By Cindy A. Cunard-Hogan, Office/Accounts Manager at Berks Surveying & Engineering, Inc. [Updated 9/7/21] You’ve been searching for the right lot to build your future home and you think you’ve found just the right one. You can’t believe your luck! It’s affordable. It’s in the right area and school district. You can visualize your new home on it. You even have a builder in mind and you are ready to take the leap and buy it before someone else does. But wait a minute! Before yo

Early Spring through late Fall are our most popular time of year to get calls from homeowners looking to install a fence or new landscaping. We suggest that they contact their municipality to see if they need a permit or a survey before construction or installing a new fence. Unfortunately, many homeowners or their neighbors do not. The most frequent calls we receive are for boundary line surveys and the conversation often starts with something like the following: "My neighbo