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Performance Programs Company's Principles of Real Estate Practice in Pennsylvania contains the essentials of the national and Pennsylvania real estate law, principles, and practices necessary for basic competence as a real estate professional and as mandated by Pennsylvania license law. It is based on our highly successful and popular national publication, Principles of Real Estate Practice, which is in use in real estate schools nationwide.
The text is tailored to the needs of the pre-license student. It is designed tomake it easy for students to learn the material and pass their real estate exam
prepare students for numerous career applications
stress practical, rather than theoretical, skills and knowledge.
Principles of Real Estate Practice in Pennsylvania is streamlined, direct and to-the-point. It includes multiple learning reinforcements. It has a student-oriented organization, both within each chapter and from chapter to chapter. Its examples and exercises are grounded in the authors' many years in real estate education.
Table of Contents
Real Estate Fundamentals:
1. Rights in Real Estate
2. Interests and Estates
3. Ownership
4. Encumbrances and Liens
5. Transferring and Recording Title
6. Land Use Planning and Control
7. Legal Descriptions
8. Essentials of RE Contract Law
9. Overview of Agency Law
10. RE Economics and Estimating Value
11. Real Estate Finance
12. Real Estate Taxation
Real Estate Practices
13. The Real Estate Business
14. The Brokerage Business
15. The Pennsylvania Regulatory Environment
16. Pennsylvania Licensure
17. Regulating Licensee Conduct & Practice
18. Pennsylvania Agency Law
19. Listing Agreements
20. Pennsylvania Sales Contracts
21. Closings
22. Professional Practices and Disclosure
23. Property Management and Leasing
24. Related Pennsylvania Laws & Regulations
25. Real Estate Mathematics
Quizzes and Practice Exam
Glossary of General Real Estate Terms
Index
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About the author
Stephen Mettling and David Cusic have operated one of the nation's most successful custom training organizations specializing in real estate program development. They are perhaps best known for writing Principles of Real Estate Practice, a national real estate principles textbook used by over 50,000 students per year. Stephen Mettling has been a real estate educator and custom training program developer specializing in real estate over the past forty years. During that time he has written or co-developed over 100 books, professional training programs and texts covering all aspects of residential, commercial, and corporate real estate for national trade organizations and real estate companies. Additionally Steve has directed numerous statewide real estate schools and served as vice president of Dearborn Financial Services where he headed up the country's largest real estate, securities and insurance license training network.Dr. Cusic, an author and educator, has been engaged in vocation-oriented education since 1966. David earned his Ph.D in linguistics from Stanford University. Specializing in real estate training since 1978, he has developed numerous real estate training programs for corporate and institutional clients around the country including NAR, CoreNet Global, and the CCIM Institute.
