Do you include the "Phase" in your legal description.

[J Grant]

I never edit a legal description. It would never occur to me to do that. I continue to be surprised at how some appraisers create problems for themselves. We have enough problems -why create more? Whatever the legal description reads is what gets reported in the appraisal.

 

[Tom4value]

I guess things are different in other parts of the country. Here the legal description is, "Worcester County Registry of Deeds Book #### page###".

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

I never edit a legal description. It would never occur to me to do that. I continue to be surprised at how some appraisers create problems for themselves. We have enough problems -why create more? Whatever the legal description reads is what gets reported in the appraisal.

Depends upon the client right? I mean nothing in USPAP requires us to provide a legal description, only to "identify" the property (via survey, plat, deed, address, etc.)

 

[Mark K]

I guess things are different in other parts of the country. Here the legal description is, "Worcester County Registry of Deeds Book #### page###".

That seems strange. To me that’s nothing more than telling you where the legal description is located, nothing about the legal description of the property.

 

[TerryRohrer]

I guess things are different in other parts of the country. Here the legal description is, "Worcester County Registry of Deeds Book #### page###".

That is recording data. A legal description describes a tract. Two different things.

 

[OSU Beavers]

Since the Lot numbers restart with Lot 1 pf the new Phase, yes include them in the complete legal.

 

[Tom4value]

That seems strange. To me that’s nothing more than telling you where the legal description is located, nothing about the legal description of the property.

Yes. We are talking about the top of page 1, right? I then include a copy of the deed in the report.

 

[John Hassler]

To the OP - I’m guessing you are writing your own quasi legal description from an Assessors Map.

Back in the day, we had all of our regular MBs trained to send a prelim with the appraisal order. Worked great. For non-lending and AMC work we paid a data service a nominal fee. We then cut and pasted the legal description into the report including a disclaimer that it was obtained from the last recorded deed on xx/xx/xxxx. A 3-5 minute operation with the added benefit of learning something on occasion, especially from a prelim.