I am not sure what you are charging for. If you are charging for the time it takes to file/record your rate sounds way to low. Where I work it doesnt ...

By coordinates??ÿ

I think the union that surveyors fall under varies from place to place. These "survey technician" positions have fairly rigorous training requirements...

What are you trying to do that coordinates to the nearest foot are not good enough?

$20 for the first sheet and $5 for each additional sheet in Alaska.?ÿ

In some states, with some clients you can limit your practice to the current deed. There isn't really a problem with it as long as everyone is clear w...

You may be an AZZhole, but our profession needs more people saying things like this?ÿ

What you have identified is a recruitment problem. You are bit supposed become a proffesional while you are having a life. It's just as hard or harder...

What you have identified is a recruitment problem. You are bit supposed become a proffesional while you are having a life. It's just as hard or harder...

What you have identified is a recruitment problem. You are bit supposed become a proffesional while you are having a life. It's just as hard or harder...

But we don't have to take a step back to avoid that. You can just not do boundary surveys. There are many practicing surveyors who rarely, if ever, de...

But we don't have to take a step back to avoid that. You can just not do boundary surveys. There are many practicing surveyors who rarely, if ever, de...

All good advise, but make sure the 1/4 on the line closed upon is actually the 1/4 for your section. Many closing sections have 1/4's for one side onl...

The PLOs restricted the federal government from using the areas for anything besides a highway (i.e. homesteading), but on there own they don't create...

No, BLM doesn't care about elevations, unless they are surveying a boundary that is dependent on elevation.?ÿ

I don't think you want anything like a federal withdrawal. Federal (and state of AK) withdrawals are for withdrawing specific parcels from the public ...

I think you are mostly right, but its not quite so black and white. Federal and state courts dont usually recognize unwritten rights that can move a b...

Unless there is a federal interst (or state in some states) involved.....

I think Dave did a good job in explaining my viewpoint, but I'd like to add that I am mystified by the insistence that ROWs get their exact width, reg...

Sounds like incomplete surveys then.?ÿ