Nate The Surveyor, post: 426936, member: 291 wrote: There is a general etiquette about wandering into unknown areas, and "doin a bit of surveying".Suc...
No longer a county surveyor position in my home county of Harrison in Texas. There are others that I know of around the state including the county to ...
Ask questions. Don't act like you know more than you do just to impress. Ask questions when in doubt. Again always better safe than sorry, ask questio...
Kent McMillan, post: 424859, member: 3 wrote: But what promotes price shopping better than quoting a MSRP? Nothing? You can't change the fact that mo...
Kent McMillan, post: 424856, member: 3 wrote: So, in other words, surveyors shouldn't assist clients in price shopping by quoting fixed fees? I feel c...
Kent McMillan, post: 424844, member: 3 wrote: No, my opinion is based upon what constitutes an acceptable SERVICE as judged by a sophisticated client....
Kent McMillan, post: 424844, member: 3 wrote: No, my opinion is based upon what constitutes an acceptable SERVICE as judged by a sophisticated client....
Kent McMillan, post: 424833, member: 3 wrote: A sufficient fee is one that covers all of the time that a surveyor requires to provide a service in a m...
paden cash, post: 424829, member: 20 wrote: I'm amazed that no one has mentioned the glaring truth that professionals functioning under an open ended ...
Define a sufficient fee. That's in the eye of the beholder. You simply can't fathom that someone can provide a price prior to starting a project and s...
Price of service has nothing to do with meeting minimum standards. I can charge $1 for every survey I do and spend 1000 hours on it to make sure ive d...
Kent McMillan, post: 424725, member: 3 wrote: Actually, that's a rule of the licensing board that I posted. I didn't invent that. So conflicts of inte...
Since no one else will say it I will go ahead and get it over with!Kent is always right and the rest of us are blooming idiots and its a wonder how we...
Responding so I can follow this, but have you considered Microsoft Access? I think a person with the right knowledge can integrate the excel data into...
Kent McMillan, post: 424268, member: 3 wrote: Okay, I'll bite. How did you go about figuring your fixed fee on that lot you were asking about in an 1...
A Harris, post: 424238, member: 81 wrote: Having spent many years along the Texas-Louisiana boundary, The Evolution of the Texas-Louisiana Boundary by...
Kent McMillan, post: 424259, member: 3 wrote: Actually, I'd be willing to wager that fixed-price surveying has a much higher incidence of conspicuous ...
Kent McMillan, post: 424231, member: 3 wrote: I'd put it this way. Invariably the train wrecks that I see mapped bearing the seal and signature of a T...
Kent McMillan, post: 424222, member: 3 wrote: The most ethical way to proceed is to give an estimate for the cost of doing the research in order to be...
Kent McMillan, post: 423838, member: 3 wrote: Actually, you've completely missed the point. A survey estimation manual would estimate the ranges of TI...
