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Bruce Small
Bruce Small
@bruce-small
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Joined: February 6, 2011 3:35 pm
Last seen: May 30, 2026 6:54 pm
Topics: 227 / Replies: 1346
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RE: Problem Clients

Absolutely. Never try to be everything to everyone, and don't put up with any crap from slow payers. Never listen to the story about all the great pro...

3 years ago
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RE: Block plat

Now what are the odds Joe Schmo decided on his own initiative to draft the block plat, commited fraud by inserting my seal and signature, and transmit...

3 years ago
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RE: Block plat

Several phone calls and emails this morning from the various players, all making it clear they had nothing to do with this and falling over themselves...

3 years ago
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RE: Utter gall

Ha, just had an email from the controller of the deadbeat client, apologizing for their failure to pay my invoice and offering to wire the funds tomor...

3 years ago
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RE: Serious things you soon-to-be geezers need to consider

When my wife and I enrolled in Medicare we opted for the best supplemental insurance we could find. Quite expensive but turned out to be a bargain. Wi...

3 years ago
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RE: Don’t stop digging until you find it

My favorite was the inverted white plastic bucket down 3 feet and a marker message saying, "Keep going. You're almost there." Now that was helpful.

3 years ago
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RE: What obligation does another surveyor have to return your call.

Always remember some day the shoe will be on the other foot and they will wish they had been cooperative.

3 years ago
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RE: ALTA NSPS (formerly ALTA ACSM) minimum standard detail

The ALTA made it clear that the old standards have been superseded. I once asked an attorney what she would do if the legislature changed the state s...

3 years ago
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RE: A Horrible Description

@paden-cash If you could put that description on the ground in a unique manner, then it is a good description, no matter how horrid it may look to a n...

3 years ago
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RE: Temporary Easements on ROS

I don't show easements on a ROS.

3 years ago
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RE: Disclaimers

@rover83 Certainly not in Arizona, and surveyors have been disciplined for an "X' in concrete or just a PK nail.

3 years ago
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RE: National As-Built Surveyor

@andy-j Our insurance carrier from sojme years back gave the example of an "as built" where it turned out the sewer pipe was cracked. The surveyor di...

3 years ago
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RE: Disclaimers

@dmyhill Yes, indeed. A national firm put their logo sticker over my seal and signature and passed off the work as their own. I let them know how di...

3 years ago
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RE: The people you meet while surveying...

I chatted with an adjoiner, just to be friendly and let her know I was next door, and complimented her on her lovely roses. Huge mistake, furious I da...

3 years ago
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RE: Using color on survey plats?

And then there are the numerous old deeds I have seen that refer to the areas shown in green, or red, and that were perfectly clear at the time but th...

3 years ago
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