Contractor- But they just want to build a deck!?! Sometimes getting a survey is like going to the doctor and getting an MRI...there is a reason the...

Zeiss Ni2 for the win! So, I will never complain about a Zeiss, but this would get me out of the sun sooner, I would think...

The ongoing appraisal process tends to keep things more equitable. Identical houses setting side by side should be taxed somewhere close to the same....

take measurements of commercial swimming pools for regulatory compliance at different construction milestones. I would think that in today's world ...

Never ruin an apology with a lame excuse. Nobody wants to hear excuses; we want solutions; how are you going to fix it. "Review of our records sho...

Adverse Possession of property is a difficult thing to prove in California, Yeah, rich people quieting title in CA is pretty much as far from my in...

-- attachment is not available -- -- attachment is not available -- since your house taxes are based upon what you paid for the property with a maximu...

In another life, I worked for a mid-sized engineering firm. We spent at least 80 man-hours developing a scope and budget for an 80 mile RR ROW job for...

How do the good people of the board respond to potential clients that are in a big hurry, but they're price shopping? When people say they are in a...

A monument governs if it is called for and undisturbed. A bent iron has clearly been disturbed (I'm assuming that the deed does not call for a bent ir...

No surveyor in the United States that I know of is empowered (on their own) to rectify that deed to match the occupation. I retraced a short plat ...

Have any of you came across a plan that was clearly your work but someone has manipulated it by stripping all identifying features of who created the ...

@dmyhill Perhaps his wording was lacking, but I think he was complaining about surveying the deed vs the evidence of the boundary. Perhaps I'm wrong. ...

I really hope he takes the education about measurement errors and tolerances, I vividly remember being taught about measurement in the most basic o...

Correct is an identity, not a distance... The hard part is whether to assign that identity...then what to do with that identity.

Posted by: @pythagoras ↑ Btw one of the surveyors I spotted using that also uses this: BOUNDARY LINES SHOWN AND CORNERS SET REPRESENT DEED LO...

No one mentions this, but if you assume that each length measurement is accurate to ±0.05 feet, then the computed area has an uncertainty of ±4.7 sq f...

10 boxes of pencils. Geezers. But I understand some are less fortunate and i have no issues at all helping those kids and families. To me the whole sy...

operating foster care like an industry for profit Saddening. I dont suppose it is automatically a bad thing...but it doesnt sound great.