Where this fits on the exam
| 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
Tenant intent to occupy
Section 10-6A-8(b) also requires a tenant’s broker to disclose to a prospective landlord actually known adverse material facts about the tenant’s intent to occupy the property. Do not reduce the tenant-broker rule to finances alone or import the separate buyer-broker seller-financing condition.
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.
- A. Incorrect. Choosing a protective lease clause requires judgment for the tenant, beyond ministerial help.
- B. Incorrect. The landlord's consent does not make tenant advocacy a ministerial act or authorize legal advice.
- C. Incorrect. The broker may continue neutral assistance such as scheduling and sharing published facts.
- D. Correct. The broker can remain neutral and direct the tenant to independent representation or legal advice.
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.
- A. Incorrect. Client confidentiality does not conceal an actually known adverse fact the statute requires disclosed.
- B. Correct. The tenant's broker must disclose the actually known adverse material fact about ability to pay.
- C. Incorrect. This financial disclosure duty does not wait for a direct question from the prospective landlord.
- D. Incorrect. Withdrawal alone does not satisfy the required disclosure of the known inability to pay.
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.
- A. Incorrect. BRRETA sets brokerage duties rather than the residential security-deposit cap.
- B. Incorrect. MLS marketing rules do not establish statutory residential deposit limits.
- C. Correct. Georgia landlord-tenant statutes supply the deposit rule that applies to the lease.
- D. Incorrect. A landlord-broker engagement cannot replace the statutory rights of the tenant.
Ready to move on?
You are ready for the next lesson when all of these are true.
- Match the landlord broker to Section 10-6A-6 and the tenant broker to Section 10-6A-8.
- Distinguish advocacy for a client from ministerial help for a customer.
- Explain why the lease, landlord-tenant law, and fair housing law still apply alongside BRRETA.
- Answer the practice questions without looking back, then explain why the other choices fail.
- Explain the worked example in your own words and identify the fact that decides the answer.
- Retest this topic on another day in a mixed question set.
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.