They were quick to provide the bid for the service requested and it seems like a fair value. I am waiting for the other responses and I will choose the best value. read more

This morning my wife called me at work because there was someone in our front yard digging a hole. She asked if I had hired someone to do work at the house. I had not. She went outside to ask why he was damaging our lawn, and he explained that he was performing a survey for a house four doors away from ours. I asked my wife to put me on the phone with him, and I told him he did not have permission to dig in our yard and asked him to leave the property. I then called the owner of the company, who argued that her surveyor has the legal right to enter private property and dig if necessary to complete a survey. That is not completely true. It is only true if there is no other way to complete the survey. My biggest issue is that no one knocked on the door beforehand to explain what they were doing or why it was necessary. They just helped themselves to my front yard. Even after my wife asked him what he was doing, he gave vague and dismissive answers and went back to digging. After we kicked the surveyor off our property, he was able to continue the survey without the use of our yard. This proves that our property was not necessary for the completion of the survey. There is a big difference between "necessary" and "convenient." Property rights are important and homeowners deserve communication and professionalism. read more

Very disgruntled with what I got from Altea, I even called and questioned the price I was charged after the work was done because I got next to nothing from the exchange. I am paraphrasing, but was basically told "the price is the price. I have 2 acres that sit on a bluff in South County, I was told by the woman at Altea that it would take multiple employees up to 5 days to do my survey. In addition the property has some corners on the cliff and the other corners are in dense woods. They did the survey the tail end of this winter, so there was no growth in the woods, so it wasn't difficult to get to those corners and it took the single guy that came out less than 7 hours to do my survey and that includes marking the location of a specific tree and the building line. The total price was almost $6,500 and i discovered that of the 8 markers that had to be set for my boundary lines, 4 had already been marked prior to them doing the work. I let them know, prior to signing the contract that I wanted to put up a fence between my property and the two neighbors and was told the survey could be used to put up a fence. I don't know how that is going to be accomplished since a person cannot stand at one marker and see another to set a straight line. I am very disgusted with this company and will not recommend them. Carly S read more

Me and my husband wanted to get a survey done and this company was horrible about it. We got a land survey done because we wanted to build a new fence and our neighbor was being a pain about the whole thing. Now we had already gotten a survey done when we bought the house so we knew where the line was but that was 20 something years ago. We gave land to the owners on both sides so they could build better driveways and it was no big deal. thought we need a new fence and our new neighbor isn't cooperating. They charged us about 1,000 dollars for a load of shit. They said our old fence was over the property line when we damn new it wasnt. We try to talk to them about it, even showed them the forms from the old survey we did and the women who came out to do it said she couldn't make since of it. We tried again to talk to them about it only for them to say "well if your sure then just go on and build anyway." All that money only for them to basically do jack shit. read more

I learned that my land survey for my fence had been done already at my house purchase closing, but that they had only put corner flags in. Altea never communicated with me when the survey would happen or reach out to explain the work order or what to expect, so this was all a surprise. With a 3.5 acre property four corner flags won't suffice to build a fence. My title company said that I'd get the survey in the mail and suggested I call Altea to walk the property line with me so I could mark it myself and said that survey companies do that all the time. I called Altea to request this and they said they'd send someone out Monday to walk the property lines with me. I said, great, I'll mark the line as we go and was happy to be able to get to work! But the field worker came out and did not show me the property lines. He showed me where the corner flags are (which I'd seen), but informed me he had no permission to use any tools to actually see the lines between the corners and show me that - the whole reason for his visit. Two of the were flags already on the property before their survey, and a new flag offset on one side 50 feet from a corner, with no corner offset on the other side so there's no real telling where the corner is. And still I had no way to know where the line between the corners actually sits. Meanwhile, I also never received the survey in the mail. I called the owner while the field worker was here to ask that they let him do what he came out here to do, and the owner steadfastly refused. So I begged her to let him at least do one small section of the boundary near the house, and she flatly refused, unless I paid more for them to place the flags on the line, though she had a skilled worker at my house already. I wrote all this up in a review here on Yelp and in Google and gave the one star they deserved. A week later they called in response to the review. They sent a field worker out again with instructions to walk the property line with me and provide 4 line stakes (lol) in addition to the corner flags they'd found. Thankfully the field worker recognized that I would be unable to actually build my fence with just the info four line stakes would provide so he took care to show me the lines between and even tied a few unofficial tags in trees. He actually seemed interested in helping. And they did email me the survey that second time. So I finally got the info I need, but the company owner didn't do it because it was the right thing to do, she did it to get me to remove the negative review. So I'll up the star rating from one to three - I eventually, after some disappointment and aggravation I'd rather not have experienced, got what I needed, but I am not super impressed with the whole experience. read more

BUYER BEWARE - Altea does not stand behind their work in Missouri. I hired them & thier survey stakes were moved the very next day by the neighbor. Altea was no help in the matter. I am very disappointed and frustrated with them and their service. read more