Who says clients don't pay for modeling?

[mcqueenhomes]

I can and have produced a terrain from a plot plan. Unless it's really gnarly terrain that's usually fairly easy.

But when a customer gets a whim to design a house or remodel getting a survey isn't the first thing they do. They want someone to come out and look.

Using a construction rod probably works... but you're forgetting the original problem... I can't get to the site. Most new building is going on "out-of-bounds" of the city's transportation system (if there is one).

One time I did have somebody want me to look at their house enough to be willing to drive me there and back.

All of this would be solved, of course, if I managed to find a builder to work with. His clients could call me if they needed something laid out and mine could call him if they needed something built.