Due Diligence Survey for Land With Irrigation Ditch Rights

If you are buying land and an irrigation ditch runs across it, you have a question most home inspections and title searches don’t fully answer. Ditches often come with water rights, upkeep duties, and access rules that go back many years. Sometimes they go back further than the deed itself. A due diligence survey is […]
ALTA Land Survey for Properties With Split Mineral Estates

Some property comes with a detail you can’t see by walking the land. The person who owns the surface may not own the minerals below it. When those two interests belong to different owners, the property has a split mineral estate. For a buyer, lender, developer or title professional, that split changes what you need […]
How Drone Surveying Captures Foothill Terrain

A foothill lot in Colorado Springs rarely sits flat. The ground rises, dips, and folds around rock and trees. From a few spots on the ground, a survey crew sees pieces of the property, but not always how those pieces fit together. Drone surveying gives one more way to look at the same land, this […]