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Gene Baker
Gene Baker
@gene-baker
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Joined: July 2, 2010 10:22 am
Topics: 6 / Replies: 217
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RE: Old surveys, Any value?

I know of a survey company in Houston that actively seeks such records. Now that the title companies will accept old surveys to eliminate the survey ...

15 years ago
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RE: BID THIS!!!!

My firm just completed a very similar survey in southeast Texas. We used a combination of conventional methodology, GPS, construction drawings and ae...

15 years ago
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RE: Any mortgage surveyors out there?

Thousands to survey a residential property? What do you stake the corners with, gold spikes?

16 years ago
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RE: How Say You

In your scenario, why would anyone even hire a surveyor? If the boundaries are evident and notorious, why bother? After the fence line survey, the ow...

16 years ago
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RE: ALTA - RFP

I’m curious; why should they have not told him the proposed price of the other guy? Unless this is a public bid (then we could argue the Professional...

16 years ago
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RE: 3rd Party ALTA Requirements - Re-Writing Legal Descriptions

I had a hard time complying with this request for a long time. I finally asked an attorney why he wanted a M & B description and gave him all of ...

16 years ago
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RE: Party Wall Problem

Wow! Isn't this surveying 101. A call to a physical boundary should be superior to a distance or bearing. Isn’t this same as any other physical boun...

16 years ago
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RE: Yet Another Example of a Written Description

I am trying not to be combative, but somehow the description posted insults my intelligence. It vary well may be that I find my own work insufficient...

16 years ago
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RE: Yet Another Example of a Written Description

You may want to look up the word brevity. I think you have it confused with ambiguity.

16 years ago
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RE: Yet Another Example of a Written Description

I would assume any surveyor coming after me to be capable and competent and not need a long soliloquy describing every piece of evidence I found and i...

16 years ago
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RE: Yet Another Example of a Written Description

The key to communication is brevity.

16 years ago
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RE: Map check fees

I rekon that is how a city of 50,000 can pay thier city manager and other local yokels 600K a year. California is whacked!

16 years ago
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RE: Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo-DanFlood Zones are not created by FEMA, they are created by nature (or badly designed development), FEMA only identifies them. If you wan...

16 years ago
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RE: Unknown use of a survey

I understand typically a surveyor has an expectation of providing more services in the construction phase of project, but it is not a certainty. The ...

16 years ago
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RE: Unknown use of a survey

Every Surveyor should stand behind his work. As long as he was paid for the work he should be held liable. Every time I prepare a survey it is with ...

16 years ago
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RE: Replat vs Amending Plat (in Texas)

I always thought an amending plat was specifically used to correct errors, while a replat changes original intent. Seems you are changing the origina...

16 years ago
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RE: Did I pincushion?

I am hoping this is a joke, but I am afraid it is all to real.

16 years ago
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RE: Can the Low-Ballers Keep Up?

There are lot of things I think all survey companies should have (commercial coffee pots, sexy receptionists, Dell Computers, Ford Trucks, etc.), but ...

16 years ago
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