One of the reasons I love working commercial/industrial real-estate is that a lot of the time, our client just wants to get the deal done and get thei...

as my boss always say, "Good, fast, and cheap, pick any two"

On most of the ALTA surveys I've done, the lender typically gets a zoning letter from the local planning department (independent of our survey) statin...

I have a half-chain in my office. It's 33 feet (50 links) long. I'm guessing this is what is meant here.

I've spent the better part of the last week updating about a dozen ALTA surveys for a client. Even though the last date on the survey was December/Ja...

NORTH CAROLINA:Subdivision: generally yes, although what has to be recorded and what doesn't is delegated to the county and municipal planning agencie...

I have a Master's degree in History, but got burned out on school a couple years in to a PhD program. I started surveying as a rodman because I was i...

I point my finger squarely at real estate agents for the myth of the $200 survey. They hire the low-baller lot surveyor once to do a $200 survey on a...

"See attached survey"

The primary charge of surveyors in all states, the reason surveyors are licensed in the first place, is to "protect the public" (i.e. innocent third p...

Construction v Boundary - Practicing Without a License -The NC Board has issued a policy statement that if the location of improvements is relative to...

When I worked in Tampa, my party chief (I was a lowly rodman back then) told me about surveying an abandoned gas station in the blighted ring surround...

Stay away from pool companies, too...We were staking out a the baseball field at a new high school a few years ago.. I picked the bases from CAD, and...

The North Carolina Board has issued policy statement (not an official ruling) that Construction Staking falls within the scope of land surveying: Tha...

In NC, a couple years ago a bill was introduced to the state legislature which would have required railroad companies to put their right-of-way maps o...

I'll be someone finds a way to blame the surveyor