Verified 100% Correct
The typical life cycle of a neighborhood can be extended or shortened by changes in? -
ANSWER Economic factors
What are the elements of supply? - ANSWER Cost of production, Price of other goods,
Entrepreneur expectations, and number of sellers.
The underlying principle for the three approaches to value is? - ANSWER Substitution
What tool can help discover taxable properties? - ANSWER Adequate mapping system
/ Cadastral maps / GIS maps
What is the formula for the tax rate? - ANSWER Budget - Other Revenue / Assessed
Value
What is Real Estate? - ANSWER Land and improvements permanently affixed to land.
What is Real Property? - ANSWER Interests, benefits, and rights inherent in the
ownership of land and anything permanently attached to the land or legally defined
immovable. Also, the sum of tangible and intangible rights in land and improvements.
What is value in use? - ANSWER The value of a property for a specific use.
What is value in exchange? - ANSWER The amount an informed buyer would offer in
exchange for a property under given market conditions.
Cost, price, and value are not always synonymous. Why? - ANSWER Buyers and
sellers influence relationship between price and value.
What principle is the basis for every approach to value? - ANSWER Substitution
What are the six characteristics for parcel ID system? - ANSWER Uniqueness,
Permanence, Simplicity, Ease of Maintenance, Flexibility, Reference to geographic
location.
How many sections in a township? - ANSWER 36
How many acres in a township? - ANSWER 640
What are the 5 attributes of land? - ANSWER Land is permanent, unique in location and
composition, land has finite supply, land is functional, land is stationary.
, What is the primary sort with land sales? - ANSWER Land sales are first sorted by
market area
What is the preferred method to value land? - ANSWER Direct sales comparison
approach
Know how to order adjustments. What is the order? - ANSWER 1. Financing 2. Market
Conditions 3. Location and physical characteristics
What is the percentage for 1 : 3? - ANSWER 1 + 3 = 4 and 1/4 = .25 or 25%
What is assemblage? - ANSWER Merging of adjacent properties into one common
ownership.
What is plottage? - ANSWER The increment value created when two or more sites are
combined to produce greater utility.
What are the units of comparison for land? - ANSWER Front foot, square foot, acre,
site, and units buildable
What are the order of adjustments in a sales comparison approach? - ANSWER
Financing, Market Conditions (time adjustment), Location, and Physical characteristics.
What are the six methods for valuing land? - ANSWER Sales comparison, allocation,
abstraction, anticipated use, land residual, and ground rent capitalization.
What are the elements of cost? - ANSWER direct, indirect, entrepreneur profit and
incentive
What are the concepts of estimating cost? - ANSWER Replacement, Reproduction,
Historical, Trended.
What are the 4 methods of estimating cost? - ANSWER Quantity Survey Method, Unit in
Place, and Comparative Unit Method?
What method of the cost approach is most widely used by mass appraisers? -
ANSWER Comparative Unit Method
What is depreciation? - ANSWER It is the difference between RCN and its market
value.
What is the most common method for measuring depreciation? - ANSWER Sales
comparison method