Peter Ehlert, post: 435735, member: 60 wrote: Actually, I am one of those parties. Where do I get My copy? This is where a reference to the public rec...

FrozenNorth, post: 435601, member: 10219 wrote: I've got to disagree with this advice about doing a nearly useless traverse on spec. Seems crazy to me...

Ron Lang, post: 435682, member: 6445 wrote: Unfortunately this happens all to often here in VA where a deed refers to a plat "attached here to" that w...

John Hamilton, post: 435590, member: 640 wrote: Can't say that I disagree with old Milt. Not to say that physicians, etc should not be licensed, but b...

Go to nice subdivisions and run traverse down the street, locating monuments. On Saturdays. You might generate some interest, and you'll tie down th...

ashton, post: 435503, member: 422 wrote: Thanks for answering the second part of my question. How about the first part: if a deed doesn't directly men...

It sucks that new lots can be created and the plans not recorded. I'm not on the record everything band-wagon, but think that when something new, lot...

Joe Ferg, post: 435369, member: 332 wrote: I bought a very expensive foundation once because the 2 were different (the jurisdication had made a redli...

Are engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc, going to have voluntary certification also? Plumbers, electricians, etc.....

"Licensure has never served the profession well, it was merely a facade for a weak framework that ultimately fails to define it."That's just an opinio...

It's not a major problem, as long as the building departments understand what it is, that it's not a revision by a surveyor, just the builder or homeo...

eapls2708, post: 435316, member: 589 wrote: This thread is full of reasons reminding me why I've avoided construction surveying for the past 10 years ...

I'm still trying to get past, "Examining Land Surveyor"

I'm sure I've come close to hitting something, but luckily, to my knowledge, haven't. But we use 30" rebar, and the utilities here are supposed to be...

Jim Frame, post: 434702, member: 10 wrote: I never saw the utility of having *a* beer; six or eight, sure, but why bother with just one?That's the t...

Until we're always able to charge what we're worth, and we're turning away work, let the numbers dwindle

Kent McMillan, post: 434489, member: 3 wrote: Varas are still in use in Texas because that facilitates comparison of resurvey measurements with the re...

Why are these in varas, from 1950? You're not dealing in just feet at that date?It just seems strange to me, but I'm not from Texas

Unfortunately, realtors have somehow put themselves in a position where people listen to them and their off the cuff advice, which unbeknownst to the ...