Surveyors . . .
Working on a small development of 15 building lots. (Just selling land, not building houses.) Used a local surveyor for probably four or five years, spent well over $10K with them (boundary survey, wetlands survey, topo survey, etc.) Got along well, too.
Company sold to a big company "up nawth" - all of a sudden it is purchase orders, payment portals, obviously they only want to work with the big guys (Lennar, Pulte, etc.) AND they want money in front because "we don't know you, you're a new customer".
I've been dealing with surveys and surveyors for over 40 years, mortgage broker, investor, etc., and NOBODY has EVER asked me for money in front for a survey. Do they think I'm going to take the land and roll it up in the middle of the night and leave town?
So now I'm looking for a local "mom n pop" surveyor, and they are telling me they'd have to start from scratch because nobody is willing to accept the "liability" from someone else's survey work.
This is BS - there have been many times someone has called a "new" surveyor on a property that has been surveyed time and time again previously. No biggie, do the job, take the money, game over. I have one parcel I've owned since 1972 which has probably had six or eight surveys since then, all by different surveyors - and no problems.
Grrr.
Best Regards,
Mike/Florida