Too often: THENCE on a bearing of N90°00’00”E a distance of 123.45 feet to a point; Me: THENCE East 123.45 feet;

@not-my-real-name And let us not forget: to a point...to a point...to a point (as Wattles pointed out, the end of a line is always a point).

@mightymoe What he said. It really helps to be on first-name basis with the title companies. If a scanned document is not legible our recorder will p...

@arkansas-90 One of the biggest in Tucson. You know a client is wonderful when they take turns walking the chief morale officer.     ...

World's best client I had for three decades until I retired. Usually the first I knew about a new project was when he sent a note asking if I would pl...

I never ever thought I would think in metric, but that changed when I started having urinary problems and suddenly measuring 450 ml made a lot of sens...

My more than two cents worth: My wife and I ran a very successful survey business and the first thing we did was abolish time cards and ties. Biggest ...

@john-putnam But what happens when you don't label or list something because to your eye it is not an encroachment and it later turns out to be a sign...

@norman-oklahoma I can't think of his name now, but the surveyor on the ALTA board always warned about a surveyor labeling an encroachment, and gave h...

I had an office wall covered with certificates and awards, and it took years of hard work to earn them. When we put the house up for sale out they wen...

I can think of two prime examples of pincushions I deliberately set, and if you saw them you would be appalled if you didn’t know the back story.La Ch...

When I taught Legal Aspects of Land Surveying in college I used Land Survey Descriptions by Wattles. Far as I'm concerned it is THE book. I met him se...

@peter-lothian Yup. My favorite from decades ago was the mediocre client who called on a Friday morning because they just had to have a new building s...

@james-vianna Disagree, strongly. I was always glad to do a survey for friends, especially for support staff in a client or title company's office, ...

Not active now, but when I ran my solo operation 95% of the work was an extendable rod. Very useful, much more than a fixed rod. On the other hand, fo...

@bstrand In 25 years of a solo enterprise, about four deadbeats total. Dollar amount not too much. I try not to let it irk me.

@hpalmer Probably 50 years ago in Florida I did a simple lot survey and sent the drawing to the title company for the closing. Closing morning the cli...