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Kamienski realestate terms

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Real Property   consists of the land plus whatever is affixed to the land  
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Personal Property   anything that is not real property  
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trade fixture   a fixture that is attached to the real estate as part of of the tenant's trade or business  
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3 characteristics of real property   land is immobile, indistructible, and unique  
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Economic Characteristics of Real Property   Scarcity, Improvements, Long term investment, and Location  
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5 major property rights   Control, possession, enjoyment, disposition, and exclusion  
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Chattel   an article of personal property  
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Chattel Real   stays with the property such as a lease  
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Emblements   crops that are produced annually are personal property  
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Fixture   personal property that becomes real property  
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Severance   the process of changing from real property to personal property (cutting down a tree for firewood)  
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Annexation   the process of changing from personal property to real property( installing a wall to wall carpet)  
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3 factors for fixture determination   The intent of the parties, method of annexation, agreement of parties  
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4 rights of government to our property   eminent domain, police power, taxation, escheat  
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police power   laws that are enforced on our property such as zoning ordinaces and building codes  
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Variance   permission to build, convert, or otherwise use a parcel of property in violation of zoning ordinances  
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Local Board of Appeals   the place where variances are granted or denied  
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Building Codes   a set of standards various trades must adhere to when renovating or building property  
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A Valorem Taxation   the right of a city or town to levy and collect taxes based on the assessed value of property  
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Escheat   if a person dies without a will disposing of his property the ownership transfers to the state  
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Corporeal   tangible rights of property ownership such as improvement on or to the land  
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Incorporeal   intangible rights such as "right of way" over adjoining land  
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Estate   bundle of rights and interests that an individaul has in land  
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Freehold estate   last for an indefinate period of time, 4 types fee simple, fee simple determinable, fee simple of condition subsequent, and life estate  
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Non-freehold estate   exist for a definate period of time  
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Fee Simple   The highest form of estate possible, the owner has all the rights and the estate may be given away, sold or inherited, has no time limit  
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Fee Simple determinable   a qualified estate where a condition is attached where if violated the estate automatically reverts back to the person who created the estate or the heirs  
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Fee simple on condition subsequent   a qualified estate where if a condition is violated the prior owner has a right to reclaim the estate but the process is not automatic  
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Life estate   an estate given by the grantor (seller) to the grantee ( buyer) for life, when the buyer dies the property is passed to a third party callled the remainderman  
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Reversionary   when the grantor names himself as a remainderman in a life estate  
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Homestead   an estate that protects the occupants of the family home from personal debt  
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Concurrent estate   when 2 or more individuals hold an estate together, 3 types: Tenancy by the entirety, Joint Tenancy, or Tenancy in Common  
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Tenancy by the entirety   reserved for husbands and wives, has right of survivorship  
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Joint Tenancy   a form of ownership where 2 or more people own the same land with right of survivorship  
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Tenancy in Common   when 2 or more people have shares in the same property with no right of survivorship  
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Easement   the right one person has ( Dominant Estate) in the land of another ( servient estate)  
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Easement Appurtenant   2 peices of property, adjacent or not, ex. common driveway, the right to travel over other land is stated witht he deed  
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Easement in Gross   held by an individual or company, personal in nature and runs with the user of the land, when the user dies , so does the easement  
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Easement by necessity   created when land is sold that can only be reached by crossing abutting land owned by the seller (Owner must be granted access over the land of another)  
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Easement by prescription   established by 20 yrs of open, notorious use  
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License   use that is permitted by an owner of a peice of property for a specific purpose  
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Curtesy   the husbands right to 1/3 of the wifes estate  
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