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Topics: 6 / Replies: 74
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RE: Deed Conflict -

A situation like this is how I learned the importance of talking to the neighbors. I was surveying a 2 acre tract that had been cut off of a 10 acre t...

8 years ago
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RE: Looking into UAS

James Fleming, post: 410124, member: 136 wrote: FWIW - I had 80 acres flow last year in PG county, half of it developed and half wooded stream bottom....

8 years ago
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RE: Looking into UAS

John Hamilton, post: 410117, member: 640 wrote: You get what you pay for. Probably a reasonable LiDAR setup would be in the $35K-$70K range. Of course...

8 years ago
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RE: Looking into UAS

leegreen, post: 410054, member: 2332 wrote: I was at NYSAPLS conference today talking with Maser Consulting a presenter. Their drone (a large rotary c...

8 years ago
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RE: Laptop suggestions?

Monte, post: 395985, member: 11913 wrote: etch a sketch. Heard the batteries last forever and they are pretty lightweight to carry around. Memory suck...

8 years ago
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RE: looking for nightmare legals descriptions

Gene Kooper, post: 400268, member: 9850 wrote: An old party chief told me about a description with a distance of, "two smokes while riding a slow hors...

8 years ago
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RE: What is this

Thanks guys

8 years ago
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RE: Local Expressions

A few off the top of my head.- The porch lights on but no ones home.-He doesn't know whether to check his a** or scratch his watch.-She fell outta the...

8 years ago
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RE: Residential Land Lease?

Peter Ehlert, post: 397701, member: 60 wrote: Is that lease only personal or can his heirs assume it?I see an investment opportunity.Not sure. I also ...

8 years ago
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RE: Residential Land Lease?

I have a great uncle in his late 80's that still leases the ground his house is on. He pays a yearly lease fee of $9 or 10$ dollars but, it was writt...

8 years ago
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RE: Handling inaccuracy and the positions of existing monuments

FrancisH, post: 396662, member: 10211 wrote: your surveyors seem to lack theunderstanding that your work is to measure, record and monument land bound...

8 years ago
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RE: Datum issue?

Jp7191, post: 396344, member: 1617 wrote: I love this post! Shows we are all human, and can all make a mistake but now with the internet it can be pre...

8 years ago
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RE: Datum issue?

Ignore this thread, I meant to cancel it, not post it. The problem was one of our guys converted all of the opus solutions to international feet inst...

8 years ago
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RE: Was charged $6700 for survey on 2/3 acre lot

$6,700 for a property survey isn't unreasonable. It's more than my average survey of that size typically costs but, it wouldn't take many issues unco...

8 years ago
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RE: The Power of the Fax Machine

Sergeant Schultz, post: 395005, member: 315 wrote: My favorite is a description that simply says, "Parcel No.1, as depicted and shown on a map by ???,...

8 years ago
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RE: What knocks out a prism pole plumb bubble?

I worked with a guy once who realized that trying to spear carp with a prism pole both knocked the bubble out and bent the pole. He kept his job but,...

8 years ago
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RE: When is a subdivision lot created?

Duane Frymire, post: 385842, member: 110 wrote: Yes, the lots don't exist until they are either recognized as existing by a municipal body or they are...

8 years ago
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