Category: Vantage Point

Amid the cries that Elevation Certificates have become irrelevant, let me make this clear: Surveyors need to be educators once again. With the…

Over the past several years I’ve been on the sidelines of a sad affair about a landlocked property that has an access easement…

We are in a housing crunch. It isn’t necessarily that there are not enough living spaces for the number of people needing them,…

We already know there are circumstances under which it is possible to adversely possess lands claimed by a governmental entity. That can happen…

When we talk about adverse possession, the topic is a claim of ownership. There are very specific requirements that are common to all…

The chasm between the two parallel worlds of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is about the widen and deepen. October 1, 2021…

The process of presenting a residential development to a local governing body doesn’t often follow a smooth trajectory from proposal to approval. Sometimes…

I recently watched a movie called “Rose Island” that sparked my curiosity. The plot is based on the true story of an Italian…

Author’s note: The following is a lightly—but only lightly!—fictionalized version of true events. It was a real argument, and my closing salvo was…

The urge was strong to call this “No Exit,” but remembrances of Jean Paul Sartre’s play of the same name about a hellish…