"No way I'm paying THAT for a survey", they're going to shop for a better price. Sad thing is, they'll get it.
WTF are we coming to?
"We didn't become millionaires by paying top dollar for land surveys."
It looks like a fence all the way around. Can't you just go flag up the corner posts? Then take the google images of the house, put it into CAD, then just widget it out the door an hour later. Slam Bam Thank You Ma'am. :-S
> "No way I'm paying THAT for a survey", they're going to shop for a better price. Sad thing is, they'll get it.
> WTF are we coming to?
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Knowing what you know now, would you still get into this business if you had it to do over?
Why has in not ever been surveyed? Seems to me you'd get a survey to locate the boundaries before you built something like that.
They probably spent more than that each week cleaning the pool.
(Sigh)
And to think, land surveying used to be a very distinguished profession.
Sad..
I wouldn't charge less than +-$1,200 for that house.
2.6 m listing, $600 survey?>JB
Just curious, what were you going to do for $600? I'd be hard pressed to do anything on that lot for less than $1,200....and that's figuring I'll only spend 8 hours total on the project, field to office...
Aren't they entitled to get what they pay for?
> "No way I'm paying THAT for a survey"
I'll bet they didn't have any problem paying the real estate agent their commission....What do you think that was for a 2.6 m listing....:-O
Radar
Trust me..
..you don't want to work for them anyway.
Seriously, while I agree everyone that spends $ on real estate needs a current survey; not everyone gets a good survey.
Let them roll on their merry way. Maybe the guy next door will get a good survey and find out this bone-head's brick pilasters encroach. And maybe you'll get to do the survey next door. Good things come to those with patience.
To answer the question: I never really "steered" my career toward surveying. I just kinda fell into it. BUT I wouldn't change a thing, except maybe done those same things a little quicker.
Is it a duplex? Looks totally symmetrical. Maybe they only want one side surveyed.
Thats why I dont do that type of work much. I refuse to survey for 1980 pay rates. I work small niches where I make more money and I send all this work to others. That keeps them busy doing cheap work, which they seem to like. I would of priced that job at 1200 too... I dont bother to try and explain or educate people anymore either. I just quote them a price and when they say they are going to shop around I send them to the local cheap guys.
Cliff
2.6 m listing, $600 survey?>JB
> Just curious, what were you going to do for $600? I'd be hard pressed to do anything on that lot for less than $1,200....and that's figuring I'll only spend 8 hours total on the project, field to office...
That size and complexity is worth about $2,500+ here in Fly Over Country. If I were estimating East and Left coasts I would be talking 50% higher.
> I send them to the local cheap guys.
> Cliff
Is that ethical?.....Let's ask Cowboy..;-)
Cheers,
Radar
Quoted a simple job last week to be in the $500-600 range. You would have thought I wanted to take his mother to a cheap motel for the night.
He was thinking anything over $100 would be way too much. Made for a very short conversation.
Holy Cow
You DO have a beautiful way with words my man.
Holy Cow
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> > "No way I'm paying THAT for a survey"
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> I'll bet they didn't have any problem paying the real estate agent their commission....What do you think that was for a 2.6 m listing....:-O
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> Radar
$156,000
Equal to 445 closing surveys at $350 each, a closing survey is not such a small amount of work either.
This whole thing about loving what you do and enjoying the journey has some merit however is pretty much burnt out with me, money matters.
Rambleon:
Are you my long lost brother? We seem to have the exact same philosophy.