California Real Estate Salesperson

A seller and buyer disagree about whether a built-in cabinet is a fixture, and their contract is silent. Which factor is especially important in determining fixture status?

A commercial tenant installs removable shelving for its business. Under the usual trade-fixture rule, what is the tenant generally entitled to do?

Which estate ordinarily gives its owner the broadest ownership interest for an indefinite duration?

A life tenant deliberately destroys a valuable permanent improvement and substantially harms the future owner's interest. Which concept is most relevant?

An owner conveys a life estate to a friend and retains the interest that returns when the friend dies. What is the retained interest?

Two owners hold California real property in a valid joint tenancy. One dies without having severed that tenancy. What normally happens to the deceased owner's joint-tenancy interest?

Three investors want unequal ownership shares that each can leave to heirs. Which form of co-ownership ordinarily fits those objectives?

Under California's general community-property rule, which acquisition is ordinarily separate property rather than community property?

A recorded driveway easement benefits one parcel and burdens the neighboring parcel. The right is attached to the benefited land. What type of easement is this?

A utility holds an easement for its transmission lines that benefits the utility rather than a neighboring dominant parcel. How is the easement generally classified?

Parcel A has the right to use a path across Parcel B. In this easement relationship, which parcel is the servient tenement?

A buyer suspects that a neighbor's garage extends across the boundary. Which investigation most directly addresses the physical boundary issue?

A recorded declaration restricts exterior paint colors in a common interest development. What is the source of this type of control?

A city limits building height and permitted land uses through zoning. Which governmental power generally supports these regulations?

A public agency acquires private land for a public road through a lawful compulsory acquisition. Which concept ordinarily requires just compensation?

A person dies owning property, with no valid disposition and no legal heirs entitled to inherit. Which governmental right may eventually apply?

An assessment is described as an ad valorem property tax. What does ad valorem mean?

A parcel has unusual physical limitations, and its owner seeks relief from a dimensional zoning requirement without changing the zoning district. Which application is most directly relevant?

A building's lawful existing use no longer conforms to a newly adopted zoning rule. How is the use commonly described?

A developer says that a locally approved subdivision map automatically replaces every California DRE public-report requirement. Which response is correct?