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Reading Materials

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While we include reading materials with course enrollment, you may purchase the reading material without enrolling in a course.

Real Estate Matters

A collection of real estate topics, written to update the reader about ongoing issues which currently affect California real estate transaction. Topics include notes and trust deeds, buyer's purchase agreements and contingencies, disclosure requirements, and tax and legal aspects of current concern.

Buying Homes in Foreclosure

On completion, you will be able to properly document and advise an investor on the purchase of seller-occupied, one-to-four unit residential property in foreclosure. As bankruptcies increase, foreclosures will rise in their wake.

Tax Benefits of Ownership

Attain the impressive ability to advise clients about the current tax rules on any real estate sale or reinvestment transactions. The advice will help you to reduce your client's income taxes and build a more dedicated client base for yourself. No math, only concepts and their application in updated examples.

Limited Liability for Group Investments

Build your estate. Earn fees and accumulate wealth as a real estate syndicator. Develop investment groups and control large income properties following a time honored, step-by-step process. With the LLC liability shield and tax benefits, everyone wins!

Creating Carryback Financing

Explore for yourself the correct ways to structure the seller's extension of credit to a buyer on the sale of any type of property. The book fully reviews the financial benefits and risks, the legal consequences, and the deferred tax impact of carrying paper. You will create more deals, especially during periods of high interest rates or credit crunches.

The §1031 Reinvestment Plan

Gain the confidence needed to work with an investor at any stage of a §1031 reinvestment plan. The material provides a complete, unabridged discussion about the reinvestment of the proceeds from a sale in a replacement property by all the congressional and court authorized techniques. Concurrent and delayed replacement in a §1031 transaction, properly accomplished either with or without a safe harbor intermediary, is given full treatment.

Landlords, Tenants and Property Management

Studying this course will dramatically increase your competency for handling all legal aspects of both residential and nonresidential landlord-tenant relationships. Best of all, the long-term and recession-proof occupation of income property management and leasing is a consistent moneymaker.

Rights of Ownership

Develop a fundamental understanding of the rights and obligations of a property owner with an eye on adjacent property owner issues regarding common driveways, fence locations, trees and other improvements as encroachments, and nuisances interfering with the right of quiet enjoyment. Issues of trepass, water rights, theft of real estate, vesting, homesteads, rent skimming and asset protection come to life in our easy to understand examples of right and wrong conduct. This is an abridged CE edition of Legal Aspects of Real Estate.

Due Diligence and Disclosures

Discover how you can expand and even perfect your ability as a real estate agent to document disclosures by using the correct forms. Forms are presented as checklists to assist you in the preparation of listing and purchase agreements to help you better understand all the contractual aspects of a California real estate sales transaction. This is an abridged CE edition of Real Estate Practice.

Real Estate Practice

Learn how to use the correct forms to make disclosures, present an analysis or enter into a listing or agreement on any aspect of a real estate sales transaction.

Each form is treated as a checklist of items and provisions to be considered when using the form in a proposed transaction, with supporting guidelines and rules for their use.

Real Estate Finance

Discover what every bright real estate agent should know about private lending and carryback sales, including types of notes and trust deeds, the application of their provisions, as well as seller financing schemes.
Plus, the private and judicial foreclosure procedures, all the varieties of FHA, VA and Cal-Vet loans, private mortgage insurance and financing related tax aspects. No math involved; only concepts.

Property Management

The detailed rules for leasing and renting both residential and nonresidential income properties are thoroughly examined. These rules are applied in hundreds of vivid landlord/tenant situations encountered daily by managers and leasing agents.

Plus, all forms and notices required to establish management and leasing agencies; to create, manage and terminate tenancies; and to preserve rent obligations for collection.

Legal Aspects of Real Estate

The ownership and conveyancing in California of estates and rights held in real estate. All vestings are fully reviewed, including living trusts and the LLC as an asset preservation vehicle. Also reviewed is the role of title insurance as a necessity in conveyancing and lending, and the water rights of landowners. Includes: liens on an owner's title, slander of title, and partition by co-owners; boundary disputes, maintenance of common driveways, easements, encroachments and nuisances affecting adjoining property owners.

A special section on real estate syndication includes real estate and trust deed investments for a small group of investors, earnings of the syndicator, formation of the LLC, management an much more.

Note: To order these books separately you must be a current or prior student.