The cost of a land survey is based on the amount of work required to complete it. As no two pieces of property are the same the costs are obviously going to differ.

We charge an hourly rate for the amount of time the crew spends in the field and the amount of time spent by our office personnel locating the legal references and calculating the work that was done in the field as well as the work of putting together the final plat and field notes.

With over 20 years of experience to draw from, Steve can provide you with a fair estimate, based on his experience, of what your particular job will cost and the estimate is free.

Is there anything I can do as a property owner to help bring the cost down?

Yes.

1. Have all of your paperwork in order. The less time we spend in the courthouse trying to find your paperwork the lower the cost will be. If you already have existing maps locating your property they also help speed things along.

2. A clean piece of land is easier to survey than a brushy piece of land. Especially keep your boundary fence lines clean and accessible. Hiring someone to clean up the brush on your fence lines for $10 an hour is much cheaper than paying a trained survey crew to clear the same brush with a machete. It is easier to survey a clean 1,000 acres than a trashy 100 acres.

3. If you already know where you have existing survey monuments and stakes on the property show them to us. Why pay us by the hour to search for things you have already found?

4. Try to keep your property lines free of safety hazards. It can take hours to get a survey crew through an emergency room visit when a little common sense can prevent it.

5. If your property is locked, arrange to unlock it to let the survey crew in. Humping survey instruments and other equipment while climbing over fences really slows things down adding un-necessary time and expense to the job.

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