EXCEL-lent Response
The Haunted Dreams of a Title Rep
DocuSign Your Life Away
Death and Taxes
Fairfield on the Hill
100

This browser-based Google software rivals Microsoft Excel as the most commonly used spreadsheet software in the world

What is Google Sheets?

100

This phrase within the Preliminary Title Report, often referred to as "Exhibit A", contains this most descriptive explanation of the subject property

What is the property legal description?

100

For documents you regularly send out for signature, Docusign will allow you to upload and pre-format these reusable documents

What are templates?

100

Each year, this day marks the end of the Kern County Tax Collectors fiscal year

What is June 30?

100

From Bakersfield, you would travel east on this freeway for about 30 minutes before reaching the City of Tehachapi.

What is the 58 freeway?

200

In Excel, individual rows are designated by numbers and columns are designated by these along the top of the sheet

What are letters?

200

This type of encumbrance commonly found on a Prelim indicates the existence of an established right to trespass upon the subject property for a particular purpose

What is an easement?

200

Change this setting in DocuSign and you control who signs first

What is Signing Order?

200

This is the unique number that the County assigns to every parcel within the county for property taxing purposes.

What is an APN or Assessors Parcel Number?

200

Although the City of Tehachapi does have its own building and planning department, the actual city limits encompass such a small area that the vast amount of construction projects in the Tehachapi area are handled by this municipality's building and planning department

What is Kern County Building and Planning?

300

This will be the result of the Excel function, =Round(32.44,0)

What is 32?

300

More commonly known as "the lender," this alias is used in a Deed of Trust to refer to the party who lends the money.

What is a beneficiary?

300

A Borrower signature on this document gives permission to the Lender to verify personal information about the Borrower.

What is the Borrower's Authorization form?

300

This vesting type, allows the surviving partners to assume a deceased partner's ownership interest in a property without going through probate

What is Joint Tenants or Joint Tenancy?

300

In November 2018, Adventist Health opened a 25-bed facility to become the area's first one of these

What is a Hospital?

400

This type of cell formatting allows you to change the color of the cell based upon the contents of the cell; for example, if the number in the cell is greater than 1000, it will automatically change the cell color to green

What is Conditional Formatting?

400

This deed type is used to convey ownership of a property to the highest bidder after a foreclosure sale

What is a Trustee's Deed?

400

Loan Underwriters often ask for one of these from Borrower to describe Borrower circumstances that are unclear in the loan file.

What is a LOE or Letter of Explanation

400

Every real estate investor should appreciate this tax benefit that allows the investor to write off this phantom expense each year, over 27.5 years for residential real estate or 39 years for commercial real estate

What is depreciation?

400

The City of Tehachapi and surrounding communities are eligible for this very affordable, zero-down, loan type specifically designed to boost home ownership in rural locations

What is a USDA loan?

500

This Excel function is used to determine the monthly payment based on rate, number of periods and principal balance

What is PMT or =PMT()?

500

This vesting will be used for an individual female owner instead of "An Unmarried Woman" if she has never been married before.

What is "a Single Woman"?

500

This document which cannot be DocuSigned, and must be notarized, is recorded to show evidence of a loan against a property

What is a Deed of Trust?

500

This is the IRS form number used to file an LLC's annual tax return

What is 1065?

500

It was easier to get into East Germany during the Cold war than it is to get past the guard shack at this private gated community located just west of the city of Tehachapi.

What is Bear Valley Springs?