My brain fart was working in Block 24 instead of Block 23 for the same lot number of identical dimensions. Adding to the confusion was the cross stre...

As the owner of a land surveying firm, it sometimes took great creativity to give the potential client justifications for not agreeing to put their jo...

I can design a roof for your building that will not fail until a combined snow and wind situation happens based on an expectation of that loading only...

He wrote some wonderful stories that appeared in one of the survey magazines that used to exist. No idea which one. But, I made a point to find his ...

@cv The economists arrived first and demanded cost to benefit determinations be made before anything else is done.    

One million attaboys are hereby duly awarded.

@hoosier_surveyor First, I would have studied it over thoroughly. If I found any significant issues, I would have notified them of such. Upon rec...

Oh, yes. Institutional incompetence is maximized in government contracting circles. My personal experience with this forty years had some new versio...

One thing I have witnessed with both city and county business involves the "official job description" of the various officials. Checks and balances, ...

An assumption I would make is that Mr. Developer had approached Mr. Sydow at the same time as the purchase of the adjoining tract and made a lowball o...

He was being pressured to forego that excellent practice and assume long term liability for stating an assumption as fact to make others happy.

Neither bird, nor plane.......or even frog. It's just little ol' me, Underdog. Quoted from a very old Saturday morning cartoon.

@out-of-level You understand correctly. I provide survey review services to numerous firms who are working in Kansas. There is a Kansas statute t...

By this point the author of the OP has surely done something. We don't know what this was. This is still a valid situation to discuss for the edific...

Job #1 is to keep the client happy. Job #2 is to convince the client that a competent consultant is doing the best he can in all facets of getting th...

@rankin_file At first glimpse I thought I was looking at the Grand Tetons. 🤣 🤣

I very much enjoy following such threads. One more reason why we need to support this site.

There are times when I feel blissfully ignorant (by choice) on some of the discussions here. I have reached the same stage in life as some of my old ...