If I find the GIS lines are nothing like reality (sometimes a hundred feet away) I send the Assessor my survey AutoCAD file and they correct their lin...

?ÿ Shoulda gone out on my own earlier. Hindsight is amazing, isn't it. I had no idea owning my own company would be so much fun, profitable, stress r...

Be very careful in describing a structure - you don't know what is under the stucco or paint.?ÿ

@chris-mills?ÿ That's why I carry a folding compact mirror, so I can hold it over the bubble and see straight down.

Shawn, exactly. Great post. For an important point I always us a bipod and face the rover in the same direction for every shot. Usually north, but a d...

@skeeter1996?ÿ Be aware that a surveyor brain doesn't work the same way as a legal mind. I was an RLS when I took the LSAT, and did well on it, but af...

Seems iffy to me and I wouldn't do the survey, but, I suppose you could put a fat note in several places on the drawing saying something like: Buildin...

Immediate turn away if the conversation starts with: "I need my lot surveyed and how much will it cost." Any residential survey (I'm strictly commerc...

@holy-cow?ÿ I saw one where the surveyor's name was spelled incorrectly, but since he didn't believe in checking anything, there it was for all to see...

@jitterboogie?ÿ Taking it to the extreme often provides the answer. If you are measuring between two points about a half-inch apart I'll take a pocket...

Management at the large firm where I worked could never grasp this, but in solo practice I find doing my own drafting is so much more efficient.

@frank-willis Hi, Frank. Do you mean the pink craft stick. With reflectorless you can't shoot the building corner because half the beam will go past t...

My wife took her rings off in the car so she could put on hand lotion, and the rings were gone. We searched and searched - nothing. Grand-daughter wit...

One big factor is the cost of assisted living and/or nursing assistance when you get decrepit old, and I can tell you both are $$$ expensive, like int...