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(@hollandbriscoe)
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So I get a call the other day to quote a ~40 acre job about an hour and a half from me. After I look it over and get everything worked up and the quote comes out to $24,000. Mind you this property has a 1000' elevation difference from front to back,?ÿ is heavily wooded and I figure its going to take me three weeks to do everything since I work solo. I call the client back and he about has a stroke at the price. He then calls me back to make sure that he heard me right and that I had not said $2400. He was apparently expecting the cost to be between $2500 and $3000. I told him that if he found someone to survey that property for that price that he needed to run since that survey is being done on a bar stool. I guess surveys are cheap in Fort Meyers, FL where he is from.

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 9:49 am
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But my realtor told me... (or someone at the Planning Department, bartender or some other expert in what things should cost)

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 10:03 am
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You can bet there isn't 1000' difference in elevation around there.

Andy

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 11:35 am
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Posted by: @hollandbriscoe

Fort Meyers, FL where he is from.

And practically flat, as is most of Florida. If he finds a Surveyor that will survey 40ac in FL for $3k, well, I'll just shut up here and wish him good luck...rather than be subjected to litigation from whomever he employes.

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 12:13 pm
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@flga-2-2?ÿ

I didn't think there was 1000' vertical in all of FL (isn't the highest point some man-made thing in Disney @ about 200'?)

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 1:22 pm
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Posted by: @richard-germiller

@flga-2-2?ÿ

I didn't think there was 1000' vertical in all of FL (isn't the highest point some man-made thing in Disney @ about 200'?)

In Florida no, in the mountains of NC yes.

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 1:29 pm
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Florida is flat.?ÿ To get a 1000' elevation difference would require going to a depth of 655 feet BELOW sea level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britton_Hill

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 1:39 pm
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@holy-cow?ÿ

Yup, and running a bench loop is easy. ?????ÿ

 
Posted : 18/01/2022 2:12 pm