I have seen a lot of these acreage for sale signs that list acres to four decimal places. I cannot fault the realtor. Most likely he/she has a survey of the land and the four decimal place acreage was shown on the survey.
I do not have a calculator handy, so would somewone please tell me what 0.001 acres amounts to (linear) in a 7 acre boundary? Assume it's a square.
6.998 Acres for sale
Well, if the land is selling for $100,000 per acre, then the difference between 6.998 and 6.9977 acres is thirty bucks. In other words, as a practical matter, there is no cost connected with any roundoff error. Looks dumb, but no great harm done.
0.10'
7.0000 acre = 552.20' x 552.20'.
6.9977 acre = 552.10' x 552.10'.
It rounds to 0.09' if I use 3 decimal places, so how much are you worried about?
Paul in PA
I once prepared a lot spilt for an individual.
The calc acreage of the new lot was 1.4999 acres, so I rounded to 1.50 ac. (County minimum is "1.50 acres".)
Health dept rejected it. They had a handy-dandy cogo program and called me on my "acrege mistake"
I played along and "revised" the survey. I had to widen the lot by 0.01'......
Yes, I "reset" the pins.... 😉
I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you...
I would have saved paint and used 7±
Rarely do I state acreage down past 3 decimal places. Mostly as 2 decimal places in the rural areas I survey.
When making partitions and division of property, it is sometimes necessary to state 4 decimal places so that 9 equal tracts will add up to an original area I previously stated.
About 25yrs ago I had a well known public servant of a client that had been approached by another surveyor stating that my work was inferior to his and tried to prove it by saying that he keeps coming up with a different acreage than I do. His was to more decimal places. I told my client that I would pay any difference out of my pocket that he felt that he had lost. I gave him a quarter and said that included triple damages. He berated the other surveyor and never contracted with him for services.
Kent
I saw a car in the grocery store parking lot with a lady's name on the back window and the words "20 years experience in Tupperware"
LOL
20 years experience in Tupperware
> I saw a car in the grocery store parking lot with a lady's name on the back window and the words "20 years experience in Tupperware"
LOL! I couldn't handle more than ten minutes of it. :>
What idiots.
Now that's funny!
I told my client that I would pay any difference out of my pocket that he felt that he had lost. I gave him a quarter and said that included triple damages
Now that's Funny!!:party: