Looking for surveyor for new property

[Davidpdx]

I bought some new property at nanawale estates and I would like to have a fence put up around my lot. Does anyone know a surveyor?

Thanks, 
David

[DoryGray]

I used Dan Berg, very professional, efficient & fair priced.

[terracore]

We used this place:

https://landsurveyorhawaii.com/

[Thronester]

Dan berg with DLB and associates did a great job for us.

[VancouverIslander]

I used Dan Berg, very professional, efficient & fair priced.

Agreed. DLB - exactly as you describe. He basically cut a path through parts of the property to do the survey and get sight lines. Well worth it.

[terracore]

Any idea what they charged?

[Thronester]

Any idea what they charged?

I paid around $400 which included installation of 2 PVC witness posts on the property line that bordered the vacant lot next door. This was about 3 years ago.

[Namahola]

Any other choices? As of last week Dan Berg gave me a quote of over $1,500.00 and even "pin finders" have quoted $900.00 and up! All I asked for was to locate 2 front pins and place markers at every 50 feet down both sides of property for a length of 400 feet. Dan's quote DID NOT include any markers or even any paperwork being generated and filed! When I e-mailed Dan about the prices I saw here on PunaWeb, he went silent...

I Am just stating facts and not criticizing. Better value for the money is desired.

So if anyone knows of reasonably prices surveyors or pin finders please let us know!

Kulia I Ka Nu' U!

God bless and be well!

[terracore]

I'm still looking myself. Last time I got a semi-solid answer it was a few years ago before the explosion of real estate purchases and building that were fueled by all the homes being destroyed by the Leilani eruption and then from the COVID teleworkers coming from the madland. The answer I got back then was that a pin finder would charge $1/foot for marking the property line. That would be about $1000 to mark ONE side of an OLE spag lot. I assume the price included their time spent clearing the line to justify that price.

Good luck, and please report back anything you find. I think the surveyors are in a position where they can name their price.

[kalakoa]

Got mine from Island Boundary about 5 years ago, $1250 for all 4 pins + clearing/flags on both (long) sides, and a report.

If not building a fence, it's pretty easy to find the pins with a GPS and make sure to keep structures well within the setbacks. It helps to know the compass direction, I don't remember where I found that information. The problem with DIY pinfinding is that lava confuses metal detectors, but one of my front corner pins was well-marked, so I was able to work the rest out from there by using math to derive the exact center of the lot -- my GPS switched to decimal fractions of a mile after 500', but triangulation from the phantom center pin got me within a foot of the back corner pins.

When going the DIY GPS route, cross-check the back pins by taking a fix and going around the block to make sure they're the right distance from the road. On spaghetti lots, it's really easy to end up finding the back pins from the next lot.