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​Hideaway Land Surveying

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Welcome to ​Hideaway Land Surveying

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Welcome to our new website. We are Land Surveyors and Civil Engineers providing services to the general public, contractors, and companies in the City of ​Hideaway, and Smith County, Texas area. If you have any land surveying needs (see the list above in the menu bar) in the ​Hideaway area, you’ve come to the right place. We are eager to meet your land surveying needs in Texas.

Our Company

​Hideaway Land Surveying is a marketing website for SMW Engineering. At SMW you’ll find all of the technical experience you need and so much more. Our local ​Hideaway office has the leadership and team members for any size projects. Lots of growth is happening on our side of Tyler and with over 200,000 in the ​Tyler Metro area, SMW is please to call ​Hideaway Texas home. We have a fully staffed land surveying office in ​Hideaway with Blue McCoy, a local registered land surveyor, in charge of the office. We have 3 survey field crews in order to meet any of your land surveying needs in the ​Hideaway and surrounding area. If you need any help with ​Hideaway land surveying, call us at (903) 525-6405 or see our Contact Page.

Land Surveyors in ​Hideaway, TX

Land Surveyors are professionals who investigate, and make precise measurements to determine the size and boundaries of a piece of real estate.  While this is a simplistic definition, this is one of the most common types of surveying related to home and land owners. Land Surveyors are trained and educated to deal with all types of property line issues that may arise on a parcel of land. The first recorded history of land surveyors was in ancient Egypt, where “rope stretchers” replaced the property lines of farms along the Nile River after each flood of the area. We still find property lines to this day for land owners. To know more about what a land surveyor does, click here.

What you can expect from ​Hideaway Land Surveying

phoca_thumb_l_david-mckinney-plsIf you need assistance with any land surveying services in the Smith County Texas area, we can help you out.

We strive to be responsive to your time schedule and to provide quality land surveying services. We emphasize collaboration and total communication at every phase of the project.

How to contact ​Hideaway Land Surveying?

CALL Blue McCoy at ​Hideaway Land Surveying TODAY at (903) 525-6405 to discuss your land survey needs. You can also send us a message by going to our contact page.

ALTA Land Title Survey: Its Value for Hotels and Motels

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ALTA Land Title Survey

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Hotels, unlike many other businesses, solely rely on a high turnover of clients to survive. There can be a lot of hotels in one place, so they have to compete hard with each other in order to get more clients.

In order to do this, hotels need to constantly upgrade and renovate their facilities in order to remain competitive. With a new structure and possible new technologies, a hotel or a motel business can entice more clients.

Whenever any renovations or additions are made to the structure of a hotel, this requires funding. Commercial lenders typically require an ALTA land title survey may completed on the property and premises.

What is an ALTA Land Title Survey?

This type of survey is completed based on the Minimum Standard Detail Requirements and Accuracy Standards for ALTA/ ACSM Land Title Surveys. The guidelines for performing this survey are regularly revised by a combination of Title industry and Surveying industry professionals. The newest document is the 2011 revision.

An ALTA title survey is a lot like a boundary or a lot survey except that it’s stricter in terms of the requirements placed on the land surveyor as he or she carries out the survey in both field and office.

One of the biggest problems when upgrading a hotel (or motel) or building a new one is meeting the number of parking spaces required by local zoning codes. These zoning codes change regularly. So much so that about anytime an upgrade is done, the requirements have probably increased.

Other planning and zoning ordinances are also important. Landscaping changes, signage requirements, maybe even the zoning itself has changed. If another use is proposed, say a hotel wants to add a restaurant or bar.

These are changes that would require lots of approvals by the zoning and planning boards of most cities. An ALTA land title survey can be used to identify these new or changed requirements.

Another item that has come up recently in a lot of areas is that flood zones have encroached on areas formerly not expected to flood. This is because of more detailed studies that have been done in the past.

Increased government spending has allowed these studies to be undertaken across the nation. It would be prudent for a commercial lender to question whether a hotel or motel is located within a special flood hazard area.

Knowing that the zoning and planning conditions, as well as other physical conditions change over time, the most prudent step for a commercial lender on a hotel or motel project, or any commercial project for that matter, is to have an ALTA Land Title Survey completed by a licensed professional land surveyor.

For more questions regarding ALTA Land Title Survey, give us a call at (903) 525-6405 or send us a message by clicking here.