Need a legal description of property

Lump in the costs of it with the sale price and discuss it with the neighbor.

To do it right, you will probably need a surveyor. Or you could tweak the description appropriately and take your chances.

Confirm with bank you'd need a stamped (by a surveyor) legal description to meet their needs. Otherwise I'd attempt this myself using your and your neighbor's surveys, a scale/ruler and protractor.

Or, the best idea is to have the neighbor foot the bill as mentioned above.

You 100% need a surveyor.

yeah, I agree on getting it done right after pondering it a minute. You don't want some half-assed homemade legal description holding up a future sale, etc.

If the Bank holds a lien on the real property, they will need to approve the release of collateral (the portion you are selling). The legal description will change and the deed should be amended. This is a legal matter, more than anything else. As others have said, get a surveyor involved, but draft a contract between yiu and buyer stipulating who will pay for what. It's not going to be cheap.

I'd attempt this myself using your and your neighbor's surveys, a scale/ruler and protractor.

I vote this the worst suggestion of the year.

Years ago attorneys would write a description like you are asking and record the sale with signatures from buyer and seller. Now days I don't think you could find an attorney to record a new tract of land without a signed and stamped survey plat plus approval from some type of planing board.

When a layman writes a description often 10-40 years down the line after your and your neighbor sell the property there can be conflicting evidence as to the location of property lines. This makes the surveyors job very hard, unless it is surveyed from the beginning.

It’s not expensive. If the property isn’t in BFE a surveyor should be able to confirm your corners and give you a legal description for a couple hundred bucks. Split the cost with your neighbor and call it a day. If you do any improvements to your property you’re going to need it anyway.

Edit: Nerd moment. Any of you guys ever had the opportunity to play around with a robotic total station for surveying? Last construction company i worked for got one. You get a CAD file of say drainage structures. Upload the coordinates of the catch basins to this little tablet running Windows 10. Set up your station in the field on a benchmark, then sync up the tablet.

Then I select a catch basin, and this thing points me to the spot with arrows that pop up on screen. It’s absurdly easy to use and really cool for someone that likes gadgets. When you talk about gains in efficiency this thing was a huge productivity saver. Most surveying companies are using these things now.

They are requesting you sell them a piece. Yell them to contact the professionals that are needed and pay them..only then will the sell ho thru.
Ineouldnt be out of pocket 1 penny. Its alreadybypurs and you dont 'need' to sell

What reason does he want the land? If it's for use like a big garden or something, just agree the imaginary line is moved and let him use it. Short of that, tell him he is responsible for figuring it out, costs included, and you'll go sign papers when needed.