Sell that house
Personal? Real?
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It's all in the deal
Wordy for Property
100

This is the meaning of the acronym “DOM”. They can paint a picture of what’s taking place in the real estate market along with individual properties.

What is days on market?

100

The type of property often referred to as “realty” or “real estate”. It is both the land itself and anything attached to the land.

What is real property?

100

The name of the owner’s right to use the airspace above the property (within limitations of the law).

What is air rights?

100

If a lease terminates before a crop is mature, the tenant can re-enter the land to harvest this number of crop that matures after the tenancy terminates.

What is the first (one)?

100

In a Government survey, each township is 6 by 6 miles. Each section is 1 by 1 mile and assigned a number within this range.

What is 1-36?

200

These are the two most cost-effective ways to make the house feels newer.

What is paint touch ups and light fixture replacements?

200

The type of property that is usually movable and anything that is not land or attached to the land. Sometimes it is referred to as “chattels”.

What is personal property?

200

If aircraft sounds were disturbing your cows and drastically reducing the milk production, prove to these people that your property value has diminished and they could order compensation for financial loss.

What is the court/judge?

200

If it is not affixed, a real estate license is not required to sell this type of home. These homes can be removed from real property and sold as personal property (and a new owner may restore the title or remain realty). The owners of these homes must pay annual property taxes.

What is a mobile home?

200

A rectangular parcel of land, starting from the point of beginning, measures 180 feet north, then 90 feet east, then 180 feet south. This is the length and direction of the last side.

What is 90 feet west?

300

When pricing a home, these are some variables to consider.

What are Zillow/Redfin estimate, nearby sold/pending homes, views, access to necessities (like a highway), curve appeal, and esthetics.

300

The act of a property owner selling the rights to possess and use the property.

What is leasing?

300

With a non-navigable body of water, the owner owns a portion of water adjacent to the property. With a navigable body of water, the owner owns land only to this point.

What is the high water mark (the level reached at the highest tide)? the [land below the high water mark is public]

300

These are man-made attachments that become part of the real property (this includes houses, fences etc). In a real estate transaction, these will pass to the buyer by deed.

What are fixtures?

300

In a government survey, the principal meridian runs in these cardinal directions.

What is north-south?

400

In order to not waste any DOM, it is usually better to go live on one of these two days.

What is Thursday or Friday?

400

In addition to the land itself, a landowner’s property also includes these two spaces.

What is airspace and underground?

400

These types of minerals are governed by the rule of capture, meaning any mineral of this kind produced from well on the property is personal property.

What is a non-solid mineral (natural and oil gas)?

400

This method test to determine whether a fixture is real or personal property holds the most importance. It looks at the original objective of the person who installed it (whether they were trying to make a permanent change to the structure or not).

What is the intention test?

400

This is the oldest method of precisely identifying and describing a piece of land. It describes the parcel of land in terms of boundary lines.

What is metes and bounds?

500

Typically, a buyer and selling agent get this percentage of the proceeds as a commission.

What is ~ 3%? (In WA state, the average buyer's agent commission is 2.63% and the average listing commission is 2.67%.)

500

This is the term for an individual's rights as a real property owner. These include the right to possess, use, enjoy, encumber, will, sell, or do nothing.

    What is the Bundle of Rights?

500

The name of something that goes with or pertains to ownership of a piece of real property (but isn’t a physical part of the property). For example, this includes minerals in the ground, sunlight, and an unobstructed view.

What is appurtenances?

500

This is the special legal rule for crops. This applies when agricultural land is leased to a tenant.

What is the doctrine of emblements?

500

A developer building on a tract of vacant land within city limits would be most likely to describe his individual lots with this method because the land has already been subdivided.

What is the lot and block method?