After our pre-submittal meeting I went into work where I met with one of our firm’s surveyors. I told him how I needed to find all of the easements getting to my property. He showed me online where you can research your property’s easements, deeds, and maps. This is all readily available on King County’s website; however, he told us that some of the older documents may not be available online – and I’d have to do the research in downtown Seattle at King County’s archives. That would mean searching for files on microfish and copying pages by hand. Ugh.

The surveyor actually said that he would do a quick search for our easements on his lunch break and that he’d let me know if he found anything. A couple hours later and I got an email: “You’re Golden!” I was at Starbucks when I got the text, grabbed my drink and a gift card for him and headed back to the office. Totally unbelievable, but he not only found all of our easements, but also mapped and coded them on the County’s Quarter Section Maps. He totally went above and beyond for us! Absolutely amazing – we owe him big! This was huge since it meant that we didn’t need to purchase any easements, and that all of our paperwork was in order to submit our building permit! Whoo hoo!