The survey was delivered via mail and the stakes/marks were done at the property. 

(I'm self-employed in the trades, not that I'll be doing all the work.)I joined this community thinking it would be a good place to network and bought a pro membership for the calculators and access to the marketplace.

We decided to purchase the program/membership for Michael Lush of Replace Your Mortgage to get at a larger list of banks who will do a first lien HELOC on purchases and investments and were able to buy a primary home for 10% down.

When I tried to cancel at the end of the month I received a great deal of push back (they were trying to charge me for a full membership) and it got pretty ugly. 

The IRS describes 6 different methodologies: detailed engineering from actual cost records, detailed engineering using cost estimation, survey or letter, residual estimation, sampling or modeling and rule of thumb.

jordan, you beat me at my first year.i sold my first only rental a single wide trailer on own land feb 2017 which only paid loan earned $ 7k, profit on depreciating asset, all while living down street in foreclosure i bought earlier, zero down, since it had 2 "homes" on 15 acres  i had it surveyed with new deed and subdivided  the 3 acre back lot camp barns, then went credit union put debt consolidation note on camp since owned outright, no appraisal or inspection needed,  cleared ratios to refinance the bigger nicer one home, used that money cash out to help me buy a 3 unit, financed fix up money, then moved into 3 unit, rented primary home, rented 2 other units, then with 3 rental units income qualified just bought 3 b1 b house to rinse and repeat now in process to refinance my fixed up 3 unit. now i just incorporated after joining bp, thats all in last 15 months. now if i can get enough cash out refi on my 3 unit im praying for good appraisals to buy reo down street to rinse rehab and repeat and im still not sure im doing it right. im still using banks or credit unions. love find investor to simplify process and reduce paperwork.i tried listing my camp on air bnb but no one wants rent off grid river front home. lol.now got hire crew and management. 

I imagine the government would have to do a survey and see how close you are to other airports (if making your own).

I have also posted in marketplace forum with link to slidedeck and a survey.

Title search/insurance, survey.

In particular: "Realtor Only" or "Agent to Agent" Remarks - typically a freeform text field where agents can share details and amplifying information that they do not want to share directly with the public, and Attachments - It's pretty common for most due diligence information (seller's disclosures, surveys, rent rolls, operating statements, proformas, etc) to be included as MLS attachments.