It's been a long day: Really Stupid Question

[esturni]

In just about every appraisal I've ever done (very built up parts of NYC), the homes had regular, square or rectangular lots.
Now I get a weird one, irregular, assessor measures it as 18 x 81 x 33... I know I know this... what is the square footage?

 

[TEL2002]

Here's a neat little trick. Turn everything into rectangles or squares. So with a triangle you can add another triangle to make it a rectangle. Draw in whatever lines you need to make those squares, etc. Then do the LxW on each little square/rectangle and add up all the square footages. On a triangle you would divide the result by 2 since it would be half of the rectangle.

Don't forget, your degrees of angle are important in trying to make up those squares/rectangles.

 

[Lee Lansford]

In just about every appraisal I've ever done (very built up parts of NYC), the homes had regular, square or rectangular lots.
Now I get a weird one, irregular, assessor measures it as 18 x 81 x 33... I know I know this... what is the square footage?

It's triangularly-shaped?

 

[Rick Neighbors]

Triangle ?

Better measure it yourself! It appears that there is a measurement missing. Math is not my strong suit. But if it is a 3 sided lot, 18' and 31' on 2 sides will not allow the 81' measurement. If all are straight lines.

I just stuck it into my Apex drawing program for fun. And if you have 1 line that is 81', the other 2 lines are not long enough to close the triangle.

Rick

 

[Fred]

This calculates area for triangles where three sides are known.
http://www.csgnetwork.com/herontriangleareacalc.html

I agree with Rick. If one side is 81, the sum of the length of the other two sides must be greater than 81 to have a triangle.

 

[esturni]

haha exactly! I couldn't tell if I was missing something, or it really just doesn't make sense.
Thanks for the help, I'll speak with the assessor tomorrow.

PS.. glad it wasn't such a stupid question after all

 

[TEL2002]

Maybe it is 8.1 instead of 81.


WOW, now there is small lot.

 

[Mr Rex]

Maybe the 81 is a radius and the lot looks like a deformed bow.

 

[Esox]

Call it up on the county GIS and use the measure area tool.

Kevin

 

[Blueprint]

With only 3 sides, 18 x 81 x 33 is not possible. Clue us in with the typo.