I saw the post about the ad for the LS/PC/crew members at a local A/E/S firm and wondered how thing were going in your area. This is the first time I've seen an ad in some time.
I have been (THANKFULLY) a little busy lately, and I picked up 2 new projects today. I did an EC in a neighboring county last week, and then I started and am about to finish a BLR in a neighboring town. Today, I picked up a topo for an architect and a boundary from somebody that I met in the courthouse and helped for about 10 minutes about 4 months ago. Thankfully he kept my card.
I am on an e-mailing list that blasts for bids on all sorts of commercial projects, and they seem to be increasing the amount of projects that they have exponentially. These projects are bigger that what I can take on, but it's nice to see somebody is doing something.
This isn't even the whole list. 
I'm hoping that things are about to get a little better for everybody... I know we all need it.
Covered up here in AL, had to pull 2 crews out of our main office to try and help get caught up. 2012 has started looking like the good ole days, hope it stays this way.
Doing fine. Not too slow, not too fast. Sorta halffast.;-)
Cannot complain. New jobs are coming along at about the same pace as we are completing others.
Steady with larger civil projects & multistate work... Local work dead, no residential, no rural land, not even a nibble from the phone. ALL 2012 work is from regular or return clients
Good and getting better!
This past January was nicely double the work of one year before. But I'm with Pin Cushion on newness of it. Everything we have is old projects re-starting, and old clients getting back to work. Nothing 'out of the blue' so to speak. It's a great recovery for people who already have some work.
February's looking good so far.
IF this keeps up, I'll be looking for help.
Slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
More calls past few months, but folks still reluctant to pull the trigger on the retainers. Very little commercial work around here. Still optomistic though, at least until the line of credit runs out.
Is it Nov 6 yet?
Business? Is anybody still in it?
Just had the slowest December & January that I can remember in many many years.
Just got a phone call yesterday that booked me for the next 2 months.
For a solo guy it is not HOT or COLD.
It is ON or OFF.
And then there is cash flow, someone here described it as a constipated elephant once.
Yup.
I picked up another project today. I'm thinking I need to play the lottery tonight or very soon.
😉
The private work is slow. The O&G is keeping us stepping and fetching and allowing us to take on two to four private jobs a month.
No complaints at the moment.
Western North Dakota is hotter than you know where
Seems to get be slowly accelerating since I started on my own about 2.5 years ago, but I mostly do lot & block surveys and elevation certs. in suburbia. I'd like to get better projects. Not seeing much in the way of topos and large tracts.
Busier than we've been since 2007. Even have TWO new residential subdivision plats we're working on. Both are 150+ lots.
In the past one week, my son got the job he really wanted, my son-in-law got the job he really wanted and with a substantial raise, and I landed an eleven-acre apartment site ALTA survey for a fee that made me very happy.
pretty busy here!
So Andy...
That means you need a Connecticut Yankee to come down say...oh..during the winter to help you out?...I work cheap..;-)
So Andy...
Isn't it winter now?
