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FloodElevation Certificates for Insurance - provides floor elevations for your Home or Commercial Building. TheElevation Certificate is a document that ensures a building meets the minimum elevation requirements. FEMA requires buildings located in a Special Flood Hazard Area to be properly elevated and vented to minimize the risk of flood damage. Information recorded in this document is required to confirm compliance with the community floodplain management ordinances. A certificate not only provide floor elevations for buildings, but the additional survey information collected is provided for insurance purposes.

Obtaining a land survey ensures your protection in any real estate transaction. A survey discloses specifically what part of property is being bought and everything within that tract. Every purchaser should acquire a land survey prior to a real estate transaction closing. Many realty transactions have some kind of trouble. These troubles can be small (a fence is over the home line) or even more significant (a driveway, swimming pool, or deck is over a property line, the deed detailing the parcel of property is inaccurate, or a home in a flood area, etc.).