I'm buying some farm land and a survey has not been done in a long time. Who is responsible for the survey payment? Buyer of seller? Land is in MS..thanks

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Posted by bryso

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Posted on 12/10/12 at 7:11 pm to WmWallace

id say buyer

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Posted by WmWallace

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Posted on 12/10/12 at 7:34 pm to bryso

fair enough, bought two previous tracts and never had to do this..just wondering as seemed in order to sell your land a survey would already be in hand..thanks

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Posted by bryso

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Posted on 12/10/12 at 7:53 pm to WmWallace

if its really old family land its not shocking...

try the courthouse... the owner might not have anything but the courthouse might.

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Posted by Da Hammer

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Posted on 12/10/12 at 10:03 pm to bryso

IMO it should be the seller with buyer re-paying at time of sale. The reason I say this is if you pay for the survey and the deal falls through you just completely wasted your $ on the survey. If the seller pays and it falls through they can offer it with the land to the next buyer. That is the way I have always worked surveys on land purchases. However in todays buyers market nothing would surprise me.

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Posted by fishfighter

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Posted on 12/11/12 at 4:06 am to Da Hammer

It is best to make sure the survey is up to date. Old places that were surveyed back in the 1950's and early always would mark the place with a + or - X amonut of ac's. When I had my place surveyed, I came up short about 15 ac's out of 378 ac's.

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