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GA Real Estate study plan

GA Real Estate · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

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

Week 2

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

Week 3

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

Week 4

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

Week 5

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

Week 6

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

Week 7

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

Week 8

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%