Unit 1

Question 1

Appurtenances

Answer 1

Things attached to the property, benefit and RUN WITH the property.

Question 2

Riparian Rights

Answer 2

Rights to river, lake, or ocean -RI words River, Riparian

Question 3

Erosion

Answer 3

The gradual loss of land due to natural causes

Question 4

Eccrition

Answer 4

The gradual gain of land due to natural causes - Mississippi river sand bars, deposits of sand.

Question 5

Subsurface Rights

Answer 5

Rights to underground minerals, which may be reserved or transferred

Question 6

Air Rights

Answer 6

Rights to air space above property, gov controls, owner may not interfere.

Question 7

Physical Components of Land

Answer 7

Air, Surface, Subsurface - NOT TIMBER

Question 8

We are helping buy, sell, or transfer what?

Answer 8

Land - NOT A HOUSE

Question 9

Improvements

Answer 9

The items affixed to the land with the intent of being permanant - house, fence, driveway, landscaping

Question 10

Chattel

Answer 10

Personal property, retained by seller, everything that is not real estate.

Question 11

The Law of Fixtures

Answer 11

Common Law, created throught court cases,

Question 12

FIxture

Answer 12

Object that was once personal property but was attached to an improvement so as to become real estate.

Question 13

Test of Fixture

Answer 13

Attachment, Adaptation, Agreement -

Question 14

Scarcity

Answer 14

Limited supply of land, gives it it’s value.

Question 15

Situs

Answer 15

Locational Preference, value of land is effected by actions in the surrounding area.

Question 16

Physical Characteristics of LAND

Answer 16

Immobility - can’t be moved, Indistructible, Uniqueness

Question 17

Immobility

Answer 17

Land can’t be moved

Question 18

Industructability

Answer 18

Can’t be destroyed, even a sinkhole

Question 19

Uniqueness

Answer 19

No 2 parcels are the same

Question 20

3 Legal Methods of Land Description

Answer 20

Metes and Bounds, Rectangular Survey, Recorded Plat

Question 21

Metes and Bounds

Answer 21

Metes is measures, bounds is shape or boundries. You being and end at Point of Beginning (POB). POB is at Natural or man made monument. Measure in a clockwise direction.

Question 22

Our Prime Meridian (Government Survey Syst)

Answer 22

Tallahassee Prime Meridian, north south

Question 23

How many Prime Meridians in the US?

Answer 23

36

Question 24

Ranges - GSS

Answer 24

Are 6 miles wide and run North South, like a column on a an excel spreadsheet

Question 25

Tier - GSS

Answer 25

Are 6 miles wide and run East-West, like a row on exel spreadsheet.

Question 26

Township GSS

Answer 26

6 miles by 6 miles, 6 miles square, contain 36 miles

Question 27

Township is divided

Answer 27

into 36 1 mile by 1 mile sections

Question 28

Section

Answer 28

1 mile x 1 mile, contains 640 acres

Question 29

1 Acre = x feet

Answer 29

43,560

Question 30

In relation to the principal Meridian (Exact Exam question)

Answer 30

18

Question 31

Lot and block method

Answer 31

describes land by referring to a lot number on a plat map that has been filed with the county

Question 32

Plat Map

Answer 32

shows lots, divisions, and street locations when a parcel is subdivided. See the with builders in a community.

Question 33

Dedication

Answer 33

The transfer of land suck as roadways and other public spaces, to a government body for public use.

Question 34

3 types of land transfer

Answer 34

Private - person to person, Public Grant - gov to individual, Dedication - individual to Gov

Question 35

How to find acres in the whatever quarter etc.. of a section.

Answer 35

Start with 640 and keep dividing by the bottom number of each fraction in order.

Question 36

Feet in an acre

Answer 36

43560

Question 37

To convert acre to square feet

Answer 37

Multiply # of acres by 43560

Question 38

What direction does a line run from a given point North 90 East? (Exact Exam ?)

Answer 38

East to West

Question 39

Our Base Line (For GSS)

Answer 39

Runs East to West, Talahassee Base Line for Government Survey System

Question 40

The Government Survey System, GSS, starting point for identifying properties is the

Answer 40

Tallahassee Principal Meridian, and the Talahassee Base Meridian

Question 41

All of these are used in the GSS

Answer 41

Section, Township, Range, Talahassee Principal Meridian, Talahassee Base Line,

Question 42

Acres in a section

Answer 42

640

Question 43

Square Miles in a Section

Answer 43

1

Question 44

4 Government powers

Answer 44

Taxation, Police power, eminent domain, escheat.

Question 45

Government Police Power

Answer 45

The authority of the gov to enact and enforce land use controls.

Question 46

Reasons for Police power

Answer 46

1. Protect Public health, welfare and safety 2. Ensure land uses are compatible with surroundings 3. Allow orderly and stable growth

Question 47

Planning and Zoning

Answer 47

Created by a local planning commission or board that advises elected officials, the County Commissioners.

Question 48

Planning and Zoning Ordinances

Answer 48

Enacted to ensure that property and owners adhere to land use restrictions.

Question 49

Purpose of Planning and Zoning

Answer 49

To protect the integrity of the community.

Question 50

Master Comprehensive Develpment Plan

Answer 50

1. Land studies show the present and anticipated future uses of properties 2. Economic studies show the present and anticiapatedfurtuer economic base of the area

Question 51

Zoning Classifications and restrictions

Answer 51

specifiy ACCEPTABLE USE AND DENSITY

Question 52

5 Categories of Zones

Answer 52

1. Residential 2. Commercia 3. Industrial and Manufacturing 4. Agricultural 5. Planned Use Developments and Mixed Use

Question 53

Buffer Zone

Answer 53

Strip of land that separate 2 drastically different Land Use Zones. Might be a park.

Question 54

Building Codes

Answer 54

1. Protect from inferior construction practices. 2. Set minimum standards for materials and quality of workmanship 3. State Code is Florida Building Code

Question 55

Land Use Restrictions (under Police Power)

Answer 55

Building permits and inspections are required to rovide evidence of compliance

Question 56

Setbacks

Answer 56

restriction in which the area in which you can build. Roughly 10 ft in from side and back, 30 ft in from front. You can build in the middle. (Different numbers for smaller properties.) Net buildable area

Question 57

Setback test question

Answer 57

Setback on test is only from the front of the property. From the front end of the property. The Net Buildable area.