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Which of the following is a type of real estate ownership?
True or false: Real estate practitioners must have a good understanding of the laws and regulations that govern the industry in order to be successful.
True
True or false: The real estate industry is regulated exclusively by federal and state laws?
False
True or false: Growing plants are always considered real property?
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What is the purpose of state regulation in the real estate industry?
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True or false: Private ownership of real estate is absolute and the government cannot impose taxes or restrictions?
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What is the purpose of the judicial system in regulating real estate?
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True or false: An estate in land includes the right to use, transfer, encumber, and exclude?
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True or false: Growing plants are considered real property?
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What is the highest form of ownership in real estate?
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True or false: Estate from Period to Period is the most common form of tenancy?
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True or false: Freehold ownership is the same as leasehold ownership?
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What type of property is physical, visible, and material?
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True or false: Estate at Sufferance is the most common form of tenancy?
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True or false: Fee Simple Estate is the highest form of ownership in real estate?
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What type of property is non-physical?
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What is the combination of air, water, land, and all the man-made structures attached to the land?
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What type of tenancy automatically renews for an indefinite period of time subject to timely payment of rent?
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What type of tenancy is the most common form of tenancy, with the estate terminating at the end of the term?
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What type of tenancy is the most common form of tenancy, with the tenant occupying the premises without consent or agreement with the landlord?
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Study Notes
- The real estate industry is the largest single industry in the American economy and includes construction, creation, management, and demolition of all residential and commercial properties, as well as management of undeveloped land in the country.
- Real estate professionals perform a range of property-related functions, including creation and improvement, management and maintenance, demolition, investment ownership, regulation, and transfer.
- In order to enter the real estate industry, practitioners must have a broad range of knowledge and skills in the industry.
- The real estate industry is regulated by different levels of government, including federal and state statutes and court decisions (common law).
- practitioners must have a good understanding of the laws and regulations that govern the real estate industry in order to be successful.
- Real estate is the combination of air, water, land, and all the man-made structures attached to the land.
- Real estate in the United States can be privately owned by individuals or organizations, or publicly owned by government entities.
- Private ownership rights are not absolute and the government can impose taxes and restrictions, or even take the property away.
- Real estate includes land, real property, and personal property.
- Tangible property is physical, visible, and material, such as land and buildings.
- Intangible property is non-physical, such as patents, copyrights, and trademarks.
- Real property is ownership of real estate and the associated rights.
- Personal property is ownership of anything not real estate and the associated rights.
- Real vs personal property refers to the classification of property.
- Trade fixtures are items of a tenant's personal property temporarily affixed to a landlord's real property.
- Growing plants can be either real or personal property, depending on whether they grow naturally or require human intervention and labor.
- Factory-built housing may be considered real or personal property, depending on whether it is built with permanent or temporary fixtures.
- The Constitution guarantees private ownership of real estate, but laws and regulations at every level of government qualify and limit individual property ownership.
- Federal regulation focuses on broad standards of real property usage, environmental protection, and discrimination.
- State regulation focuses on land use, licensing, administration of license laws, and regional usage and environmental control of real estate.
- Local regulation focuses on land use control, control of improvements, and taxation.
- The judicial system regulates real estate ownership and use through decisions based on case law and common law.
- Interests in real estate are ownership of a combination of the bundle of rights to real property, including rights to possess, use, transfer, encumber, and exclude.
- An estate in land includes the right of possession, and can be a freehold or leasehold estate.
- Freehold ownership is equated with property ownership, while leasehold ownership is considered temporary.
- Tenancies include freehold and leasehold estates, with the freehold tenant being the owner and the leasehold tenant being the renter.
- Freehold estates are categorized based on the duration of the estate and what happens to the estate when the owner dies.
- Fee Simple Estate is the highest form of ownership in real estate, and includes complete bundle of rights.
- A life estate is the most common form of tenancy, with the estate terminating at the end of the term.
- Estate for Years is the most common form of tenancy, with the tenancy automatically renewing for an indefinite period of time subject to timely payment of rent.
- Estate from Period to Period is the most common form of tenancy, with the tenancy renewing automatically for an indefinite period of time subject to timely payment of rent.
- Estate at Will is the most common form of tenancy, with the tenancy continuing as long as rent is paid on time and other lease conditions are met.
- Estate at Sufferance is the most common form of tenancy, with the tenant occupying the premises without consent or agreement with the landlord.
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