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Filing fee
One of the previous posts mentioned filing fees and that got me to wondering what you guys charge to file a single plat.
In Georgia a single filing is done electronically by PDF or TIFF and it cost $8 plus a few counties have a small tax, maybe $0.25 per plat. We can file any size for the same cost.
I charge $25 but have been thinking that it is low considering the fact that it is a service most folks don’t know how to do.
What say you, is $25 a good markup for a $8 cost?
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SD we pay 60 plus 10 for each lot created. Ive always charged it as an expense, no markup. Here it takes a day sometimes more to chase down all of the signatures on the plat so I offer client our admin assistant being the cheapest hourly rate, it most of the time the client finishes the signatures and filing.
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I usually have the client pay those fees directly.
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Survey filing fee in King County, Washington $183 for the first page. My clients pay $250 which includes my administration fee.
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$20 for the first sheet and $5 for each additional sheet in Alaska.
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SD we pay 60 plus 10 for each lot created. Ive always charged it as an expense, no markup. Here it takes a day sometimes more to chase down all of the signatures on the plat so I offer client our admin assistant being the cheapest hourly rate, it most of the time the client finishes the signatures and filing.
Yeah….I’m not inquiring about chasing down signatures as that can take quite a bit of time. I have not done a large subdivision for quite a while but for a single recorded survey it is $8 and I charge $25. It does not take much time but it is still a service provided that I feel should be compensated for and I don’t know if I am charging enough. I will likely bump it up to $30.
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Filing fees in Idaho are ridiculously cheap. A ROS is $5 per page and a plat is $11 for the most part. The fee is not an issue, its the hours spent plotting duplicate mylars (in the case of the plat), spraying mylars and then ultimately recording them.
Set up your contracts as lump sum, it’s our preferred method.
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I charge $250 to record a plat. The county fees are $21, my time and liability have a cost attached to them. If we are talking a subdivision I pass those costs along to the client.
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Standard or legal is $21 for first page plus $17 for each additional page. 11 x 17 is $38. Can be $150 and up for full size plats. Then there may be a reviewer’s fee but that is less than $50 everywhere I go. Several are at no charge. The hassle gets added into the invoice for time required.
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Record of survey around here is $400 (might actually be higher since it is a new year). Plats are 4 figures.
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Record of survey around here is $400 (might actually be higher since it is a new year). Plats are 4 figures.
Washington County went to $435 last July. Multnomah and Clackamas are still $400.
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I charge $250 to record a plat. The county fees are $21, my time and liability have a cost attached to them. If we are talking a subdivision I pass those costs along to the client.
Holy cow, now that is what I’m talking about. I guess if you can get it by all means do it. Are you talking about any old single lot plat?
And I was sorta feeling a like $30 might be a stretch but maybe I will go to $50. This is a service that very few know how to do so why not charge for it.
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That low? I can’t recall the plan fee, but a deed is $75 give or take.
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To answer my own question I had decided to raise it to $30 but will likely raise my own filing fee to $50 and be done with it.
$50 for a single sheet recording.
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More to it in some places judging by the posts. But around here it takes 15 minutes to half hour getting cursory review in map room, then wait in line and get filed at clerk’s window. Attorneys charge $50, town clerks charge around $50 and file it if subdivision usually. So $50 is about going rate and reasonable compensation for my time. I also charge the filing fee whatever it is $10-$20 usually. No separate charge for the review around here; they just look to make sure it’s stamped/signed and on acceptable size/type of sheet, planning board stamps if subdivision.
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That low? I can’t recall the plan fee, but a deed is $75 give or take.
Plan fee in Mass. is also $75 per sheet. Then you have the cost of driving into the city to drop it off. My office is located about equidistant between the Worcester Registry, and the Suffolk (Boston) and Middlesex South (Cambridge) registries, but driving time is signficantly shorter getting in to Worcester. Hourly fee for the service of filing it. Most plans get sent to the client or an attorney for them to do the recording, since they usually have deeds or other documents to record at the same time.
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Here we have a type of plat called a retracement that requires no signatures or approvals from County officials.
It costs $8 and until yesterday I charged $25 but I have decided to up that to $50.
You guys keep referring to obtaining signatures and approvals and that is not what I am seeking.
Edit: It must suck to have to get the signatures and blessings from a know nothing administrator for every darned survey you do. How has it gotten to that point and why do you not try and change it. I can understand and agree with approvals if you are changing lines or splitting property but if you are just doing a retracement of an existing lot and recording it why in God’s name do you have to get some administrative assistants signature.
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I am not sure what you are charging for. If you are charging for the time it takes to file/record your rate sounds way to low. Where I work it doesnt take any special knowledge or skill to file/record you just hand in the mylar and pay the fee. The land owner can do it just as easily as I can. I usually do it because I am responsible for meeting the recording requirements, not the land owner.
I have a line item in the bill, that covers the fee, but the extra is either worked into the contract or charged at the hourly rates, whichever the case may be.
If I was a client I wouldn’t be happy seeing a markup like that. I guess it depends on how you present it, but if I saw a line item that said, “recording fee”, and it was higher than the fee that is published by the local government I would start questioning everything on the bill.
Since we are only talking about $50, that amount is easily washed out by the charges to actually prepare the plat. If a client pays $5,000 (the average price for a few acres here) for a survey, which included a substantial amount of office work charges alteady, adding another $50 may rub some the wrong way.
Of course you know your clients and your business better than anyone else. So your decision is probably better than any of our armchair opinions.
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“What say you, is $25 a good markup for a $8 cost?”
No, I’d charge an additional $187 for professional fees for $195 total. Make money, isn’t that why you are in business? ????
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I don’t charge anything specific to record a plat – it’s part of the fixed fee for the job. BTW – recording fees in AZ are $24 for 1 sheet, additional sheets are $20 oer sheet.
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Overcharging for a clerical function seems a good way to sour the whole experience for the client.
Whether or not recording is mandatory would have some bearing on the matter?
I think an attorney would only charge their time plus the fee.
A 50 flat fee seems fair, 15 minutes at 200 per.
Not sure why I am chiming in on this, I have never written an invoice. ????
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