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by: Jeanine W. Johnson

$99.00 Special offer – comes with FREE companion CD

Understand legal descriptions with this easy to use 100 page workbook. The book comes with a companion CD that takes you through each step of reading and drawing a legal description from the easy to the complex. If you like puzzles, you’ll love this!

This Hands-on Workbook (100 pages) covers:
The Public Land Survey System
Base Lines, Principle Meridians, Correction Lines Sections, Townships, RangesCorrectly dividing Aliquot portions of a Section ( ¼’s)Estimating acreage and identifying problems with acreage descriptions gaps and overlapsGovernment Lots and land descriptions adjacent to water

Running Metes and Bounds Descriptions
Types of Monuments, Points of Beginning, running calls Deflection Angles, calls to the right and leftAzimuths in a descriptionWorking with Compass Bearings – Degrees, Minutes and SecondsLines, Tangent and Non-Tangent Curves in a description
Working with Subdivided Lands
Plats, Re-plats, SurveysCommon Interest Communities – Condominiums, Townhouses, Co-operativesHow to correctly re-subdivide already platted lots

After completing this workbook, participants should be able to:
Construct a legal description using the metes-and-bounds method
Explain the role of POB, monuments, and directions in metes-and-bounds descriptions.
Explain the process of creating a legal description using the rectangular survey method or acreage description
Describe the various monuments and lines in the rectangular survey
Divide sections and determine acreage
Explain the process of creating a legal description by platting
Describe how benchmarks and datum are used in measuring elevations
Define and use various units of measurement
Accurately locate and/or draw complex legal descriptions

Cost: $99.00
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My most recently published national textbook, is published by Dearborn Real Estate Education, Chicago, IL and is available online at: Here