Describe Real Estate

Question 1

Clearly defining property rights and property boundaries are addressed by a

Answer 1

Land Survey

Question 2

City, state and zipcode of property

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Street Address

Question 3

Area, dimensions and description used to detail the location of a property and its boundaries

Answer 3

Legal Description

Question 4

professional, on-site measurement of the lot lines and dimensions of a property

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Survey

Question 5

A survey includes improvements (such as a house) on the property or any encroachments

Answer 5

True

Question 6

Three of the most common legal description systems

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Lot and block

Metes and bounds

Rectangular government survey system

Question 7

Uses monuments, compass headings and directions

Answer 7

Metes and bounds

Question 8

Mainly used in urban and suburban areas

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Lot and block

Question 9

Divides land into six-mile-square townships that can be further divided

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Rectangular government survey

Question 10

A permanent physical marker that is either man-made or natural

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Monument

These are frequently used in Metes and bounds

Question 11

Direction and distance of a line forming the boundary of a property.

Answer 11

Metes

Question 12

Physical features that define the boundaries of the land

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Bounds

Question 13

Where the survey begins and from this point you follow the legal description information to uncover property boundaries.

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Point Of Beginning

Question 14

Either a rectangular or metes and bounds description is referenced.

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Lot and Block Process

First step

Question 15

The land is divided into lots with numerical designations of the parcel

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Lot and Block Process

Second step

Question 16

The starting point for a lot and block survey

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Either a metes and bounds or a rectangular survey description

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Includes numbered or lettered blocks and lots - along with lot measurements or distances

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Lot and block system

Question 18

Regulated by the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management

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Rectangular Government Survey System

Question 19

Divides land into townships and further into sections and fractions of sections

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Rectangular Government Survey System

Question 20

Consists of 36 one-square-mile sections

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Township

Question 21

Consists of 640 Acres

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Section

Question 22

North-south line that run through the initial point

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Principal meridian

Question 23

North-south line that DO NOT run through the initial point

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Range lines

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East-west lines that DO NOT run through the initial point

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Township lines

Question 25

East-west lines that run through the initial point

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Base Lines

Question 26

Equal to 640 acres

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1 square mile

Question 27

Legal descriptions read from

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Right to Left

Question 28

Where the legal description appears

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Survey

Question 29

Visual depiction of location and dimensions of a property

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Survey sketch

Question 30

Location, size and shape of improvements on a property

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Spot survey

Question 31

The first step in the land survey process

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Research historical records

Question 32

Transfer, subdivision, combining or modifying property can be reason for a

Answer 32

Survey

Question 33

Horizontal elevation that a datum references

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zero elevation

Question 34

vertical datum references a specific distance from any

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Horizontal elevation

Question 35

Metes and bounds system uses this to develop a property's legal description

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Compass headings and directions

Question 36

A survery that includes a legal description and a survey sketch

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What a land surveyor produces

Question 37

How are fence posts, iron stakes, pine trees used in the metes and bounds system?

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Can be used as points of beginning

Question 38

Legal description uses compass headings and directions?

Answer 38

Metes and bounds

Question 39

The oldest type of legal description used in the U.S.

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Metes and bounds

Question 40

Detailed map of a subdivision that includes boundaries, measurements and distances between points

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Plat map

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Datums and benchmarks measure

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Elevations

Question 42

To develop a property's legal description, the lot and block system uses

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Plat references