Boundary Line Blindside: When a Survey Reveals an Encroaching Fence at Closing

Matthew opens with a real closing-day story: a final survey flags a neighbor's fence and shed partially on the new buyer's property, triggering stalled lender approvals and a tense negotiation. In this episode he unpacks the three practical lessons every buyer, seller, and agent needs to handle boundary surprises: how to interpret survey exceptions and legal descriptions, negotiation options from corrective surveys to boundary agreements and fence relocations, and when to use escrow holdbacks or title endorsements to keep your closing on track. This episode is focused on clear, actionable steps—what documents to pull, questions to ask your surveyor and title company, and a simple script agents can use at the table. Listeners leave with one immediate checklist item they can run tonight to make sure a buried boundary issue won't blindside their next transaction.