Texas Real Estate Sales Agent Practice Test

Answer choices

1. A. Nothing, because the requirement is 150 classroom hours
2. B. Thirty additional qualifying classroom hours to reach 180
3. C. A broker license instead of any further education
4. D. Only fingerprints already filed with another state agency

Wrong-answer review

• A. Nothing, because the requirement is 150 classroom hours: The supplied education total is 180 rather than 150 classroom hours.
• C. A broker license instead of any further education: The applicant seeks sales-agent licensure and does not substitute a broker license for education.
• D. Only fingerprints already filed with another state agency: Other-agency fingerprints are not accepted for TREC's background check and do not replace education.

Answer choices

1. A. Texas ads may never include a team name.
2. B. The ad must include the broker's name and must not imply the sales agent or team operates the brokerage independently.
3. C. The ad must include the agent's license number in larger text than the team name.
4. D. The ad is allowed because social media ads are exempt from broker-name requirements.

Answer choices

1. A. Inactive-license status authorizes the sales agent to perform licensed activity but bars every trust-account claim
2. B. An inactive sales agent may not perform licensed activity, and trust-account payment is available only for an eligible judgment against a license holder subject to statutory requirements and limits
3. C. Every judgment involving an inactive sales agent is automatically paid without statutory limits
4. D. Registering an assumed business name retroactively makes the judgment automatically eligible

Answer choices

1. A. Cut off a small sample personally because limited disturbance cannot release fibers
2. B. Assume the insulation is safe to disturb unless the contractor can identify asbestos by color
3. C. Avoid disturbing it and have trained professionals evaluate the suspected asbestos-containing material
4. D. Remove the insulation before testing so the laboratory receives a larger sample

Answer choices

1. A. No, because no debt can ever support forced sale of a Texas homestead
2. B. No, because only an unsecured creditor may force sale of a homestead
3. C. Yes, because every personal debt is a constitutionally permitted homestead debt
4. D. Yes, because a properly structured purchase-money lien is among the permitted homestead liens

Answer choices

1. A. Assignment automatically releases the original buyer from every delegated obligation
2. B. Delegation prevents the contractual rights from transferring to the assignee
3. C. The contract becomes an option because another person agreed to perform
4. D. The rights may transfer, but delegation does not automatically release the original buyer from the obligation

Answer choices

1. A. A written agreement with the prospective buyer that satisfies the residential buyer requirements
2. B. Only verbal permission from the listing broker because the buyer has not made an offer
3. C. A Seller's Disclosure Notice signed by the buyer
4. D. No agreement, because written agreements are required only after the first offer is presented

Answer choices

1. A. Ignore the monument and force the numerical distance to control every boundary call
2. B. Use the controlling monument for the disputed call and reconcile the description so it returns to the point of beginning
3. C. Average the monument location and distance endpoint, then substitute the midpoint as a new monument
4. D. Replace the description with a street address because any discrepancy invalidates metes and bounds

Answer choices

1. A. It expires because every future interest terminates with the life tenant
2. B. It remains nonpossessory until a separate fixed lease term ends
3. C. It becomes possessory when Elena's prior life estate ends
4. D. It passes through Elena's estate because Elena held present possession

Answer choices

1. A. $285,000
2. B. $290,000
3. C. $300,000
4. D. $295,000