Did an ALTA survey a block from the office. Guess what : I still have not seen the property corners set . I stopped and talked with the guy that was from GA in an unmarked Red Chevy pickup, running a Spectra Robot. Said he was doing an ALTA on the Gas station. I told him to stop by the office if he was in need of anything since he was from out of town. Never did. I wrote his name down and lost it. I guess I will start looking into who this was and give them a couple more months. These jobs were being bid out by a national firm by the way. Getting a little chapped over this one. I priced it locally and lost it. Set you darn corners. When we leave a site looks like Christmas for the client . I could barley tell anyone was on site on this one.
Try working down here. Violations all the time. No one turns them in because the board doesn't do anything.
I know a surveyor down here that did work in NC for an engineering buddy without a license. One of the crew members called me while out of town to brag about their new project and I turned it into a "wait a minute you guys aren't licenses up there!" to which he conveniently lost service.
The surveying done down here is pitiful. Georgia, for whatever reason, is by far the worst state I have surveyed in. Bad prices, conditioned by bad surveying practices. Keep hoping some of the more seasoned professionals will "retire" but surveyors don't retire.
I did a 100 acre survey last summer. 12 corners were supposed to be in...not one of them. Apparently the surveyor was infamously negligent and apparently cheap. I hope he had a nice time with all the money he saved on re-bar. He cost me an extra week.
Wish I had better news but I don't. Abuses followed by no enforcement causes the current situation to be perpetuated.
Try Connecticut. Every time I work there, I find plans, (maps, they're called - if you ask for plans, they pretend not to know what you mean), that close great, but show either no monuments, or just one or two of them.
Wasn't anyone I know of. All the survey work I've done in GA, we set corners if not right then, the next day. If it was a "next day" deal, we took record shots and the plat/map got reflected of that. The two guys I worked for here took that sh..tuff serious.
NC was a different matter. We got subbed out to a guy to set pins for stuff he had already filed 5-10 years prior. I just shook my head not understanding how they can sleep well at night without massive amounts of drugs and/or alcohol.
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If they don't set the corners, file a complaint.
In Ga just like I suspect in all the other states, we have good and we have bad. The issues you are stating cross over all the state lines. The issues is working for clients that only take the low bid and surveyors willing to prostitute themselves to accommodate them. Where there are no hookers there are no Johns.
You "could barely tell anyone was on the site"? Yet, you still obviously could tell someone was on the site which makes this post irrelevant. Did you happen to get out your truck to check the corners? If not, then what basis do you have to claim the corners were not set? Just because they weren't flagged up "like Christmas"? However, your dispute with a GA surveyor can be easily resolved by not getting "chapped" over every single job you lose on. It's good practice to mind your business and not troll some forum boards in spite of a surveyor that happens to steal your work, or you can get a life outside of work and maybe go catch a film at the cinemas sometime.