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“Most Surveyors Are Bad Boundary Surveyors”
jph replied 1 year, 9 months ago 22 Members · 54 Replies
I recently finished a survey with 10 COS surrounding it. The COS’s done previously all made sense and were accurate depending on equipment available when they were done. There were half a dozen different surveyors involved, the only problematic survey in the entire area was the original GLO survey which included a very suspect conclusion. However, that survey was canceled twenty years after it was completed and a new one is what controls. I would need to be extremely arrogant to dispute anything I’ve found.
Was everything perfect? No.
Would an arrogant surveyor pin cushion something out there. Possibly.
@jph as I said I do not have the balls to announce this to the world and think this video should be taken down.
I can understand the anger at posting this for potential clients. But are you really so sensitive that me expressing my opinion results in name calling?
I am not familiar with your work so would never call you a bad surveyor. In fact just that fact that you participate here is a sign you probably aren’t.
Concluding that someone is a bad surveyor does not automatically result from a difference of opinion. It usually doesn’t. It comes from the inability of a surveyor to communicate what their decision was and why they made it in a way that van be used to defend their boundary. These surveyors really degrade our proffesion.
I think a your knee jerk sentiment that most surveyor are good is more egotistical than mine.
@dave-karoly a differnce of opinion is not grounds to call a surveyor bad. How (and if) they defend that opinion is.
Your neck of the woods tends to have better surveyors than some.
Do you really think that the tests required for a license ensure that a surveyor is a good boundary surveyor? That’s not even the stated objective. The tests are to ensure surveyors a minimally qualified.
Many state exams don’t test on boundary determination at all.
Even after getting my license in some states I did not consider myself qualified to survey boundaries in those states without some guidance.
Maybe we should focus in what we agree on; That a surveyors opnion in the quality of his fellow surveyors should not be a feature of their advertising.
I was told many years ago by four potential clients that a certain other licensed land surveyor had told each of them that I was not adequately trained and did improper work. He’s dead now.
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Despite the desire to do so, I am not responsible for his death.
Nice pregnant pause there…
@aliquot Sooooo true….
I don’t think most surveyors are bad boundary surveyors. They all know what needs to be done. Time, not charging enough and having to make payroll on Friday are their downfall.
@james-vianna that is a problem for some, but there are plenty who are just bad.
Even basic things…surveying a parcel with only the current deed, pin cushioning, ignoring occupation lines…all really basic things we all see srewed up relatively often.
We don’t agree on much here, so your reply doesn’t surprise me.
I’m not a super positive person, but I’d be concerned if I had such a negative view of the majority of others in my profession.
You either live in a black hole of dodgy surveying or maybe just have an unrealistic definition, using only yourself as the standard which all others need to live up to. Good luck with that
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