I know the first eLOMA submission gets audited, just curious how long the audit process usually takes??ÿ TIA
Mine only took a week, and I even had a pissing contest with the auditor over the description.
You will always have to do battle over the description
Licensed Land Surveyor
Finger Lakes Region, Upstate New York
I've never got any feedback. I often wonder if my photos are of the kind they want.
I did have a young girl call me once and ask me if it would be alright if they just did the foundation . I told her that's all we wanted in the first place. Next day I got my electronic letter.
No idea what they're looking for.?ÿ She said block, lot, subdivision, township, range.....and there's none of that on the piece I was working on.
I have had 2 of the past 4 audited. The first was probably because it was my first eLOMA but the second was because there was about 45 feet of elevation difference between one structure and another. I just wrote back saying that I checked my numbers and that the higher structure was up a large hill. Both audits took just less than a week.
Gregg
I stopped taking it personal.?ÿ It seems you can never get the description correct.?ÿ I had one reviewed because I put a period on the end of the description.?ÿ No joke.
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You think they would trust surveyors to transcribe a description, or at least write a decent one.?ÿ THey way they make you do it is about useless, and makes about zero sense.
I have probably done 50 of them and only once have I not been audited.
I've been audited on every one I've done.?ÿ Usually it's the description, but twice I had to return to the site for additional photos because something on Google Earth looked sketchy.?ÿ It wasn't, in either case.
The last time I was given these:
Turn-around has been about 10 business days before I found out my transgression(s).?ÿ Once I submitted the required info their reasponse was very prompt
That's insane.?ÿ You'd think that we wouldn't need to be audited since we're licensed.?ÿ But I guess this bureaucracy needs to do its best to keep itself going, along with their vested interest in keeping as many people in the program so they can bail out those who are actually at risk.
The ones I've done are camps, mostly on piers or crawl spaces, built?ÿ 60+ years ago, on lake-front property.?ÿ The chances of them actually flooding and causing significant damage is close to nil.?ÿ But they're on the hook for flood insurance if they have a mortgage, to the tune of $1500+/year.?ÿ It's a joke.
@jph Nearly all of the ones that I do are on lands joining Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) lakes.?ÿ When TVA built these lakes, they had mountains of hydraulic data.?ÿ FEMA didn't use any of it, and ran their own studies instead.?ÿ Not only does TVA know how high the water can get, they can show you fairly accurately where that level is on the ground.
If you have a house that joins TVA and your house will flood, you've got bigger problems than flood insurance.?ÿ TVA will make you move your house because it encroaches onto their flowage easement.
Personally, I don't mind an audit. I always appreciate someone looking over my work. If the cost is swallowing my pride and making some unneeded and nit-picking change, then it is worth the cost.
description always a moving target