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A

• Abatement Clause
• Abeyance
• Abstract and Opinion
• Abstract of Title
• ACCESSIBLE
• Accounting
• Accretion
• Accrued Depreciation
• Accrued Depreciation 
• Actual Age
• Actual Age
• Ad Valorem
• Ad Volerum / Property Tax
• Additional Classes Protected Under State and Local Law
• Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)
• Administrator – Administratrix
• Adverse Possession
• Advertising and Fair Housing
• Advertising and Solicitation
• Aesthetic Zoning
• AFFORDABILITY
• AFFORDABLE HOUSING
• Age Discrimination Act of 1975
• Agent
• Agent’s lack of authority
• Agricultural
• Air Rights
• Allocation of Markets
• Alluvion
• Alluvium
• ALTA – American Land Title Association
• Amenities
• Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
• Anticipation
• Antitrust laws
• Application Fee
• Appraisal
• Appraisal Date
• Appraisal Practice
• Appraisal Process
• Appraisal Report
• Appraiser
• Appreciation
• Approaches to Value
• Appurtenance
• Architectural barriers
• Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
• Arpent
• As Is Value
• Asbestos
• Asbestos
• Asbestos
• Assemblage
• Assessed Value
• Assessor
• Assessor
• Asset
• Assignment
• Assignment of Mortgage
• Assistance Animals
• Assumable Mortgage
• Assumption
• Assumption Fee
• Attorney in Fact
• Attractive Nuisance
• Automated Underwriting
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B

• Balance, Principle of
• Balloon Mortgage
• Balloon Payment
• Bargain and Sale Deed
• Baseline
• Bid rigging
• Biweekly Payment Mortgage
• Blind Ad
• Blockbusting/Panic Peddling
• Board of Equalization
• Bona fide
• Bridge Loan
• Broker
• Brownfield
• Brownfields
• Buffer Zone
• BUILDING CODE
• Building Codes
• Bulk Zoning
• Bundle of Legal Rights
• Bundle of Rights
• Buyer’s Agent
• Bylaws
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C

• CAN- SPAM Act
• Cap
• Capacity
• Capital Gain
• Capital Gains Exclusion
• Capitalization Rate (Cap Rate)
• Caveat Emptor
• Certificate of Eligibility
• Certificate of Title
• Chain of Title
• Chain of Title
• Change, Principle of
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Federal Fair Housing Act)
• Clear Title
• Closing
• Closing Agent
• Closing Costs
• Closing Date
• Closing Disclosure
• Closing Statement
• Cloud on title, suit to quiet title
• Co-borrower
• Collateral
• Comfort / Emotional Support Animal
• Commercial
• Commercial Assessed Valuation
• COMMERCIAL BUILDING
• Commingling
• Commission
• Commission Money
• Common Areas
• Common Elements
• Comparables
• Competition, Principle of
• Completion – Fulfillment of Purpose (Agency)
• Complying with Fair Housing Laws
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Concession
• Condemnation
• Condominium
• Confidentiality
• Conformity
• Conformity, Principle of
• Conservation Zoning
• Construction Loan
• Constructive Notice to the World
• Contingency
• Contribution, Principle of
• Contributory Value
• Conventional Mortgage
• Conversion
• Cooperative (Co-op) Project
• CORPORATE DEEDS
• Cost Adjustment Factor
• Cost Approach
• Cost Approach
• Cost of Funds Index (COFI)
• Cost to Cure
• Counter-offer
• Covenant of Seisin
• Covenants
• Credit
• Credit Bureau
• Credit History
• Credit Report
• Credit Score
• Creditor
• Creditworthy
• Cul-de-sac
• Curable Functional Obsolescence
• Customer
• Customer allocation
• Customer-Level Services
• Customers
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D

• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM (CDBG)
• Debt
• Debt-to-Income Ratio
• Deed of Trust
• Deed-in-Lieu of Foreclosure
• Default
• DEFAULT
• Delinquency
• DENSITY
• Department of Justice (DOJ) – ADA Enforcement
• Depreciation
• Designated Agent
• DISABILITY
• Disability
• Disclosure
• Disclosure
• Disclosure of Agency
• Discount Point
• Discount Rate
• Discrimination
• Discrimination against victims of domestic violence
• Discrimination in residential real estate-related transactions
• Discrimination in Sale or Rental of Housing and Other Prohibited Practices
• Discrimination in the provision of brokerage services
• Discrimination on the basis of disability in public accommodations
• Discriminatory practice
• Discriminatory Restrictive Covenants
• Discriminatory use of words, phrases, symbols, and visual aids.
• Disparate Impact
• Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
• Dominant Tenement
• Down Payment
• Downzoning
• Dual Agency
• Due-on-Sale Clause
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E

• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• DWELLING
• Easement
• Easement by Necessity
• Easement by Prescription
• Easement in Gross
• Economic age-life method
• Economic Characteristics of Land
• Economic Obsolescence
• Economic Rent
• Effective Age
• Effective Date
• Effective Gross Income (EGI)
• Electronic Contracting
• Eminent Domain
• Encroachment
• Encumbrance
• Environmental impact statement (EIS)
• EPA My Environment
• Equal Access to Facilities
• Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Equal Housing Opportunity logotype, statement, or slogan.
• Equal Opportunity
• Equalization
• EQUITABLE LAND USE PLANNING
• Equitable Lien
• Equity
• Escheat
• Escrow
• Escrow Closing
• Essential elements of deeds
• Estate
• Estate Tax Lien
• Eviction
• Exclusionary Zoning
• EXCLUSIONARY ZONING
• Exclusive Agency Listing
• Exclusive Listing
• Exclusive Right Listing
• Exclusive Right-to-Sell Listing
• Executor
• Executor’s Deeds, Administrator’s Deeds, Sheriff’s Deeds
• Exemptions from Fair Housing Acts
• Expiration Date (Listings)
• Exposure Time
• Express Agency
• External Obsolescence
• Sweat Equity
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F

• Facilitator
• Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
• FAIR HOUSING ACT
• Fair Housing Act (overview)
• Fair Housing Exemptions
• Fair Housing in Advertising
• FAIR HOUSING WORDS
• FAIR MARKET RENT (FMR)
• Fair Market Value
• Familial Status
• Fannie Mae
• Fannie Mae
• Fannie Mae-Seller/Servicer
• Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Loan Limit
• Features
• Federal housing administration (FHA) Mortgage
• Federal Housing Administration(FHA)
• Federal Trade Commission
• Fee Simple
• Fee Simple Estate
• FEMA Map
• FHA-Insured Loan
• Fiduciary
• Fiduciary Duties
• Final Reconciliation
• FINANCIAL AND BROKERAGE SERVICE DISCRIMINATION
• First in Time, First in Right
• Fixture
• Flood Insurance
• For Sale by Owner
• Foreclosure
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fraud
• Fructus Industriales
• Fructus Naturales
• Functional Obsolescence
• Functional Utility
• Fundamental breache / Discharge by breach
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G

• General Agent
• General Power of Attorney
• General Warranty Deed
• Gift Letter
• Good-Faith Estimate
• Government Mortgage
• Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae)
• Grandfather Clause
• Grantee
• Grantor
• GROSS ANNUAL INCOME
• Gross Income
• Gross Income Multiplier
• Gross Monthly Income
• Gross Rent Multiplier
• Group Boycotting
• Growing-Equity Mortgage (GEM)
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H

• Handicap
• Hazard Insurance
• Hazardous Substances
• Highest and Best Use
• Home Equity Line of Credit(HELOC)
• Home Inspection
• Homeowner's Association
• Homeowner’s Insurance
• Homeowner’s Warranty (HOW)
• Homeowners Association Liens
• Homeowners’ Association
• Homestead Act in Mississippi
• Homogeneity
• Homogeneous
• Housing and Community Development Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 1436a
• HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM
• Housing Expense Ratio
• Housing for Older Persons Act (HOPA)
• HOW'S MY WATERWAY
• HUD-1 Settlement Statement
• Hybrid Loan
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I

• IDX Technology
• Illegality
• Immigrants (Fair Housing)
• Immigrants and Fair Housing
• Impairment
• Implicit Authority
• Implied Agency
• Imputed Knowledge
• Incentive Zoning
• Inclusionary Zoning
• Income Approach
• Income Capitalization Approach
• INCOME LIMIT (IL)
• Income Property
• Increasing and Decreasing Returns, Principle of
• Index
• Industrial
• Inflation
• Ingress
• Initial Interest Rate
• Inquiry
• Inspection
• Inspection report
• Installment
• Installment Debt
• Institutional Property
• Insurable Title
• Intangible
• Interest
• Interest Accrual Rate:
• Interest Deduction
• Interest Rate Cap
• Interest Rate Ceiling
• Interest Rate Floor
• Interference, coercion, or intimidation
• Interference, coercion, or intimidation
• INTESTATE
• Inverse condemnation
• Investment Property
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J

• Joint Tenancy
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 1968
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968)
• JUDGMENT
• Judgment
• Judgment Lien
• Judgment Liens
• Jumbo Loan
• Junior Mortgage
• Junk Fax Prevention Act
• Just Compensation
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K

• Key – House

L

• Land
• Land Improvements
• Landfills
• Landfills or waste disposal sites
• Late Charge
• Lead
• LEAD-BASED PAINT
• Lease
• LEASE
• LEASE TERM
• Lease-Purchase Option
• Leased Fee Estate
• Leasehold Estate
• Legal Descriptions
• Legal Non-Conforming Use
• Legally Nonconforming Use
• Lender’s Title Policy
• Lessee
• Lessor
• Liabilities
• Liability Insurance
• Lien
• Lifetime Cap
• Liquid Asset
• Listing
• Listing Agent
• Littoral Rights
• Loan Estimate
• Loan Origination
• Loan Origination Fees
• Loan-To-Value (LTV) Ratio
• Lock-In Rate
• Low-Down-Payment Feature
• Loyalty
• Loyalty
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M

• Manufactured Housing
• Margin
• Market Data Approach
• Market Price
• Market Value
• Marketable Title
• Mass Appraisal
• Master Deed
• Master Plan
• Material fact
• Maturity Date
• Mechanics Lien
• Metes and Bounds
• Mineral Rights
• Miniature Horse
• MISSISSIPPI EPA
• Mobile Home
• Modification
• Mold
• Mortgage
• Mortgage Broker
• Mortgage Insurance (MI)
• Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP)
• Mortgage Lender
• Mortgage Life Insurance
• Mortgage Rate
• MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITY (MBS):
• Mortgagee
• Mortgagor
• MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
• Multifamily Mortgage
• Multiple Listing Service
• Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
• Mutual Agreement Rescission in Agency
• Mutual Funds
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N

• Negative Amortization
• Negligent Misrepresentation (Agency)
• Negligent Misrepresentation (examples)
• Neighborhood
• Neighborhood Life Cycle
• Net Listing
• Net Monthly Income
• Net Worth
• Noncontiguous
• Note
• Note Rate
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O

• Obedience
• Obedience
• Obsolescence
• Offer
• Open House
• Open Listing
• Operating Expenses
• Opportunity Zones
• Original Principal Balance
• Origination Fee
• Over Improvement
• Oversupply
• Owner Financing
• Owner-occupied housing:
• Owner-Occupied Property
• Owner’s Title Policy
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P

• PAIRED TESTING
• Parcel Identification Number
• Partial Payment
• Party Wall Easement
• Payment Cap
• Payment Change Date
• Penalty for Violations – Fair Housing
• Personal Property
• Personal Property
• Physical Characteristics of Land
• Physical Deterioration
• Physical or mental impairment
• PITI
• PITI Reserves
• Planned Unit Development (PUD)
• Point
• Point of Beginning
• Police Power
• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
• Potential Gross Income (PGI)
• Power of Attorney
• Power of Attorney
• Pre-Approval
• Pre-Approval Letter
• Pre-contractual misrepresentations
• Pre-Qualification
• Pre-Qualification Letter
• Predatory Lending
• Prepayment
• Prepayment Penalty
• Prescriptive Easement
• Price fixing
• Principal
• Principal Meridian
• Principal/Client
• Prior Appropriation
• Private clubs:
• Private Mortgage Insurance
• PROBATE
• Procuring Cause
• Prohibited conduct
• Promissory Note
• Prorations
• Protected Classes
• Protection Clause
• Psychiatric Service Dog
• Public accommodations
• PUBLIC HOUSING
• PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY (PHA)
• Public Land Survey System
• Public Records
• PUBLIC USE AREAS
• Public-law occupancy standards
• Puffery
• Purchase and Sale Agreement
• Purchase Money Mortgage
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Q

• QUALIFIED MORTGAGEE
• Qualifying Guidelines
• Qualifying Ratios
• Quality Control – Underwriting
• Quantity Survey Method
• Quit Claim Deed

R

• Radon
• Radon
• Radon Zones Lookup
• Rate Cap
• Rate Lock
• Ratification
• Ratified Sales Contract
• Real Estate
• Real Estate Broker
• Real Estate Professional
• Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
• Real Property
• REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
• Reasonable Care
• Reasonable care and diligence
• REASONABLE MODIFICATION
• Recapture Rate
• Reconveyance Deed
• Recorder
• Recording
• Red Flags
• REDLINING
• Redlining
• Refinance
• Reliction (water)
• Religious organizations
• Remaining Economic Life
• Rent Control
• Renunciation / Refusal to perform
• Replacement Cost
• Replacement Cost New
• Reproduction Cost New
• Rescission
• Residential
• Residential Property
• RESPA – Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• Retaliation
• Revocation by the Principal (Agency)
• Right of First Refusal
• ROBOCALLS AND THE DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
• ROOMS
• Rural Housing Service (RHS)
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S

• Mold
• Sale-Leaseback
• Sales Comparison Approach
• Second Mortgage
• Secondary Mortgage Market
• Section 109 of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Secured Loan
• Securities
• Security
• SECURITY DEPOSIT
• Seizure Response Dog
• Selective geographic advertisements
• Selective use of advertising media or content
• Seller Take-Back
• Seller's Disclosure of Information on Lead-Based Paint and/or Lead-Based Paint Hazards
• Seller’s Agent
• Service Animals
• Service Members Civil Relief Act
• Servicer
• Servient Tenement
• Setback
• Settlement
• Settlement Statement
• Sexual orientation
• Sexual orientation
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Short Sale
• SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTY
• Single-family housing
• Single-Family Properties
• Special Agent
• Special Agent
• Special Assessments
• Special Assessments
• Special land types
• Special Purpose Real Estate
• Special Use Permit
• Special Warranty Deed
• Spot Zoning
• SSigDOG
• Stachybotrys chartarum
• Stachybotrys Chartarum (Black Mold)
• Statutory Lien
• Steering
• Straight-Line Method of Depreciation
• Subagent
• Subdivider
• Subordinate Financing
• SUBPRIME LOAN
• SUBSTANDARD HOUSING
• Substitution, Principle of
• Subsurface Rights
• Superfund
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA)
• Supervising Broker
• Surface Rights
• Survey
• SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
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T

• Deed-in-Lieu of Foreclosure
• Tangible
• Targeted advertising
• Tax
• Tax Liens
• Tax Rate
• Taxation
• Technology in Real Estate Practice
• TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
• Tenancy by the Entirety
• Tenancy in Common
• Tenancy in Severalty
• The Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Third-Party Origination
• Tie In – Tying Arrangement (tie-in) is illegal
• Title
• Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 199
• Title Insurance
• Title Search
• Title Search
• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Topographic Map
• Trade Fixtures
• Transactional Agent
• Transfer Tax
• Transfer Tax
• TRANSFER TAX STAMP
• Transferability
• Treasury Index
• Trust Deed
• Truth in advertising
• Truth-In-Lending Act (TILA)
• Two- to Four- Family Property
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U

• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD)
• Underground storage fuel tanks
• Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
• Underimprovement
• Underwriting
• Undue burden
• Undue financial and administrative burden
• Undue hardship
• Uniform Residential Loan Application
• Unit-in-Place Method
• Universal Agent
• Universal Agent
• Unsecured Loan
• Upzoning
• Use of human models
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V

• VA Guaranteed Loan
• VACANT UNIT
• Valuation Process
• Value in Use
• Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Vicarious Liability
• Voluntary Lien

W

• Walk-Through
• Warranties
• Wasting Asset
• Water Rights
• Welfare Reform Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C. § 1611(c)(B)
• Wetlands
• Wetlands

Y

• Yield

Z

• Zoning
• Zoning variance

Property Ownership

• Accretion
• Adverse Possession
• Agricultural
• Air Rights
• Alluvion
• Alluvium
• Appurtenance
• Arpent
• Baseline
• Bundle of Legal Rights
• Bundle of Rights
• Commercial
• COMMERCIAL BUILDING
• Common Areas
• Condominium
• Cooperative (Co-op) Project
• Cul-de-sac
• Dominant Tenement
• Easement
• Easement by Necessity
• Easement by Prescription
• Easement in Gross
• Economic Characteristics of Land
• Eminent Domain
• Encroachment
• Encumbrance
• Equalization
• Equitable Lien
• Estate
• Estate Tax Lien
• Fee Simple
• Fee Simple Estate
• First in Time, First in Right
• Fixture
• Fructus Industriales
• Fructus Naturales
• Homeowners Association Liens
• Homeowners’ Association
• Homestead Act in Mississippi
• Industrial
• Ingress
• Intangible
• Investment Property
• Joint Tenancy
• Judgment
• Judgment Lien
• Judgment Liens
• Key – House
• Land
• Land Improvements
• Leased Fee Estate
• Leasehold Estate
• Legal Descriptions
• Lien
• Littoral Rights
• Manufactured Housing
• Mechanics Lien
• Metes and Bounds
• Mineral Rights
• Mobile Home
• MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
• Neighborhood
• Noncontiguous
• Owner-Occupied Property
• Parcel Identification Number
• Party Wall Easement
• Personal Property
• Personal Property
• Physical Characteristics of Land
• Planned Unit Development (PUD)
• Point of Beginning
• Prescriptive Easement
• Principal Meridian
• Prior Appropriation
• Public Land Survey System
• Real Estate
• Real Property
• Reliction (water)
• Residential
• Riparian Rights
• Securities
• Servient Tenement
• SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTY
• Single-Family Properties
• Special Purpose Real Estate
• Statutory Lien
• Subsurface Rights
• Surface Rights
• Survey
• Tangible
• Tax
• Tax Liens
• Tax Rate
• Tenancy by the Entirety
• Tenancy in Common
• Tenancy in Severalty
• Topographic Map
• Trade Fixtures
• Two- to Four- Family Property
• Voluntary Lien
• Water Rights
• Wetlands
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General Principles of Agency

• Accounting
• Agent
• Agent’s lack of authority
• Attorney in Fact
• Broker
• Buyer’s Agent
• Caveat Emptor
• Closing Agent
• Commission
• Commission Money
• Completion – Fulfillment of Purpose (Agency)
• Confidentiality
• Customer
• Customer-Level Services
• Customers
• Designated Agent
• Disclosure
• Disclosure
• Disclosure of Agency
• Dual Agency
• Exclusive Agency Listing
• Exclusive Listing
• Exclusive Right Listing
• Exclusive Right-to-Sell Listing
• Expiration Date (Listings)
• Express Agency
• Facilitator
• Fiduciary
• Fiduciary Duties
• For Sale by Owner
• Fundamental breache / Discharge by breach
• General Agent
• General Power of Attorney
• Gratuitous Agency
• Illegality
• Implicit Authority
• Implied Agency
• Imputed Knowledge
• Listing
• Listing Agent
• Listing Agreements
• Loyalty
• Loyalty
• Multiple Listing Service
• Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
• Mutual Agreement Rescission in Agency
• Negligent Misrepresentation (Agency)
• Negligent Misrepresentation (examples)
• Net Listing
• Obedience
• Obedience
• Offer
• Open House
• Open Listing
• Power of Attorney
• Pre-contractual misrepresentations
• Principal/Client
• Procuring Cause
• Property Management Representation Agency
• Protection Clause
• Ratification
• Ready Willing and Able Buyer
• Real Estate Broker
• Real Estate Professional
• Reasonable Care
• Reasonable care and diligence
• Renunciation / Refusal to perform
• Revocation by the Principal (Agency)
• Seller’s Agent
• Special Agent
• Special Agent
• Subagent
• Transactional Agent
• Universal Agent
• Universal Agent
• Vicarious Liability
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Property Condition Disclosures

• Asbestos
• Asbestos
• Brownfields
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA)
• Environmental impact statement (EIS)
• EPA My Environment
• Hazardous Substances
• Home Inspection
• HOW'S MY WATERWAY
• Inspection
• Inspection report
• Landfills or waste disposal sites
• Lead
• LEAD-BASED PAINT
• Material fact
• MISSISSIPPI EPA
• Mold
• Mold
• Radon
• Radon
• Radon Zones Lookup
• Red Flags
• Seller's Disclosure of Information on Lead-Based Paint and/or Lead-Based Paint Hazards
• Stachybotrys chartarum
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA)
• Underground storage fuel tanks
• Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
• Walk-Through
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Contracts

• Agent’s lack of authority
• Assignment
• Attorney in Fact
• Bona fide
• Caveat Emptor
• Completion – Fulfillment of Purpose (Agency)
• Concession
• Contingency
• Counter-offer
• Exclusive Listing
• Exclusive Right Listing
• Expiration Date (Listings)
• Fundamental breache / Discharge by breach
• General Agent
• General Power of Attorney
• Gratuitous Agency
• Illegality
• Imputed Knowledge
• Lease-Purchase Option
• Listing Agreements
• Mutual Agreement Rescission in Agency
• Negligent Misrepresentation (Agency)
• Negligent Misrepresentation (examples)
• Net Listing
• Open Listing
• Power of Attorney
• Power of Attorney
• Pre-contractual misrepresentations
• Property Management Representation Agency
• Protection Clause
• Purchase and Sale Agreement
• Ratification
• Ratified Sales Contract
• Ready Willing and Able Buyer
• Renunciation / Refusal to perform
• Rescission
• Revocation by the Principal (Agency)
• Right of First Refusal
• Universal Agent
• Universal Agent
• Vicarious Liability
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Leasing and Property Management

• Abatement Clause
• ACCESSIBLE
• AFFORDABILITY
• AFFORDABLE HOUSING
• Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Assistance Animals
• Disability
• DISABILITY
• Discrimination
• Disparate Impact
• DWELLING
• Eviction
• FAIR HOUSING ACT
• Fair Housing Act (overview)
• Fair Housing in Advertising
• FAIR HOUSING WORDS
• FAIR MARKET RENT (FMR)
• HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER PROGRAM
• INCOME LIMIT (IL)
• Lease
• LEASE
• LEASE TERM
• Leased Fee Estate
• Leasehold Estate
• Lessee
• Lessor
• MULTIFAMILY HOUSING
• PAIRED TESTING
• Property Management Representation Agency
• PUBLIC HOUSING
• PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY (PHA)
• REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
• REASONABLE MODIFICATION
• ROOMS
• SECURITY DEPOSIT
• SUBSTANDARD HOUSING
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD)
• VACANT UNIT
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Transfer of Title

• 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange
• Abstract and Opinion
• Abstract of Title
• Ad Volerum / Property Tax
• Administrator – Administratrix
• ALTA – American Land Title Association
• Assessor
• Bargain and Sale Deed
• Board of Equalization
• Capital Gain
• Capital Gains Exclusion
• Certificate of Title
• Chain of Title
• Chain of Title
• Clear Title
• Closing
• Closing Agent
• Closing Costs
• Closing Date
• Closing Disclosure
• Closing Statement
• Cloud on title, suit to quiet title
• Commercial Assessed Valuation
• Constructive Notice to the World
• CORPORATE DEEDS
• Covenant of Seisin
• Deed-in-Lieu of Foreclosure
• DEFAULT
• Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
• Escheat
• Escrow
• Escrow Closing
• Essential elements of deeds
• Executor
• Executor’s Deeds, Administrator’s Deeds, Sheriff’s Deeds
• Foreclosure
• General Warranty Deed
• Grantee
• Grantor
• Homeowner’s Insurance
• Homeowner’s Warranty (HOW)
• Insurable Title
• Interest Deduction
• INTESTATE
• Lender’s Title Policy
• Loan Estimate
• Marketable Title
• Owner’s Title Policy
• PROBATE
• Prorations
• Public Records
• Quit Claim Deed
• Reconveyance Deed
• Recorder
• Recording
• RESPA – Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
• Settlement
• Settlement Statement
• Short Sale
• Special Assessments
• Special Warranty Deed
• Straight-Line Method of Depreciation
• Title
• Title Insurance
• Title Search
• Title Search
• Transfer Tax
• Transfer Tax
• TRANSFER TAX STAMP
• Transferability
• Trust Deed
• Warranties
• Yield
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Practice of Real Estate

• ACCESSIBLE
• Additional Classes Protected Under State and Local Law
• Advertising and Fair Housing
• Advertising and Solicitation
• Age Discrimination Act of 1975
• Allocation of Markets
• Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Antitrust laws
• Architectural barriers
• Architectural Barriers Act of 1968
• Assistance Animals
• Bid rigging
• Blind Ad
• Blockbusting/Panic Peddling
• Broker
• CAN- SPAM Act
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Federal Fair Housing Act)
• Comfort / Emotional Support Animal
• Commingling
• Complying with Fair Housing Laws
• Conversion
• Customer allocation
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
• Department of Justice (DOJ) – ADA Enforcement
• Disability
• DISABILITY
• Discrimination
• Discrimination against victims of domestic violence
• Discrimination in residential real estate-related transactions
• Discrimination in Sale or Rental of Housing and Other Prohibited Practices
• Discrimination in the provision of brokerage services
• Discrimination on the basis of disability in public accommodations
• Discriminatory practice
• Discriminatory Restrictive Covenants
• Discriminatory use of words, phrases, symbols, and visual aids.
• Disparate Impact
• Electronic Contracting
• Equal Access to Facilities
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Equal Housing Opportunity logotype, statement, or slogan.
• Equal Opportunity
• EXCLUSIONARY ZONING
• Exemptions from Fair Housing Acts
• Exposure Time
• FAIR HOUSING ACT
• Fair Housing Act (overview)
• Fair Housing Exemptions
• Fair Housing in Advertising
• FAIR HOUSING WORDS
• Familial Status
• Federal Trade Commission
• FINANCIAL AND BROKERAGE SERVICE DISCRIMINATION
• Fourteenth Amendment
• Fraud
• Group Boycotting
• Handicap
• Housing and Community Development Act of 1980, 42 U.S.C. § 1436a
• Housing for Older Persons Act (HOPA)
• IDX Technology
• Immigrants (Fair Housing)
• Immigrants and Fair Housing
• Impairment
• Interference, coercion, or intimidation
• Interference, coercion, or intimidation
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 1968
• Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co., 392 U.S. 409 (1968)
• Junk Fax Prevention Act
• Miniature Horse
• Multiple Listing Service (MLS)
• Open House
• Owner-occupied housing:
• PAIRED TESTING
• Penalty for Violations – Fair Housing
• Physical or mental impairment
• Price fixing
• Private clubs:
• Prohibited conduct
• Protected Classes
• Psychiatric Service Dog
• Public accommodations
• Public-law occupancy standards
• Puffery
• Real Estate Professional
• REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
• REASONABLE MODIFICATION
• REDLINING
• Redlining
• Religious organizations
• Retaliation
• ROBOCALLS AND THE DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
• Section 109 of Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974
• Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
• Seizure Response Dog
• Selective geographic advertisements
• Selective use of advertising media or content
• Service Animals
• Sexual orientation
• Sexual orientation
• Sherman Antitrust Act
• Single-family housing
• SSigDOG
• Steering
• Supervising Broker
• Targeted advertising
• Technology in Real Estate Practice
• TELEPHONE CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)
• The Civil Rights Act of 1866
• Tie In – Tying Arrangement (tie-in) is illegal
• Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 199
• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Truth in advertising
• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD)
• Undue burden
• Undue financial and administrative burden
• Undue hardship
• Use of human models
• Welfare Reform Act of 1996, 8 U.S.C. § 1611(c)(B)
• Yield
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Real Estate Calculations

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Valuation and Market Analysis

• Accrued Depreciation
• Accrued Depreciation 
• Actual Age
• Actual Age
• Anticipation
• Appraisal
• Appraisal Date
• Appraisal Practice
• Appraisal Process
• Appraisal Report
• Appraiser
• Appreciation
• Approaches to Value
• As Is Value
• Assemblage
• Assessed Value
• Balance, Principle of
• Capitalization Rate (Cap Rate)
• Change, Principle of
• Comparables
• Competition, Principle of
• Conformity, Principle of
• Contribution, Principle of
• Contributory Value
• Cost Adjustment Factor
• Cost Approach
• Cost Approach
• Cost to Cure
• Curable Functional Obsolescence
• Depreciation
• Economic age-life method
• Economic Obsolescence
• Economic Rent
• Effective Age
• Effective Date
• Effective Gross Income (EGI)
• External Obsolescence
• Fair Market Value
• Final Reconciliation
• Functional Obsolescence
• Functional Utility
• Gross Income
• Gross Income Multiplier
• Gross Rent Multiplier
• Highest and Best Use
• Homogeneous
• Income Approach
• Income Capitalization Approach
• Income Property
• Increasing and Decreasing Returns, Principle of
• Market Data Approach
• Market Price
• Market Value
• Mass Appraisal
• Neighborhood Life Cycle
• Net Worth
• Obsolescence
• Operating Expenses
• Over Improvement
• Oversupply
• Physical Deterioration
• Potential Gross Income (PGI)
• Quantity Survey Method
• Recapture Rate
• Remaining Economic Life
• Replacement Cost
• Replacement Cost New
• Reproduction Cost New
• Sales Comparison Approach
• Substitution, Principle of
• Sweat Equity
• Underimprovement
• Unit-in-Place Method
• Valuation Process
• Value in Use
• Wasting Asset
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Land Use Controls and Regulations

• Ad Valorem
• Aesthetic Zoning
• Amenities
• Asbestos
• Asbestos
• Assessor
• Attractive Nuisance
• Brownfield
• Buffer Zone
• BUILDING CODE
• Building Codes
• Bulk Zoning
• Bylaws
• COMMERCIAL BUILDING
• Common Elements
• Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund)
• Condemnation
• Conformity
• Conservation Zoning
• Covenants
• DENSITY
• Downzoning
• Eminent Domain
• Environmental impact statement (EIS)
• EPA My Environment
• Exclusionary Zoning
• Features
• FEMA Map
• Flood Insurance
• Grandfather Clause
• Hazard Insurance
• Homeowner's Association
• Homeowners’ Association
• Homogeneity
• HOW'S MY WATERWAY
• Incentive Zoning
• Inclusionary Zoning
• Inverse condemnation
• Just Compensation
• Landfills
• LEAD-BASED PAINT
• Legal Non-Conforming Use
• Legally Nonconforming Use
• Master Deed
• Master Plan
• MISSISSIPPI EPA
• Mold
• Neighborhood
• Opportunity Zones
• Police Power
• Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)
• PUBLIC USE AREAS
• Radon
• Radon Zones Lookup
• Rent Control
• Setback
• Special Assessments
• Special land types
• Special Use Permit
• Spot Zoning
• Stachybotrys Chartarum (Black Mold)
• Subdivider
• Superfund
• Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act
• Taxation
• Underground Storage Tanks (USTs)
• Upzoning
• Wetlands
• Zoning
• Zoning variance
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Interactive Activities

• EPA My Environment
• HOW'S MY WATERWAY
• MISSISSIPPI EPA
• Radon Zones Lookup

Financing

• Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM)
• Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
• Application Fee
• Asset
• Assignment of Mortgage
• Assumable Mortgage
• Assumption
• Assumption Fee
• Automated Underwriting
• Balloon Mortgage
• Balloon Payment
• Before-tax Income
• Biweekly Payment Mortgage
• Bridge Loan
• Cap
• Capacity
• Certificate of Eligibility
• Co-borrower
• Collateral
• Construction Loan
• Conventional Mortgage
• Cost of Funds Index (COFI)
• Credit
• Credit Bureau
• Credit History
• Credit Report
• Credit Score
• Creditor
• Creditworthy
• Debt
• Debt-to-Income Ratio
• Deed of Trust
• Default
• Delinquency
• Discount Point
• Discount Rate
• Down Payment
• Due-on-Sale Clause
• Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA)
• Equity
• Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
• Federal housing administration (FHA) Mortgage
• Federal Housing Administration(FHA)
• FHA-Insured Loan
• Gift Letter
• Good-Faith Estimate
• Government Mortgage
• GROSS ANNUAL INCOME
• Gross Monthly Income
• Growing-Equity Mortgage (GEM)
• Home Equity Line of Credit(HELOC)
• Housing Expense Ratio
• HUD-1 Settlement Statement
• Hybrid Loan
• Index
• Initial Interest Rate
• Inquiry
• Installment
• Installment Debt
• Interest
• Interest Accrual Rate:
• Interest Rate Cap
• Interest Rate Ceiling
• Interest Rate Floor
• Jumbo Loan
• Junior Mortgage
• Late Charge
• Lease-Purchase Option
• Liabilities
• Lifetime Cap
• Liquid Asset
• Loan Origination
• Loan Origination Fees
• Loan-To-Value (LTV) Ratio
• Lock-In Rate
• Low-Down-Payment Feature
• Margin
• Maturity Date
• Modification
• Mortgage
• Mortgage Broker
• Mortgage Insurance (MI)
• Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP)
• Mortgage Lender
• Mortgage Life Insurance
• Mortgage Rate
• Mortgagee
• Mortgagor
• Multifamily Mortgage
• Mutual Funds
• Negative Amortization
• Net Monthly Income
• Note
• Note Rate
• Original Principal Balance
• Origination Fee
• Owner Financing
• Owner-Occupied Property
• Partial Payment
• Payment Cap
• Payment Change Date
• PITI
• PITI Reserves
• Point
• Potential Gross Income (PGI)
• Pre-Approval
• Pre-Approval Letter
• Pre-Qualification
• Pre-Qualification Letter
• Predatory Lending
• Prepayment
• Prepayment Penalty
• Principal
• Private Mortgage Insurance
• Promissory Note
• Purchase Money Mortgage
• QUALIFIED MORTGAGEE
• Qualifying Guidelines
• Qualifying Ratios
• Quality Control – Underwriting
• Rate Cap
• Rate Lock
• Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA)
• REDLINING
• Refinance
• Rural Housing Service (RHS)
• Sale-Leaseback
• Second Mortgage
• Secured Loan
• Security
• Seller Take-Back
• Service Members Civil Relief Act
• Servicer
• Subordinate Financing
• SUBPRIME LOAN
• Third-Party Origination
• Treasury Index
• Truth-In-Lending Act (TILA)
• Underwriting
• Uniform Residential Loan Application
• Unsecured Loan
• VA Guaranteed Loan
• Veterans Affairs (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)
• Yield
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Warehousing

• Fannie Mae
• Fannie Mae
• Fannie Mae-Seller/Servicer
• Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Loan Limit
• Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae)
• MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITY (MBS):
• Secondary Mortgage Market