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Our issue is that if you get near a road, or smell the diesel of a construction site, you have to be compliant with the reflective and color. Th old h...
You know it is time when putting on your vest in the AM causes an involuntary gagging. Fact is, after a few weeks of rain, the vests seem to never ge...
It would help to know the jurisdiction of the OP, but in WA, a BLA is different from a BLA. Boundary Line Adjustment = Review Boundary Line Agreement...
Come to the NW Rain, and more to come (regardless of the politicians declaring a drought).
I would rather have statutes that expressly allowed me to determine the location of most boundary lines that I layout, and clearly defined how to do s...
That isn't exactly my experience. The more I learn the more I learn how little I knew...and then imagine five years from now and figure I will think t...
Yeah, many pin-cushions are the result of a field crew not finding (for whatever reason) a corner that might or might not have been found by a PLS. Yo...
Do you know if "material discrepancy" is defined? If there is guidance, then I could see this being useful, as it would put everyone on the sam...
I can find you dozens of easily proven violations in any state with a half hour of searching the records. This is an issue in every profession, I am a...
A "heap o' data" is easiest to sift through as paper. It is not lost on me how analog is simply better for some tasks. Went to the archives and looked...
Many questions come the way of surveyors. Many times the answer is, "You need a lawyer." This is civil. You have to lawyer up. That being said, there ...
It is all good stuff, but I fear that the result will be a widening of the cost gap between those willing to skirt the laws and those that do it right...
The answer is, of course, that nothing beats an GTS300.
Completely unrelated comment... ?ÿ When I see a car driving around with a For Sale sign, or I see a Craigslist add, I always ask myself, "Does the per...
Angie's List, Home Adviser, and tons of home improvement sites all serve to set a very low bar for what people expect to pay. For example, Home Advise...
Large proposals are different than the small property surveys that people call about. I assume that you are talking about a typical residential survey...