Land Survey Cost

[bky]

10 years ago I split 1000.00 costs with the former owner person I was planning on buying from but I wanted to know how much land was there before I pursed the property. Also after I had moved in and was talking with the new neighbor he had thought that half of the pond was his (his realtor told him half was his) but with the help of the survey proved him wrong and set everything in stone where things were: cool: D /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[riptides]

Well down here in the commonwealth I ran into a surveyor who did corners, rods, posts, or a segment on a line. So rather than my whole lot, we ended up doing bits and pieces of it. Part front, part side, part back. Worked out real nice.
About 500 bucks for a couple of hours and a thousand or so feet.

-Hope that helps you. Took some calling on my part though.
-Mike Z. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[pilonidal]

I think the surveyors in my neck of the woods are a bunch of thieves. It cost me $2,000 to survey and split a 20 acre field in half given to my wife and her sister by her father. Ya there are some trees to go through down the far side, but it's an open field for the most part. My wife were/are still a little p.o. by these guys.

 

[slowrev]

Bob, I will take a reasonable friendly neighbor any day, whether you like to hang out with them or not.

Much better than an unreasonable grumpy one /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ben

 

[InlineDieselFan]

Make several calls and get several estimates!

We just bought 20 acres (it was a 40 acre piece that the lady kept the other 20 acres). Ours varried between $800 and $1,600.

The big factor being that the $800 price surveyor had done a lot of the area work and had markers out already to work from. Also it depends on how many flags you want and the terrain. We need the flags down a 1300 foot stretch of weeds that are about 6 feet tall, that added a few $$$$.

steve

 

[SPIKER]

hey BOB: you got a link to that USGS site?

Mark M /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Bob_Skurka]

US Geological Survey site has a link to Terra Server, here is the TerraServer page where you can simply plug in your address and get your photo: Terra Server site

 

[goodoleboy]

Call the guy in the phone book with the smallest add. The bigger the add the more they wanted.
Shop around the prices are 50% differnce between suveyors in my case. I paid $800 for my 15 acre survey. I was with them the 2 days they were out their I put t-post in the close tot where the survey pin. Its was well worth being with them while they do it.

Many competitors wanted $1600 to $1000. The guy that orginally did the survey wanted $1600! He is the highest in the area.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

If the property was previously surveyed I'd first attempt to find the original pins. The rental cost for a metal detector might come in as peanuts versus pecans, /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The way us fence guys do the through the trees and over the dale most of the time is we pull off the pin an equal distance at each end. We put out our markers. Then we pull back the original distance to the property line.

Something that should be considered in property line disputes is most folks really don't understand how property lines work.

You can't count the times I've had to take a customer out to the line after setting out spotter posts. Then having to be an advocate for their best interests when deciding where to put the fence. There's the generous or stingy crowd who don't want to pay for fencing in more than they can or want to maintain. And then we have the ones who feel the neighbor will never miss that footage. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I usually get around that by insisting they sign a form stating they want to fence in the neighbor's property. They want it. But they don't want to be responsible for appropriating it. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Something I've run into before is where a sale will be made and a surveyor will do the survey from his desk but with the statement that he found the iron rods on the corners etc. That works great until the fence guy comes one site and can't find those iron rods.

Then of course the surveyor beats a path out and does what he was paid to do. However how many times does he get a call back immediately after the sale closed?

I'm sure the reason for this is because he's got a deal with the title company that's really too cheap to do in reality. It's one of those things that happens in all types of business where a little sleight of hand and a wink amongst the principles is accepted as okay.

I like to look at my job like I'm the customer's advocate, kinda sorta like a lawyer. Part of what they're paying for is my expertise in eliminating property line disputes in the future by making sure the fence is where it's supposed to be.

Every now and then I'll get a customer to be who's wanting a spite fence. I have to be convinced my customer is the victim in the dispute before I'll go there.

 

[ByronBob]

Bob does that mean you are giving him the 12 inches of driveway if he uses it and you don't object? Reading the easement thread made me wonder.