Practical Methods for Appraising Lands, Buildings and Improvements

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Page 12 - To find the area of a circle, multiply the square of the diameter by .7854.
Page 11 - From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and the square root of the product will be the area required.
Page 108 - South. 702, whether a house and lot constitute a homestead "depends upon the character of the building, and the uses to which It Is adapted and to which It was devoted"; and we there declared (following the case of Laughlin v. Wright, 63 Cal. 113, and other authorities) that "the owner of an hotel, erected for and adapted to the purposes of public entertainment, would not have homestead therein, though he resided there with his...
Page 101 - Cheap frame houses, shingle roof, can be bwilt without improvements, for $250 per room. With improvements, from $400 per room up. Dormers cost from $2.50 to $3 per square foot of their front area, thus, 5 ft. wide by 6 feet average height, would cost $90. Tin roofs are worth from 6c. per square foot, up to toe.

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