FRESA Florida Real Estate Sales Associate Exam - Set 3 - Part 3

Test your knowledge of technical writing concepts with these practice questions. Each question includes detailed explanations to help you understand the correct answers.

Question 41: A licensee in Ocala reviews a recorded subdivision plat before writing an offer and wants to know what information that document supplies beyond the outline of the individual lots being sold to buyers. What does the plat supply?

Streets, easements, and lot dimensions

Current owner names and mortgage balances

Assessed values for each parcel

Zoning classifications for the county

Question 42: A buyer in Ocala is told that the parcel she is considering consists of the northwest quarter of a section within the rectangular survey system. How large is that parcel compared with the full section it sits inside?

One-eighth of the section

One-quarter of the section

One-half of the section

One-sixteenth of the section

Question 43: A licensee in Ocala is comparing methods of legal description and notes that one system covers most of the country but never took hold in the original colonies or a few other states along the Atlantic seaboard. Which system is that?

Metes and bounds

Lot and block

The rectangular survey system

Air lot description

Question 44: A surveyor in Ocala is preparing a description that must state the direction each boundary line runs, expressed as an angle measured from north or south toward east or west. What are those directional statements called in the description?

Datums

Monuments

Ranges

Bearings

Question 45: A closing agent in Ocala explains that a deed must describe the property well enough that a competent surveyor could locate it on the ground without reference to anything outside the description itself. What is the reason for that requirement?

To satisfy the county tax collector

To establish the property's market value

To identify the property unambiguously

To determine the zoning classification

Question 46: A surveyor in Ocala performs a limited survey to locate the improvements on a lot and confirm that the house and fence sit within the boundaries, without setting new corner markers or preparing a full boundary survey. What has she performed?

A spot survey

A metes description

A plat dedication

A datum reference

Question 47: A licensee in Ocala reads a description naming the south half of the northeast quarter of a section. Her client asks how the two fractional terms interact when someone tries to locate that tract on the ground. How do the terms interact?

The two halves are added together

Only the first term matters

The terms describe separate parcels

Read backward, each term narrows it

Question 48: A licensee in Ocala is describing a townhouse unit and must reference elevations above a fixed reference plane so the vertical limits are clear, since neighbors own the space directly above and below. What is that reference plane called?

A datum

A bearing

A range

A monument

Question 49: A gas station in Ocala has operated at the same corner for decades, and the city later rezones the entire block for residential use only. What happens to the gas station business the owner has run at that corner all along?

She must close within thirty days

She must apply for a variance immediately

She must rezone the parcel herself

She may continue as nonconforming

Question 50: A city planner in Ocala refers to the state framework requiring local governments to guide and manage future development through adopted plans, and she names the act by its statutory short title for the council members. Which act is it?

The Growth Restriction Act

The Community Planning Act

The Land Development Code

The Local Zoning Authority Act

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