Well, I suspected the $20/day plus hotel per diem I am paid is well below average. As an employer, you can cheap out on the per diem or you can provi...

Also, there is no incentive for a seller's agent to keep pushing to get the owner the best price. They will press sellers to drop the price by $5000 ...

Travel to the testing site, stay in a nearby hotel, and familiarize yourself with the testing center. Get up early on exam day and walk or do somethi...

Unless his work products are exceptional, I'd let him go. I'm beginning to wonder if surveying attracts porn addicts as I've witnessed something simi...

I contacted the board regarding the flagging of a line between monuments in a recorded subdivision, and they said it was acceptable as long as my cont...

I've convinced a few real estate agents that it was worth hiring me to flag the boundaries of wooded lots. There are a few undeveloped large-tract su...

The engineering company I work for has very little respect for surveying, surveyors, or accurate data in general. It is a level of bizarre that can o...

ILuvRealtors, post: 339344, member: 8778 wrote: Murphy, love your morel avie!! We used to hunt them in the spring in So. IL and they were so good frie...

I'm having the same problem with the same equipment. I'm looking into purchasing a Panasonic Tough-Pad and using long rang Bluetooth. I'm a bit skep...

Warren Smith, post: 339304, member: 9900 wrote: Murphy, I'm sorry to hear of your reality. Pat May is definitely one of the good ones, although it is...

ILuvRealtors said "Like any profession, in real estate you have very professional and not so good to terrible and shifty. I can say the very same abou...

My coworker in another office uses a Juniper Systems Allegro (I think the model just under the Allegro2) with either a radio or an internal long range...

spledeus, post: 339284, member: 3579 wrote: If the 88 acres becomes 18 after the survey it most certainly will not add value. Of course it does. You...

It adds value, just not in a way easily measurable, similar to opportunity cost. I would assume that the real estate agent is aware that new surveys ...

As a non-HP user, I like Mobi Calculator (Android only). You can customize the keys and all your calculations are stored in a history similar to a br...

I took the PS in 2013 and passed. I used my calculator three, maybe four times and mostly for all the PLSS junk that I will be glad to retire to triv...

If you fail either of the State Specific exams, be sure to attend the review session. Despite the inconvenience of a 3.5 hour drive to Raleigh, I att...

I would recommend purchasing an Earthmate PN-60 from DeLorme. They're easy to use, rugged, and have good map features. I think you can even get them...