Sample Course Index

Click on the underlined terms to review definitions in the online glossary of real estate terminology.

Test Drive/Lesson One
Agency

•  Definitions
•  Duties of the Parties
•  Dual Agency
•  Disclosure of Agency Relationships
•  Other Agency Relationships

Important Terms

•  acknowledgment
•  agent
•  agency
•  attorney-in-fact
•  beneficiary
•  broker
•  bulk transfer
•  business opportunity
•  buyer's broker
•  commingling
•  consideration
•  default
•  devisees
•  divided agency
•  dual agency
•  encumbrance
•  escrow
•  executed
•  fiduciary
•  fixtures
•  goodwill
•  heirs
•  incapacity
•  legatees
•  lessee
•  lessor
•  material facts
•  note
•  personal property
•  power of attorney
•  principal
•  real property
•  recorded
•  renunciation
•  single agency
•  subagent
•  successors
•  tenant
•  trustee
•  trust account
•  trust deed
•  unequivocal

Lesson Two
Ethics

•  Unlawful Conduct in Sale, Lease and Exchange Transactions
•  Disclosure
•  Unlawful Conduct Relating To Real Estate Financing

Important Terms

•  advance fees
•  assignor
•  back-up offer
•  bankruptcy
•  bona fide
•  caveat emptor
•  close of escrow
•  closing costs
•  discount
•  endorser
•  exchange
•  fraud
•  frivolous
•  judgments
•  lease
•  market value
•  mechanics' liens
•  misrepresentation
•  plaintiff
•  puffing
•  tenant
•  trust funds

Lesson Three
Fair Housing

•  California Fair Housing Law
•  Federal Fair Housing Law
•  Housing Financial Discrimination Act of 1977 (Holden Act)
•  The Federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
•  HUD-Fair Housing Advertising Regulations
•  NAR/HUD Fair Housing Partnership Resolution
•  Disclosure of AIDs Information in Property Transfers

Important Terms

•  actual damages
•  aggrieved parties
•  assignee
•  creditor
•  disability
•  dwellings
•  Equal Credit Opportunity Act
•  familial status
•  handicap
•  HIV/AIDS
•  housing accommodations
•  landlord
•  lessee
•  mobilehome parks
•  mortgage company
•  plaintiff
•  redlining
•  sublessee
•  tenants
•  unlawful detainer
•  Department of Housing and Urban Development
•  Unruh Civil Rights Act

Lesson Four
Trust Fund Handling

•  General Information
•  Advance Fee Trust Accounts
•  Trust Fund Bank Account
•  Trust Fund Accounting Records
•  Reconciliation of Trust Fund Accounting Records
•  Trust Fund Audits and Examinations
•  Consequences of Trust Fund Violations

Important Terms

•  administrator
•  advance fee
•  beneficiary
•  commingling
•  conversion
•  credits
•  debits
•  deposit
•  enjoin
•  escrow
•  executor
•  fiduciary
•  impound account
•  inure
•  obligor
•  offeree
•  offeror
•  payee
•  payor
•  principal
•  receiver
•  reconcile
•  security deposits
•  trust funds
•  trust fund bank account
•  trustee