Course 1: Real Estate Essentials
Key terms for Exam 1
191 terms from Course 1, Real Estate Essentials. Each entry gives you a short description, the module and lesson it belongs to, and a quick quiz to check that you can pick the term from its description.
Air rights
FreeEntitlement to use the space over land, as for bridge approaches or a building above a rail line.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
CRTC
FreeFederal regulator that creates and oversees the rules behind the national list blocking telemarketing calls.
Module 7 · Lesson 1
Chattel
FreeMovable personal property that stays with the seller unless the agreement of purchase and sale says otherwise.
Module 2 · Lesson 1
Code of Ethics regulation
FreePrinciple-based rules under TRESA setting out expected professional behaviour and explicitly banned conduct.
Module 5 · Lesson 1
Commercial electronic message
FreeElectronic communication encouraging participation in commercial activity, whether or not profit is expected.
Module 7 · Lesson 1
Concession
FreeStrip of a township numbered in Roman numerals, historically 100 chains across.
Module 4 · Lesson 1
Concurrent ownership
FreeSituation in which two or more people hold title to the same property at the same time.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
Conflict of interest
FreeSituation where a salesperson's own position may clash with a client's, needing disclosure, advice and written consent.
Module 5 · Lesson 1
General regulation
FreeTRESA regulation dealing with technical rules on advertising, agreements, disclosures and registration conditions.
Module 1 · Lesson 1
Good faith
FreeBehaving reasonably, avoiding harm to any party, and steering clear of abusive or arbitrary conduct.
Module 5 · Lesson 1
Gunter's chain
FreeSixty-six-foot measuring device of 100 links, introduced in 1620 and used in Ontario's first surveys.
Module 4 · Lesson 1
Internal DNCL
FreeA brokerage's own record of people who said they want no more solicitation calls or faxes from it.
Module 7 · Lesson 1
Privity of contract
FreeRule that an agreement binds, and can be enforced by, only the people who are parties to it.
Module 6 · Lesson 1
Prospective client
FreePerson seeking a salesperson's services who has no representation agreement in place yet.
Module 2 · Lesson 1
Registrant
FreeUmbrella label in TRESA covering brokerages, brokers and salespersons alike.
Module 1 · Lesson 1
Road allowance
FreePublic strip separating concessions, sometimes marking every fifth lot, kept as public land even if never built up.
Module 4 · Lesson 1
Self-represented party
FreeSomeone in a trade who has chosen to proceed without a brokerage's services, opinions or advice.
Module 2 · Lesson 1
Statute of Frauds
FreeLaw requiring land sale and lease agreements to be written and signed to be enforceable.
Module 6 · Lesson 1
Surface rights
FreeLand entitlements other than mining ones; the holder can be identified by a title search.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
Trading
FreeActivity of dealing in property interests for others, such as listing, showing a home or negotiating an offer.
Module 1 · Lesson 1
Vendors and Purchasers Act
FreeLaw that builds standard rights and duties, such as a 30-day title objection period, into every sale agreement.
Module 6 · Lesson 1
Aboveground tank
Free accountFuel container installed at or above ground level, whether inside a building or within secondary containment.
Module 7 · Lesson 9
Active listening
Free accountInterviewing technique of showing, through your responses, that you understood what was said.
Module 1 · Lesson 3
Adjusted cost base
Free accountOriginal price paid for a property plus legal fees and the cost of improvements.
Module 7 · Lesson 2
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