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Real Estate Recording Checklist
 

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A Complete Legal Description should include the following information:

• The platting information (if property is platted):
  Subdivision name or Certified Survey Map number (CSM#)
  Lots and or blocks
   
• Or, if unplatted, then "metes and bounds" tied into the Public Land Survey System (e.g. Commencing 232 feet S 23º 12' 34' W of NW cor)
   
• Public Land Survey Information:
  Quarter Section or Quarter/Quarter Section (e.g. NE 1/4 or NE 1/4 NE 1/4)
  Section number (There is 36 sections in a township - e.g. Section 12)
  Town number (e.g. T 1 N) note all towns in Wisconsin are N (North)
  Range number (e.g. R 2 W , R 20 E)
   
• Municipality Name (with type: Town, Village or City)
   
• County Name