@holy-cow the saving grace is that now, because it's an investment property, I can write the expenses off on my taxes.?ÿ Other than low interest mortg...

I do, allot of my work is for larger commercial developers who need fast turnaround times.?ÿ We are able to provide them with that through a larger st...

I do all my stakeout set up in SurvCad.?ÿ I typically stake the center of structure, a 10' offset with a point number for each invert and a 20' offset...

I don't understand the requirement to be within 0.001'.?ÿ Results with those tolerances are virtually impossible to repeat in the field and nothing wi...

@johnymal I was going to suggest the same tool, it's not a pen, it's a scribe that you can use to etch your mark in the sill.?ÿ I wouldn't use any typ...

I started surveying in 1983 in a three-man crew and also worked my way up to management.?ÿ I now run 6 crews with two men each.?ÿ I refuse to run a on...

I've been using Carlson Survey since about 2003 and in the days when I was running IntelliCad, I recall all of the commands and setting options to be ...

@norman-oklahoma the shoe phone was way ahead of its time.?ÿ Maxwell Smart had all the good gadgets.

@rover83 that's a good one! On another recon job for a different company, and again, on a Friday afternoon, we were sent out to recon a large K Mart ...

I was sent out to recon a job we were doing for the National Weather Service, they were planning to build what is now the weather station that covers ...

This sounds exactly like an experience I had in Williamstown, NJ back in the mid 90's.?ÿ It is also the reason I try to distance myself from property ...

@frozennorth BINGO!

Great find!

Only one time in my surveying career did I moonlight, working weekends for a retired PLS who took on jobs as a hobby to fill his time.?ÿ This guy took...

I went round and round with a logger the other day on a Facebook thread in a Surveyor's group.?ÿ He was scoffing about the need to hire a Surveyor to ...

What is the Board of Control?