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Elevation Certificates on spec.

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timredd
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Do you have surveyors in your area offering to provide Elevation Certificates on speculation, in that the client doesn't pay if the surveyor isn't successful with the LOMA application? What do you think of the ethics of such a proposition?


 
Posted : April 17, 2014 1:06 pm
stephen-ward
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Bad ethics and bad business.


 
Posted : April 17, 2014 1:18 pm
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That is not speculation, that is doing work on a contingent fee basis. Not only is it unethical, it is not legal here.


 
Posted : April 17, 2014 1:21 pm
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Around here one would be giving away quite a few ECs.

Not only unethical, and probably illegal, but pretty stoopid, I think...


 
Posted : April 17, 2014 2:28 pm
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Not only wrong, for all the reasons above, but you are talking about TWO different products.. 1) elevation certificate and 2) LOMA

so there's two income streams...not just one.


 
Posted : April 17, 2014 2:50 pm

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I'm going to say it again....THE WORLD IS FULL OF IDIOTS.


 
Posted : April 17, 2014 5:37 pm