·A written agreement or contract which states what will be surveyed and the type of survey, who will pay for the survey and when.

·A drawing of the property surveyed, certified by the surveyor responsible for the work, showing what was surveyed, and, depending on the type of survey, such things as what corners were found or set, improvements, and encroachments across the boundaries.

·For boundary surveys, permanent monuments, such as iron re-bars or iron pipes, at the property corners.

Occasionally boundary or easement line disputes arise. Often they are the result of property descriptions which were written by other than professionally qualified persons and were recorded without the benefit of the services of a competent Professional Land Surveyor.

It is important to have lines properly surveyed and described. A well prepared land survey will likely be the least expensive part of your real estate investment cost, and a boundary dispute or flawed legal description can quickly become the most expensive.