Real Estate Transaction

The Colorado "Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate" form contains a Survey provision indicating three options to satisfy a Survey Requirement of property buyer, lender, or title company. The first option is current Improvement Survey Plat. The Second option is a current Improvement Location Certificate & the third option is a "fill in the Blank" option signifying any known survey product or service that will assist in facilitating the closing of the contract including, but not limited to items such as; setting wood stakes with survey flagging along the boundary of a heavily wooded lot, flagging a building envelope of a vacant lot, providing an Elevation Certificate on a lot adjacent to a body of water or river.

Competitive bidding for the lowest price does not necessarily protect the interests of the client, the public or the Professional Land Surveyor. The competency, reputation, education and experience of a given surveyor should be the benchmark when selecting a surveyor.

Improvement Survey Plat (ISP) CRS: 38-51-103 (9)

It is the detailed study or inspection, as by gathering information through observations, measurements in the field, questionnaires, or research of legal instruments, and data analysis to support the reconciling of deeded property boundaries and setting monuments to delineate those boundaries on the earth’s surface.

An Improvement Survey Plat (ISP) is the “Map” product a client receives showing the location of all structures, visible utilities, fences, hedges, or walls situated on the described parcel and within five feet of all boundaries of such parcel, any conflicting boundary evidence or visible encroachments, and all easements, underground utilities, and tunnels for which properly recorded evidence is available from the county clerk and recorder, a title insurance company, or other sources as specified on the improvement survey plat.

Improvement Location Certificate (ILC)

An ILC is used to disclose existing elements pertaining to a parcel of land such as improvements, encroachments, easements and boundary evidence purported to a lesser standard than a land survey. The measurements shown on an ILC are the suspected record position of the property lines & may change if a full survey is performed. More extensive surveying may be required to clarify or resolve potential adverse conditions revealed by an ILC.

Improvement Location Certificates are certified by a licensed surveyor usually for the benefit of property buyers, mortgage companies and title insurance companies as stipulated in a real estate contract.

It is the least expensive survey product the state Colorado and therefore the most common. Competitive bidding for the lowest price does not necessarily protect the interests of the client, the public or the Professional Land Surveyor. The competency, reputation, education and experience of a given surveyor should be the benchmark when selecting a surveyor.

Miscellaneous Surveying and Mapping

Any conceivable land surveying service or product relating science and art of measuring the earth and it's contents and/or establishing any three-dimensional space position above, on, or beneath the surface of the earth, and drafting & mapping the results thereof.

There are a variety of survey products that can aid it the real estate transaction process; many are listed throughout this website. If you do not see the type of survey you need please feel free to contact us.

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