MIRES - Michigan Real Estate Salesperson Exam

Question 1: A candidate studying for the Michigan salesperson examination wants to know how the Board of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons is put together before she writes to it about a rule change. Which of the following describes the voting membership of that board?

Seven voting members

Five voting members

Nine voting members

Eleven voting members

Question 2: A Michigan associate broker in Traverse City is nominated for a seat on the Board of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons, and her colleagues at the office ask who actually makes the appointment. Which of the following correctly identifies how a member reaches that board?

The department director alone

The governor, with senate consent

The sitting board members

A statewide licensee election

Question 3: A member of the Board of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons resigns midway through her service, and a Grand Rapids broker who follows board business asks how long the replacement will serve and how quickly the seat must be filled. Which of the following states the rule?

The unexpired remainder, filled within sixty days

The unexpired remainder, filled within six months

A new four-year term, within sixty days

A new four-year term, within ninety days

Question 4: The Board of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons has nine appointed and serving members. Four attend a scheduled meeting in Lansing, and a fifth sends written authority for a colleague to cast her vote. Which of the following describes what the board may do that day?

Proceed, since four is a working majority

Proceed on uncontested items only

Nothing, for want of a quorum

Proceed, counting the written proxy

Question 5: The department proposes to place a limitation on a Michigan licensee's credential and forwards the proposal to the board, which then takes no action at all for more than two months. Which of the following describes what the department may do about that silence?

Refer the matter to the attorney general

Act, because sixty days have passed

Wait for an express board vote

Treat the silence as rejection

Question 6: A woman in Ann Arbor is paid by a licensed broker to show listings, discuss terms with prospective buyers, and negotiate offers on the broker's behalf. Which of the following Michigan credentials describes the license she must hold to be paid for that work?

Real estate salesperson

Limited real estate appraiser

Real estate broker

Associate real estate broker

Question 7: A Michigan corporation applies for a real estate broker's license so it can open a brokerage in Novi, and its two control persons ask what credentials they personally need before they begin listing property for sellers. Which of the following states the requirement?

A salesperson license is enough

Each principal needs an associate broker license

Only one principal must be licensed

The entity license covers them

Question 8: A Kalamazoo broker's license is revoked after a disciplinary hearing, and the six salespersons who worked in her office want to know what happens to their own credentials while they look for a new firm. Which of the following describes the effect on them?

Converted to broker licenses

Unaffected until each one expires

Revoked along with the broker's

Automatically suspended pending a new employer

Question 9: A retired schoolteacher in Marquette lists and sells the duplex she has owned for thirty years, handling the negotiation herself and paying no commission to anyone. Which of the following best explains her position under Michigan's real estate licensing article?

Exempt as an owner selling her own

She needs a salesperson license

Exempt only with a lawyer involved

She needs a broker license

Question 10: A licensed Michigan salesperson in Warren wants to hang a second license with another brokerage on weekends so he can work commercial listings there while keeping his residential business at his current firm. Which of the following states what Michigan permits?

Two, if the counties differ

Two, if both brokers consent

Two, if the property types differ

Only one license at a time

Question 11: A prospective licensee in Lansing has finished her prelicensure coursework and asks her instructor how many approved classroom clock hours Michigan requires before she may apply for a salesperson license. Which of the following states the correct number of hours?

Sixty clock hours

Thirty clock hours

Forty clock hours

Ninety clock hours

Question 12: A Michigan prelicensure school in Flint is building the curriculum for its salesperson course and must set aside part of the required hours for one subject the statute names specifically. Which of the following identifies that subject and its share of the hours?

Eight hours on Michigan license law

Nine hours on civil rights law

Four hours on trust accounts

Four hours on civil rights law

Question 13: A man completed his forty hours of Michigan prelicensure education, then moved out of state for work and returned four years later still wanting to apply for a salesperson license. Which of the following describes the standing of that old coursework?

Revived by a late application fee

Valid indefinitely once passed

Stale, since thirty-six months have passed

Valid for five full years

Question 14: A candidate passed the Michigan salesperson examination administered by PSI but then delayed filing her application while she finished out a lease in another state. Which of the following describes how long that passing score will support her license application?

Thirty-six months, matching the coursework

Three years, matching the license cycle

Ninety days from the score report

One year from the examination date

Question 15: A broker whose main office sits in Petoskey opens a second staffed office in Sault Ste. Marie, well over a hundred miles north of the first one. Which of the following describes what Michigan requires of the brokerage because of that distance?

Nothing beyond main office supervision

A second broker license for the branch

An associate broker regularly present there

Weekly written reports to the department

Question 16: A newly licensed salesperson in Midland asks her broker how long her Michigan license will run before she has to renew it and complete her required education. Which of the following states the length of the Michigan real estate license cycle?

One year

Four years

Two years

Three years

Question 17: A Michigan salesperson in Battle Creek is planning her continuing education for the current cycle and wants to know the total she must finish before the department will let her renew. Which of the following states the required number of clock hours?

Eighteen clock hours

Twelve clock hours

Six clock hours

Twenty-four clock hours

Question 18: A Michigan licensee in Saginaw plans to take all of her continuing education in the final months of the cycle so she can concentrate on production the rest of the time. Which of the following explains why that plan fails under the current rule?

Courses must be spread evenly

Only nine hours count yearly

Two subjects carry annual minimums

The department must preapprove it

Question 19: A licensee in Royal Oak enjoyed a fair housing class so much that she took the identical course again in the second year of her cycle, hoping to add hours toward her renewal total. Which of the following describes the credit she earns?

Full credit toward the annual hour

Half credit for a repeat

Credit under a different instructor

No additional hours at all

Question 20: A Michigan broker in Dearborn certified her continuing education compliance when she renewed and now wonders how long she must keep the completion certificates in case the department audits her renewal. Which of the following states that retention period?

One full license cycle

Until the renewal is issued

Four years after the certification

Three years after the certification

MIRES Michigan Real Estate Salesperson Exam - Set 1 - Part 1