Never bought land in AL but back in the early 2000’s we bought a 30 acre piece of land in TN. It became a nightmare due to the survey and the perceived results. The area where the land was hadn’t had a survey done in the local area in years. The issue with that was, there was no survey done in the current system. Said differently based on what I was told, the old system contained errors and a new/recent survey would either correct the errors or establish a new starting point in the new system. Due to all of this, even finding a surveyor that would jump into that mess was difficult and it ended up costing a pile of money. The surveyor that did take the job took all the risk, contacted the adjacent landowners and made them aware of the mess that was going to ensue, coordinated times and dates for access etc. He was physically threatened by one of the adjacent landowners even after they signed to allow access to conduct the survey. Someone was going to gain and someone was going to lose. In the end, we ended up slightly on the plus side and two other adjacent landowners lost a little each. This was straight up mountain land. The biggest issue was water. There was no water on that mountain except for 3 springs that were all on the original survey and they remained on our 30 acres. The adjacent landowners had been using all 3 springs for generations and were going to continue to use them. They tried to blame the new survey on the whole thing and it had absolutely nothing to do with that. We ended up buying and selling the land with just over a year period of time.
