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CATALOG INFORMATION
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Discipline and Nbr:
RE 55 | Title:
LEGAL ASPECTS REAL ESTAT |
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Full Title:
Legal Aspects of Real Estate |
Last Reviewed:1/23/2023 |
Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
Maximum | 3.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 3.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 52.50 |
Minimum | 3.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| Contact Total | 3.00 | | Contact Total | 52.50 |
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| Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| Total Out of Class Hours: 105.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade Only
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As:
Formerly:
RE 80D
Catalog Description:
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Students will learn California real estate law, including rights incident to property ownership and management, agency, contracts, and application to real estate transfer. Students will examine conveyancing, probate proceedings, trust deeds, foreclosure, and recent legislation governing real estate transactions. This course applies toward educational requirements for the California Real Estate Broker's examination.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Course Completion of RE 50
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Students will learn California real estate law, including rights incident to property ownership and management, agency, contracts, and application to real estate transfer. Students will examine conveyancing, probate proceedings, trust deeds, foreclosure, and recent legislation governing real estate transactions. This course applies toward educational requirements for the California Real Estate Broker's examination.
(Grade Only)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Course Completion of RE 50
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | |
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UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Both Certificate and Major Applicable
COURSE CONTENT
Student Learning Outcomes:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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1. Examine and integrate agency, contract, and real property security devices laws into the real estate transaction.
2. Categorize and combine legal instruments required for a binding real estate transaction.
3. Compare and conceive the appropriate estate in real property.
Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
1. Summarize legal system sources pertaining to California real estate law.
2. Determine the laws of agency.
3. Analyze the elements of a valid contract.
4. Compare and contrast the types of contracts used in real estate.
5. Compare and contrast estates in real estate.
6. Examine ownership and contrast ownership interest in real estate.
7. Differentiate instruments/contracts used in real estate and decide when each is used.
8. Evaluate adjacent property rights such as easements, water rights, and nuisance.
9. Analyze the landlord-tenant relationship.
Topics and Scope
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I. Sources of Law and the Judicial System
A. Definition of law
B. Influences on our legal and judicial system
C. Constitutional and statutory law
D. Court structure
E. Lawsuit procedure
F. Judicial and non-judicial remedies
II. Law of Agency
A. Agency defined
B. Types of agents
C. How agencies are created/terminated
D. Duties and responsibilities of licenses
III. Law of Contracts
A. Types of contracts - legal instruments
B. Contract essentials
C. Real estate contracts
1. Listings
2. Options
3. Leases
IV. Estates in Real Estate and their Relationship to Probate
A. Freehold
B. Less than freehold
C. Ownership
1. Tenancy in common
2. Joint tenancy
3. Community property
4. Partnerships
5. Interest
V. Acquisitions and Conveyances
VI. Real Property Security Devices
A. Notes
B. Deeds of trusts - foreclosures
C. Mortgages
D. Liens
VII. Adjacent Property Rights
A. Encroachment
B. Nuisance
C. Water rights
D. Easements
VIII. Landlord/Tenant Law
Assignments:
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1. Weekly reading assignments (15- 40 pages)
2. Analysis of case studies pertaining to the judicial system, law of agency, law of contracts, estate holdings, acquisitions and conveyances, security devices, property rights and landlord/tenant law (8-15)
3. Exams (2-8), midterm, and final
4. Provide citations of references to support correct answers
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing 20 - 50% |
Analysis of case studies; provide citations of references to support correct answers | |
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving 0 - 0% |
None | |
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0% |
None | |
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams 40 - 70% |
Exams, midterm, and final | |
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category 5 - 10% |
Attendance and participation | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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California Real Estate Law. 9th ed. Pivar, William and Bruss, Robert. Dearborn Publishing. 2018.
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