Alta Nsps Table A Scope Memo

Use when a licensed Professional Land Surveyor (PLS), title-company underwriter, lender counsel, commercial real-estate attorney, or developer project manager needs to draft a scope-of-services memo for a 2026 ALTA/NSPS Land Title Survey (Minimum Standard Detail Requirements for ALTA/NSPS Land Title Surveys, effective February 23, 2026) before fieldwork begins. Guides intake of property posture (address, county, state, parcel ID, gross area, current and intended improvements), transaction posture (acquisition / refinance / construction loan / development / ground lease / 1031), parties (buyer / borrower, seller, lender, title-insurance underwriter, title agent, certification parties), title-record posture (Schedule A legal description, Schedule B-II exception list, lender endorsement requirements, ALTA 9 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 22 / 25 / 28-series endorsements), Table A item-by-item selection (Items 1 through 20 with rationale, state-mandatory status, negotiated wording, fee-impact estimate, and any negotiated additional Item 21(a)..(n)), Item 15 written-agreement boilerplate among surveyor / client / lender / title insurer with face-of-plat notes, deliverables and CRS table, certification party list confirmed pre-fieldwork, pre-fieldwork follow-up question set the PLS must clear before mobilization, and a 2026-edition compliance audit (standard-name confirmation, state-mandatory items not optional, Item 15 written agreement when selected, certification parties identified pre-fieldwork) — labeled DRAFT for licensed-PLS review and signature before fieldwork. Never issues, signs, seals, or certifies a survey, never modifies a legal description, never represents to a lender or title insurer that fieldwork has occurred, and never substitutes for the licensed PLS's professional judgment or for state-specific monumentation, recordation, or licensure rules.

by @archlab-space (devasher)·MIT-0