What is the exam-ready answer?
| Official syllabus topic | Real Estate Practice in Georgia: Listings and Agency; Property Management |
|---|---|
| Official PSI group | Real Estate Practice in Georgia |
| Published group count | 21 of the 52 Georgia questions |
| Exam portion | Georgia salesperson supplement |
| Source edition | PSI Georgia Candidate Information Bulletin dated July 1, 2026 |
The Rule
PSI publishes 16, 21, and 15 items for the three Georgia groups. It does not publish a guaranteed subtopic count. The statute, current GREC rule, contract, or other cited primary authority controls each lesson.
The lesson
Georgia questions reward the Georgia rule. A national rule that sounds right can still be the wrong answer when the question names a Georgia statute, document, role or procedure.
Landlord engagement
Section 10-6A-6 governs promotion of the landlord's leasing interests, offers, accounting, skill and care, legal compliance, and confidentiality.
Tenant engagement
Section 10-6A-8 governs the tenant broker's search, offer, disclosure, accounting, care, compliance, and confidentiality duties.
Ministerial acts
A landlord's broker may assist a tenant customer, and a tenant's broker may assist a landlord customer, when the act requires no discretion or advocacy.
Other law remains
BRRETA governs brokerage relationships. Georgia landlord-tenant statutes, fair housing, security-deposit rules, and the lease separately govern substantive rights.
Decision rule
Georgia rule and national contrast
Worked Georgia example
Scenario. A landlord's broker gives an unrepresented tenant the published utility costs and schedules a showing, then the tenant asks which lease clause best protects them.
Reason it through. The facts and scheduling can be ministerial. Recommending the best clause requires judgment for the tenant and crosses into advocacy or legal advice.
Answer. Provide neutral assistance but refer the tenant for independent representation or legal advice on the clause.
Common exam traps
- Assuming property management creates tenant representation
- Giving advocacy as a ministerial act
- Using BRRETA to answer security-deposit law
- Ignoring fair housing
Original practice questions with detailed explanations
These are original instructional questions mapped to the July 1, 2026 PSI outline. They are not copied from PSI or a live examination. Choose an answer before opening the explanation.
Question 1A landlord's broker gives an unrepresented tenant the published utility costs and schedules a showing. The tenant then asks which lease clause would best protect the tenant. What should the broker do?
- A. Recommend a clause, since helping a customer is ministerial.
- B. Recommend a clause, as long as the landlord agrees first.
- C. Refuse all further help, since the tenant has no engagement.
- D. Stay neutral and suggest the tenant get independent advice.
Show answer and explanation →
Answer: D. Stay neutral and suggest the tenant get independent advice.
Sharing published facts and scheduling showings are ministerial acts a landlord's broker may do for a tenant customer. Choosing the best protective clause takes judgment for the tenant, which is advocacy or legal advice. Refusing all help overcorrects, because ministerial help to a customer is allowed.
Question 2A tenant's broker knows the tenant client was just laid off and has no income to pay the rent in the proposed lease. The landlord has not asked. What does BRRETA require of the tenant's broker?
- A. Keep the layoff private, since the tenant is the client.
- B. Disclose the known adverse fact about the tenant's ability to pay.
- C. Disclose it only if the landlord asks directly about income.
- D. Withdraw from the engagement without telling the landlord.
Show answer and explanation →
Answer: B. Disclose the known adverse fact about the tenant's ability to pay.
BRRETA requires a tenant's broker to disclose to a prospective landlord actually known adverse material facts about the tenant's financial ability. The broker knows the tenant cannot pay, so the fact must be disclosed. Keeping it private is plausible because the tenant is the client, but client status does not override this statutory disclosure.
Question 3A tenant asks the landlord's broker how large a security deposit the landlord may charge on a new residential lease. Which source answers that question?
- A. BRRETA, since it sets the duties of a landlord's broker.
- B. The MLS rules, since the broker is marketing the unit.
- C. Georgia landlord-tenant law, not the brokerage statute.
- D. The brokerage engagement between landlord and broker.
Show answer and explanation →
Answer: C. Georgia landlord-tenant law, not the brokerage statute.
BRRETA governs the brokerage relationship, while Georgia's landlord-tenant statutes govern substantive rights such as deposits. For leases signed or renewed on or after July 1, 2024, that law caps a residential deposit at two months' rent. Choosing BRRETA is the mistake, because it covers the broker but not the tenant's deposit rights.
Ready to move on?
You are ready for the next lesson when all of these are true.
- Explain Duties to Landlords and Tenants Under BRRETA in one clear answer without notes.
- Separate Landlord engagement from Tenant engagement using a fresh example.
- Apply the decision rule to a new fact pattern and name the fact that controls the result.
- State the Georgia-specific point or explain why the national rule applies unchanged.
- Answer every practice question and explain the rule each rejected option misapplies.
- Revisit this topic later in mixed practice without category labels.
Recommended next lesson
Continue with Georgia Brokerage Engagement Requirements and Prohibited Terms. The brokerage engagements lesson looks at the written contract that creates these landlord and tenant client relationships in the first place, including what it must define and which terms it may not contain.
Return to the Real Estate Practice in Georgia hub for the complete official branch and the full lesson list for this Georgia group.