IRES Iowa Real Estate Salesperson - Set 1 - Part 3
Test your knowledge of technical writing concepts with these practice questions. Each question includes detailed explanations to help you understand the correct answers.
Question 41: An unlicensed leasing assistant at a Waterloo brokerage regularly fills in and signs standard preprinted rental agreements for apartments the firm manages. A new hire questions whether this crosses into licensed activity. Which characterization of that task is correct under Iowa's rule?
Question 42: Along with the declaration of value, an Iowa seller must submit a statement addressing wells, burial sites, and underground storage tanks. Sellers sometimes assume this document goes to the buyer. Under section 558.69, to whom is the groundwater hazard statement actually submitted?
Question 43: During a residential sale in Davenport, the listing broker's unlicensed assistant is handed the buyer's earnest-money check at the office and asked to keep it until closing. Under the Iowa unlicensed-assistant rule, may the assistant collect or hold that money?
Question 44: A court in Council Bluffs orders the sale of real property as part of a probate proceeding, and the personal representative wonders whether a chapter 558A condition disclosure is required. Which of the following transfers is exempt from the seller disclosure requirement?
Question 45: A broker in Cedar Rapids employs an unlicensed personal assistant to help manage several rental houses. The assistant asks which money-handling task the Iowa rules permit her to perform without a licence. Which of the following may this unlicensed assistant lawfully do?
Question 46: After the 2025 amendment to Iowa's fair housing law, a landlord asks whether it is still unlawful to refuse a rental because a prospective tenant is gay or lesbian. Which protected class continues to bar that refusal under the Iowa Civil Rights Act?
Question 47: A property in Dubuque is being conveyed by quitclaim deed, and the parties ask whether the seller must still prepare the chapter 558A condition disclosure statement for this particular conveyance. Under Iowa's exemption list, is a quitclaim deed transfer exempt from the disclosure?
Question 48: The Iowa seller property condition disclosure requirement does not apply to certain listed transfers, and the statute enumerates these exempt transfers as lettered paragraphs running from paragraph a onward. Under section 558A.1, how many separate exempt transfer categories does the chapter list?
Question 49: The core housing provision of the Iowa Civil Rights Act lists the personal characteristics a seller or landlord may not use to refuse, deny, or otherwise make housing unavailable to a prospective buyer or renter. How many protected classes does that core provision currently name?
Question 50: A Cedar Rapids homeowner is selling a suburban single-family house and must complete Iowa's written statement describing the property's known condition and defects before an offer is made or accepted. Under chapter 558A, who is the intended recipient of this disclosure?
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