TEXAS REAL ESTATE MAIN EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Escheat - ✔✔The state takes property upon an owners death if there is no will & no
heirs exist.
✔✔Condemnation - ✔✔administrative process by which the government exercises its
power of eminent domain.
✔✔Inverse Condemnation - ✔✔when a property owner believes the use of his or her
property has been destroyed by a government action or regulation, even if the
government hasn't officially taken the property.
✔✔Zoning Ordinances - ✔✔control how property in the jurisdiction is used and to
ensure the protection of the environment and well-being of its citizens.
✔✔Planning Boards - ✔✔Prepare and amend a long-term master plan for the
community to address all its needs, such as residential, commercial, agricultural,
transportation, recreation, health and safety, and protections for environmentally
sensitive areas.
Implement the master plan through regulations such as zoning ordinances and building
codes.
Make investigations, maps, reports, and recommendations that relate to the planning
and development of the municipality.
✔✔Zoning - ✔✔establishes other rules for each area such as the maximum size of
structures and required setbacks from the property lines
✔✔Zoning Board of Appeals - ✔✔locally appointed board that has the power to review
administrative rulings and interpret the zoning ordinance.
✔✔Variance - ✔✔permission to do something on the property that is not permitted
under the current zoning regulations.
✔✔non-conforming use - ✔✔preexisting use of a property that no longer complies with
the current zoning regulations.
✔✔Building Codes - ✔✔ensure a safe, properly functioning environment for building
occupants
✔✔deed restriction - ✔✔limit on use of property set by seller
✔✔covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs) - ✔✔Used by subdivision owners to
maintain specific standards (eg. architectural designs)
, ✔✔Encumbrance - ✔✔burden; hindrance
✔✔encumbrance - ✔✔liens (financial), easements (physical), encroachments (physical)
✔✔lien - ✔✔a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a
debt owed by that person is discharged.
✔✔Easement - ✔✔the right to use land for a specific and limited purpose
✔✔Easement appurtenant - ✔✔An easement created to benefit adjacent land.
✔✔dominant tenement - ✔✔A property that includes in its ownership the appurtenant
right to use an easement over another person's property for a specific purpose.
✔✔Servient Tenement - ✔✔Land on which an easement exists in favor of an adjacent
property (called dominant estate); also called a servient estate.
✔✔Easement in Gross - ✔✔the right to use land for a specific, limited purpose
unrelated to any adjacent parcel
✔✔Easement by Grant - ✔✔the owner of a property grants to another party or entity the
official right to use a portion of their property.
✔✔Easement by necessity - ✔✔An easement allowed by law as necessary for the full
enjoyment of a parcel of real estate; for example, a right of ingress and egress over a
grantor's land.
✔✔Easement by Prescription - ✔✔occurs when someone uses another's property
without the owner's permission for a legally prescribed length of time
✔✔Easement by Implication - ✔✔created from the conduct of the parties. For example,
if a landowner sells mineral rights to a company, that company has an easement by
implication to go onto the property to do mining. They can't access their interest without
doing so.
✔✔License - ✔✔temporary permission to use land
✔✔Encroachments - ✔✔an improvement, such as a building or fence, which crosses
the property boundary and intrudes upon a neighboring property
✔✔Examples of Encroachments - ✔✔A fence that was partially built onto the neighbor's
property.
A tree that has grown to cross over the property line.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Escheat - ✔✔The state takes property upon an owners death if there is no will & no
heirs exist.
✔✔Condemnation - ✔✔administrative process by which the government exercises its
power of eminent domain.
✔✔Inverse Condemnation - ✔✔when a property owner believes the use of his or her
property has been destroyed by a government action or regulation, even if the
government hasn't officially taken the property.
✔✔Zoning Ordinances - ✔✔control how property in the jurisdiction is used and to
ensure the protection of the environment and well-being of its citizens.
✔✔Planning Boards - ✔✔Prepare and amend a long-term master plan for the
community to address all its needs, such as residential, commercial, agricultural,
transportation, recreation, health and safety, and protections for environmentally
sensitive areas.
Implement the master plan through regulations such as zoning ordinances and building
codes.
Make investigations, maps, reports, and recommendations that relate to the planning
and development of the municipality.
✔✔Zoning - ✔✔establishes other rules for each area such as the maximum size of
structures and required setbacks from the property lines
✔✔Zoning Board of Appeals - ✔✔locally appointed board that has the power to review
administrative rulings and interpret the zoning ordinance.
✔✔Variance - ✔✔permission to do something on the property that is not permitted
under the current zoning regulations.
✔✔non-conforming use - ✔✔preexisting use of a property that no longer complies with
the current zoning regulations.
✔✔Building Codes - ✔✔ensure a safe, properly functioning environment for building
occupants
✔✔deed restriction - ✔✔limit on use of property set by seller
✔✔covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CC&Rs) - ✔✔Used by subdivision owners to
maintain specific standards (eg. architectural designs)
, ✔✔Encumbrance - ✔✔burden; hindrance
✔✔encumbrance - ✔✔liens (financial), easements (physical), encroachments (physical)
✔✔lien - ✔✔a right to keep possession of property belonging to another person until a
debt owed by that person is discharged.
✔✔Easement - ✔✔the right to use land for a specific and limited purpose
✔✔Easement appurtenant - ✔✔An easement created to benefit adjacent land.
✔✔dominant tenement - ✔✔A property that includes in its ownership the appurtenant
right to use an easement over another person's property for a specific purpose.
✔✔Servient Tenement - ✔✔Land on which an easement exists in favor of an adjacent
property (called dominant estate); also called a servient estate.
✔✔Easement in Gross - ✔✔the right to use land for a specific, limited purpose
unrelated to any adjacent parcel
✔✔Easement by Grant - ✔✔the owner of a property grants to another party or entity the
official right to use a portion of their property.
✔✔Easement by necessity - ✔✔An easement allowed by law as necessary for the full
enjoyment of a parcel of real estate; for example, a right of ingress and egress over a
grantor's land.
✔✔Easement by Prescription - ✔✔occurs when someone uses another's property
without the owner's permission for a legally prescribed length of time
✔✔Easement by Implication - ✔✔created from the conduct of the parties. For example,
if a landowner sells mineral rights to a company, that company has an easement by
implication to go onto the property to do mining. They can't access their interest without
doing so.
✔✔License - ✔✔temporary permission to use land
✔✔Encroachments - ✔✔an improvement, such as a building or fence, which crosses
the property boundary and intrudes upon a neighboring property
✔✔Examples of Encroachments - ✔✔A fence that was partially built onto the neighbor's
property.
A tree that has grown to cross over the property line.
