We forget that most people have little to no concept about corner monuments, about straight lines between monuments, and how property lines are made out. None. This includes me at the age of 27 (after graduating from engineering college, which included survey classes) buying my first house. I started surveying at the age of 28.?ÿ?ÿ
Do not try to dummy up a pre-dated contract. Write your client a letter stating that on such and such dates you did this and that. By all means, make up a sketch map.?ÿ ?ÿ
I would be willing to continue to work for the client, but not on a piecemeal basis. I'd tell him that the last thing he needs is another cheap survey. He needs really comprehensive, well documented, well marked out job.?ÿ You proceed with the knowledge that he is a lawsuit magnet and conduct your business accordingly. Which means charging for the additional work needed to really CYA. If he is unwilling to pay for that, then I wouldn't work for him.
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It has been handled and all is taken care of...??????????????????????....hopefully.
That's why you should never go out and find a corner of stake a line without doing a full survey of the entire property. If that had been done originally, you and the client would have a record that they had done due diligence.
Oh for heavens sake what a bunch of bs! Every job does not require a complete resurvey and to peddle that is crap.
The property and all the properties around it have good and valid surveys by respected surveyors and those surveys are all recorded.
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No that is not BS, you are always saying how the other Surveyors in you area never charge enough, sounds like you may be doing the same thing, collecting a personal check, not getting?ÿ a company check, was this a under the table job? It does not matter how well respected the Surveyor who did the adjoining lot is their work still needs to be checked. No Surveyor is good enough to only find 2 corners on the same line and say yes the Boundary is good for the entire tract. I can understand if this was a tract you Surveyed in the last 6 months and he needed the corners reflagged, but you did not do that, you took a short cut, and not a company check, and now you need to go back and do the job the correct way, and make an invoice for the job and get it on the company books, also your insurance may not cover you for this.?ÿ?ÿ
Are you a professional survey or a corner finder? Because on this job what did you Survey?
You obviously did not read a damned thing I wrote so I will give you a Cliff Notes summary. I had previously done a lot of surveying on his property and had enough of his property corners and adjoiners corners located so coming out again a few months after the first visit to locate another corner was a simple matter since I have nearly all of 4 tracts and probably 40 acres tied down.?ÿ
So, yes it is BS, every job does not requires a drafted survey especially if the client does not want one. And the other surveyors around here do give their work away. No it was not under the table, just pointing out that he paid me as opposed to the company.
No I did not read where you wrote you Surveyed the tract before, was it in this post?
And YES every job I do the client gets a sketch and a stamp.?ÿ
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Nevermind I see it now, different property line, I was thinking different property.?ÿ
Scott, I wish I lived in a world where the end product was always a final survey but that is not always necessary or affordable for some folks.
A common question from caller is that they are trying to have a fence run on one line or even the entire property in a typical subdivision lot. As much as I try to sell people on the "benefits" of a full survey it is a tough sell when budgets are tight. In those limited situations where tjeu insist thay they don't want a plat we (I) offer to do all the field work and stake the lines but I don't draft a plat for them.
They get what they want and I do enough to satisfy me. It is not ideal but it is what it is.?ÿ
I am conscious of the fact that some folks don't know and others?ÿmight even try to mislead me by omission so I try to be careful.
We get calls of "just needing a corner replaced". Well........it is bloody difficult to do that without a full survey. They may not want a plat or maybe they cannot afford it.?ÿ And as I don't survey for free BUT I still have to pay the bills.
The one I described in this thread was similar just with larger tracts and cost a fair bit more. All the required fieldwork was performed but try as I might the man paying the bills did not want another plat.?ÿ
Now I always draft up what I did for my records.
It is very tough sledding sometimes and as I'm from Georgia sledding is very tough to begin with in the best of situations. I do what I do until I perfect that voodoo curse.......I'm getting close.
