Par for the course

I have done a survey to transfer some land to a city for a sports park. After getting it done they have been in negotiations and have decided to reconfigure the deal and the new boundaries. That's fine. Apparently they see no need for any further surveying, it's been turned over to a title company to write the new deeds and descriptions and thus create the new parcels. So nothing has changed during the last 150 years, we will get more new parcels created without a survey and without corner markers. Then in the future a surveyor will get the task to locate the boundaries and it will be all messed up, the record will be mostly ambiguous and the occupation will not match up the the description.

I swear, the title industry has no use for surveyors at all. They can get more for a title insurance policy, with almost no risk and very little work than you can get to do a survey. Then later when it's discovered the boundaries and record don't match and are all screwed up who gets blamed, Surveyors!

I love surveying and have put forth a lot of effort to be able to do it. You'll NEVER be respected for doing it, NEVER. If you are lucky you'll gain some respect from other surveyors, everybody else, you're just a problem that tries to charge for what should be almost free or is not necessary at all.