Good luck with it.

Cheers.

TomW

The Truth is the Truth, even if no one believes it; and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it

Don't they teach recreational mathematics anymore...?

A surveyors rod is 16.5 feet.  A surveyors chain is four rods, or 66 feet.  This was a handy number because the average fence rail was once 11 feet, so there were six rails in a chain for rough calculations.  

One square chain is 66'x 66'= 4356 square feet.  An acre is ten square chains, or 43560 square feet.

The average of your front and back is 243'.  The average of your sides is 745'.  Multiply the two to get 181,300 square feet, roughly.  Divide this by 43560 and you get 4.16 acres.

I'd say your realtor is streatching the truth, and the size of the parcel.  The more uneven the corner angles (and my calculation method assumes they're fairly even), the less land there is, so there could well be under four acres if the side lines are not roughly 90° from the frontage road.

Go to the city and county offices, and ask how many trees you can cut down, and ask to see the statute or codes.

Tell them you also want to know how much it is for a permit to erect two 100-foot  tall towers for wind-generators and see what they say.

If they don't care, quickly knock over the trees that are blocking the best sun and wind spot (you can plant more somewhere else) and put up at least one tower so you will be "grandfathered in" when the community fascists take over.

Once in the Southern California brushfire country (reading from the newspaper), the fire marshall told residents to clear the brush away from 100' around their house, then the federal fur-and-fin people came around and told them that it is an expensive fine if they disturbed the fragile environment of the SoCal "Stevens" kangaroo rat. (apparently slightly different from the regular kangaroo rat).