I am of the impression that if the going rate for surveys is that low in that part of the world, that it may not be possible for a following surveyor ...

I know you guys. Tell Erik Frost man said hello. You should post some photos of all the cool places you travel to setting up and monitoring tide gauge...

When I was younger, I didn’t own land or much of anything, and I liked my music and everything else, LOUD. Now I’m older, own some land (pay the taxes...

@jitterboogie What you point out isn't unique to any profession. There's always going to be conflict. There's productive conflict, ideas and behavior,...

far to prevalent. How far is too far?

@rover83 Yeah, I was gonna make a comment like 'these guys complain when they get a slack-jawed do-nothing, and they also complain when they get some...

You've already tested him and he isn't ready, so why do you want to hammer that point home? Have a straight up and honest conversation with him. I per...

I have two in decent condition in my office library I saved from the landfill years ago.

Routinely. If I don’t, who will?

If you think your land is yours, stop paying property tax and find out. Or Eminent Domain. The memo line on my property tax check always reference...

It seems to me there is a subset of the population that really doesn’t care a lick about good stewardship of their land. There are too many properties...

This illustrates why sometimes the cheapest survey is far and away the most expensive to fix.

Things get messy when you have to cross things out more than once. What I really hate is when I cross out something that was right and write in someth...

I gather you have to wait until an update for your little plumbobby thing to show up?

Went through this yesterday with a very recently recorded subdivision plat done by another local surveyor. North limit of his subdivision abuts a Stat...

@jimcox Median price for a home in San Diego county is something like 850k.