FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
The cost of a land survey is based solely on the amount of time involved to survey your property. The price is not based upon the size of your property, it is based upon your deed. I can not properly prepare an estimate to survey your land unless I can see your deed. I have very low pricing because I have no overhead, and I own a robotic total station which allows me to perform one man land surveys. This saves my clients money. Your land is different than every other parcel of land on earth. This means that there is no set price to survey your land. The amount of work involved to survey your property is based upon many things including: the vagueness of your deed description, the mathematical geometric closure of your deed description, the quality of the work performed by the original surveyor, the presence or absence of monuments on the ground and in your deed, the mathematical relationship of the monuments that exist on the ground, the terrain of your property, the physical obstacles in the way of collecting boundary evidence, and also the relationship of your property with your neighbor's property.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
After receiving a request for an estimate, I will research the owner's deed on-line to roughly determine the amount of time that the land survey might take. I will then notify the customer what I am estimating the cost of the survey will be. If they decide to proceed with the land survey, I will email them a contract.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Technology has changed the way land surveying is performed, and the way septic systems are designed. It is important to keep up with the new technology in order to keep prices low for my clients. I attend continuing education seminars every year to keep up with technology. I also attend NH land surveyor's association meetings and Granite state designer's and installers meetings several times a year to keep up with changes in laws.