PRES Pennsylvania Real Estate Salesperson Examination - Set 1 - Part 1
Test your knowledge of technical writing concepts with these practice questions. Each question includes detailed explanations to help you understand the correct answers.
Question 1: A seller agrees to include the free-standing washer and dryer in a home sale. Which document transfers ownership of these movable items to the buyer?
Question 2: A built-in dishwasher was once sold as an appliance but is now plumbed and wired into the kitchen. What has this item become through its attachment?
Question 3: A buyer and seller dispute whether a custom bookcase bolted into a wall alcove stays with the house. Which legal tests would a court apply to decide?
Question 4: A restaurant tenant in Pittsburgh bolts a walk-in cooler and prep stations into leased space to run the business. How does the law classify this equipment?
Question 5: A tenant farmer near Lancaster plants and tends a yearly corn crop, then the land is sold before harvest. What is the growing corn considered?
Question 6: An owner leases a unit, grants a utility easement, and mortgages the property while keeping ownership. Which concept describes these separable interests an owner can divide?
Question 7: Two streets of nearly identical homes face each other across a river, yet one side commands higher prices. Which economic characteristic of land best explains this?
Question 8: A homeowner along a flowing stream near State College claims the right to reasonable use of the water passing the property. Which doctrine grants this right?
Question 9: A Pennsylvania deed conveys the surface to a buyer while the grantor keeps the gas and coal beneath. Which type of property right has been retained here?
Question 10: A river gradually deposits soil along a parcel's bank over many years, slowly enlarging the land. By what process does the owner gain this new ground?
Question 11: A Pennsylvania deed traces the boundary by direction and distance from a fixed starting corner and returns to that corner. Which description method is being used?
Question 12: In a metes-and-bounds description, a stated distance conflicts with the location of an iron pin set as a marker. As a rule of construction, which controls?
Question 13: A developer records a plat dividing a tract into numbered lots and blocks in a county office. How may an individual parcel now be legally described?
Question 14: A buyer wants assurance that a new fence and driveway sit within the boundaries and reveal any encroachment before closing. Which professional service provides this?
Question 15: A condominium declaration fixes the floor and ceiling of each unit by elevation above a reference plane. What is that established plane of elevation called?
Question 16: A city enforces a zoning ordinance that reduces a vacant lot's value but leaves a reasonable use, without paying the owner. Which governmental power is this?
Question 17: A state highway department takes a strip of private land to widen a road and pays the owner fair market value. Which power is being exercised?
Question 18: An owner dies leaving no will and no locatable heirs, and the property has no rightful claimant. Under which power does the land pass to the state?
Question 19: Government action permanently floods a parcel and destroys its use, but no formal condemnation was filed. What action may the owner bring to recover compensation?
Question 20: A service station lawfully operated for years, then new zoning barred such uses, yet the station is allowed to continue. What is this continued use called?
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