Legal Description

[Verne Hebert]

If you want to help keep your behind out of court........always the entire legal description. USPAP is a minimum standard. Tie the entire legal to an assessor number or taxpayer id #---this is the defined scope of your assignment.

 

[Brad Potts]

Thanks all for the help. They should charge a monthly fee to use this forum! :dance:

 

[Marty Skolnik]

I accept cash, traveller's checks or third-party post dated checks drawn from off-shore accounts.

marty

 

[Bill_FL]

Since so many Clerk's offices are now online, why not just download the deed and incorporate it into the report?

 

[Robert Lee]

Hello All,

I'm taking an on line class, and I need to wrtite 500 words Essay about Legal Description. The Fundamental of Real Estate Appraisal book, briefly discuss about the subject. I looked at the deed at my own house, and its about 5 paragrahs about the Legal Description, and attached to the Deed as an Exhibit "A".

I would apprecaited, if you could point me to where I do more research about the legal descriptions.

Thank you all

 

[Otis Key]

Brad - I'm agreeing with Nancy - from now on I'm scanning the printout from the assessor's office (web based) and including it - then in the legal I'm going to say see attached. I do the same for a lot size. "Site dimensions obtained from recorded plat, Book C##, Folio ###, as available on microfische in this office." or I'll state dimensions unavailable and are approximated from other listings and/or sales in this market.

Give them more than they want and you'll stay happy in this business longer and out of court a whole bunch.

Robert Lee - check title propaganda, assessor information, real estate law books, the library, google, copernic and any other search engine you can come up with. I think the principle behind having you write about legals is to get you to understand and be able to read and determine where it's at, what it means and how to interpret the whole thing. It's all part of the whole package.

 

[Thomas N. Morgan]

I can suggest some topics to cover in your essay:

1. Legal Description -- defined. What is a legal description? Why have a legal description. What is it good for?

2. What is it about the description that makes it "legal"?

3. Who is qualified to write legal descriptions?

4. How do legal descriptions in the 13 Original Colonies differ from those in the other US states?

5. What are some of the latest, or more recent developments in surveying equipment and methods?

6. Describe the various types of legal descriptions.

7. Describe how to plot a legal description.

8. Tell about various computer programs that are used to plot legal descriptions and compute the acreage.

Is that enough for a start?

Tom

 

[Thomas N. Morgan]

Lee,

I have found the best way to start any research is to start with a good encyclopedia. There, you can get a good understanding of the subject.

 

[Otis Key]

Tom - you're really going to fry his brains now - he's going to have to think :rainfro:

You gave him too much to think about :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

The first half are legal questions - sorry - I'm not a stinking lawyer

You're too funny sometimes :allcolors: :allcolors: