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"Perhaps you should chill out. Your completely pointless lecture offers no value, except for the joy you must obtain from hearing yourself spout off.
My home inspection didn't cost that much and the house is huge and ancient. I guarantee the home inspection will take longer than a survey. I have already done some research and $500-$550 seems to be the going rate, so it seems you got on your high horse for nothing. The $650 quote was $100 too high, as I thought."
There are many factors involved. By the way, do you also feel the same way about architects' and engineers' prices?
Surveyors purchase costly equipment, we undergo years of training, we even pass proficiency tests just to be able to practice our profession. We must attend, on a yearly basis Continuing Education Classes to maintain out licenses.
Just to survey your piece of property, a surveyor has to perform the following tasks:
Obtain records of the ORIGINAL survey, not just the latest.
Acquire deeds and other pertinent information about EVERY piece of property touching your land.
Check with all regulatory entities (county, city, etc) for any regulations affecting the property.
Compile the data into a working file.
Visit the site, locate all property monumentation in the immediate vicinity, measure same, locate and tie fences, buildings, improvements, utilities, etc. This involves removing brush, negotiating steep terrain, climbing fences, etc.
Process the data and prepare a drawing of same.
Possibly write a metes and bounds description.
Present the submittal to the client.
Collect our fee (very important).
Be ready to defend our findings IN COURT.
I really do not believe you had any idea as to what that cost should have been, you just didn't like paying the sum mentioned. By the way, in Texas, ALL monuments must be set, according to our laws, so you might mention that to your surveyor.
"Perhaps you should chill out. Your completely pointless lecture offers no value, except for the joy you must obtain from hearing yourself spout off.
My home inspection didn't cost that much and the house is huge and ancient. I guarantee the home inspection will take longer than a survey. I have already done some research and $500-$550 seems to be the going rate, so it seems you got on your high horse for nothing. The $650 quote was $100 too high, as I thought."
There are many factors involved. By the way, do you also feel the same way about architects' and engineers' prices?
Surveyors purchase costly equipment, we undergo years of training, we even pass proficiency tests just to be able to practice our profession. We must attend, on a yearly basis Continuing Education Classes to maintain out licenses.
Just to survey your piece of property, a surveyor has to perform the following tasks:
Obtain records of the ORIGINAL survey, not just the latest.
Acquire deeds and other pertinent information about EVERY piece of property touching your land.
Check with all regulatory entities (county, city, etc) for any regulations affecting the property.
Compile the data into a working file.
Visit the site, locate all property monumentation in the immediate vicinity, measure same, locate and tie fences, buildings, improvements, utilities, etc.
Process the data and prepare a drawing of same.
Possibly write a metes and bounds description.
Present the submittal to the client.
Collect our fee (very important).
Be ready to defend our findings IN COURT.
I really do not believe you had any idea as to what that cost should have been, you just didn't like paying the sum mentioned. By the way, in Texas, ALL monuments must be set, according to our laws, so you might mention that to your surveyor.
What you listed is worth about $550 to me and that is what I paid. Thanks for playing.
Guess what? You just got completely ripped off. NO boundary survey can be done and done correctly for $550. You're out $550 and didn't get the job done correctly.
Surveying is an easy game to rip folks off at because they don't know the first thing about it, can't tell whether the job is done right or not done at all, and the world is full of marks who think they can get something for nothing.
What I'm suggesting is that one do the same thing with Surveyors like you do with any other professional, indeed like one does with most tradesman. Do careful research and find one with an excellent reputation for quality work, and pay them their reasonable fees.
Bitter? Why? Because people who know zilch about Surveying come on the internet and attempt to make some point to the effect that a professional fee too low to even begin to perform the service correctly is a rip-off?
Obrero, you should spend as much time researching the surveyors as you did their fees. A $500-$600 survey isn't worth the paper it's printed on. Educate yourself and stop throwing your money away!
Obrero is already done with the survey. For all practical purposes on a 0.9 acre property (assuming it is not very narrow in width and long in depth) as long as the structures are not very close to the property boundary the accuracy in survey that the previous posters profess is a matter of not very grave importance. The lender has to make sure that the structures are not in violation of the zoning requirements, and that's all!
I'm reading some of the definition in searches on google now. What is the purpose of a survey in a home purchase. Specifically a condo or townhome purchase? What kind of information does it provide? Are they crucial to have if the closing process does not require it? Thanks.
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