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Guardline Driveway Alarm – Quick Look

April 29, 2020November 16, 2020 Case 0 Comments alarm, drive, driveway, guard, guardline, home, perimeter, property, safe, safety, security

Upgraded from our Harbor Freight driveway alarm that cost $10 to a Guardline Driveway Alarm ($99). Advertised as having 500ft

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Google Earth: Finding Area – Acres, Square Feet

July 2, 2018November 21, 2020 Case 0 Comments acre, acreage, acres, boundary, buying, compass, earth, google, perimeter, property, ruler, survey, tool

Google Earth is an extremely important tool when it comes to land ownership. I have discovered so many different ways

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Why Not Use GIS? Because… Google

July 2, 2018November 21, 2020 Case 0 Comments acre, acreage, acres, bearings, boundary, county, earth, GIS, google, perimeter, ruler, survey, surveyor, tool

This video briefly goes into why not to use the county GIS mapping system over other applications like Google Earth.

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Making Lists: Part 2 – Revising that ‘Final’ List

July 2, 2018November 21, 2020 Case 0 Comments acre, acreage, acres, budget, buying, historical, how to, land, lists, perimeter, property, purchase

WANT LIST REVISITED: As you see, we originally wanted 20 or more acres of land. Realistically, after walking 20 acres

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Google Earth: Survey Bearings conversion for Google Earth

July 2, 2018November 21, 2020 Case 0 Comments bearings, boundary, compass, conversion, flagged, marked, measure, perimeter, property, survey, surveyor

Need to find out how to convert those pesky survey bearings into something usable for Google Earth? Here is the

Buying Land – GET A SURVEY!

July 2, 2018November 21, 2020 Case 0 Comments boundary, flagged, marked, perimeter, property, seller, survey, surveyor

A quick look at the basic survey for land and property buying. This is the most important document you need