GA Real Estate study plan
GA Real Estate · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Georgia Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules & Georgia-Specific Agency, Contract, Disclosure, and Advertising Requirements
List from memory the Georgia Real Estate Commission's licensing requirements (age, education, prelicense course, exam, background/fingerprint check) and the steps to obtain and activate a license
Diagram the license status categories (active, inactive, expired, suspended, revoked) and describe the exact reactivation or reinstatement step for each
Sequence the GREC disciplinary process from complaint through citation, hearing, and appeal, naming the rule or statute behind each stage
State the trust and escrow account rules for Georgia licensees, including commingling, conversion, deposit timing, and record retention
Enumerate the Georgia-specific advertising, team-name, and unlicensed-assistant rules and test three sample ads against them
Your checkpoint
One-page license-status and penalty chart plus a 50-question self-quiz on domains 9 and 10 scored at 80% or higher
Laws of Agency and Fiduciary Duties & Contracts and Contract Law
Name and define each fiduciary duty and write one concrete breach scenario for every duty
Classify single agency, dual agency, designated agency, and transaction brokerage under Georgia practice and state when and how each must be disclosed
Deconstruct a purchase and sale agreement into its required elements and separate which terms must be in writing under the Statute of Frauds
Build a timeline of contract contingencies, earnest money deadlines, due diligence periods, and default remedies
Distinguish liquidated damages, specific performance, rescission, and novation using short fact patterns
Your checkpoint
Annotated sample purchase and sale agreement marking every required element and disclosure, plus a 40-item agency-and-contracts problem set with written explanations for each missed item
Real Estate Financing and Lending & Practice of Real Estate, Disclosures, and Consumer Protection
Compute monthly PITI for fixed-rate loans from principal, interest rate, term, taxes, and insurance inputs
Compare conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, and Georgia Housing programs on down payment, mortgage insurance, and borrower eligibility
Map the RESPA and TRID disclosure timing rules, including Loan Estimate delivery windows and the Closing Disclosure three-day rule
Apply Georgia disclosure obligations covering property condition, brokerage engagement, agency relationships, and material fact duties
Identify which practices in a given marketing scenario violate consumer protection and advertising rules
Your checkpoint
PITI worksheet with five fully worked problems plus a one-page loan-program comparison grid, followed by a 30-question quiz scored at 80% or higher
Property Ownership, Land Use Controls, and Environmental Issues & Transfer of Title, Deeds, and Settlement
Distinguish freehold and leasehold estates and compare joint tenancy, tenancy in common, and severalty ownership
Explain police power, eminent domain, taxation, and escheat and give one example of how each restricts land use
Trace a chain of title from given facts, identifying deed type, validity requirements, and the legal effect of recording
Outline the Georgia closing process including title search, title insurance owner's versus lender's policies, and proration mechanics
Classify environmentally sensitive issues (wetlands, lead-based paint, radon, underground storage tanks) and the disclosure each triggers
Your checkpoint
50-question mixed set on domains 1 and 6 scored at 85% or higher, plus a written marketable-title conclusion from a supplied chain-of-title fact pattern
Property Valuation and Market Analysis & Real Estate Calculations
Select and apply the sales comparison, cost-depreciation, and income approaches to value based on property type and available data
Compute net operating income, capitalization rate, gross income multiplier, and gross rent multiplier from given figures
Calculate commission splits, settlement prorations, and acreage or square-footage conversions without a calculator error
Reconcile value indications and explain which approach carries most weight for a given property
Your checkpoint
Timed 25-question calculation set completed in 30 minutes with 90% or higher accuracy
Fair Housing and Landlord-Tenant Law in Georgia & Georgia Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules
Identify the federally protected classes and apply them to rental advertising, screening, and steering scenarios
Explain Georgia landlord-tenant rules on security deposit return timing, habitability, and the dispossessory (eviction) process
Re-audit every missed item from weeks 1 and 2 and convert each miss into a written rule statement
Re-test the highest-risk license law topics (trust accounts, advertising, compensation to unlicensed persons) until no gaps remain
Your checkpoint
A personal error log of 25 entries, each rewritten as a one-sentence rule, plus a 25-question fair housing and landlord-tenant quiz scored at 88% or higher
Property Ownership, Land Use Controls, and Environmental Issues & Property Valuation and Market Analysis & Transfer of Title, Deeds, and Settlement & Real Estate Calculations
Work mixed item sets drawn from the four lower-weight domains until accuracy is uniform across them
Practice blueprint-weighted question blocks that mimic the real domain mix in timed conditions
Isolate and re-drill the three weakest sub-topics revealed by practice scores
Verify you can answer every question type using only the facts in the stem, without outside assumptions
Your checkpoint
Two full-length timed practice exams with a written item analysis identifying the three weakest sub-topics and a remediation list
Georgia Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules & Georgia-Specific Agency, Contract, Disclosure, and Advertising Requirements
Complete at least two full-length timed simulations under exam pacing
Re-verify license law, Commission rules, and Georgia-specific disclosure and advertising requirements until scoring is stable
Review the error log from week 6 and confirm every logged rule is now answered correctly
Finalize exam-day logistics: scheduling, identification, calculator policy, and time-per-question targets
Your checkpoint
Final full-length simulation scored at 85% or higher overall, with every domain at or above 80%
Milestones
Week 2: Score 80% or higher on a 40-question agency and contracts set and correctly label agency type and disclosure duty in 9 of 10 fact patterns
Week 4: Score 80% or higher on a 100-question cumulative exam covering domains 9, 10, 2, 5, 4, 7, 1, and 6
Week 6: Error log contains 25 written rule statements and the fair housing and landlord-tenant quiz is at 88% or higher
Week 8: Two timed full-length simulations completed with an overall score of 85% or higher and no domain below 80%