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An agent shows homes to a buyer for a month. No brokerage agreement is signed. Under BRRETA, the buyer is:

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1. An agent shows homes to a buyer for a month. No brokerage agreement is signed. Under BRRETA, the buyer is:Agency. Open choices and explanation.
  1. A.A client, because of the time the agent invested
  2. B.A client by implication from the agent's conduct
  3. C.A customer, owed no duties at all by the agent
  4. D.A customer, because no written engagement exists

Answer D: A customer, because no written engagement exists

BRRETA defines a brokerage engagement as a written contract, and a client as someone represented under one. Time and effort do not create a client relationship. The buyer is a customer: the agent may perform ministerial acts, must not knowingly give false information, and must disclose known adverse material facts about the property's condition.

Why each choice works or fails

  • A. Effort and time spent feel like representation, but client status requires a written brokerage engagement.
  • B. Georgia does not create a client relationship by implication from conduct.
  • C. A customer is still owed honesty and disclosure of known adverse material facts about the property.
  • D. Correct. Without a written engagement the buyer is a customer.

Rule to remember: No written engagement, no client. A customer is still owed honesty and known adverse material facts.

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2. A seller asked her listing agent to keep her financial troubles confidential. The listing expires, and months later someone asks the agent about the seller's finances. May the agent reveal what they learned?Agency. Open choices and explanation.
  1. A.Yes, the duty ended with the listing
  2. B.Yes, if the new listing agent consents
  3. C.Yes, once a year has passed since it ended
  4. D.No, the duty survives the listing

Answer D: No, the duty survives the listing

After an engagement ends, a broker must still account for money and property and keep confidential any information the client asked to keep confidential. That duty ends only if the client permits disclosure, the law requires it, or the information becomes public from someone other than the broker.

Why each choice works or fails

  • A. Candidates assume all duties end with the listing. Confidentiality is one of the duties that survives.
  • B. Only the former client can permit disclosure. A later listing agent has no power to waive it.
  • C. There is no waiting period. Time passing does not release the duty.
  • D. Correct. Confidentiality survives unless the client permits disclosure, the law requires it, or the information becomes public from another source.

Rule to remember: Information a client asked you to keep confidential stays confidential after the engagement ends.

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3. Two brokerages both claim a commission on the same sale. In the procuring cause dispute, the central question is usually:Agency. Open choices and explanation.
  1. A.Which brokerage first showed the property to the buyer
  2. B.Which brokerage began an unbroken chain leading to the sale
  3. C.Which brokerage wrote the offer that the seller accepted
  4. D.Which brokerage spent the most marketing the property

Answer B: Which brokerage began an unbroken chain leading to the sale

Procuring cause asks whose efforts set in motion an unbroken series of events that ended in the sale. A first showing or the final offer can be part of that story, but neither decides it alone if the chain was broken along the way.

Why each choice works or fails

  • A. Candidates equate first contact with procuring cause. A first showing counts only if the chain it started stayed unbroken.
  • B. Correct. The test is who started an uninterrupted chain of events that produced the sale.
  • C. Writing the accepted offer feels decisive, but it does not outweigh another broker's earlier unbroken chain.
  • D. Marketing effort and spending are not the legal test, however much work they represent.

Rule to remember: Procuring cause goes to the broker who started an unbroken chain of events that produced the sale.

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4. A seller tells the listing agent she will accept far less than the asking price and asks the agent to keep that to herself. An unrepresented buyer asks about it. The agent must:Agency. Open choices and explanation.
  1. A.Reveal it, since a customer is owed honesty
  2. B.Hint at it without stating an exact figure
  3. C.Reveal it, but only in a signed writing
  4. D.Decline to answer, since it is confidential

Answer D: Decline to answer, since it is confidential

The seller asked that her bottom line stay confidential, and a seller's broker must keep such information confidential. Honesty to a customer means not giving false information; it never requires handing over the client's negotiating position. The agent can decline to answer without lying.

Why each choice works or fails

  • A. Honesty forbids lying. It does not require giving up the client's confidential position.
  • B. A hint discloses the same information indirectly, which still breaches the confidentiality the seller requested.
  • C. Putting it in writing is still a disclosure the seller has forbidden.
  • D. Correct. The seller's bottom line is confidential, and the agent may decline without saying anything false.

Rule to remember: Honesty to a customer never requires revealing a client's confidential negotiating position.

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5. Under BRRETA, the brokerage engagement is between the client and:Agency. Open choices and explanation.
  1. A.The individual agent
  2. B.The closing attorney
  3. C.The agent and the broker jointly
  4. D.The broker

Answer D: The broker

The brokerage engagement runs to the broker, and affiliated agents act on the broker's behalf. That is why designated agency works inside one firm, and why an agent who changes firms does not automatically take the client relationship along.

Why each choice works or fails

  • A. The agent signs and does the work, but acts for the broker. The engagement is not with the agent personally.
  • B. In Georgia the closing attorney handles the closing but is not a party to the brokerage engagement.
  • C. The agent is not a co-party. The engagement is with the broker alone, and the agent acts under it.
  • D. Correct. The client engages the broker.

Rule to remember: The engagement belongs to the broker, not the agent.

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What does this assessment cover?

Agency and non-agency relationships, listing and buyer agreements, authority, termination, fiduciary duties, customer duties, representation disclosures, and conflicts of interest.
Question coverage in this assessment
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Agency13% of the national portion5Study Agency

The Georgia-specific distinction

Georgia BRRETA ties brokerage engagements to writing and assigns the engagement to the broker. Learn the national fiduciary framework, then apply Georgia's client, customer, dual agency, and designated agency rules where stated.

Worked result example

A seller's agent learns the seller will accept less. An unrepresented buyer asks. Honesty does not require revealing a client's negotiating position, so confidentiality controls.

Common exam traps

  • Treating assistance as automatic representation.
  • Giving customer duties priority over client confidentiality.
  • Confusing designated agency with dual agency.
  • Assuming payment alone creates agency.

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