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1 Online-Ressource (498 Seiten)
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5th ed
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9781394204120
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond This Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Putting Real Estate License Exams into Perspective -- Chapter 1 Sold! Taking a Glance at Real Estate License Exams -- Checking Out Licensing and Exam Basics -- Figuring out licensing procedures -- Knowing the difference between salesperson and broker licensing and exams -- Looking at the format and other exam details -- 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 -- Chapter 2 Using Successful Study and Test-Taking Techniques -- One Word to Get You Through: PREPARE -- Provide -- Review -- Vocabulary and terms -- State license law -- State-specific items -- Evaluate -- Practice -- Arrive -- Relax -- Enjoy -- Trying Terrific Test-Taking Strategies -- It's all in the timing -- Reading everything carefully -- Avoiding too much analyzing -- Guessing -- Second-guessing -- Number crunching: Tackling math questions -- Part 2 So You Want to Sell Real Estate: The Job and Basic Laws -- Chapter 3 The Job: It Isn't Just Driving People Around -- Recognizing Those in the Real Estate Business and How They Got There -- The buck stops here: Brokers -- Movin' on up: Salespeople -- In between: Associate brokers -- Making it legal: Looking at license law -- Knowing What a Real Estate Broker/ Salesperson Does -- Perusing a list of common activities -- Checking out a typical real estate transaction -- In the beginning, there was a house to sell -- Eureka, a buyer! -- All's well that closes well -- Understanding How a Real Estate Broker/ Salesperson Gets Paid -- Working Hard: Career Opportunities
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Considering independent brokerages and national franchises -- Checking out corporations (in and out of the real estate world) -- Building business with builders -- Going into government -- Appreciating appraising -- Homing in on home inspections -- Property Management: A Special Kind of Career Opportunity -- Taking care of business: The duties of a property manager -- Financial responsibilities -- Physical responsibilities -- Rental responsibilities -- Insurance responsibilities -- Saying yes: The property management agreement -- Managing a Real Estate Office: You're the Boss -- Keeping an eye out: Supervision -- Teach me! Training -- Setting office policy: Rules are rules -- Working As an Independent Contractor -- Focusing on Job-Related Laws That You Need to Understand -- The price isn't right: Price fixing -- Bad break: Market allocation -- Feeling shunned: Group boycotts -- What's your condition? Tie-in arrangements -- Review Exam Questions -- Answers and Explanations -- Practice to Reinforce These Concepts -- Chapter 4 Understanding Agency Law -- Becoming Someone's Real Estate Agent: You're Hired -- Picking sides: Representation in agency relationships -- Getting to know you: Agents, principals, and customers -- One or the other: Single agency with sellers or buyers -- A neat trick: Representing both sides in dual agency -- The man (or woman) in the middle: Transactional brokerage -- Letting everyone know: Agency disclosure requirements -- Establishing the agency relationship (and doing it in writing) -- Looking at listing agreements -- Examining buyer agency agreements -- Keeping the Faith: The Relationship between an Agent and a Principal -- Who has the money? Accounting -- Better be careful: Care -- Shhhhh! It's a secret: Confidentiality -- You'd better tell: Disclosure -- A friend to the end: Loyalty -- Yes ma'am: Obedience
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Meeting Obligations: The Relationship between an Agent and a Customer -- Discovering defects -- Looking at stigmatized properties -- Respecting Megan's Law -- Finding out about fraud and negligent misrepresentation -- Making Money (No, Not at the Copy Machine) -- Pay up! Deciding who needs to pay an agent -- Ready to go: Knowing when an agent should be paid -- Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Ending an Agency Relationship -- Review Exam Questions -- Answers and Explanations -- Practice to Reinforce These Concepts -- Chapter 5 Knowing the Fair Housing Laws for Selling Real Estate -- Practicing Fair Housing: The Basics -- Understanding federal fair housing laws -- The 1866 Civil Rights Act -- The 1968 Fair Housing Act -- Researching state and local laws -- Displaying the fair housing poster -- Don't Do It: Avoiding Discriminatory Actions -- No way: Refusing to sell or rent -- On one condition . . . or a few: Changing terms for rental, sale, or services -- You need not apply: Discriminatory advertising -- All lies: Telling someone that property isn't available (when it really is) -- Scaring people into selling: Blockbusting -- Telling people where to live: Steering -- No money for you: Changing loan conditions -- Put away that crayon: Redlining -- You can't join: Denying membership in real estate organizations -- Feeling Safe: Identifying Who's Protected -- Knowing the federal protected classes -- Recognizing state and local protected classes -- Bending the Rules: Understanding Exceptions to the Law -- Extra Coverage: Protecting the Disabled from Discrimination -- Staying Strong: Enforcing the Law -- Review Exam Questions -- Answers and Explanations -- Practice to Reinforce These Concepts -- Part 3 It's All Mine: Owning and Transferring Real Estate -- Chapter 6 Owning It: Estates and Interests -- What Do You Own? Understanding Ownership Terms
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Looking at land -- Recognizing real estate -- Defining real property -- Checking out personal property -- Focusing on Estates (Even without the Castles) -- Pick and choose: The bundle of rights -- Figuring out freehold estates -- Fee estates -- Life estates -- Understanding leasehold estates -- Eyeing Different Ownership Rights -- Going for a swim: Water rights -- Littoral rights -- Riparian rights -- Watering rights -- Don't forget to look up and down: Other rights -- Up there: Air rights -- Down there: Surface rights -- Way down there: Subsurface and mineral rights -- Review Exam Questions -- Answers and Explanations -- Practice to Reinforce These Concepts -- Chapter 7 Understanding Forms of Real Estate Ownership -- Real Estate Ownership: A Solo or Group Activity -- One is the loneliest number: Owning real estate by yourself -- Join the crowd: Owning real estate with other people -- Tenancy in common -- Joint tenancy -- Getting hitched: Owning real estate when you're married -- Tenancy by the entirety -- Community property -- Who do you trust? Ownership in trust -- All business: Ownership by a business -- Corporations -- Partnerships -- Limited liability corporations -- Joint ventures -- Eyeing Special Types of Ownership: Cooperatives, Condominiums, and More -- Share and share alike: Cooperative ownership -- More individuality: Condominium ownership -- Mix it up: Planned unit developments -- Check your watch: Time shares -- Review Exam Questions -- Answers and Explanations -- Practice to Reinforce These Concepts -- Chapter 8 Knowing the Limitations on Real Estate Ownership -- Carrying a Not-So-Heavy Encumbrance: Private Limitations on Property Use -- Looking at liens -- Abracadabra: Creating and removing liens -- Who gets paid first? Priority of liens -- It's all in the name: Liens' distinguishing traits -- One size doesn't fit all: Types of liens
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Easing into easements -- Running with it: Appurtenant easements -- So gross! Easements in gross -- In need: Easements by necessity -- The doctor didn't give you this: Easements by prescription -- Share and share alike: Party walls -- It was fun while it lasted: Ending easements -- It won't let you drive, but it's still a license -- No, you can't paint your house purple: Deed restrictions -- What is it I can't do? -- Who says I can't do it? -- I thought I owned it: Encroachments and adverse possession -- Crossing into the neutral zone: Encroachment -- Staking a claim: Adverse possession -- Land-Use Regulation: A Major Public Limitation -- To the drawing board: Making master plans -- You're in the zone: Understanding zoning ordinances -- But I really want to build a skyscraper: Variances in zoning -- On one condition: Special-permit use -- I was here first: Nonconforming uses -- Parking the car . . . and your family, too: Accessory buildings and uses -- Many from one: Subdivisions -- Knowing the main players and plans in subdivisions -- Following the rules: Subdivisions and zoning laws -- Crossing state lines for real estate purposes -- Building a house out of paper: Regulations for construction -- Getting that house built -- Now a few words on construction regulations from your state -- The Government Has Its Say: Other Public Limitations on Property Use -- The city wants to build a library: Eminent domain -- You didn't know the government was part of your family: Escheat -- Pay or lose: Taxation -- Review Exam Questions -- Answers and Explanations -- Practice to Reinforce These Concepts -- Chapter 9 Transferring Ownership: Deeds and Title Closing -- Doing the Deed: Delving into Deed Basics -- Making it right: Requirements for a valid deed -- The deeds of the many: Examining various kinds of deeds -- General warranty deed -- Special warranty deed
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Grant deed
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Yoegel, John A. Real Estate License Exams for Dummies Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2023 ISBN 9781394204113
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