Sounds like you handled the survey itself well and professionally. As to handling this difficult client, I think most of us have met her ilk. Your Sta...
Mulford needed a better editor. Surely where he used the phrase "more important" he meant "more preferable." I like what I used to tell my associates:...
@peter-lothian My first thought as well. This is a good example of why title insurance is not the waste of money that some say it is. Their argument i...
A common variation on this theme is "I called another surveyor and he said it would be about a hundred bucks." I ask what his name was, they can't rem...
Something about our line of work has always attracted hard-headed egotists unwilling to admit any imperfection whatsoever. One of our peers around her...
Here's the whole plan. As a Maine licensee I note that it does not state specifically whether it's oriented to True or Mag. or anything else. Mag was ...
An old-fashioned plumbing wrench (the longest one you can find) will inexpensively pull pins (i.e. the occasional screwup); screw the teeth down on th...
@stacy-carroll I've still got the circa 1966 K & E transit my dad's earthmoving company used back in the day, very similar to what you describe he...
@dms330 No requirement to record in my state (Maine) unless it's a subdivision, but I always advise my clients to do so (or have me do so) adding that...
@mightymoe I use abutter names only to identify the abutting parcel, which after all is and has the weight of a monument. I leave out anything that's ...
@lunarfaze No shame in failing. Most of the licensees I know admit to failing it on their first try.
Years ago I was part of a crew that got called in to help a contractor find "true South" for a fancy solar water heating unit he was installing. He wa...
@postaldelays "In early court trials,... the courts usually chose direction as determined by the compass." --Brown, et. al. "Boundary Control and Le...
Our Board here in Maine has disciplined a number of licensees.The two most common reasons seem to be 1). failure to provide client with a written conf...
