Most real estate investors skip the survey or wait until they're closing — and that's when they find out the property isn't 125 acres, it's 103. Or the fence has been in the wrong spot for 40 years. Or there's a cemetery on the back corner. In this episode of Dirty Deeds, Logan Fullmer sits down with Kort Breaux, owner of West Star Alamo Land Surveyors, to pull back the curtain on what a land survey actually involves — and why it's one of the most undervalued tools in a real estate investor's toolkit.
What we cover:
What a boundary survey actually delivers (it's way more than measurements)
Metes & bounds vs. platted lots — and why older San Antonio neighborhoods are harder than you'd think
The step-by-step process from order to final PDF
How surveyors deal with deeds from the 1800s described in varas, chains, and "ride north and smoke four cigarettes"
Real case studies: a 20-acre deal with an unmarked cemetery, a Caldwell County neighbor dispute, a warehouse with a 15-foot line problem, and a woman paying taxes on an acre that TxDOT took 50 years ago
How a surveyor's affidavit can fix decades of bad deeds — fast
Why CAD and Zillow acreage is not your survey
How surveys are priced (and why your realtor's $1,000 estimate is wrong)
The ethical and legal responsibility surveyors carry — same licensing rigor as engineers
West Star's survey of the Alamo and Mission San Jose
Connect with Kort Breaux / West Star Alamo Land Surveyors:Search: West Star Alamo Land Surveyors | San Marcos & San Antonio, TX
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