This article won't make you an expert overnight, but I think you'll see how it's a helpful introduction that offers some clarity to a fairly confusing subject. Side Note: Some legal descriptions are VERY complicated and require an experienced eye to fully ‘decode' the information. Since this book nailed it with such precision, I invited the author to share this segment of his book right here on the REtipster Blog. However, earlier this year I stumbled across this book and noticed a section that gave a great primer on the subject. They just copy and paste it from one document to another, with no appreciation for what it means, why it's important, and why accuracy is crucial.įor a long time now, I've intended to write a detailed blog post explaining the basics of how legal descriptions work and why they're important. This is why legal descriptions are required on every deed, and why land surveyors need this information in order to do their job.Įven with the inherent importance of a property's legal description, I've found that most real estate investors have no idea how to comprehend or interpret this bizarre string of letters and numbers. The legal description (and in some cases, the municipal plat maps it references) allow us to determine the size, shape, boundaries, and location of a parcel. It's more authoritative than the address and the parcel number, and if this information is stated incorrectly on a deed, the wrong piece of real estate will be transferred.
To put it simply, a property's legal description is the definition of the real estate being bought and sold. One of the most critical (and confusing) pieces of information that goes into a land transaction is the legal description.
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