Like I didn't see this coming....

James Fleming, post: 451777, member: 136 wrote: Realtor: I need the left line of a property staked for a fence

Surveyor researches property. Metes and bounds parcel (as well as all the others in the area), line the realtor wants staked is described as the second line in the adjoining deed. Etc. Surveyor sends realtor a proposal for boundary survey on property

Realtor replies: I just want the left line staked...not the front, rear, or right.

If you walk the perimeter of the property clockwise, you can get the left line all the way around. Or maybe he meant my other left

"I have a plat (translated: I have a twenty year old mortgage survey) and itƒ??s a straight line. Was hoping it would be more like $400.00 Please review and let me know."

Well, if 5 points will be $1000, then 2 SHOULD be $400.;)

The man asked for only one line. Give him only one line. Survey property and monument "left" line only $2850. Survey and monument whole property $3000 (Portland prices).

Good one for a Friday, thanks James :beer:

After dealing with them for 45 years I'm convinced that the only thing Realtors really understand is 3-1/2%...

Wow, you charge a lot for putting in a few monuments. Why don't you just tell me where they go and I'll install them myself.

I believe I've posted this before...

Realtor: "I don't want a survey, I just want the corners marked..."

I don't find corners or stake lines for anyone. I survey property.

I divided a 200ac property for two brothers and set 3 rebar monuments with caps.
One brother commented that "those were the most expensive rebar he had ever purchased".

I would love to charge a percentage of the sale price for mortgage survey.

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....."I just want the corners staked, they don't have to be THAT close....."

warren ward PLS CO OK, post: 451919, member: 12536 wrote: ....."I just want the corners staked, they don't have to be THAT close....."

I just had a very similar discussion 2 weeks ago

Attorney request: "we could do with two sets of paper field notes (not certified) and deter any staking until some later date"......

BushAxe, post: 451918, member: 11897 wrote: I would love to charge a percentage of the sale price for mortgage survey.

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What does that work out to be, in today's prices; maybe 0.001% haha.[emoji14]

That poster, RADAR; sure is a swell guy.

I'm putting together a survey for a 500 acre area in So. OK. I'm waiting on some title work. The client initially contacted me for a price and forwarded me a copy of the contract. The price is a little north of seven figures. He was fishing for a ball-park number so I gave him amounts for two jobs I have done in the last five years that were in the same part of that county. One was a little less than 1% of a purchase price and one was about 1.25% due to some extraneous factors. I gave him a "guesstimate" price somewhere between the two.

He choked. Two days later he called me back and wanted to know my thoughts on him using his iPhone app to set out points (with cardinal distances and directions). Two sides of the tract are "stair-stepped" with 40 acre jogs. I told him that probably wasn't a bad way to follow the fences, but was by no means any sort of "survey". He said he was going to give it a try. I wished him luck.

He called back last Thursday. He wasn't 3/4 of a mile from his initial way point and was missing the fences by 40 or 50 feet. I had to give him the "short story" on sub-dividing sections. He was beginning to understand the importance of a survey and the title company had some exceptions, but he needed to confer with his BIL (co-purchaser). He called back yesterday. He apparently had shopped around a little and they decided to hire me. I sent him a formal proposal and he's sending me the title work. I'll be out there next week digging holes.

It never ceases to amaze me when people will spend a million bucks...(Lord knows how much of that is broker's fees)...and then act like 1% for a professional and durable survey is "way too much".

paden cash, post: 451943, member: 20 wrote: I'm putting together a survey for a 500 acre area in So. OK. I'm waiting on some title work. The client initially contacted me for a price and forwarded me a copy of the contract. The price is a little north of seven figures. He was fishing for a ball-park number so I gave him amounts for two jobs I have done in the last five years that were in the same part of that county. One was a little less than 1% of a purchase price and one was about 1.25% due to some extraneous factors. I gave him a "guesstimate" price somewhere between the two.

He choked. Two days later he called me back and wanted to know my thoughts on him using his iPhone app to set out points (with cardinal distances and directions). Two sides of the tract are "stair-stepped" with 40 acre jogs. I told him that probably wasn't a bad way to follow the fences, but was by no means any sort of "survey". He said he was going to give it a try. I wished him luck.

He called back last Thursday. He wasn't 3/4 of a mile from his initial way point and was missing the fences by 40 or 50 feet. I had to give him the "short story" on sub-dividing sections. He was beginning to understand the importance of a survey and the title company had some exceptions, but he needed to confer with his BIL (co-purchaser). He called back yesterday. He apparently had shopped around a little and they decided to hire me. I sent him a formal proposal and he's sending me the title work. I'll be out there next week digging holes.

It never ceases to amaze me when people will spend a million bucks...(Lord knows how much of that is broker's fees)...and then act like 1% for a professional and durable survey is "way too much".

I want to be a 1-percenter. It makes sense that the fee be tied to the value of the property since the accuracy required increases with value as well as the liability. But sure as I am sitting here someone will do a mortgage survey for a $1M home for $300.

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Five figures, eh? Like $123.45?i

Talked briefly with a potential client today. She said she was looking for someone closer to her hometown because the one she had already spoken to had mentioned travel expense and time to do her job. He had given her a ridiculously high estimate of $400. I told her immediately that this would be a very short conversation because that number was far lower than any recent jobs we had performed in her hometown. Told her to keep me in mind if she had any problems in the future.

Looking at house...gonna need new carpet in the living room $900, paint the bedrooms $1500, survey $250, kitchen counters $3,000, etc.