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Property Descriptions
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C902 |
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Course Title: |
Property Descriptions |
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Course Level: |
Advanced |
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Course Length: |
1 day, 8 AM to 5 PM |
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IRWA Credits: |
8 QEU / CEU |
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Required Materials: |
- Mechanical pencil
- Hand-held calculator
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Prerequisites: |
It is highly recommended that participants successfully complete IRWA Course 900, “Principles of Real Estate Engineering”, or have 2 years of right of way engineering experience and have familiarity with use of an engineering scale, protractor and hand-held calculator, prior to attending this class. |
Course Description
This course provides participants with a working knowledge of plotting and interpreting property descriptions.
The course has been designed to provide “hands-on” experience in working with property descriptions.
Topics
- Requirements of a valid description
- Use of the rectangular grid system
- When and how to use the point and centerline method
- Sources of uncertainties
- Subdivision descriptions
- Metes and bounds descriptions
Course Tuition includes
- Participant’s Manual
- Engineering tools (engineering scale, protractor and straight edge)
Who should take this course
This course is an engineering course for non-engineers who are called upon to write or interpret property descriptions.
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