This course is an overview of Texas real estate salesperson and broker licensing, ethics of practice, titles to and conveyance of real estate, legal descriptions, deeds, encumbrances and liens, and distinctions between personal and real property. Also included are discussions of appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, real estate mathematics, transfer of title, investment, title records, closing, leasing, property management, land use as well as federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination and community reinvestment.

A continuation of Principles and Practices One, this course includes discussions of appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, real estate mathematic, transfer of title, investment, title records, closing, leasing, property management, and land use federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination and community reinvestment. Instruction offers an overview of licensing as a real estate broker and salesperson, ethics of practice, titles to and conveyance of real estate, legal descriptions, law of agency, deeds, encumbrances and liens, distinctions between personal and real property, contracts, appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, and real estate mathematics. Also includes federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination and community reinvestment.

This course satisfies the requirement for 30 hours of core courses. Topics to be covered are principal-agent and master-servant relationships, the authority of an agent, termination of an agent's authority, fiduciary, and other duties of an agent, employment law, deceptive trade practices, listing or buying representation procedures, and the disclosure of agency. This course provides a study of legal concepts of real estate, land description, real property rights, estates in land, contracts, conveyances, encumbrances, foreclosures, recording procedures and evidence of title.

This comprehensive study of all real estate contracts in use in Texas, covers listing agreements, earnest money contracts, leases and formation of contracts and teaches the importance of each clause. Using case studies, students will become adept at completing contracts of sale involving all cash, assumptions, conventional and government loans. Students will complete contracts involving unimproved land, new construction, farm and ranch properties, townhouses, condominiums, and single family dwellings. Course topics include the statute of frauds, remedies for a breach, sellers disclosures, unauthorized practice of law, how and when to obtain the assistance of a title company, a loan officer, and attorneys. This course covers real estate contracts/principles involved in promulgated contracts. Included are contracts for VA, FHA, conventional, and owner financed.

This course deals with both commercial and residential markets and includes such topics as real estate professionalism and ethics, characteristics of successful salespersons, time management, psychology of marketing, listing procedures, advertising, negotiating and closing, financing, computer technology, and the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.