My wife closes home loans. The place where she works doesn't close a loan until they get a fresh survey......and checked against building codes, setback requirements, balh-blah-blah. It's a hassel but they have no problems.
....and this is a typical DUmmie. They buy an acre and think that entitles them to rule the world.
Funny story. Back in mid-70's I mostly did clearing and grading for new homes. Started clearing a lot for a spec house. Woman came out and told me not to push over "That" tree or she'd sue me, it shaded her kitchen window. I asked the builder, easy going fellow about it, he just shrugged his shoulders and said leave it. He said that "IF" I could fit another house plan on the lot, fine and I could. Then she comes out and says, "Don't you so much as let a leaf fall in my yard or I'll sue". It was getting bad and I was getting mad. Then she comes out and says stop grading because she wasn't going to allow the house to be built that close to her driveway or she'd sue. It was then that I informed her that apparently her home didn't meat the setback requirements and that it appeared to me that her driveway was about 3' over the line. That set her off like a stick of dynamite. OH H. E. DOUBLE L NO! SHE KNEW WHERE HER PROPERTY LINES WERE and I was just a dumb bulldozer driver. I called the developer again and by this time he was getting a little tired of both me and her. He trusted my judgement enough to call her up and offer to sell her enough of the lot to put her in compliance at a reasonable price...and leave the damn tree...she goes off on him too.
About an hour after my last call to the developer he showed up with his lawyer and a surveyor. She came out and informed them that she had talked to her husband again. She tells them that he said not to allow them on their property and that he would be home soon. By the time the husband got their it was like a stirred up hornets nest. The surveyor had determined that in fact her garage and driveway was not only to close to the property line, it was 3 ' over the line just like I said. The developer told me to get the driveway and garage off "HIS" property anyway I saw fit and not to worry about how I did it. When he turned his back on the crazy man and woman, he winked at me so I left the driveway and garage alone for the rest of that day.
That night he called and said they were trying to borrow enough money to buy a little strip of land off the contested lot. He said to just grade the lot as if it were 15' smaller and get the heck away from there......BUT BE DAMN SURE TO TAKE DOWN "THE TREE".
.....He said he'd would pay a slight bonus for that lot since things had held me up so much. I informed him that he didn't have to do that and he laughed. He said he was more than willing to share the profits with me. He told me that they were now going to pay more for a mear 15' strip than he had been willing to take for the whole damn lot..... before they pitched their fit.
I hated working in developments where they built them one house/one lot at a time.
...and I believe I could write a book with similar stories.