@john-nolton No I cannot. The photo is far better than a copy and it vaguely apprears to read N 89-30 E for 418 feet.  I know the bearing is wr...

@dave-karoly Very poorly drawn considering it is from 1972 but this crap is surprisingly quite common.

@true-corner The same person owns Lots 2 & 3 with the creek the dividing line. Gonna have to locate the wrested vegetation line as well as the ce...

@norman-oklahoma Ok, your right about that but it was a decent example of your case.

@half-bubble It is a trap to go down that road thinking you will be able to capture your local market by being able to sustainably undercut your comp...

@rundatline 50 cents a foot and includes cutting out and flagging the lines is poverty level wages and makes my point perfectly. Unfortunately there ...

@rundatline Are you serious, a 34 acre survey and line stake and you would not be able to get a $1000 for it. Surely you're not serious! Where are you...

@tim-v-pls I don't know a single surveyor that would complain about a 10% difference in fee's. I am routinely seeing myself and hearing from many oth...

@dave-lindell It is a fact of life around here that folks tend to be land rich and cash poor so much so that it would seem they can't rub 2 nickels t...

@dougie Alright, you made me smile with that, but I still want to smash things.

That has got to be an organized crime ring.

@half-bubble So, what I am going to do is dissect some of your comments.   I appreciate you putting your proposal thinking here to agitate som...

@a-harris Right on. But we are bound by regulatons as well and while it may not be a building code most states survey standards are codified in law. ...

@james-fleming Better than fish tacos, those things are a foul and disgusting use for a piece of nasty imported Chinese tilapia fed and grown on wast...

@half-bubble I do believe you're missing the forest for the trees because there was a lot of research time as well as travel built into the cost and l...

@mark-mayer I do not blame the client for seeking out the lowest price but rather the surveyor for essentially working for wages. We all worked hard t...

@thebionicman Exactly. Many surveyors feel sympathy for the client and behave much like a kidnap victim that begins to identify with their captors. Th...

@half-bubble  I do not believe for a second that private land owners are doing that. What I do believe is that MOST surveyors are terrible b...