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The PA-RES exam has 120 questions and runs 3 hours 30 minutes.
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On the final day of a restaurant lease, the tenant removes a bolted commercial range installed for the restaurant's operations and repairs the floor and gas connection. The lease is silent. How should the range be classified?
Correct answer: C - A trade fixture the tenant may remove before lease expiration after repairing damage
A deed conveys land to a city 'so long as the property is used as a public park.' The city later converts the parcel to a private warehouse. Under the deed language, what happens to title?
Correct answer: A - Title automatically returns to the grantor
An appraiser is valuing a home with a two-car garage. A comparable sold for $420,000 but has no garage. Paired-sales data support a $28,000 contributory value for the garage. Ignoring other differences, what adjusted indication comes from this comparable?
Correct answer: D - $448,000, adding the adjustment to the inferior comparable
A four-unit rental property has annual potential gross income of $156,000, vacancy and collection loss of $8,000, laundry income of $4,000, operating expenses of $56,000, and annual mortgage payments of $31,000. At an 8% capitalization rate, which value indication is correct?
Correct answer: B - $1,200,000, using $96,000 NOI and excluding debt service
At 2:00 p.m., a seller signs a buyer's offer but changes the purchase price before returning it. At 2:15 p.m., the buyer attempts to accept the original unchanged terms. What is the legal status at that point?
Correct answer: B - No contract; the price change was a counteroffer rejecting the original
A seller tells the listing agent that the basement floods after heavy rain but instructs the agent to say nothing because the information is confidential. A buyer later asks directly whether the basement has ever flooded. Which response best fulfills the agent's duties?
Correct answer: D - Disclose the known flooding; confidentiality does not permit concealment
A buyer pays $2,000 for a 10-day option to purchase a parcel. On day 7, the seller receives a higher offer and announces that the option is revoked. The buyer exercises the option exactly as required on day 9. Which result follows?
Correct answer: A - The exercise is effective; the supported option was irrevocable for 10 days
During a showing, a buyer asks, 'Is this neighborhood mostly Catholic or Jewish? I want to live near people like me.' What should the licensee do?
Correct answer: C - Decline to characterize residents by religion and offer objective property or community-resource information
At a local brokerage meeting, competing brokers complain that buyer-agency work is unprofitable. One proposes that every firm charge at least $3,000 for the service. What is the best response by a broker in the room?
Correct answer: D - Reject and leave the discussion because competitors must set fees independently
A short-term radon test in the lowest occupiable level reports 4.6 pCi/L. The seller asks the licensee to advertise the home as 'safe because the reading is under 5.' Which advice is most accurate?
Correct answer: B - The result meets the EPA action threshold; recommend mitigation evaluation and avoid a safety guarantee
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