Waiting on the as-built surveys for my current properties and a ALTA survey  to get done on the the land. 

@Dawn Young - Sorry for all the posts but I wanted to add to your list of possible expenses:Engineering Fees, survey, local entity's application fees for development, building permits, parking lot paving (some areas require pavement rather than gravel), stormwater permit fees, stormwater ponds (the design is included in the engineering fees), underlying soil corrections if your property is on peat-y soils or poorly drained land, wetland delineation, building structure engineering, worker's comp insurance if you hire someone (probably not in this scenario), legal fees for an attorney to write/review your lease, legal fees for attorney to guide you through the process of eviction (often called a 'lien sale' in SS circles), landscaping buffers (yes, I've had to install trees to buffer vehicular traffic - that reminds me, one of those trees are dead and I need to replace it. 

Why not just have the architect survey the entire job instead of paying a 3rd Party Software company to do it?

With explanation that specific costs have changed, and the rent survey showing that to be a very reasonable rent still. 

They were required to obtain a survey costing $500.

Hi BiggerPockets friends, we are in the process of building an addition in our PR and city is asking for a survey.

Does that include the studies, surveying, etc?

They make a product and then find people to purchase or then survey the people and create a product to fit their needs.

As soon as you go to 2, 3, 4unit properties you're looking at 750-1050 dollars plus if you're doing a rental property and are required to do a rental property survey (AKA form 1007 for the loan officers out there) then thats another 125-150 dollars.This assumes you dont have any repairs (double strapped water heaters, health/safey repairs, CO/Smoke Detectors, being most common).

I mean just surveying a 100 acre parcel out in the boonies could cost 20 to 30k or more. the Key to selling land is owner financing.. without it going to be a long slog.. there are only so many cash buyers and there is no bank or very few that will loan on land unless as Russ says hi value infill.