Self Help Documentation
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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 Fair Market Rents
- 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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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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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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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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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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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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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)
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Loan Origination
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The process by which a loan is made, which may include taking a loan application, processing and underwriting the application, and closing the loan.
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