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When neighboring jobs come in, they are about the same price to survey.
The difference being the varying acreage, amount of brush to tend with and the amount of paperwork to research and created for each.
I give discounts for what the client can provide that I do not have to do or gather.Tommy Young, post: 437293, member: 703 wrote: To be clear, do you mean charging the new client a discounted fee while you are under contract with the other client, or do you mean charging the new client a discounted fee using data collected for the former client?
The classic exam ethics question goes like this: You have quoted a client X dollars to survey his property. Surveying that property involves breaking out the whole block. An adjoiner to your client approaches you and offers you a few extra bucks (maybe 10% of $X) to throw in his corners while you are at it, which you could do profitably.
Accepting that offer would be unethical. The ethical thing to do is to split the cost evenly between the original client and his neighbor. If that means charging them both the full $X or if it means doing the combined job for 1.1X and charging them each 0.55X is, I think, between you and your maker.
More questionable is what happens when the neighbor calls you up 6 month later and asks you to put in his remaining corners.
In this case the OP has worked for the neighbor, but not on this property. So it has nothing to do with splitting costs.
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