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.
Land severance
Free accountAuthorized splitting of one parcel into two or three new lots, usually called a consent.
Module 6 · Lesson 9
Landlord and Tenant Board
Free accountOntario body that provides residential tenancy information and resolves disputes through mediation or hearings.
Module 6 · Lesson 13
Large Cash Transaction Report
Free accountFiling required when $10,000 or more in cash is received, or when amounts total that within 24 hours.
Module 6 · Lesson 11
Latent defect
Free accountFlaw in a property that cannot easily be seen on inspection.
Module 6 · Lesson 2
Legal non-conforming use
Free accountExisting property use that breaks a newer bylaw but may continue because it was lawful when started.
Module 6 · Lesson 8
Level 2 check
Free accountPolice-record screening document that must accompany the application; processing waits for its original.
Module 1 · Lesson 2
Licence Appeal Tribunal
Free accountBody a registrant can turn to when RECO proposes to refuse, suspend or revoke registration.
Module 2 · Lesson 2
Life lease
Free accountRight to occupy a unit, bought with an up-front lump sum plus monthly fees, often run by non-profits.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
Linked dwelling
Free accountTwo or more single-family homes joined, often only below ground or through garage walls.
Module 2 · Lesson 1
Major structural defect
Free accountFlaw in materials or work causing a load-bearing part to fail or seriously impairing use as a residence.
Module 7 · Lesson 6
Marketing plan
Free accountOutline covering promotional materials, target audience, signage, advertising media and a timetable for a listing.
Module 1 · Lesson 4
Material fact
Free accountInformation that would influence a reasonable person's decision to buy or sell a property interest.
Module 5 · Lesson 2
Matrimonial home
Free accountProperty ordinarily occupied by spouses as their family residence, in which both have equal possession rights.
Module 6 · Lesson 6
Means of egress
Free accountHaving two exits from a unit, such as a stair door and an easily reached window.
Module 7 · Lesson 7
Metes and bounds
Free accountWritten walk around a parcel using compass bearings and distances, ending where it began.
Module 4 · Lesson 1
Mineral rights
Free accountEntitlement to enter land and extract gas, oil, gold or silver, sometimes sold or reserved by the Crown.
Module 3 · Lesson 1
Minor variance
Free accountSmall, case-by-case relief from bylaw provisions for one property, granted by a local committee.
Module 6 · Lesson 8
Mirror principle
Free accountThe register must accurately reflect every fact about the land and its title at any given time.
Module 4 · Lesson 2
Monumentation
Free accountLocating or installing physical posts at property corners and at regular points along the boundary.
Module 4 · Lesson 1
Multiple representation
Free accountActing for several clients in one trade, banned unless disclosure is made and each client agrees in writing.
Module 5 · Lesson 2
Municipal Act, 2001
Free accountMain Ontario statute governing the creation, administration and governance of most municipalities.
Module 6 · Lesson 10
Natural Resources Canada
Free accountFederal department administering the Energy Efficiency Act and its regulations for energy-using products.
Module 7 · Lesson 5
Non est factum
Free accountDoctrine for a signer who did not know what was signed, perhaps due to language or haste.
Module 6 · Lesson 2
Non-titled spouse
Free accountSpouse not on title who still has an equal right to possess the matrimonial home.
Module 6 · Lesson 6
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