I once bought a house. It was advertised as sitting on "an acre plus". When we started doing the paperwork we noticed it was written as .85 acres. But the tax

I once bought a house. It was advertised as sitting on "an acre plus". When we started doing the paperwork we noticed it was written as .85 acres. But the tax map was broken up into two parcels, one of which was clearly about 1/4 as large as the other. They were both marked as about 40% of an acre. Everyone involved in the deal, including my spouse at the time, was upset when I said that we had to go walk the property and figure this out. Apparently nobody gave a crap about half an acre here or there, even though this represented about half of the property under discussion. I finally got my way. The real estate broker took one of those DaVinci wheels and, in his fancy loafers, in the pouring rain, walked the wheel through tick infested woods until he had surveyed the entire property. It was .51 acres