Cost for Legal Description
I am working on a environmental issue in Southern California and one of the steps required to achieve an "NFA" (no further action) letter is to get a covenant recorded on the parcel with the issue.   The contaminated area is only about 10% of the total parcel.  I would like to get a legal description done identifying this particular area to be spelled out in the covenant.  How much would you expect a Land Surveyor to charge for such a legal description?
[{"id": "dbp5pud", "text": "In commercial work?  This could vary greatly.  Call a couple surveyors and find out.", "replies": [{"id": "dbp61e3", "text": "Thanks.  I have one bid for $2,800.00  I was hoping I could get confirmation that the 2,800 figure was close to ballpark without spinning too many wheels.  Worst case I will call another surveyor and give them the whole rundown on the environmental again.\n\n", "replies": [{"id": "dbp9e1k", "text": "Yeah I mean, I think you're going to have to to get any kind of real comparison", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dbp7lc6", "text": "How big is the parcel? What kind of shape is it? ", "replies": [{"id": "dbq3khz", "text": "5 acres, and L shaped..  ", "replies": [{"id": "dbqgrsr", "text": "The last one on that size I have is a bit dated (from 2011).  We were charged $1,200 for a civil engineer to draw up F shaped access easements on a roughly 6 acre parcel.   We provided them with the current plat map and dimensions on the easements.  On that job, rates for a survey crew ranged to go onsite from $130 - $225 per hour, but I do not believe we ended up having to send them out.\n\nEdit: This was in So Cal.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "dbryfq5", "text": "It depends on what info you currently have. Do you have an existing survey or metes and bounds description? ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]