与测量师合作

This is the first in a series of interviews with other professionals who participate in the real estate transaction.

How do you normally interact with real estate agents?

I have been a partner of a real estate company for 40 years, and I’ve been a surveyor for 47 years. I know both sides and what real estate agents expect. Everybody thinks there’s one kind of survey: the kind they need. We have to educate everybody on the different types of surveys and just ask questions: What do you need and who do you need it for? Is it for a lender—do they have special requirements? Is it for a potential buyer who just wants to see what’s there? Someone who doesn’t really need a land title survey but wants his boundaries marked? 所以，我们开始了对话.

What are some of the most common topics that you deal with?

调查费用是多少? Surveyors are professional service providers; we give cost estimates based on time required. Surveyors generally have set prices for our small residential land title surveys.

测量员目前面临的问题是什么?

The reuse of old surveys by title companies and real estate agents. There have been a lot of disgruntled buyers realizing the survey they received was not a current survey of the property when they bought it. It’s a big issue with not just Texas surveyors but surveyors all across the nation. We’ve even had people try to use surveys that are 30 years old and older.

我警告2021十大正规彩票app经纪人要小心. Don’t say, “Oh, it’s no big deal; just sign the T-47 affidavit that no changes have been made.” You can create a lot of problems for yourself and others by doing that.

One issue that’s going to come up in the future is that very few people are becoming surveyors. 由于年龄的增长，这个行业正在萎缩. New people do not desire to work for the amount of time it takes to become a licensed surveyor. You put in eight years with your education and work experience just to become licensed, and the rewards for that aren’t that great compared with other professions for the time that is required.

What do you wish REALTORS® knew about your business?

No one understands that you just don’t go out, find a boundary corner, and start. In rural areas, I’ve actually surveyed 17-plus miles to try to determine a 1-mile section of land. 你可能得走20英里远, 正或负, to find sufficient boundary corners to reestablish a section.

是什么让事情运行得更顺利?

It would help everybody to communicate more. When you do not know—and before you assume something—please call a surveyor, 产权公司代管人员, 或者是土地所有权律师.