Update the survey
I’ve been surveying this large parcel for years, for the owner, as he goes through different configurations and updates. Exceptionally decent man; he always gives me gifts when I’m on site, like a bag of fruit, or chocolates – all quality. Couple of years ago he sold 20 acres for a commercial site, all curvy, 15 boundary monuments. I’ve been working for the engineers doing the complicated easements to follow the curvy boundary. The developer has bladed the site, added the usual perimeter security fence, and started the big building. The leaseholder on the big building needs an updated survey. It’s only 14 minutes from my house, 30 minutes to walk the new fence, and the same to locate the edges of the big building just starting to go up, so I said $2,100 and the hardest part will be erasing what was there before it was bladed out. Then they sent their insurance requirements and I start to lose interest because I don’t need the aggravation, nor does my wife, and there is a bucket load of nonsense to deal with. We are heavily insured – I just don’t want the hassle of their forms and multi-page contract with fine print. I point out if they are worried about something unfortunate happening while I’m on site I can easily get around that by never going on site – I can do it all with reflectorless and never set foot on the site. Or use a drone. I have controls everywhere so this is simple. Nope, no good, so I bow out.
They will have a fit when they realize everyone is very busy, they don’t want the hassle either, and by the time they visit each boundary monument in the cactus, reinvent the ton of curvy easements, and get it all plotted now we’re talking real money.
I much prefer my stable of clients who send me nice notes saying they need this or that, and would I mind helping them, then pay by return mail. The rest can sit on it. 🙂
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