CRS study plan

Write a one-page map of each fiduciary duty (care, obedience, loyalty, disclosure, confidentiality, accounting) with two concrete broker behaviors that satisfy and two that breach each duty.

Distinguish in writing between a standard-of-care failure and an ethics violation across five scenarios you author yourself.

Recite from memory, in correct order, the path a complaint takes from filing through investigation to discipline and appeal.

Draft a personal decision checklist for conflicted situations such as dual agency, referral compensation, and advertising claims.

Apply the week-1 ethics checklist to eight contract-adjacent situations: property-condition disclosure, compensation changes mid-transaction, and dealing with an unrepresented party.

Identify the elements required for an enforceable contract and label each element inside a purchase agreement outline you write from scratch.

List ten contract terms that must be in writing and explain in one sentence why each prevents a dispute.

Build a plain-language glossary of 25 contract and agency terms without copying any source wording.

Sequence a complete transaction from listing agreement to closing, assigning an owner (agent, broker, lender, title, or client) to every deadline and contingency.

Compute five proration and closing-cost problems by hand, then verify each in a spreadsheet and explain any difference.

Write a contingency-removal checklist and name three realistic failure points for each major contingency.

Draft one buyer-side and one seller-side negotiation plan covering interests, walk-away point, and a three-step concession ladder.

Build a comparable adjustment grid and run it on six properties, justifying each adjustment in one line.

Match the sales-comparison, cost, and income approaches to five property types and state why the others fit poorly.

Calculate net operating income, capitalization rate, and gross rent multiplier from given figures without a formula sheet.

Write a client-facing explanation of why list price and appraised value diverge, in under 200 words.

Construct a 12-month absorption-rate and months-of-inventory analysis from a dataset you assemble yourself.

Write a one-page market-conditions summary a seller could actually read and act on.

Compare the common listing agreement types and name the duties and termination rights each creates.

Identify five pricing errors sellers make and the market evidence that corrects each.

Map the buyer-representation workflow from needs assessment through showings and offer, marking every point where agency status must be disclosed.

Write ten fair-housing-safe advertising and showing practices and flag five common violations with the correction for each.

Outline a listing presentation covering pricing rationale, marketing plan, and disclosure obligations.

Prepare six discovery questions for a buyer consultation and script the follow-up to each answer.

Build a one-page business budget linking income goal, commission split, operating expenses, and break-even transaction count.

Compute break-even deals and net income under two different split structures and state which favors a new agent.

Select five technology tools (CRM, e-signature, CMA, transaction management) and justify each against data-security and client-privacy criteria.

Audit a social media post template against advertising and fair-housing rules and rewrite it to be compliant.

Complete two full-length timed practice exams and log every miss by domain and by error type (knowledge gap, misread, formula slip).

Re-drill the two weakest topics until repeat accuracy reaches 90%.

Recite from memory a single five-step framework for attacking ethics, contract, and pricing questions.

Compress all formulas, statutory deadlines, and core duties onto one page you can review in ten minutes.