Author: Wendy Lathrop, PS, CFM, CFS

If our homes are our castles, we should be able to do pretty much anything we want there, right? Well, not exactly. There…

Choosing where to settle and live is complicated, not a simple task of technical analysis and check boxes. Competing factors include affordability, convenience…

Sometimes it is hard to pigeon-hole events into a single category to be able to come up with a title that will appropriately…

News stories often provoke thoughts about how we as surveyors can better “protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public” relying upon…

Home construction has not helped end every housing shortage. As incomes stagnate or are usurped by student debt or are waylaid by cost…

It is the start of December as I write this, when I had expected to provide updates on the reauthorization of the National…

This past winter, yet another mass shooting in a school took place, this one in Parkland, Florida, in which 14 high school students…

As often happens, reading a recent article not about surveying made me think about surveying. It was a piece about medical students and…

I am just back from a hiking vacation in Moab, Utah, visiting Arches National Park and Canyonlands National Park and marveling at the…