What do youi expect when the original cross sections were done with hand levels?

Well, there's at least 18 miles of it that now has a good survey. But I would agree with you, most of the subdivisions that joined the lake looked li...

I spent too many days in the Hardinsburg Courthouse a couple of years ago. I had the distinct "pleasure" of getting to survey 18 miles of Rough River...

Where the corners are 9 inches apart, set one big bound with two crosses.

I completely understand about not wanting to release temporary control. Seven years is a long time for things to happen.However, I try to not do a to...

One of these days I will be well off enough that I can go to all these conferences. I hate that I can't go to this one.

I am not at all a fan of surveyors that perform design surveys and don't set control or benchmarks for construction layout.

He can ask you to do anything. You as a professional are not obligated to oblige him.In this situation, since you've already been paid, I'd have laug...

The call it "boundary maintenance" to get around the Brooks Act.

I'd have told him that my regular rates are $100, but you contractors are such a pain in the arse that I have to charge extra.

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you're that afraid of liability, you don't need to be in business for yourself.

If your GIS is like ours, that is good way to get them to order a survey.

This is why I hate planning and zoning.Your client is doing the right thing here. Do what they want and force the power hungry bureaucrats to file su...

You've exceeded your snark quota for one thread.Your example isn't remotely related to taking a survey in which the monuments haven't had time to deve...

First off, your example doesn't really relate to this story. It would if another developer called up and wanted the drawings with a name changed.I pe...

I'm agreeing with those that say charge a significant fee and then give part of it back to the first buyer.I also agree with whoever said there is no ...

I'm not resolving it.My property is about 200 feet off the highway. I have a 25 foot wide strip that I own to the highway. Adjoining that, I have a ...

> because, > a) The liability of doing that is too high for the return.> b) I am too busy to work for peanuts.> c) deed plots are meaningl...

You described my situation to a T.