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Selling Rural Land? Learn to Read & Write Property Legal Descriptions!
Selling Rural Land? Learn to Read and Write Property Legal Descriptions!   We work with a lot of Real Estate Agents in evaluating, finding and helping sell forestland and one of my pet peeves has always been a lack of proper training my most professionals in writing proper legal descriptions.
A proper legal description allows anybody who reads it to quickly locate the property on a map as well as on the ground.  
Our Forestry and Wildlife professionals learn to read and write legal description in college but for most of our clerical staff the first lesson they need to learn is how to read and write descriptions. 
For our clerical staff we have adapted a tutorial from the Wisconsin DNR which works very well and I think that many Real Estate professionals may enjoy this also.
 
 Tutorial on the Public Land Survey System – Reading and Writing Legal Descriptions
 1) Wisconsin Townships
 When the land was first surveyed in Wisconsin and most other states, it was divided into a grid as shown in Figure 1. Each grid cell represents approximately 36 square miles (the measurements were not always precise due to the instruments the surveyors were using, among other limitations). This grid system is ... more

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