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LA Real Estate · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Louisiana Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules & Law of Agency and Agency Relationships

  • Map the Louisiana Real Estate Commission's licensing structure (salesperson vs. broker, sponsorship, license maintenance) into an annotated outline

  • Define each fiduciary duty (care, obedience, loyalty, disclosure, confidentiality, accounting, reasonable skill) and write a one-line Louisiana-specific example for each

  • Distinguish the types of agency (single, dual, designated, subagency, transaction brokerage) and record which are permitted or restricted under Louisiana rules

  • Build a 40-term flashcard deck covering license law and agency vocabulary

Your checkpoint

A 4-6 page typed outline of Domains 1 and 2 with a 40-card flashcard deck, self-quizzed to 80% or better

Week 2

Louisiana Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules & Law of Agency and Agency Relationships

  • Explain Louisiana license law requirements for advertising, office location, and record retention, citing the rule category for each

  • Trace the disciplinary process from complaint through hearing and appeal, listing the possible sanctions

  • Analyze disclosure obligations in agency relationships, including the Louisiana agency disclosure timing rules

  • Complete 60 practice questions split evenly between Domains 1 and 2, and log every miss with the underlying rule

Your checkpoint

An error log of at least 20 missed items with corrected rule statements, plus a 60-question score of 75% or higher

Week 3

Contracts, Financing, and Closing

  • Outline the required elements and statute-of-frauds issues for Louisiana purchase agreements, including the state's civil-law treatment of oral agreements

  • Compare the standard financing instruments (FHA, VA, conventional, USDA) on down payment, insurance, and appraisal requirements

  • Sequence the closing process from offer acceptance to recording, naming each document produced at each step

  • Solve 10 proration and settlement-statement calculations for taxes, rent, and interest

Your checkpoint

A one-page closing timeline flowchart plus a worked set of 10 calculations, all correct on a second pass

Week 4

Contracts, Financing, and Closing & Louisiana Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules

  • Identify which contract and closing documents a Louisiana licensee may and may not prepare without practicing law

  • Rehearse promissory-note, mortgage, and closing-disclosure terminology by matching 30 terms to definitions

  • Revisit the 10 highest-miss license-law items from week 2 and restate each rule from memory

  • Take a timed 50-question mixed set from Domains 1 and 3

Your checkpoint

A timed 50-question mixed set scored at 78% or higher, with a written summary of remaining weak spots

Week 5

Property Ownership, Transfer, and Valuation

  • Classify estates in land and forms of ownership (severalty, co-ownership, marital property regimes) with a Louisiana example of each

  • Describe the recording system, title transfer methods, and title insurance basics well enough to explain to a client

  • Compute the three appraisal approaches and select the correct approach for five given property scenarios

  • Solve 10 proration-free math problems covering area, capitalization, and gross rent multiplier

Your checkpoint

A two-page ownership-and-valuation reference sheet plus 10 valuation problems solved with shown work

Week 6

Practice, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance & Property Ownership, Transfer, and Valuation

  • Apply fair-housing and advertising rules to 10 short fact patterns and identify the violation or the compliant choice

  • Outline anti-money-laundering, RESPA, and antitrust limits as they apply to a licensee's daily practice and record keeping

  • Distinguish the licensee's ethical duties from legal duties in five scenarios involving misrepresentation or undisclosed dual compensation

  • Re-review Domain 4 transfer and valuation concepts missed on the week 5 deliverable

Your checkpoint

A 10-scenario ethics work product with a citation to the governing principle for each answer

Week 7

Louisiana Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules & Law of Agency and Agency Relationships & Contracts, Financing, and Closing & Property Ownership, Transfer, and Valuation & Practice, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance

  • Diagnose weak domains by taking two full-length timed practice exams and charting results by domain

  • Rebuild any domain scoring below 75% into a rewritten one-page summary in your own words

  • Drill 100 rapid-fire terms pulled only from your accumulated error log

  • Practice eliminating answer choices on 20 missed questions to identify pattern errors rather than knowledge gaps

Your checkpoint

A domain-by-domain score chart across two practice exams plus three rewritten domain summaries

Week 8

Louisiana Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules & Law of Agency and Agency Relationships & Contracts, Financing, and Closing & Property Ownership, Transfer, and Valuation & Practice, Ethics, and Regulatory Compliance

  • Simulate exam day three times under full time limits with no notes or breaks

  • Recite from memory the fiduciary duties, license-law deadlines, and closing-document sequence

  • Review the error log one final pass and retire every item you can now answer correctly twice

  • Prepare exam-day logistics: identification, site rules, and time-allocation strategy per domain

Your checkpoint

Three full-length timed exams scored at 80% or higher with a final one-page pre-exam checklist

Milestones

Week 2: Complete a 60-question set across Domains 1 and 2 at 75% or above with a written error log

Week 4: Complete a timed 50-question mixed set across Domains 1 and 3 at 78% or above; all contract and closing math correct on the second attempt

Week 6: Complete a 10-scenario ethics work product with a cited principle for every answer, and clarify any Domain 4 concept missed in week 5

Week 8: Score 80% or above on three consecutive full-length timed practice exams across all five domains