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An ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey shows a title insurer, lender, and buyer where the boundary is, what is built on and near it, and how each survey-related item in the title commitment relates to the ground. Scale and Key Surveying scopes and prepares them to the 2026 Minimum Standard Detail Requirements, effective February 23, 2026. Closing date set? Call 208-279-1596 with the date and the county. You will be told whether the date is workable before a proposal is written. Start dates are confirmed in the written proposal.
Seth Kursel, PLS (Idaho license 1181318) scopes the work, performs it, and answers review comments. The firm holds Idaho Certificate of Authorization 3281730 and works from Boise across the Treasure Valley and Wood River Valley. Look up license 1181318 on the Idaho public license search.
Table A
Table A lists optional additions to the minimum standard, including monuments at major corners, flood zone classification, land area, vertical relief, zoning information, underground utility evidence, and a table of potential encroachments.
Each adds fieldwork, research, or drafting. Under the standard, the request must specify a "2026 ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey" and state which Table A items are included. A list that changes later changes the scope, so send the lender's requirements with the first request.
How it works
Send the commitment and Table A list. We confirm property, parties, and access.
Written scope, fee, and schedule. Work starts after written authorization.
Records reviewed, boundary retraced, site located.
The deal team reviews a draft. Comments are resolved before the final.
Review comments
Send title and counsel comments as one list. Each gets a written response: revised, or explained if the survey cannot support the change. Revision dates appear on the survey. If a recorded easement surfaces that the commitment does not list, the title insurer is told before delivery and the easement is shown or explained on the survey.
Fee and schedule
Before you order
Send the closing date, the title commitment and the Table A list first. Seth checks them against the work already booked and tells you whether he can take the survey before he prepares a proposal. One person can be in one place at a time. If the date is not workable for one surveyor, he says so then, so you can place the work with another firm. Any schedule is the one written in the proposal, and it depends on the items listed under "What drives the fee and schedule", including site access, utility locate response and commitment updates.
The client orders it, usually the buyer or borrower, and whoever is paying gives written authorization to proceed. Under the standard, the title insurer is not responsible for the cost unless it agrees in writing.
Scoping can. The survey cannot be completed without the commitment or other title evidence the insurer accepts.
No. The standard requires its own certification, unaltered, except where state rules require otherwise. Other parties can be named, and it can extend to the lender's successors and assigns.
Observed surface evidence is part of the minimum standard. Plans or private locate markings can be added under Table A item 11. Without excavation, underground locations cannot be shown exactly.
Before starting Scale and Key Surveying, and before he was licensed, Seth worked on ALTA/NSPS surveys of commercial sites in Ada and Canyon counties for a prior employer. His role was research, fieldwork, drafting, and plotting title exceptions under a supervising licensed surveyor, who reviewed the work and sealed the surveys that were issued. Scale and Key Surveying did not perform those surveys.
Next step
Who you are hiring: About Seth Kursel, PLS.
Use the request form to describe the property, then email the title commitment to seth@scaleandkey.com.
Prefer to talk it through? Book a 15-minute scope call or call 208-279-1596.