Why do I need to hire a registered land surveyor to mark my corners?
Your property corners need to be verified or established by a licensed professional in order for that survey to be valid. Anyone with access to a hardware store can locate and flag existing property corners. Identifying that the position of those corners are correct requires the services of a registered land surveyor. Unfortunately, many corners have been removed, replaced or tampered with by someone with pliars and a hammer. Every property corner that is established or recovered must bear the registration number of the surveyor that set it. If a corner without an identifying registration tag or cap is recovered and its position is accepted, the surveyor must affix his own tag or cap to it by State law.