BARNEY FLETCHER REAL ESTATE
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉What year was the Government Survey Method officially adopted? .
Answer: 1785
◉What kind of parcels is the government survey method best used for? .
Answer: Large parcels
◉Standard Parallels (AKA) . Answer: E-W Lines (base lines)
◉How many acres is 1 section? . Answer: 640
◉how many sq. ft. is in 1 mile? . Answer: 43,560 Sq Ft
◉6 miles x 6 miles (6 miles square, 36 square miles) . Answer:
Township
◉Section . Answer: each square mile of a township (640 acres)
,◉Difference between real estate and real property . Answer:
◉appurtenances . Answer: attached to the land
◉Easement . Answer: The right to use the land of another for a
particular purpose. (Driveway, etc.)
◉Fixtures . Answer: Once personal, now permanent to the property.
◉Metes . Answer: Length in feet, yards, miles
◉bounds . Answer: Angles, monuments, landmarks
◉what is a lot and a block . Answer: lot: 1 individual, entire parcel of
land
Block: group of lots
◉Plat . Answer: map of lots in a parcel of land, kept in clerk's office.
◉What must be included in the legal description using recorded plat
method . Answer: lot & block #, tract name, map book reference, county
and state
,◉riparian rights . Answer: An owner's rights in land that borders on or
includes a stream, river, or lake. These rights include access to and use
of the water.
◉What is littoral land? . Answer: Land that borders a pooled or standing
body of water.
◉What types of bodies of water can littoral land border? . Answer:
Lakes, oceans, or seas.
◉Example of the usage of the right to encumber . Answer: mortgage
◉What is Real Estate? . Answer: Physical land and permanent, man-
made improvements on the land, such as buildings, sidewalks, and
ponds.
◉What does Real Property include? . Answer: Land, improvements, and
certain legal rights of ownership, known as the bundle of rights.
◉What are the components of Real Property? . Answer: Surface rights,
air rights, mineral rights, improvements, fixtures, fructus naturales,
water rights, appurtenances, easements, and ownership rights.
, ◉What are the rights included in the bundle of rights? . Answer: Right
to possess, control, enjoy, exclude others, encumber, and dispose of the
property.
◉What are air rights? . Answer: The legal right to control, occupy, and
use airspace above a parcel of real estate, which can be sold or leased.
◉What do subsurface rights refer to? . Answer: The right to explore,
drill, or dig below the surface for minerals and water.
◉What are improvements in real estate? . Answer: Additions made to
property intended to enhance its value, requiring a reasonable
relationship with the property.
◉What are fixtures? . Answer: Articles that were once personal property
but have been affixed to real estate to become real property.
◉What happens to fixtures when property is sold? . Answer: Fixtures
pass with the property unless there is an agreement stating otherwise.
◉What is severance in real estate? . Answer: The act of removing
something attached to land, converting it from real property to personal
property.
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉What year was the Government Survey Method officially adopted? .
Answer: 1785
◉What kind of parcels is the government survey method best used for? .
Answer: Large parcels
◉Standard Parallels (AKA) . Answer: E-W Lines (base lines)
◉How many acres is 1 section? . Answer: 640
◉how many sq. ft. is in 1 mile? . Answer: 43,560 Sq Ft
◉6 miles x 6 miles (6 miles square, 36 square miles) . Answer:
Township
◉Section . Answer: each square mile of a township (640 acres)
,◉Difference between real estate and real property . Answer:
◉appurtenances . Answer: attached to the land
◉Easement . Answer: The right to use the land of another for a
particular purpose. (Driveway, etc.)
◉Fixtures . Answer: Once personal, now permanent to the property.
◉Metes . Answer: Length in feet, yards, miles
◉bounds . Answer: Angles, monuments, landmarks
◉what is a lot and a block . Answer: lot: 1 individual, entire parcel of
land
Block: group of lots
◉Plat . Answer: map of lots in a parcel of land, kept in clerk's office.
◉What must be included in the legal description using recorded plat
method . Answer: lot & block #, tract name, map book reference, county
and state
,◉riparian rights . Answer: An owner's rights in land that borders on or
includes a stream, river, or lake. These rights include access to and use
of the water.
◉What is littoral land? . Answer: Land that borders a pooled or standing
body of water.
◉What types of bodies of water can littoral land border? . Answer:
Lakes, oceans, or seas.
◉Example of the usage of the right to encumber . Answer: mortgage
◉What is Real Estate? . Answer: Physical land and permanent, man-
made improvements on the land, such as buildings, sidewalks, and
ponds.
◉What does Real Property include? . Answer: Land, improvements, and
certain legal rights of ownership, known as the bundle of rights.
◉What are the components of Real Property? . Answer: Surface rights,
air rights, mineral rights, improvements, fixtures, fructus naturales,
water rights, appurtenances, easements, and ownership rights.
, ◉What are the rights included in the bundle of rights? . Answer: Right
to possess, control, enjoy, exclude others, encumber, and dispose of the
property.
◉What are air rights? . Answer: The legal right to control, occupy, and
use airspace above a parcel of real estate, which can be sold or leased.
◉What do subsurface rights refer to? . Answer: The right to explore,
drill, or dig below the surface for minerals and water.
◉What are improvements in real estate? . Answer: Additions made to
property intended to enhance its value, requiring a reasonable
relationship with the property.
◉What are fixtures? . Answer: Articles that were once personal property
but have been affixed to real estate to become real property.
◉What happens to fixtures when property is sold? . Answer: Fixtures
pass with the property unless there is an agreement stating otherwise.
◉What is severance in real estate? . Answer: The act of removing
something attached to land, converting it from real property to personal
property.
