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Whittenburg Land Surveying LLC

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Whittenburg Land Surveying LLC

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WLS has twelve full time employees, and several part time employees. We have four licensed surveyors on staff and our company has 146 years of combined experience. We pride ourselves in setting the highest standard for professionalism and honesty. The size of our company is triple that of our competition and this allows us to turn your project around in days not weeks. Our main source of advertising is word or mouth and if you ask around I hope you hear great things.

"Surgery with paperwork on 2 acres in Clay County TN for $2400. Nice lady at front desk. Crew explained property survey on site took 5 hours. I'm a disabled Marine combat veteran so a little pricey for me but I guess that's normal for survey."

RICHARD T on January 2022

WLS has twelve full time employees, and several part time employees. We have four licensed surveyors on staff and our company has 146 years of combined experience. We pride ourselves in setting the highest standard for professionalism and honesty. The size of our company is triple that of our competition and this allows us to turn your project around in days not weeks. Our main source of advertising is word or mouth and if you ask around I hope you hear great things.

"Surgery with paperwork on 2 acres in Clay County TN for $2400. Nice lady at front desk. Crew explained property survey on site took 5 hours. I'm a disabled Marine combat veteran so a little pricey for me but I guess that's normal for survey."

RICHARD T on January 2022

Land Surveying questions, answered by experts

A land survey includes the layout of a single property, including precise measurements and to-scale drawings of boundary lines, land improvements, and sometimes other features, like topography and drainage information. A plat map includes the layouts and boundary lines of several adjacent plots and basic structure measurements. Surveys are normally more valuable for homeowners and buyers, and plat maps are for governmental use.

You should always calculate real estate development costs on a case-by-case basis, so there’s no specific formula to estimate your total. You should speak with a local construction manager to see what you’ll need to do in terms of clearing and leveling the land, connecting utilities, and pulling permits for construction. A professional will be able to get you an accurate estimate for land development.

The small lines on the tape measure either indicate inches, fractions of an inch, or centimeters and millimeters. On the imperial unit side (aka the inches side), the longest lines indicate inches, followed by the next shortest lines that indicate a half-inch, and then the quarter, eighth, and sixteenth-inch. On the metric side, the lines break down meters, centimeters, and millimeters.

Depending on property size and complexity, usually 1-3 weeks.

If you can’t find any records online, you’ll need to contact your county clerk’s office to do further research. They should have property records on file, or can at least point you in the right direction of who to contact. You can also speak with your neighbors about when their houses were built because they were likely built around the same time.

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