Property Descriptions

Course Number: C902

Course Title:

Property Descriptions

Course Level:

Advanced

Course Length:

1 day, 8 AM to 5 PM

IRWA Credits:

8 QEU / CEU

Required Materials:

  • Mechanical pencil
  • Hand-held calculator

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.