MTRES - Montana Real Estate Salesperson

Question 1: A Montana licensee asks whether the Board of Realty Regulation can adopt a rule imposing advertising requirements stricter than those the legislature already wrote into the unprofessional-conduct statute. The advertising paragraph itself answers this. What limit does it place on the board?

It may double the standards

It may require font sizes

It sets team-name formats freely

No stricter advertising standards allowed

Question 2: A Kalispell salesperson receives a fifty-dollar citation, does not dispute it within five business days, and later must complete a license application asking whether she has ever been subject to disciplinary action. How should an unopposed Montana citation be characterized?

A reportable disciplinary action

Void once the window closes

Final but not disciplinary action

A license suspension on record

Question 3: When the Board of Realty Regulation finds a licensee committed unprofessional conduct, the actual disciplinary process is governed not by a real-estate-specific statute but by Montana's general professional-licensing discipline law. Which body of law supplies that disciplinary procedure for real estate licensees?

Title 37, chapter 1, part 3

The real estate licensing chapter

The state administrative rules only

The Montana criminal code

Question 4: While auditing routine renewal filings, Montana's department notices a Great Falls broker's advertising appears to omit the firm's name, though no client has ever filed a complaint. May the department open an investigation on these facts, and on what basis?

No, a complaint is required

Yes, but only with subpoena

No, absent a court referral

Yes, on its own motion

Question 5: A licensed Montana broker in Kalispell wishes to oversee and direct the salespersons in the office. Beyond an active broker's license, which additional credential does Montana law require before that broker may lawfully supervise licensed salespersons in the firm?

A supervising broker endorsement

A separate corporate license

A dual-agency consent form

A second salesperson sponsorship

Question 6: A Butte licensee completes several extra continuing education hours beyond the annual minimum and hopes to apply the surplus toward next year's requirement. Under the Board's continuing education rule, how are those excess hours treated when the new licensing year begins?

Surplus rolls into the next year

Half of the surplus carries over

No carry-over credit is granted

Carry-over is allowed once

Question 7: A digital media platform in Montana merely hosts advertisements that owners post to sell their own property, taking no part in negotiating or showing. A newcomer assumes the platform needs a broker license. Which statement about Montana's media-related exemptions is correct?

Digital platforms must be licensed

Only print newspapers are exempt

Exempt only if owners are licensed

The platform is exempt

Question 8: A Montana salesperson in Great Falls now wants to upgrade to a broker license. Apart from added education, the statute imposes an experience requirement measured in time actively working in the field. How long must the applicant have been actively engaged as a licensed salesperson?

One year, or the equivalent

Three years without exception

Two years, or the equivalent

Six months of active practice

Question 9: A Bozeman salesperson secretly arranges to buy a listing herself through a relative's name and never tells the seller she is the true purchaser. Which ground BEST captures the salesperson's failure to reveal that she personally stands behind the offer?

Failing to disclose a personal interest

Acting for two parties without consent

Fraud or dishonest dealing generally

Guaranteeing future resale profits

Question 10: Two Miles City agents pass identical false square-footage figures to buyers. The first agent genuinely believed the figure; the second had seen a survey proving it wrong yet repeated it anyway. Under Montana's exculpatory statute, which best describes their respective liability exposure?

Both agents are fully protected

Neither agent can be held liable

Only the first agent faces liability

Only the second agent faces liability

Question 11: Montana's mirrored duties contain one deliberate asymmetry: the seller agent's disclosure to the buyer concerns the property, while the buyer agent's disclosure to the seller concerns an entirely different subject. What adverse material facts must the buyer agent disclose to the seller?

Defects concerning the listed property

The buyer's ability to perform

The buyer's confidential motivations

The maximum price the buyer accepts

Question 12: Two Montana brokers debate trust-account interest at a continuing-education class. One insists the state forwards it to a housing fund; the other insists the broker automatically keeps every dollar. Which statement BEST states Montana's actual rule on where trust-account interest goes?

The state always takes the interest

The broker keeps it automatically

Interest must be refunded to clients

Broker keeps it under written agreement

Question 13: The post-termination duty to keep a principal's confidences carries a closed set of five exceptions under which disclosure is nonetheless allowed. Which of the following is one of those recognized exceptions that permits a former agent to disclose the information?

Disclosure required by law

A competing agent's written request

The buyer's spoken curiosity

Expiration of the listing period

Question 14: After a listing relationship in Kalispell formally ends, most of the agent's duties expire, but exactly two specific obligations continue beyond termination of the agency. Which pair of duties survives the end of the agency relationship under Montana's agency law?

Loyalty and obeying instructions

Reasonable care and good faith

Accounting and protecting confidences

Disclosure and inspection of property

Question 15: A buyer in Butte later learns a natural death occurred years earlier in the home they purchased and claims the agent should have disclosed it. Reasoning from Montana's definition of adverse material fact, why was that death not a required disclosure?

Deaths are always automatically disclosable

The seller waived the disclosure duty

Only violent deaths require disclosure

It affects none of the defined limbs

Question 16: A Billings broker, badly short on office space, shreds all of his closed-transaction files just a few months after each deal closes in order to reduce clutter. Under Montana's licensing law, which unprofessional-conduct ground does destroying those transaction records violate?

Failing to deliver executed copies

Failing to render an accounting

Failing to keep records

Failing to supervise licensees properly

Question 17: A salesperson in Kalispell resigns from her brokerage on Friday and hopes to keep showing homes over the weekend while she finds a new firm. Under Montana law on termination, what happens to her ability to practice once she leaves the broker?

She may work independently for thirty days

She may not act until relicensed

She keeps practicing under the old license

She may join any showing meanwhile

Question 18: A single broker in Bozeman is asked to represent both the seller and the buyer in the same transaction. Montana permits this arrangement only under a specific precondition before the broker may act for both sides. Which of the following must the broker obtain?

Written consent of both parties

Approval from the state board

Only the seller's written consent

A higher combined commission

Question 19: Once all parties have signed a purchase agreement on a Helena log home, the buyer's licensee holds the fully executed contract but never actually provides the buyer with a completed copy. Which specific documents duty has the licensee failed to perform here?

Recording the executed contract

Keeping the transaction records

Giving legal advice on terms

Delivering an executed copy

Question 20: A salesperson in Great Falls asks where her actual license document is kept, since she never received the original after passing her exam and affiliating with a firm. Under Montana law, who holds custody of a salesperson's license document?

The salesperson herself

Her supervising broker

The Board of Realty Regulation

The county clerk and recorder

MTRES Montana Real Estate Salesperson - Set 1 - Part 1