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RE: out parcel help

I agree that you should hold the deed dimensions and ignore the "recent " survey based on scaled dimensions from a GIS. Hard to believe that a surve...

12 years ago
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RE: FEMA Elev Cert Question

My understanding is that it will not be considered an "attached garage"

12 years ago
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RE: Trimble Prism Tribrach Questions

I have no training and little experience but I am putting together a Trimble 5600 robotic system for steel layout and as built surveysYou have to be k...

12 years ago
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RE: Survey Grade Cell Phone-Now Available!

land surveyor in Central New York had a geologist come into his office and request that he prepare a map and description of his property based on the ...

12 years ago
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RE: ALTA - Update

I know in some jurisdictions the fee for the survey done a year ago, is the same as it was a year ago... no matter how much time is involved

13 years ago
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RE: Two Interesting Surveying Related (IMVHO) News Links

The law was passed by the town. bit in my honest opinion was not needed. It is already in state law that any document presented for approval by a gove...

13 years ago
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RE: Texas Elevation Certificates-Sales Tax

Wow..keep it in Texas..dont need that here in New York....I dont understand why boundary work is taxable and topographic work isnt. Neither should be...

13 years ago
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RE: Texas Elevation Certificates-Sales Tax

Additional thought. The state is saying it is an insurance service. The surveyor is not providing insurance or determining whether insurance is requ...

13 years ago
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RE: Texas Elevation Certificates-Sales Tax

I agree.......they are paying you for a report and the report is in the form of the FEMA form. You dont charge for a map, the map is a report of the ...

13 years ago
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RE: Does anyone know what this means?

I have run into those references in deeds in New York as well. It has always been my interpretation that the lines were being run by compass (staff o...

13 years ago
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RE: Legal descriptions by an Engineer

Dont encourage others to write descriptions...just causes problems down the road. Offer to do it for him. I always look at a description of an easeme...

13 years ago
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RE: Small Business Banking

That are advantages to both. Having been with a firm that originally started with a small local bank and then was asked by the president of the bank ...

13 years ago
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RE: RR Curve Brain lock or is this thing bogus?

Dont forget, most are spiral curves

13 years ago
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RE: Proper Methodology

A survey is a survey...no such thing as a "Mortgage Survey".

13 years ago
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RE: Bookkeeping question - Equipment reached end of useful life

Typically the purchase price of equipment is written off for tax purposes based on a certain schedule. Check with your accountant. Once it has been ...

13 years ago
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RE: Ownership of Surveying Firms

In New York, a professional corporation can not offer professional services unless shareholders are licensed in the design profession being offered. ...

13 years ago
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RE: MERGER?

I assume the other company is in the design field, i. e. engineering but not surveying?Nice to have a paycheck every week, however, you will also be t...

13 years ago
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RE: Flood zone A

All you can do is take all the necessary meausrements and submit to FEMA for a LOMA.

13 years ago
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RE: Engineers and Surveying - 2011 NCEES Model Law

Most states have a four year degree requirement for land surveying as well as engineering,however, they usually also have alternative methods of getti...

13 years ago
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RE: Engineers and Surveying - 2011 NCEES Model Law

Agree that is the problem. In New York, 12 engineers and 3 surveyors sit on the board

13 years ago
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