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NH Real Estate study plan

NH Real Estate · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

New Hampshire Real Estate License Law and Administrative Rules

  • Map the NH salesperson and broker licensing pathways, including pre-license education hours, exam, and initial license issuance requirements

  • Sequence the renewal cycle (continuing education hours, deadlines, late-fee consequences) into a dated checklist

  • Rank the Commission's disciplinary actions from least to most severe and name the violation categories that trigger each

  • Convert the advertising, recordkeeping, and escrow/trust-account rules into a written compliance checklist a licensee could follow on a live file

  • Separate the duties owed to the Commission from the duties owed to a client, and write one example of each breach

Your checkpoint

A single-page NH license law and administrative rules cheat sheet, plus a 40-question Domain 1 quiz scored at 80% or higher

Week 2

Agency Relationships, Disclosures and Fiduciary Duties

  • Classify each agency relationship type recognized in New Hampshire and state how each is created and terminated

  • Match the fiduciary duties (care, obedience, loyalty, disclosure, accounting, confidentiality) to concrete transaction behaviors

  • Explain how designated agency and dual agency are handled and when written consent or disclosure is required

  • Place every required agency disclosure on a transaction timeline showing who receives it and when

  • Diagnose the specific duty breached in each of six short conflict-of-interest scenarios

Your checkpoint

Written answers to 6 agency scenarios, each correctly naming the relationship type, the duty at issue, and the required disclosure

Week 3

Contracts, Agreements and Transaction Documents

  • Label the sections of a New Hampshire purchase and sale agreement and state the function of each

  • Differentiate inspection, financing, appraisal, and sale-of-property contingencies by trigger date and remedy if unmet

  • Compute contract deadline chains from acceptance date, including waiver and extension mechanics

  • Identify which agreements and modifications must be in writing and explain why under the statute of frauds

  • Distinguish listing agreement types by the compensation and termination terms each creates

Your checkpoint

A fully annotated transaction timeline for a sample deal, running from offer through closing, with every contractual deadline dated and contingency outcome noted

Week 4

Real Property Ownership, Estates, Interests and Transfer

  • Compare freehold estates and leasehold estates by duration, inheritability, and termination event

  • Distinguish forms of co-ownership by right of survivorship, transferability, and creditor exposure

  • Trace a deed from delivery and acceptance through recording, and explain recording priority among competing claims

  • Categorize encumbrances, easements, and title defects by whether they survive transfer

  • Describe the voluntary and involuntary transfer methods, including the NH-specific instruments and disclosures involved

Your checkpoint

A comparison table of estates, tenancies, and deed types, plus a 50-question Domain 4 quiz scored at 80% or higher

Week 5

Financing, Settlement and Closing & Valuation, Marketing and Brokerage Practice

  • Compare loan products and financing structures by down payment, terms, and government backing

  • Sequence the settlement process from loan application through disbursement and recording, naming the disclosure triggered at each stage

  • Allocate closing costs and prorations to buyer and seller on a worked settlement statement

  • Apply the three approaches to value and adjust comparables for differences in a written grid

  • Contrast a broker price opinion or CMA with an appraisal by purpose, method, and who may perform it

  • Apply fair housing and advertising rules to listing copy and marketing materials

Your checkpoint

One completed closing cost and proration worksheet plus one worked sales comparison adjustment grid with every adjustment justified in writing

Week 6

Financing, Settlement and Closing & Valuation, Marketing and Brokerage Practice

  • Solve loan-to-value, discount point, and monthly payment calculations without reference notes

  • Recalculate prorations using both the 365-day and 30-day/360-day conventions and explain the difference in results

  • Assess how a failed financing or appraisal contingency interacts with settlement deadlines and earnest money release

  • Build a listing presentation outline that applies pricing strategy, market analysis, and brokerage service obligations

  • Identify antitrust and compensation-related conduct that violates brokerage practice rules

Your checkpoint

A 60-question mixed Domains 5 and 6 set scored at 80% or higher, including 10 math items with fully shown work

Week 7

New Hampshire Real Estate License Law and Administrative Rules & Agency Relationships, Disclosures and Fiduciary Duties & Contracts, Agreements and Transaction Documents & Real Property Ownership, Estates, Interests and Transfer & Financing, Settlement and Closing & Valuation, Marketing and Brokerage Practice

  • Tally missed questions by domain from all prior quizzes and rank domains by error rate

  • Re-teach the two highest-error domains from source materials and rewrite each missed item in your own words

  • Redo every previously missed question and require a written justification for the corrected answer

  • Practice cross-domain items that link contract terms to financing outcomes and disclosure duties

  • Convert recurring error patterns into five personal test-taking rules

Your checkpoint

A remediation error log covering at least 40 missed items with corrected explanations, plus an 85% or higher score on a fresh quiz in your weakest domain

Week 8

New Hampshire Real Estate License Law and Administrative Rules & Agency Relationships, Disclosures and Fiduciary Duties & Contracts, Agreements and Transaction Documents & Real Property Ownership, Estates, Interests and Transfer & Financing, Settlement and Closing & Valuation, Marketing and Brokerage Practice

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams under exam-day conditions with no notes

  • Distribute exam time across domains in proportion to their weighting, starting with the heaviest

  • Review only flagged and missed items within 24 hours of each exam and restate the underlying rule

  • Drill the highest-frequency math and deadline calculations to automatic recall

  • Compress all notes into a final one-page recall sheet organized by domain weight

Your checkpoint

Two completed timed practice exams scoring 80% or higher on the first sitting and 85% or higher on the retake, with a final one-page recall sheet

Milestones

Week 2: Score 80% or higher on a combined 30-question quiz covering Domains 1 and 2, with no more than 2 missed items on licensing requirements or agency disclosure timing

Week 4: Score 75% or higher on a separate quiz for each of Domains 1 through 4, and finish the estates/tenancies/deeds comparison table with no blank rows

Week 6: Score 80% or higher on the mixed Domains 5 and 6 set, including at least 8 of 10 math items correct with work shown

Week 8: Score 80% or higher on the first full-length timed exam and 85% or higher on the retake, with no domain below 70%