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The DE-RE-S exam has 135 questions and runs 4 hours.
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Before its restaurant lease expires, a tenant plans to remove bolted commercial ovens and an exhaust hood installed for the restaurant's business. The lease permits removal before expiration if the tenant repairs any resulting damage. Under the fixture rules, which action is available?
Correct answer: B - The tenant may remove them before the lease ends and repair the damage
Before dying, an owner signs and acknowledges a deed naming a niece as grantee, then locks it in a desk and retains sole control. No one receives the deed, and the owner never authorizes its delivery. Did title pass to the niece?
Correct answer: A - No; the owner never delivered the deed with present intent to transfer title
Consider a vacant parcel that could physically support either retail or light-industrial development. It is zoned for light-industrial use. Retail would be more profitable, but it is prohibited and a zoning change is not reasonably probable. Among the legally permitted alternatives, light-industrial development is financially feasible and maximally productive. The parcel's highest and best use is:
Correct answer: A - Light-industrial development, because it satisfies all four highest-and-best-use tests
Thursday, a seller changes the settlement date in a buyer's signed offer, signs the document, and returns it. The offer had stated that it would expire Friday at 5:00 p.m. The buyer never responds, and at 3:00 p.m. Friday the seller attempts to accept the original terms. Which statement describes the transaction at that moment?
Correct answer: C - No contract exists because the counteroffer rejected the original offer and the buyer did not accept it
After reviewing publicly advertised brokerage rates, a broker independently chooses a lower flat fee. The broker has no communication or agreement with competitors about pricing. How does federal antitrust law treat this decision?
Correct answer: B - It is not price fixing because the broker established the fee independently
A home's long-term radon result is 3.2 pCi/L, with no identified testing error. The appropriate EPA-based interpretation is:
Correct answer: D - Consider mitigation; 4 pCi/L is EPA's action level
'Please do not tell the seller that I could pay as much as $475,000,' a prospective buyer writes while scheduling a Delaware showing for the next morning. The appointment is confirmed, but no Consumer Information Statement has yet been delivered. The licensee should:
Correct answer: B - Protect the price information and deliver the CIS no later than the scheduled appointment
When a Delaware builder lists a newly completed single-family home without a certificate of occupancy, the builder completes the new-construction disclosure report. A certificate of occupancy is issued before a prospective buyer makes an offer. Before the offer is submitted, the seller must provide:
Correct answer: C - The standard existing-improvement Seller's Disclosure report, because a certificate of occupancy now exists
Eleven days after receiving a seller's written request, a condominium association furnishes an electronic Delaware Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act (DUCIOA) resale certificate for a residential unit and charges $200. The purchaser first receives the certificate after signing the sale contract and cancels four calendar days later, before conveyance. Which outcome follows from the two deadlines?
Correct answer: D - The cancellation is effective, and the association forfeited the certificate fee by missing the 10-day deadline
For the purchase of a $480,000 Delaware principal residence, an eligible first-time buyer will take occupancy within 60 days. The locality imposes the full 1.5% transfer tax, and the contract leaves the statutory allocation of the state portion unchanged. The buyer's share of the state transfer tax after the first-time-buyer reduction equals:
Correct answer: C - $4,000
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