Survey costs

[SpringHollow]

Usually, if you can find the surveyor who did the previous survey, your costs will be significantly cheaper than if it has never been surveyed or another surveyor is starting from scratch.

Most people do not realize that a surveyor's time "in the field" is usually the quickest part of the job. There is a lot of time spent in front of the computer and in the County Clerk's office.

Ken
(not a surveyor)

 

[tallyho8]

Thanks for your reply Bruce.
Do surveyors have to be licensed in the state of Louisiana to do work here? None of the FEMA contractors seem to be licensed in Louisiana with most of the subs coming from Mexico. Maybe it would be cheaper for me to hire a surveyor from another state and pay his travel fees here and have him for a guest a few days in order to get a survey done right without having to hock the wife's fur coat.

 

[rich_ncal]

Last year I paid $750 for a survey of a 5 acre parcel. The surveyor verified the four corners and set wood stakes by the 1/4" caped iron pipes (1/4" C.I.P.) and produced a plot map showing the easements. This was not a map filed with the county, I image that would have cost more.

It is a square parcel with easy access to the four corners.

 

[tallyho8]

By the way, my $6000 survey did not even show the 2 easements on the property, the powerline over the property and the phone cable under the property. Was it supposed to show them?

 

[MikePA]

By the way, my $6000 survey did not even show the 2 easements on the property, the powerline over the property and the phone cable under the property. Was it supposed to show them?

We never showed power lines or phone lines, but we did easements, since they're typically in the deed.

 

[Champy]

.... and it will be $800 to $1000 to survey it..... (3.5 acres)....

Alan - Pricing FYI - 8 years ago I paid $400 to have my 1.5 acre lot surveyed due to property line complaints when I built a shed. Just last April I paid $3600 to have a 34 acre property surveyed and boundaries pegged. This was a 68 acre farm that was split in half. Just for comparison......

 

[tallyho8]

We never showed power lines or phone lines, but we did easements, since they're typically in the deed.

The power line I mentioned is 200 feet wide across the rear of my property and is high power lines running across the state. And the phone line is buried cable that is 10' within my property line that the phone company had to pay the previous owner to put in. These were not listed on the previous owners deed before I got the survey and bought the property because they were put in after he acquired the property.

 

[BruceR]

tallyho8,
I'm sure it requires a license to survey in LA, but probably not to mark a straight line between two monuments already established. The powerline should have been shown, but probably not the phone line unless it was plainly marked. We try to show all visible easements. Title companys will sometimes request a list of easements that may effect a certain tract and we will then list these on our plats and state if they do or do not affect the tract, but they have to first request it and provide the list of easements in question.

It sounds like your surveyor really dropped the ball on this one. But I guess there are "hacks" in every profession.

Bruce