I found this comment interesting.
I assume people complaining about prices, have never worked in the profession. If none of your boundaries have monuments at there location, it can take 4-8 hours in the field to determine the locations. There's also research time which can take 1-2 hours, paper work and filing w/ the Register of Deeds also takes 2-3 hours. So in one job if every monument is missing could take 8-15 hours to complete. If all your monuments are at the boundary locations, then the job should be about an hour. It's like taking your car to a mechanic and saying "my car's broken fix it".
Please visit https://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/home-property-survey-zmaz86sozgoe.
OUAT I worked for a guy who would give prices based on all controlling monuments of record being present. Each missing monument added $500 to the cost. And this was 1994.?ÿ
Oh...and that Mother Earth News article, written in 1986,?ÿ is about finding existing monuments that are shown on a survey map. Don't let the title lead you astray. The comments at the end are interesting.?ÿ
