Fella buys a lot in a subdivision that we laid out 12 years ago.......
Now the one lot is 20 acres and the other is 5 acres.......
Agree to go look at it... end up spending three hours him showing me what he has found... come to find out he is going to court and wants to know where his property line is because his neighbor has trespassed.....
You need a survey.
How much, $150/hour....
I just need the corners found.....
That is to much...
You surveyed it... You should be able to tell me where the corners are...
This cat seriously thinks that I should go out there and resurvey it, testify in court for him and not charge him because I got paid to do it once......
There are other issues there two... but he goes to court on Wednesday....
Now somebody tell me again why I would want to get back into surveying full time.....
At $150 an hour and maybe doing a days work? Because you have too much money currently?
Whiners. Don't you love them? They make you want to go volunteer your services to the adjoiner.
Tell him not to worry, just have his attorney contact you to work out the details.....
Ask him if he expects the same free service when he wants his dentist to examine his teeth every six months.
yeah, well he is going to represent himself in court...
He says the grounds his..
neighbor says no it ain't.
I told him I wasn't going to comment on what corner was what without measurements and verification......
I am going out Saturday wit hthe metal detector and attempt to recover a few corners but other than that I am not going to do anything till he decides what it is worth.........
Told him that unless the judge was a fool he wasn't going to rule unless the surveyor or a nutreal party was testifying.
You've been promoted since I last saw a post of yours! Congratulations and thanks for your service!
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The same guy called me 2 years ago. I gave him a piddling price to verify one of his corner from a survey we did for someone else in 1997. He freaked out and said, "but you've already been paid for this!" Someone in the office said I should have told him, "that's right, I've already got their money, I want yours now."
> I am going out Saturday wit hthe metal detector and attempt to recover a few corners but other than that I am not going to do anything till he decides what it is worth.........
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Why are you even doing that?
I'm with Glenn here. Why go out at all unless you are going to measure and verify?
Tell him your hourly rate is the same as his attorney.
> Tell him your hourly rate is the same as his attorney.
Yeah. Cause that is what YOU will be paying for an attorney, when YOU get sued, because all you did was metal detect, and did not discover that somebody had really moved your monuments......
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> I am going out Saturday wit hthe metal detector and attempt to recover a few corners but other than that I am not going to do anything till he decides what it is worth.........
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I agree, why would you want to do this. Just opens yourself up to more possible liability. Plus, I wouldnt waste a Saturday unless I was getting compensated for it.
That was the perfect opportunity to educate the consumer. When I received your check in XX year, I used a portion of that money to keep the lights on that month, to keep the phone connected that month, to keep the rent paid that month, and to pay myself and my staff that month. Since I last surveyed your lot, I had to register my truck several times, I had to pay workers comp on my employees, and payroll taxes, I had to renew my professional license, keep the lights on, keep my office open, keep the phone connected so you could call me to have me come out here today. So yes, my services at today's rates are $150/hr, and the fee for updating your survey is only a small fraction of my annual cost of doing business at TODAY's cost of doing business. Feel free to inquire with your legal counsel on whether you would like to stand in court before the judge with a CURRENT survey, and my testimony in court at $150/hr, or the survey I did for you ## years ago, and no testimony from me. If you slap me with a subpoena to appear about a survey I did ## years ago, and have not been paid to update in the years since. I can only attest to the physical location and information I have recorded in my dated field notes based on the last survey I provided to you.
If you are having chest pains, the results from the physical you received from your physician 6 months ago may or may not be any indication of what is causing your pain today. The same holds true for a Boundary Survey. Boundary Surveys depict the physical location and information available to the signing surveyor at the time the field work was performed. It may or may not depict the current information and location of potential apparent use by others onto your property that may exist today.
> That was the perfect opportunity to educate the consumer. When I received your check in XX year, I used a portion of that money to keep the lights on that month, to keep the phone connected that month, to keep the rent paid that month, and to pay myself and my staff that month. Since I last surveyed your lot, I had to register my truck several times, I had to pay workers comp on my employees, and payroll taxes, I had to renew my professional license, keep the lights on, keep my office open, keep the phone connected so you could call me to have me come out here today. So yes, my services at today's rates are $150/hr, and the fee for updating your survey is only a small fraction of my annual cost of doing business at TODAY's cost of doing business. Feel free to inquire with your legal counsel on whether you would like to stand in court before the judge with a CURRENT survey, and my testimony in court at $150/hr, or the survey I did for you ## years ago, and no testimony from me. If you slap me with a subpoena to appear about a survey I did ## years ago, and have not been paid to update in the years since. I can only attest to the physical location and information I have recorded in my dated field notes based on the last survey I provided to you.
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> If you are having chest pains, the results from the physical you received from your physician 6 months ago may or may not be any indication of what is causing your pain today. The same holds true for a Boundary Survey. Boundary Surveys depict the physical location and information available to the signing surveyor at the time the field work was performed. It may or may not depict the current information and location of potential apparent use by others onto your property that may exist today.
Problem is, the survey 12 years ago wasn't for him....
Developer didn't have a problem with it 10 years ago.
The analogy of a doctor wouldn't right a prescription based on the physical he did on you 10 years ago would you?
"That's different, property doesn't change."
The guy wants a free survey. I got wrapped up in family business yesterday....
I ask the guy to put in writing what he wanted me to do for him, he refused.
I don't feel any obligation to him. I went out and looked at it to see what he had found and would have identified them if I could have....
This kind of client cannot be educated. They think they deserve something for nothing. Your attempt to "educate" them is just a waste of your time and accomplishes nothing other than making you and the other guy mad.