Posts Tagged ‘legal description’
Legal Description Of Property Should Be Confirmed By Survey
Question: In a recent column, you discussed problems after a survey showed that a Cave Creek homeowner’s east wall and west wall were both three feet off the property line in a subdivision. Regarding the west wall built three feet away from the property line, the homeowner did not want to pay for the cost to…
Read MoreSpecific Legal Description Not Required in Purchase Contract
Question: We have a small commercial brokerage firm in Phoenix. Common brokerage practice in most commercial brokerage firms is not to state a legal description in the purchase contract. Instead, the address and the parcel number are specified, and an exhibit to the purchase contract says “legal description to be inserted by title company.” The…
Read MoreError in Legal Description Requires Re-Recording of Deed
Question: The plat map for our Apache Junction subdivision shows that our home is on Lot 6. In applying for a permit to build a swimming pool six years after we purchased our home, we learned that the legal description on our deed says that our home is on Lot 16. Our seller was an…
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