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(@6th-pm)
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Commercial Property consisting of 4 subdivided lots with three 10,000StFt buildings and one parking lot. approx 3 acres total with a total of 25 property markers or curve points. Curb cuts and access off of two major streets, private access esmt' shared with adjoiner. Approx 3,000' of curb & gutter and approx 125 striped parking spaces. The property was subdivided in 1976, no surveys on record (recording state), adjoiner was surveyed 6 years ago with all original corners found.

ALTA Table A - 1,2,3,4,7a,7b,8,9,10,11a
I'll post aerial photo when I get to the office.

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 5:22 am
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Should be in the 5-7K range but someone will propose to do it for $700.....

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 6:32 am
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> I'll post aerial photo when I get to the office.

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 6:35 am
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I am finishing one right now with similar specs. No underground utility locate and my fee was $7000.

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 6:38 am
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What makes this proposal different is that a past client who I have a relationship with from a previous employer called and asked me to give him a cost, because one of the 'bigger' firms gave him a fee of 12,325.00

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 7:20 am
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Seriously, I was gonna toss out a $12,000 figure. Woohoo, I get it by $325. Does that make me a lowballer?

A crew can spend many hours on a project like that to do the job correctly. Not having a solid existing survey adds quite a bit right off the bat.

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 7:26 am
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I was gonna say about $8000...or $1 whichever, get me the job;-)

Seriously..its int the 8g range..

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 7:53 am
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$12,000 looks tight to me. They really shouldn't have given you the cost from the other firm. Puts you in a kind of awkward position.

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 7:57 am
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That Gas Station Looks Like It Has Recovery Wells

How many monitoring wells are on the ALTA site?

I would say an oil spill plume is an encroachment.

Paul in PA

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 8:12 am
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I’m curious; why should they have not told him the proposed price of the other guy? Unless this is a public bid (then we could argue the Professional Procurement Act) why would this information be kept secret?

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 9:29 am
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I'm probably wrong but if someone ask's for a price (bid if you will) from surveyor A, then tells you what that price from surveyor A is and you give them an estimate slightly under it..... just sounds awkward to me. But I'm no lawyer.

This has come up for me a few months ago and I told the client I didn't want to know what the other person's estimate was. They just told me it sounded high. I bid the job and turned out I was a few hundred dollars higher and they gave me the job anyway because they had worked with me before and our offices are in the same town and the other guy was 200 miles away.

 
Posted : December 1, 2010 9:51 am
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IN COMMIE-RADO THAT SITE IS WORTH 12,000 DOLLARS ALL DAY-

A TWO MAN CREW- ABOUT 3 DAYS-3500

OFFICE ABOUT THE SAME-2000
RESEARCH AND MISC $1500-2K

MINIMALLY ITS 7500 DOLLARS BY SOMEONE WHO DOES THIS FOR A LIVING-

ECOMOMY IS SO BAD THAT SOME YAHOO WILL GET IT FOR 2400-3000--TDD

 
Posted : December 2, 2010 7:35 am