I've never liked these things and have done less than a hand full in my career.
@mightymoe the only way to produce a usefull product for those prices is in the situation you described, a lot you have already surveyed. Nothing wrong with a quick job to make someone happy in these circumstances, but going to a parcel you don't know anything about is asking for trouble.
The last one of these I worked on ended up costing the client over $5000 and that was at a loss for us. Old subdivision, bad survey, many missing monuments, disagreeing records of survey in the area..
@mightymoe the only way to produce a usefull product for those prices is in the situation you described, a lot you have already surveyed. Nothing wrong with a quick job to make someone happy in these circumstances, but going to a parcel you don't know anything about is asking for trouble.
The last one of these I worked on ended up costing the client over $5000 and that was at a loss for us. Old subdivision, bad survey, many missing monuments, disagreeing records of survey in the area..
I hear ya, but even houses I've staked I can't do it for that. Especially for a new client.
We used to do it for a fixed price; "big" profit on the easy ones, lost money on the difficult ones, the idea was to have a fixed cost for the closing. I liked doing them, but I'm not a pro bono business for banks.?ÿ
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