I found James Surveying through Yelp! We were told we would need to get a survey and plot map for…read morean egress window. I worked with Lucy to try to explain the best way I could what we needed. I did not fully understand what we needed and am not super involved in the updates we're making to our house, but she was SO helpful! We paid up front and they came out to complete the survey in a very timely manner I was impressed!

From the owner: James Surveying Company specializes in boundary surveys, surveys for residential and commercial…read morereal estate closings, ALTA surveys, topographical surveys and more! We can get you the survey you need for work permits, collaborate with your architect or engineer, and complete your construction project with an as-built survey.

I learned that my land survey for my fence had been done already at my house purchase closing, but…read morethat they had only put corner flags in. Altea never communicated with me when the survey would happen or reach out to explain the work order or what to expect, so this was all a surprise. With a 3.5 acre property four corner flags won't suffice to build a fence. My title company said that I'd get the survey in the mail and suggested I call Altea to walk the property line with me so I could mark it myself and said that survey companies do that all the time. I called Altea to request this and they said they'd send someone out Monday to walk the property lines with me. I said, great, I'll mark the line as we go and was happy to be able to get to work! But the field worker came out and did not show me the property lines. He showed me where the corner flags are (which I'd seen), but informed me he had no permission to use any tools to actually see the lines between the corners and show me that - the whole reason for his visit. Two of the were flags already on the property before their survey, and a new flag offset on one side 50 feet from a corner, with no corner offset on the other side so there's no real telling where the corner is. And still I had no way to know where the line between the corners actually sits. Meanwhile, I also never received the survey in the mail. I called the owner while the field worker was here to ask that they let him do what he came out here to do, and the owner steadfastly refused. So I begged her to let him at least do one small section of the boundary near the house, and she flatly refused, unless I paid more for them to place the flags on the line, though she had a skilled worker at my house already. I wrote all this up in a review here on Yelp and in Google and gave the one star they deserved. A week later they called in response to the review. They sent a field worker out again with instructions to walk the property line with me and provide 4 line stakes (lol) in addition to the corner flags they'd found. Thankfully the field worker recognized that I would be unable to actually build my fence with just the info four line stakes would provide so he took care to show me the lines between and even tied a few unofficial tags in trees. He actually seemed interested in helping. And they did email me the survey that second time. So I finally got the info I need, but the company owner didn't do it because it was the right thing to do, she did it to get me to remove the negative review. So I'll up the star rating from one to three - I eventually, after some disappointment and aggravation I'd rather not have experienced, got what I needed, but I am not super impressed with the whole experience.

Very disgruntled with what I got from Altea, I even called and questioned the price I was charged…read moreafter the work was done because I got next to nothing from the exchange. I am paraphrasing, but was basically told "the price is the price. I have 2 acres that sit on a bluff in South County, I was told by the woman at Altea that it would take multiple employees up to 5 days to do my survey. In addition the property has some corners on the cliff and the other corners are in dense woods. They did the survey the tail end of this winter, so there was no growth in the woods, so it wasn't difficult to get to those corners and it took the single guy that came out less than 7 hours to do my survey and that includes marking the location of a specific tree and the building line. The total price was almost $6,500 and i discovered that of the 8 markers that had to be set for my boundary lines, 4 had already been marked prior to them doing the work. I let them know, prior to signing the contract that I wanted to put up a fence between my property and the two neighbors and was told the survey could be used to put up a fence. I don't know how that is going to be accomplished since a person cannot stand at one marker and see another to set a straight line. I am very disgusted with this company and will not recommend them. Carly S

Beware they did survey for a next door neighbor met him in my yard snd asked him what he was doing…read moresnd he said putting survey stake in .made it sound like for the city I lived in ,snd it was showing leeway from rd to property he said three ft ! So didn't trip on it , come to find out it was neighbors survey snd went into my yard ! So he trespassed into my property and lied about the survey BEWARE !!!! I have survey for my house from 80 years ago ! They didn't notify me , ask for a survey, anything !! Police said. NO law for removing an illegal stake Called my cities police and made report , and was told catch them on video going on private property can arrest , my survey didn't change in 80 years , these ppl can't be trusted !!!!

If you want excuses and delays on your job, then this is the company for you. If you want to deal…read morewith cantankerous surveryors then give them a call. If you want your job to be scheduled 3 months plus out then pick up the phone.

Fantastic service, Amazing work, and very professional. I'd recommend it to friends and family.read more

Enjoyed working with Nick! Very professional, fast, and quality work. Pictures turned out better…read morethan I could have imagined. Will definitely be using ADS again.

We worked with Jackye Adams on the sale of our home. Her professional knowledge of the area and…read morethe market helped us in generating significant interest in our home. Jackye answered all of our questions, helped us with staging our basement area and was always fast to respond and professional. She negotiated us the best deal of all the offers received. I would highly recommend Jackye Adams and the Kelly Shaw team for assistance in your real estate transaction!