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WY Real Estate study plan

WY Real Estate · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Wyoming Real Estate License Law, Statutes, and Commission Rules

  • List the licensing, renewal, and continuing-education requirements Wyoming imposes on salespersons, associate brokers, and brokers, including deadlines and fee steps.

  • Distinguish activities that legally require a Wyoming license from those that do not, covering advertising, unlicensed assistants, and referral fees.

  • Explain the Commission's disciplinary pathway and the statutory grounds that trigger suspension, revocation, or fines.

  • Describe the handling, deposit, and accounting of trust and escrow funds, including the recordkeeping duties attached to client money.

Your checkpoint

A one-page compliance checklist covering licensing, renewal and CE, escrow handling, and discipline triggers, recalled from memory with no notes and corrected where wrong.

Week 2

Agency Relationships, Fiduciary Duties, and Disclosures

  • Classify each agency arrangement available in Wyoming, including single agency, dual agency, designated agency, and non-agency or transaction-broker service.

  • State each fiduciary duty and give one concrete licensee behavior that satisfies it and one that breaches it.

  • Determine the correct timing and content of agency and conflict-of-interest disclosures in a given fact pattern.

  • Resolve three conflict-of-interest scenarios by choosing the lawful option and justifying it by duty.

Your checkpoint

A completed agency matrix mapping ten fact patterns to the correct agency type, the disclosures required, and the duty upheld or breached.

Week 3

Contracts, Transaction Documents, and Closing

  • Identify the required elements of a Wyoming real estate purchase contract and the clauses that most often cause disputes.

  • Sequence the steps from buyer representation through offer, acceptance, contingencies, inspection, and closing.

  • Explain the purpose and correct use of the seller's property disclosure statement, the title commitment, the deed, and settlement statements.

  • Compute prorations for taxes, rent, and utilities and allocate closing costs between buyer and seller to the cent.

  • Describe the remedies available for breach of a purchase contract, including earnest money disposition.

Your checkpoint

A written closing timeline plus three worked proration and cost-allocation worksheets computed to the cent and checked against the answer key.

Week 4

Real Property Ownership, Interests, Encumbrances, and Land Use

  • Differentiate forms of co-ownership and the rights of survivorship, partition, and transfer attached to each.

  • Distinguish deeds by the warranties each conveys and explain recording and priority rules.

  • Categorize encumbrances and liens, including easements by prescription, necessity, and implication, and rank lien priority.

  • Explain zoning, subdivision, and land use controls alongside the government powers of police power, eminent domain, taxation, and escheat.

  • Apply water, mineral, and access rights concepts to Wyoming-specific property scenarios.

Your checkpoint

A 25-question self-test on ownership forms, encumbrances, and land use scored at 80% or better, with every missed item rewritten as a correct rule statement.

Week 5

Real Estate Financing and Settlement

  • Compare conventional, FHA, VA, USDA, and state housing-agency loan programs by down payment, insurance, and eligibility.

  • Compute monthly PITI, loan-to-value, and qualifying ratios for three borrower scenarios.

  • Explain the required disclosures and timing rules for loan estimates and closing disclosures, including tolerance categories.

  • Identify prohibited practices under federal settlement and lending rules, including kickbacks and unearned fees.

Your checkpoint

A financing comparison table plus two complete PITI and settlement-charge calculations with every figure shown.

Week 6

Valuation, Market Analysis, and Licensee Practice/Recordkeeping

  • Apply the sales comparison approach by selecting comparables and adjusting for differences in a written grid.

  • Compute gross rent multiplier and explain when the cost approach and income approach are appropriate.

  • Contrast a comparative market analysis with an appraisal and state the limits on a licensee's opinion of value.

  • Describe the recordkeeping, retention, and supervision duties a Wyoming broker owes over transaction files and advertising.

Your checkpoint

A finished ten-comparable adjustment grid plus a one-page recordkeeping and advertising compliance checklist, self-graded against the study outline.

Week 7

Wyoming Real Estate License Law, Statutes, and Commission Rules & Agency Relationships, Fiduciary Duties, and Disclosures & Contracts, Transaction Documents, and Closing & Real Property Ownership, Interests, Encumbrances, and Land Use

  • Complete timed practice sets by domain and record accuracy for each to expose weak areas.

  • Rewrite every missed item as a correct rule statement and group errors by root cause.

  • Re-drill the two lowest-scoring domains with focused review before retesting them.

Your checkpoint

An error log covering at least 150 practice items, with a corrected rule statement written for each miss and a retest score above the original.

Week 8

Real Estate Financing and Settlement & Valuation, Market Analysis, and Licensee Practice/Recordkeeping

  • Complete two full-length timed practice exams under test-day conditions.

  • Review every missed item across all six domains and convert repeats into flashcards.

  • Recite the key numbers - license and renewal cycles, disclosure deadlines, proration methods, and lending thresholds - without notes.

Your checkpoint

Two full-length practice exams scored at 80% or higher, with a final one-page numbers sheet written from memory.

Milestones

Week 2: Explain to a study partner, without notes, the difference between dual agency and designated agency and when each disclosure must be delivered.

Week 4: Score 75% or better on a 50-question mixed quiz covering Domains 1 through 4, with a written correction for every miss.

Week 6: Produce a complete PITI calculation and a comparable adjustment grid that match the answer keys with no arithmetic errors.

Week 8: Score 80% or higher twice on full-length timed practice exams and log a lower error rate than the week 7 baseline.