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During a speech I gave late last week In Syracuse, I asked the audience of about 200 land surveyors whether they thought the country was moving in the right or wrong direction. Only one 30-something woman meekly raised her hand half way up in the air to support a positive view, everyone else emphatically...

By Jonathan D. Miller | Updated on January 18, 2010

During a speech I gave late last week In Syracuse, I asked the audience of about 200 land surveyors whether they thought the country was moving in the right or wrong direction. Only one 30-something woman meekly raised her hand half way up in the air to support a positive view, everyone else emphatically signaled a gloomy outlook, accompanied by hang dog looks and furrowed brows.

Maybe it´s not surprising that surveyors aren´t feeling real good these days-they are part of the real estate middleman group that´s suffered a drastic and ongoing decline in business and income. Brokers, appraisers, transaction executives and lawyers are all part of this unfortunate crowd. Few deals and fewer new development projects translate into more twiddling of thumbs than measuring lot sizes.

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