Brad Ott, post: 416767, member: 197 wrote: Nifty, now post the "survey" drawing...
whattya know, it's still in the recesses of my email.
Lee D, post: 416749, member: 7971 wrote: Sorry, I couldn't resist. 😎
Listen up "Bubba", it's the goddamn spell checkers fault. Bersiderds its Friday adn ist bere time and a glaucoma medicine inhalant time too!
😉
Tommy Young, post: 416770, member: 703 wrote: I am convinced that a lot of these surveyors that are doing ALTAs have no idea what goes into them.
I think you're right.
If all you want to cover is payroll and taxes, you can get really cut-throat. But you can't do that forever. Eventually you need to buy equipment, trucks, insurance and pay rent. I bet we all could agree that any field work on any given ALTA survey is a finite and predictable number. It's the hours upon hours spent squinting at poor copies of faxes and the endless number of phone calls to the least intelligent person at the title company that eats you alive. With all these cheap prices, someone is giving work away for free.
And that's OK with me if you want to give work away. I myself want to make money. And I don't mean just making overhead scale. These guys will eventually realize they need to add some profit in to their numbers.
Now hold on a minute. Dont know what they were doing but I passed one of yalls trucks just a few days ago heading east right up here in the middle of Western Ky. 😮
eddycreek, post: 416811, member: 501 wrote: Now hold on a minute. Dont know what they were doing but I passed one of yalls trucks just a few days ago heading east right up here in the middle of Western Ky. 😮
I can tell you what we weren't doing, an ALTA survey for less than $1200.
paden cash, post: 416777, member: 20 wrote: These guys will eventually realize they need to add some profit in to their numbers.
Been waitin' goin' on 30 some years - when do you think eventually might come?
Its hard to even do a boundary survey for less than $1,000. I can understand a quick lot survey in a subdivision but how can one simply locate all the corners (including the actual point of commencement),improvements, and then draw a professional looking plat for less than that?
paden cash, post: 416777, member: 20 wrote: I think you're right.
If all you want to cover is payroll and taxes, you can get really cut-throat. But you can't do that forever. Eventually you need to buy equipment, trucks, insurance and pay rent. I bet we all could agree that any field work on any given ALTA survey is a finite and predictable number. It's the hours upon hours spent squinting at poor copies of faxes and the endless number of phone calls to the least intelligent person at the title company that eats you alive. With all these cheap prices, someone is giving work away for free.
And that's OK with me if you want to give work away. I myself want to make money. And I don't mean just making overhead scale. These guys will eventually realize they need to add some profit in to their numbers.
What got me (before I retired) was when a client ordered a boundary survey, got a copy on completion and then called back to say the attorney needed it to be an ALTA. OOOPS, too late. That has to be stated BEFORE any work begins. "What's the difference" they ask. About 200%.
Andy
I aged that the field work for ALTAS aren't really the issue, its the time spent in the office that kills you.
I drove by the site and found out the surveyor is 2.5 hours away.
Travel time would take up half that price and the other half would cover the travel time back to set pins.
