To the local title company experts and agents in the Erie County area:I need help understanding when I can skip the time and cost of a new land survey (the physical measuring of the lot) when closing on a simple, existing single-family house that hasn't changed in 50 years.For a standard, old residential home, can we usually use the old survey from the previous owner to get the necessary title insurance?

We live in a world of surveys, estimates, and assumptions by government, and less hard/actual data from industry.

If anything, survey/call multiple open communities and find out. 

The determine the rent by doing surveys of landlords. 

Closing/ Survey?

we got a survey and legal descriptions county didnt even know who owned the land.

Tools like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey offer integrated survey creation, analytics, and reporting in one place.

They pay option money (depending on your state.) earnest money, probably a survey, and maybe an inspection, line up movers, sell their old house or give notice at their rental, set up utilities and deposits, take off work, and all the other things that come along with buying a house. 

Of those 1200 people we have 52 people take our survey.

@Roderick Hooker I've done a few transactions with Lennar recently (as a mortgage broker representing clients) and they have a sneaky "builder admin fee" of 1% in most of their contracts, and typically have the buyer paying title policy, survey, and HOA transfer fees.