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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: Out Bid On A Coastal Topographic Survey

I agree with everything you just said, but in my unscientific poll among peers, I would suggest we are in the minority on that subject. For a spirite...

15 years ago
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RE: Out Bid On A Coastal Topographic Survey

I know Adam personally, respect his opinion and genuinely interested in his view on the subject. I did not intend this question to be an editorial of ...

15 years ago
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RE: Out Bid On A Coastal Topographic Survey

Here in Texas, we have two different types of licensing. A RPLS is a Registered Professional Land Surveyor and a LSLS is a Licensed State Land Survey...

15 years ago
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RE: Out Bid On A Coastal Topographic Survey

Adam, What is your opinion on the validity of a RPLS locating the mean Higher High tide on coastal properties? Do you prescribe to the theory that t...

15 years ago
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RE: Florida Survey License Apparently Still Not Safe

Gunter?I struggled with idea of responding to this comment, but couldn’t refrain. Gunter you seemed to be a liberal and lean politically left. You a...

15 years ago
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RE: Florida Survey License Apparently Still Not Safe

I get the same whine from some of my employees when they get tested. However, I have noticed that the employees most prone to being late, missing wor...

15 years ago
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RE: Florida Survey License Apparently Still Not Safe

Let’s do the math with your numbers:$100 per test.Average welfare recipient’s monthly stipend $1200 per month = $12,000 per year.1% of recipients spen...

15 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring.... we need a price

Business is a bitch! I would have told her $3K.

15 years ago
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RE: Texas Sales Tax Question

Expert Testimony by its very nature is a professional service and not taxable (yet). You can bet Doctors, Attorneys and other professionals typically...

15 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

“When a man hires a surveyor, the surveyor's decision is "his day in court."I’m sorry JB, other than some threads on surveyors’ discussion board, that...

15 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

Really? Porking your clients in their time of need is “…an excellent opportunity to break the mold…” When my clients need me in court I don’t charge ...

15 years ago
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RE: Ring Ring

I would admit that a surveyor is allowed to offer opinions and would be able to answer those questions in better fashion; I would resist the temptatio...

15 years ago
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RE: Recording act costs and unlicensed surveyors

“This has been discussed before but the resistance to recording or filing surveys seems to me to be one of the major land mines in the road that cause...

15 years ago
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RE: ALTA - Wetlands

WetlandsLawsuits rarely make “sense” and the shotgun approach is the norm. I know some firms in the Houston area that do not identify themselves as W...

15 years ago
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RE: ALTA - Wetlands

I don't recall complaining; and yes, it was an informed decision. We do a lot of work with developers and contractors and we might have done well. H...

15 years ago
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RE: ALTA - Wetlands

I can answer that one JB:We actually considered doing that here in our office. Seemed like a great fit. We even have a project manager with an environ...

15 years ago
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RE: People with authority problems

You just described half the surveyors I know, including me.

15 years ago
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RE: Women In Surveying

Speculating on an old photo and commenting on it's character is nothing more that a mind exercise. To extrapolate this discussion to the current mind...

15 years ago
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RE: Women In Surveying

Looking at those smiles and understanding the norms of the time, I suspect this is a gag. In those days, people would get a good belly laugh to see s...

15 years ago
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