Broker Licensing
Individual Course Selections:
* Mandatory for broker licensing
Course Descriptions and Contents
To view each book's Table of Contents, click on the title.
Real Estate Principles^*
Real Estate Principles is a general course which reviews the numerous basic concepts all prospective real estate agents need to know before taking the state licensing exam, including the fundamentals of estates, transfers, forms of ownership, encumbrances, agency obligations, landlord-tenant relationships, listings, purchase agreements, and title insurance.
Also covered are the various financial arrangements used in real estate transactions and escrow instructions for closing, as well as basic appraisal methods.
Real Estate Practice*
The use of forms to make disclosures, present an analysis, or enter into an agreement on any aspect of a real estate related transaction is the essence of Real Estate Practice. Each form is presented as a checklist of items and provisions to be considered when using the form, based on guidelines and rules for their use.
Legal Aspects of Real Estate*
The ownership and conveyancing in California of estates and licenses held in real estate are covered in Legal Aspects, as well as all vestings, including rights of survivorship, living trusts, and the LLC for real estate syndication.
INCLUDES...clouds on title, slander of title, partition by co-owners, adjacent owner disputes, water rights, public trust of water, common driveways, easements, encroachments, nuisances, preliminary title reports, and title insurance.
Real Estate Finance*
Discover what every well-informed real estate broker must know about private lending and carryback sales — including types of notes and trust deeds and their provisions, as well as seller financing schemes.
PLUS MORE...the foreclosure process, private and judicial, FHA, VA, and Cal-Vet loans, private mortgage insurance, and related tax aspects. No math involved.
Property Management
The detailed and exacting rules of leasing and renting both residential and non-residential income properties are examined and applied in hundreds of vivid landlord/tenant situations encountered daily by owners, managers, and leasing agents.
PLUS...all forms and notices required to establish management and leasing agencies, to create, manage, and terminate tenancies, and to preserve rent obligations for enforcement.
Real Estate Appraisal^*
The study of the science of evaluating the worth of real estate interests, whether for price, rent, or loan, is a requisite to sales, mortgage, and leasing transactions. Appraisal theory and practice is a review of real estate characteristics establishing or diminishing value, the many approaches to valuation, computer access to online data, and an opinion of value.
Real Estate Economics^*
The economics of a parcel of real estate are characterized in light of land use patterns, supply and demand factors, forces driving the housing sector, business cycle influences on non-residential income properties, and local demographics, and are based on principles ranging from national monetary and taxing policies to local use restrictions and cyclical national, regional, and local economics.
Escrows^*
A complete introductory course designed for teaching basic escrow theory. Topics include an overview of escrow, basic escrow processes, exchange escrows, note and trust deed escrows, and the laws, regulations and sale of a business. Thorough examples of escrow transactions are included!
Real Estate License Preparation^
If you really want to pass the California State Sales Agent exam, this book will truly help you make the 70% grade on your first try. The extensive multiple choice questions presented for review are weighted between subjects as imposed by the DRE. Comes with Interactive CD-ROM — PC only.