The PYB Blog

Selling my house

Hello Najia; Thanks for your question....

How to remove an easement?

Providing that both you and your neighbour want the easement removed then the process is pretty simple....

Building a Gazebo without permission

Assuming we're talking about Ontario, the answer has several parts to it....

Part of fence on neighbour's property.

If a registered land surveyor conducted the survey it is most likely accurate, and getting a second surveyor to do a survey will not reveal anything new....

Survey Iron Bars

It's actually illegal to remove survey bars in Ontario, however it's difficult to enforce and it happens quite often....

Addition built onto neighbour's wall

So, your addition is built directly onto your neighbour's wall, meaning that if they took their wall down you'd have an open side to your addition....

What are the black and white boxes on survey plan?

These boxes indicate the presence of survey monuments - 2 or 4 foot long iron survey bars that surveyors drive into the ground to physically mark boundary points....

Why does it take so long to do a survey?

A basic residential survey typically takes 5-10 business days to complete....

New survey plan completion depends on several factors: - How large is the property; - Is it in an urban, suburban or rural area; - Can the surveyor get working on your survey right away? - Is the lot backing onto a ravine or conservation land? Typically, for a smaller (standard size) urban property it takes approximately 7-10 business days assuming the land surveyor starts the survey work immediately....

Survey consultation

The surveying industry in Ontario is governed and regulated by the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (www....

Resolving a boundary dispute

Generally speaking there are two pathways to resolving a boundary dispute: either you resolve it yourself with your neighbour, or you seek legal help and resolve the dispute using the legal and court system....