Just wondering what others across this great land of ours are charging for routine surveys.
A 10,000 square foot lot in a well laid out subdivision?
How bout an Elevation Certification, even if you have a well established Benchmark right across the street?
Truly pathetic
I followed the link to their form, and it appears to be a form for a Mortgage Loan Inspection (at least that's what we call them here in Maine).
The form requests the party to certify to, as well as Lender and Insurer information, and there is a portion for flood zone info.
You'll notice that the form itself is titled "order form." Not mortgage inspection, not boundary retracement survey, etc.
The link page does read:
ORDER A FLORIDA LAND SURVEY AND/OR ELEVATION CERTIFICATE BELOW
This company appears to know exactly how to mislead the unknowing public.
That is embarrassing. Any decent surveyor wouldn't pack the truck for those prices.
SAD - but this is the kind of pr and pricing that is killing the profession !
Disgusting!
Guatemalan crew @ $4.40 per hour?
Rick
Mr. TT,
Not to hijack your thread, but that is an impressive web site. They can do all that with $275 surveys? They must use Quicken Pro or something.
The business model is the same as an old boss of mine used for his surveying firm. Bid cheap. Get a bunch of work. Make up for any losses with volume? What?
In the construction section of the web site, there is a picture of a crew doing what appears to be an as-built survey and the guy is shooting not the top of curb, not the back of curb, not the curb flowline, not the lip of gutter but a point about 6-3/8" from the curb. There's a time saver I wouldn't have come up with, I guess.
I'm just saying.
JA, PLS SoCal
WOW, SO hard to believe. In Ohio one cannot advertise or specify pricing. now maybe a web site is different not sure.
Did you also notice that they are "starting" prices? Like earlier comment...gets them in the door.
Here's the dude. First licensed in '72(!), still doing field work as of 06/09.
Maybe if he charged more, he could be retired......
http://www.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=70277
I have competitors (er, colleagues) that operate something like that. If they stay in practice for 20 years or so, they can well and truly fudge up a county. Or two, or three...
SS
Wow.
Didn't Andy J recently say Florida is very flat? Maybe they have a Elev Cert template and just change the name for each client.
I should have my sister ask him for a quote...
May they stay in Florida
We definitely don't need anyone like that screwing things up around here.
> Here's the dude. First licensed in '72(!), still doing field work as of 06/09.
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> Maybe if he charged more, he could be retired......
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> SS
:-O
:good:
This quote from his last paragraph sums things up:
"... my surveying is a hobby as well as a profession...".
We've all known a few of those, often gainfully employed in the public sector or receiving a nice pension from one. Unfortunately they just don't recognize the value of the product, but have fun doing it just because they can. Real warm & fuzzy approach that hurts us all...
> there is a picture of a crew doing what appears to be an as-built survey and the guy is shooting not the top of curb, not the back of curb, not the curb flowline, not the lip of gutter but a point about 6-3/8" from the curb. There's a time saver I wouldn't have come up with, I guess.
😀 😀 😀 😀
Have met plenty of those guys myself, they have a break even attitude while living off someone else.
