one of the surveyors to find out where our yard actually ends and the neighbor's begins. Two cats came out in a pick up truck. They came with some shovels. They found the end points of the property. Then they drove stakes in the ground to mark them. They tied some red flags to the stakes so you can see them from far away. Great. Now I can see we have a huge yard. This is going to take a lot of catnip to pay the fence man.