Real Estate License Exams
(REAL-ESTATE.AE1)/ISBN:978-1-64459-520-6
This course includes
Lessons
TestPrep
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21+ Lessons | 400+ Exercises | 159+ Quizzes | 424+ Flashcards | 424+ Glossary of terms
TestPrep
4+ Full Length Tests | 400+ Practice Test Questions
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Here's what you will learn
Download Course OutlineLessons 1: Introduction
- About This Course
- Icons Used in This Course
- Where to Go from Here
Lessons 2: Sold! Taking a Glance at Real Estate License Exams
- Checking Out Licensing and Exam Basics
- Sign Me Up: Registering for the Exam
- Knowing What to Take to the Exam … and What to Leave at Home
- Scoring High: Figuring Out How Scores Are Determined
- Take Two: Retaking the Exam
Lessons 3: Using Successful Study and Test-Taking Techniques
- One Word to Get You Through: PREPARE
- Trying Terrific Test-Taking Strategies
Lessons 4: The Job: It Isn’t Just Driving People Around
- Recognizing Those in the Real Estate Business and How They Got There
- Knowing What a Real Estate Broker/Salesperson Does
- Understanding How a Real Estate Broker/Salesperson Gets Paid
- Working Hard: Career Opportunities
- Property Management: A Special Kind of Career Opportunity
- Managing a Real Estate Office: You’re the Boss, Ms. or Mr. Broker
- Working As an Independent Contractor
- Focusing on Job-Related Laws That You Need to Understand
Lessons 5: Understanding Agency Law
- Becoming Someone’s Real Estate Agent: You’re Hired
- Keeping the Faith: The Relationship between an Agent and a Principal
- Meeting Obligations: The Relationship Between an Agent and a Customer
- Making Money (No, Not at the Copy Machine)
- Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Ending an Agency Relationship
Lessons 6: Knowing the Fair Housing Laws for Selling Real Estate
- Practicing Fair Housing: The Basics
- Don’t Do It: Avoiding Discriminatory Actions
- Feeling Safe: Identifying Who’s Protected
- Bending the Rules: Understanding Exceptions to the Law
- Extra Coverage: Protecting the Disabled from Discrimination
- Staying Strong: Enforcing the Law
Lessons 7: Owning It: Estates and Interests
- What Do You Own? Understanding Ownership Terms
- Estates (Even Without the Castles)
- Eyeing Different Ownership Rights
Lessons 8: Understanding Forms of Real Estate Ownership
- Real Estate Ownership: A Solo or Group Activity
- Special Types of Ownership: Cooperatives, Condominiums, and More
Lessons 9: Knowing the Limitations on Real Estate Ownership
- Carrying a Not-So-Heavy Encumbrance: Private Limitations on Property Use
- Land-Use Regulation: A Major Public Limitation
- The Government Has Its Say: Other Public Limitations on Property Use
Lessons 10: Transferring Ownership: Deeds and Title Closing
- Doing the Deed: Delving into Deed Basics
- Getting Closure: Title Closing
Lessons 11: Giving Up or Losing Property
- Fine by Me: Giving Up Property Voluntarily
- By Force: Losing Property Involuntarily
- Losing Property Very Involuntarily: Passing Title After Passing Away
Lessons 12: Contracts 101
- Agreeing to Do Something: The Basics of Making a Contract
- So Many Choices: Examining Types of Real Estate Contracts
- The End of the Line: Discharging a Contract
- Breaching a Real Estate Contract
Lessons 13: Leasing Property
- Identifying Who’s Who and What’s What
- The Usual Suspects: Preparing a Typical Lease
- Distinguishing among Various Types of Leases
- Breaking a Lease: Types of Eviction
- Getting What You Paid For
Lessons 14: Dealing with Environmental Government Regulations and Issues
- Deciphering the Federal Government Alphabet Soup
- Assessing the Environmental Effects of Building Developments
- This Stuff Can Make You Sick: Examining Environmental Pollutants and Situations
- Go with the Flow: Water and Waste Issues
Lessons 15: Appraising Property
- Figuring Out Appraisal Basics
- Understanding the Importance of Location!
- Arriving at Different Types of Value
- Creating, Changing, and Affecting Values: Some Economic Factors
- Finding Value by Analyzing Comparable Sales
- Finding Value by Analyzing Replacement Cost and Depreciation
- Finding Value by Analyzing a Property’s Income
- Reconciling a Property’s Value
Lessons 16: Finding the Money: Mortgages
- The Way Things Work: Mortgage Basics
- Examining Sources of (and Insurance for) Funding
- Considerations for Lenders Accepting Mortgages
- Grasping the Different Types of Mortgages
- Comprehending Mortgage Repayment Plans
- Endings You Didn’t Anticipate: Foreclosures, Assumptions, and Assignments
- Being Fair: Consumer Protection Laws
Lessons 17: It’s So Taxing: Real Estate Assessment and Taxes
- Who Wants Your Money, and What Do They Want with It? Collecting Taxes
- Recognizing What’s So Special about Assessments
- Go Figure! Calculating Taxes Step by Step
- Home Free (Sort of): Eyeing Property Tax Exemptions
- That’s Not Right: Protesting Assessments
- Pay or Lose: Tax Liens and Sales
Lessons 18: Investing in Real Estate
- Focusing on Property Investment
- Partnering Up: Real Estate Investment Organization Structures
- Spending Spree: Acquiring and Building Investments
- Making Money by Investing in Real Estate
- Getting Uncle Sam’s Help: The Government’s Role in Investing
- By the Numbers: Analyzing Investment Properties
Lessons 19: All in the Numbers: Real Estate Mathematics
- Don’t Lose the Faith, but You May Have to Convert
- Land and Buildings: Measuring Area and Volume
- Percentages: Pinpointing What You Really Need to Know
- Commissions: Tracking Your Moolah
- Making Mortgage Calculations without a Fancy Calculator
- Oh, the Pain: Calculating Taxes
- Putting Proration into Perspective
- Appreciating Appreciation and Depreciation
- Estimating Appraised Value
Lessons 20: Ten Things to Find Out from Your State’s Real Estate Law
- Agency Law
- Fair Housing
- License Law
- Limitations on Land Use
- Money Stuff
- Ownership Rights, Forms, and Theories
- Property Disclosure
- Tenants’ Rights and Rent Control
- Transferring Ownership Involuntarily
- Transferring Ownership Voluntarily
Lessons 21: Ten Tips to Help You Succeed on the Exam
- Taking the Exam as Soon as You Can
- Knowing the Rules (and Following Them)
- Studying Your State License Law
- Remembering Important Vocabulary
- Focusing on Key Concepts
- Eating Something
- Staying Cool, Calm, and Collected
- Paying Attention (without Overthinking)
- Going with Your Initial Instinct
- Finishing the Job