MRES Massachusetts Real Estate Salesperson Exam - Set 4 - 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: A landlord deliberately shuts off a tenant's heat and hot water to pressure the tenant to leave. Which tenant protection does this conduct most directly violate?

The duty of confidentiality

The covenant against encumbrances

The doctrine of laches

The covenant of quiet enjoyment

Question 42: Soon after a tenant reports code violations to the board of health, the landlord moves to raise the rent and evict. The law presumes this is improper within a set window. What is it called?

Constructive eviction

Adverse possession

Retaliation

Subrogation

Question 43: Massachusetts tax and registration rules for short-term rentals apply to occupancies of a limited length booked in advance. A short-term rental is generally defined as an occupancy of how long?

Thirty-one days or fewer

Ninety days or fewer

One year or fewer

Six months or fewer

Question 44: A Massachusetts owner begins renting a unit as a short-term rental. The law requires the operator to carry a minimum amount of a particular protection for each short-term rental. What is required?

Flood insurance on the building

Title insurance for the guest

A performance bond

One million dollars in liability insurance

Question 45: Under a recent Massachusetts law, a landlord engages a broker to find a tenant for the landlord's apartment. Who may be charged the broker's fee for this rental?

The tenant, as has long been customary

The party who engaged the broker

Whichever party the broker prefers

The tenant and landlord, split evenly

Question 46: The main Massachusetts statute protecting consumers makes unfair or deceptive acts or practices in trade or commerce unlawful and lets harmed consumers sue. This statute is commonly known as what?

The Statute of Frauds

The Subdivision Control Law

The Consumer Protection Act

The Wetlands Protection Act

Question 47: Before most consumers may sue a business under the Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, the law requires a particular preliminary step. What must the consumer generally do first?

Send a written demand letter

File a criminal complaint

Record a lien on the business

Obtain an appraisal of the loss

Question 48: A real estate brokerage suffers a data breach exposing clients' personal information. Under Massachusetts law, the firm must notify the affected residents and which authorities?

The registry of deeds only

The local police only

The appraiser board only

The Attorney General and consumer affairs office

Question 49: Massachusetts requires a business that holds residents' personal information to maintain a documented program of safeguards to protect that data. What is this required program commonly called?

A comparative market analysis

A management agreement

A written information security program

A property condition report

Question 50: A seller tells a licensee the home's square footage, and the licensee repeats it to a buyer as fact without checking. It proves wrong. How could the licensee best have avoided liability?

By promising the figure was accurate

By verifying or crediting the seller

By repeating it more confidently

By disclosing it only at closing

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