NJRE - New Jersey Real Estate Salesperson License Examination

Question 1: A homeowner in Princeton leases out a basement apartment, grants a neighbor an easement across the driveway, and pledges the property as collateral for a mortgage while keeping the underlying ownership intact. Which of the following describes the collection of distinct ownership interests that can be separated this way?

The bundle of rights

Fee simple defeasible

Allodial title

The doctrine of escheat

Question 2: A seller in Hoboken removes the dining room chandelier the day before closing, replaces it with a bare ceiling socket, and tells the buyer the fixture was personal property. Which of the following items is BEST classified as real property unless the contract states otherwise?

Furniture sitting in the living room

An area rug placed over hardwood

A wired ceiling chandelier

A free-standing refrigerator

Question 3: A buyer in Cherry Hill inspects a colonial home and notices a built-in bookcase bolted to the wall, custom-sized to a specific alcove, and installed by the seller five years ago. Which test would BEST help a court determine whether this item is a fixture that passes with the real estate?

The doctrine of caveat emptor

The rule against perpetuities

The four unities of joint tenancy

The MARIA test

Question 4: A restaurant tenant in Newark installs a custom walk-in cooler, refrigerated display cases, and a bar back, all bolted to the building so the equipment can run the business. At the end of the lease, the tenant wants to remove them. Which doctrine BEST allows that removal?

The doctrine of laches

The trade fixture exception

Adverse possession

The estoppel doctrine

Question 5: A farmer in Hunterdon County plants and tends sweet corn each spring on land she rents under a one-year lease. Mid-season she sells the farm, but the lease continues. Which doctrine BEST identifies the corn as the tenant's personal property she may harvest?

The doctrine of emblements

The doctrine of escheat

The doctrine of laches

The doctrine of merger

Question 6: A surveyor describes a parcel in rural Sussex County by reciting a point of beginning, then a series of compass bearings and distances that close back at the starting point, identifying natural and artificial monuments along the way. Which method of legal description is being used?

Government survey method

Recorded plat method

Metes and bounds

Street address only

Question 7: A developer in Bergen County records a subdivision map showing one hundred numbered building lots, each tied to a specific block, with public streets and easements drawn in. Future deeds in this subdivision reference only the lot, block, and recorded map. Which legal description method is in use?

Metes and bounds

Government rectangular survey

Bench-mark elevation method

Lot and block

Question 8: A buyer is looking at land in Iowa described by reference to a principal meridian, a base line, a township number, a range number, and a section number that yield a 640-acre quadrant. Which system of legal description does this language reflect?

Metes and bounds

Government rectangular survey

Lot and block

Street address recital

Question 9: A title company in Trenton must precisely identify a small triangular lot carved out of an older estate where the boundary jogs and follows an old stone wall. The lot is not part of any recorded subdivision. Which legal description method would BEST handle this parcel?

Metes and bounds

Government rectangular survey

Lot and block

Street address description

Question 10: An owner in Atlantic City lists every classic stick from the bundle when discussing what she gives up in a long-term ground lease, including possession, control, enjoyment, exclusion, and disposition. Which acronym BEST captures this same group of ownership rights?

DUST

MARIA

PCEED

PETE

Question 11: A licensed contractor in Edison records a claim against a single residential property for unpaid renovation work, attaching the claim specifically to that parcel rather than to all property owned by the debtor. Which classification of lien BEST describes what the contractor filed?

A general involuntary lien

A voluntary blanket lien

An equitable life estate

A specific involuntary lien

Question 12: A homeowner in Toms River signs a mortgage to finance the purchase of a shore property, voluntarily pledging the property as security for repayment of the loan. The lender records the document in the county. Which classification of lien did the homeowner create?

A general involuntary lien

A specific voluntary lien

A statutory tax lien

A judgment lien on all property

Question 13: An owner in Camden faces multiple recorded encumbrances on the same parcel, including a property tax delinquency, a first mortgage, and a recorded judgment from a personal injury lawsuit. When the property is sold at a sheriff's sale, which lien generally takes the highest priority?

The municipal property tax lien

The first mortgage

The recorded personal injury judgment

Whichever lien was recorded first

Question 14: A title examiner reviewing a Bergen County parcel finds two recorded mortgages, one from 2018 and one from 2022, plus a recorded mechanic's lien filed in 2020. No tax liens are outstanding. Among the three private liens, which one would generally have the highest priority?

The 2022 mortgage

The 2020 mechanic's lien

The 2018 mortgage

All three share equal priority

Question 15: A jury in Mercer County enters a money judgment against a defendant who owns three separate parcels in the county. After the clerk dockets the judgment, the prevailing party records nothing further. Which classification of lien now attaches to all three parcels?

A specific voluntary lien on each parcel

A homestead exemption

A mechanic's lien against one parcel

A general involuntary lien

Question 16: A landlocked parcel in rural Hunterdon County has the legal right to use a paved driveway across the neighbor's land to reach the public road. The right runs with the land and transfers to any future owner of the landlocked parcel. Which of the following BEST identifies this interest?

An easement in gross

An easement appurtenant

A revocable license

A profit à prendre

Question 17: A pipeline company holds a recorded right to run a natural gas line across a series of parcels in Burlington County. The right benefits the pipeline operator personally and does not require the company to own any adjacent land. Which of the following BEST classifies that interest?

An easement in gross

An easement appurtenant

An encroachment

A leasehold estate

Question 18: A homeowner in Westfield discovers that her neighbor's wooden fence was built three feet over the surveyed boundary line, sitting on a strip of her front yard without any recorded easement or written permission. Which of the following BEST identifies the neighbor's situation?

An easement by necessity

A profit à prendre

An encroachment

A reversionary interest

Question 19: A resident in Morristown has openly used a beaten footpath across the back of a neighbor's lot for more than twenty years, continuously and without permission, to reach a public park. New Jersey law could allow a court to recognize this use as which type of property right?

An easement in gross by deed

A license that becomes a lease

An encroachment by acceptance

An easement by prescription

Question 20: A property owner in Princeton lets a friend keep a small sailboat on a back corner of the lot for the summer, with a spoken understanding that the owner can cancel at any time and the friend has no enforceable right to stay. Which of the following BEST identifies this arrangement?

An easement appurtenant

A revocable license

A leasehold estate

An easement by necessity

NJRE New Jersey Real Estate Salesperson License Examination - Set 1 - Part 1

Question 2: A seller in Hoboken removes the dining room chandelier the day before closing, replaces it with a bare ceiling socket, and tells the buyer the fixture was personal property. Which of the following items is BEST classified as real property unless the contract states otherwise?

Question 3: A buyer in Cherry Hill inspects a colonial home and notices a built-in bookcase bolted to the wall, custom-sized to a specific alcove, and installed by the seller five years ago. Which test would BEST help a court determine whether this item is a fixture that passes with the real estate?

Question 4: A restaurant tenant in Newark installs a custom walk-in cooler, refrigerated display cases, and a bar back, all bolted to the building so the equipment can run the business. At the end of the lease, the tenant wants to remove them. Which doctrine BEST allows that removal?

Question 5: A farmer in Hunterdon County plants and tends sweet corn each spring on land she rents under a one-year lease. Mid-season she sells the farm, but the lease continues. Which doctrine BEST identifies the corn as the tenant's personal property she may harvest?

Question 6: A surveyor describes a parcel in rural Sussex County by reciting a point of beginning, then a series of compass bearings and distances that close back at the starting point, identifying natural and artificial monuments along the way. Which method of legal description is being used?

Question 8: A buyer is looking at land in Iowa described by reference to a principal meridian, a base line, a township number, a range number, and a section number that yield a 640-acre quadrant. Which system of legal description does this language reflect?

Question 9: A title company in Trenton must precisely identify a small triangular lot carved out of an older estate where the boundary jogs and follows an old stone wall. The lot is not part of any recorded subdivision. Which legal description method would BEST handle this parcel?

Question 10: An owner in Atlantic City lists every classic stick from the bundle when discussing what she gives up in a long-term ground lease, including possession, control, enjoyment, exclusion, and disposition. Which acronym BEST captures this same group of ownership rights?

Question 11: A licensed contractor in Edison records a claim against a single residential property for unpaid renovation work, attaching the claim specifically to that parcel rather than to all property owned by the debtor. Which classification of lien BEST describes what the contractor filed?

Question 12: A homeowner in Toms River signs a mortgage to finance the purchase of a shore property, voluntarily pledging the property as security for repayment of the loan. The lender records the document in the county. Which classification of lien did the homeowner create?

Question 13: An owner in Camden faces multiple recorded encumbrances on the same parcel, including a property tax delinquency, a first mortgage, and a recorded judgment from a personal injury lawsuit. When the property is sold at a sheriff's sale, which lien generally takes the highest priority?

Question 14: A title examiner reviewing a Bergen County parcel finds two recorded mortgages, one from 2018 and one from 2022, plus a recorded mechanic's lien filed in 2020. No tax liens are outstanding. Among the three private liens, which one would generally have the highest priority?

Question 15: A jury in Mercer County enters a money judgment against a defendant who owns three separate parcels in the county. After the clerk dockets the judgment, the prevailing party records nothing further. Which classification of lien now attaches to all three parcels?

Question 16: A landlocked parcel in rural Hunterdon County has the legal right to use a paved driveway across the neighbor's land to reach the public road. The right runs with the land and transfers to any future owner of the landlocked parcel. Which of the following BEST identifies this interest?

Question 17: A pipeline company holds a recorded right to run a natural gas line across a series of parcels in Burlington County. The right benefits the pipeline operator personally and does not require the company to own any adjacent land. Which of the following BEST classifies that interest?

Question 18: A homeowner in Westfield discovers that her neighbor's wooden fence was built three feet over the surveyed boundary line, sitting on a strip of her front yard without any recorded easement or written permission. Which of the following BEST identifies the neighbor's situation?

Question 19: A resident in Morristown has openly used a beaten footpath across the back of a neighbor's lot for more than twenty years, continuously and without permission, to reach a public park. New Jersey law could allow a court to recognize this use as which type of property right?

Question 20: A property owner in Princeton lets a friend keep a small sailboat on a back corner of the lot for the summer, with a spoken understanding that the owner can cancel at any time and the friend has no enforceable right to stay. Which of the following BEST identifies this arrangement?

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