00:00i carefully laid the old survey across my father's workbench the paper was unlike anything i'd seen
00:06in years its edges were worn and yellow but the ink was still surprisingly clear every property
00:13line had been drawn by hand with incredible precision measurements covered every boundary
00:18and small notes were written neatly in the margins at the top of the page were the words that made
00:24my heart race official property survey filed 1952 this wasn't just another piece of paper
00:32this was the document that established my family's land when my grandfather bought the farm more than
00:3770 years ago i leaned closer every fence line every corner marker every distance was recorded in
00:45remarkable detail then i noticed something else there were pencil notes written in my father's
00:51handwriting he had obviously opened this survey many times over the years next to the eastern
00:58property line where our land now bordered the hoa neighborhood he had written one simple sentence
01:04fence installed on original survey line beneath it was a date from nearly 20 years earlier
01:11i stood there frozen my father hadn't guessed where to build the fence he had built it using
01:17the original survey i kept reading there were additional notes showing where the old metal boundary markers had
01:24been buried and reminders to check them every few years everything was organized everything matched
01:32the more i studied the survey the more confident i became karen's claims suddenly seemed impossible
01:39if this document was accurate then my fence wasn't 12 feet inside hoa property
01:44it was sitting exactly where it had always belonged but i still needed proof that nobody could question
01:52an old survey alone wouldn't be enough to stop the hoa i needed someone with modern equipment to
01:58compare today's measurements with the original records i reached for my phone and searched for the
02:03highest rated licensed land surveyor in the county the next available appointment was first thing the
02:09following morning without thinking twice i booked it if karen believed her shiny new survey would scare
02:16me into tearing down my father's fence she was about to discover that 70 years of history couldn't be erased
02:22by a clipboard and a few orange flags the truth was finally within reach i just had to prove it
02:29do you
02:31think the original 1952 survey will defeat karen's modern survey or will the hoa still find a way to win
02:37share your prediction in the comments hit like if you believe old records matter share this post with your
02:44friends and follow the page because part eight reveals what happened when a licensed surveyor arrived
02:49with gps equipment and karen never saw it coming
