My husband Dave was recently doing some work in our yard to build a shed. We live on property that needs to be surveyed; part of it belongs to the city and there are certain areas of the property where something like a shed isn’t permitted to be built.
He researched and contacted five different local surveying companies. For each one, he researched their social media and then used the contact forms on their website. Nothing. He then emailed them directly. No replies. Lastly, he called the numbers listed on their website. At least one was disconnected, and never received a call back on the other voicemails he left.
I was stunned to hear that after all of that work, he was only able to connect with one company. And that was by accident, after he contacted the company a second time and the owner just happened to pick up the phone.