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Our standard fee for properties where there appears to be no apparent or significant RECs on the subject or adjacent to, and no extra data needed, the fee is $1,650.00 (which includes travel expenses- and usually no mileage charges within Texas- and the cost of the database). The client will be informed on all phases of the investigation if any significant environmental conditions are found- after our initial inspection of the subject and the ordering of the environmental database (records research), we can be further assured that the quote for the report is firm for the subject site, and the client notified.

Also, having an extensive background in land titles as a 40 year Certified Professional Landman in the oil and gas industry, we usually do our own 50 year chain of titles and there is no extra for this service. This is a $300-500 savings to the client. Certain site scenarios may be subject to my judgment to waive the need of certain investigative historical data, such as the 50 year chain of title, especially where the improvements were the first on an otherwise raw land tract, and other data that may be waived are historical aerials (usually before 1996) and topos. If in our judgment we feel the necessity to order such data, then the client will be notified to the extra charges.