Unit 4: Legal Land Descriptions and measurements

Rafe is considering purchasing a 2,400-sq. ft. home for $320,000. What price per square foot would he be paying?

$133.33

Enrique paid $250,000 for his 1,500 sq. ft. home. What was his price per square foot?

$166.67 per sq. Ft

Blake just purchased a 2.5-acre vacant lot of land for $500,000. What was the price per square yard he paid?

$41.32

Sophie purchased a lot that measures 300 ft. wide by 500 ft. long. The purchase price was $275,000. What was the price per acre?

$79941.86 per acre

Charlie purchased a lot that measures 800 ft. wide by 500 ft. long. The purchase price was $850,000. What was the price Charlie paid per ACRE?

$92592.59

1 square yard = how many SQUARE feet?

(3x3)=9

How do you calculate the area of a triangle?

1/2 x base x height

Vera wants to buy new laminate flooring for a room that has an area of 90 sq. ft. How many square yards of flooring will it take?

10

Let's say a lot has an area of 46,905 sq. ft. and a depth of 313 ft. Solve for the frontage.

150 front feet

What is the front footer in 150 ft x 313 ft

150 ft

You are leasing a home that has recently been renovated to make a larger living/family room. If the room is now 11 ft. by 14.5 ft., what is the total square footage of the room?

159.5 square feet

The SE 1/4 of a section would measure how many acres?

160

Marika, your client, is considering a property that is 250 ft. by 475 ft. How many acres is the property?

2.73

1 yard = how many feet?

3 feet

Ben wants to carpet his bedroom. He measures it as 270 sq. ft. When he gets to the Carpet Store, he finds that they sell carpet by the square yard. How many square yards is Ben's room?

30 sq. yds.

A room is 20 ft. long by 15 ft. wide and 10 ft. high. What is the volume of this room?

3000 cubic ft

What is the debt in this equation 150 ft x313 ft

313 ft

There are two lots side by side on Birdman Avenue. They have the same depth of 200 ft., but each has different frontages. Lot A has an area of 40,000 sq. ft., while Lot B is 25,000 sq. ft. What is the total frontage of both Lots A and B?

325 ft.

How many sections are in a township?

36 sections

How many square miles are in a township

36 square miles

Township lines intersect with range lines to create townships, which are how many square miles?

36 square miles

1 acre = how many sq. Ft?

43,560 sq ft

1 acre = how many square feet?

43,560 square feet

How many square feet are in an acre?

43,560 square feet

1 acre= how many square feet ?

43560 sq feet

1 mile = how many square feet?

5280 feet

Township lines run west and east, parallel to the baseline. How many miles apart are they from each other?

6 miles

Sonya's has a rectangular lot that is 12 ft. on one side and 19 ft. on the other. Find the perimeter.

62 ft

1 section = how many acres?

640 acres

1 sq. Mile= how many acres?

640 acres

How many acres are there in each square mile (section) in a township?

640 acres

You know the lot is 8,520 sq. ft., and that it's 95 ft. deep. Can you calculate the frontage?

89.68 ft

1 sq. Yard = how many feet?

9 sq feet

Define Block

A collection of lots

Define reference to a plat

A description on a deed that includes the property's location on a plat map.

Define Plat

A drawing of a development used in the block and lot method

What a gridiron pattern?

A grief system that features large lots, wide streets, and some limited use survey alleys.

Define Metes and Bounds

A land survey process in which a licensed land surveyor starts at a readily identifiable point of beginning and defines the boundaries of a property.

Define Legal Description

A legal description is a written description of property that is distinct and precise enough to distinguish it from all other properties.

What is a contour map?

A map in which curbed lines connect contiguous parts of equal elevation to define the contours of the land.

Define Parcel

A part or portion of land; often used to identify a specific lot within a larger tract of property.

What is a curvilinear pattern?

A pattern that integrates major feeder road with smaller streets and culdesacs.

What is a front foot?

A unit used to measure a property that borders a street.

How do you solve for perimeter ?

Add up all the sides

Define Point of beginning

An established starting point, often located on a road, from which the description begins.

Define Lot

An individual piece of land measure and defined by the metes and bound system

in finding the acreage of N 1⁄2 of SW 1⁄4 of NE 1⁄4.

Answer: 640 acres x 1⁄2 x 1⁄4 x 1⁄4 = Lot acreage 640 acres ÷ 2 ÷ 4 ÷ 4 = 20 acres 43,560 sq. ft. x 20 acres = 871,200 sq. ft.

Define Air lots

Are areas above parcels of land that are defined by elevation boundaries

How are surveys used?

As a way of creating legal descriptions for properties.

How do you find price per square feet ?

Asking / Total sq. For = Price per sq. Ft

Define perimeter

Boundary of a property

When finding the area of an irregular lot, what should you do first?

Break it up into regular shapes

What is vertical land description?

Can't help when determining air rights, water rights, and subsurface rights.

How is volume measured?

Cubic feet

When giving the dimensions of a property, the ____ are always stated first.

Front Feet

What is the depth?

How far the lot goes back?

How do you solve for volume of a cube?

Length X Width X Height

Area=

Length x Width

Which of the following is an example of a legal property description created using the recorded plat method of surveying?

Lot C, Block 8 of Cliff Estate Subdivision, Sparrow County, Georgia

What is the government survey system?

May also be called the rectangular survey system or public land survey system. Developed by federal government to improve, simplify, and standardize surveying.

What is Rentable square footage? (RSF)?

Measurement of the total area that a tenant can access.

Longitude lines that run north to south are also called:m

Meridians

Which legal description will likely include the phrase "point of beginning"?

Metes and bounds

What are the different methods of surveying that yield valid legal descriptions:

Metes and bounds, block and lot, and government survey system.

Latitude lines that run east to west are also called:

Parallels

Examples of unfinished area:

Patios, porches, decks garages, attics

Define benchmarks

Permanent markers of known location and elevation as established by government survey team.

Extra important meridians and parallels

Principal meridians and baselines

USF+Common Areas=

RSF Rentable square footage

Run parallel to the principal meridian, running north and south

Range lines

The area of land between two consecutive range lines

Ranges

What are township lines?

Run west and east , parallel to the baseline and, like range lines are six miles apart from each other

Finding area of unfinished Area

Solve the area of unfinished area and subtract it from the whole area

How do you solve for frontages on a whole street?

Solve the frontage for each lot then add all the frontages together.

Define Datum

The designated base reference point from which elevation is measured.

Define livable area:

The finished area of a home

What is a frontage?

The portion of the boundary of a lot that borders the street. Measured in front feet.

Define Survey

The process and physical product of finding and measuring the boundaries of a piece of real estate, including the location of improvements, encroachments, and easements.

The block and lot survey system is also known as the:

The recorded plat method

Define caissons

The small parcels of land or column lots that structurally support air lots

What is usable square footage?

The tanant's "business home."

Define Tract

The totality of the property represented on a plat.

How do you solve for asking price?

Total sq. Ft x price per sq. Ft

Block and Lot system

Type of legal description that identifies a piece of platted property by referring to the section, block, and lot numbers in a subdivision.

Kelly has purchased a new property and wants to remove the grass on her lawn and replace it with synthetic grass. She measures the area of her lawn as 2,500 square feet. But when she arrives at the lawn store, she finds that the synthetic grass is only sold by the square yard. Uh-oh! Kelly didn't measure by the square yard. What can she do?

Well, since Kelly knows 1 square yard is equal to 9 square feet, she can perform a simple conversion: 2,500 sq. feet ÷ 9 = 277.78 sq. yards

What is a reference to a plat?

a description on a deed that includes the property's location on a plat map.

Define monuments

fixed landmarks, either natural or human made. Example:streams, trees, large boulders

This is not the name of a survey system. It is the name of a fictional bar coming to a hipster neighborhood near you.

fleets and hounds

Township lines:

run parallel to baselines and create six-mile tiers

Range Columns:

run parallel to meridians and create six-mile ranges

Township lines create

tiers, which are 6 miles wide

What is the purpose of a survey?

to find and measure the boundaries of a piece of real estate

What are correction lines?

used with the government rectangular survey system since the earth is round.