A loan in which land or buildings are put up as a security.
What is a Mortgage?
100
When consumers write letters and reviews, or they boycott a business.
What is Direct Action?
100
The Act that protects Disabled workers from discrimination in hiring and employment.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
100
The general motto of how to buy and sell when investing in the stock market.
What is "Buy Low, Sell High"?
100
When a LL releases a tenant from all duties related the rental property and the lease.
What is Release?
200
A law that limits how much existing rents can be raised -- these often exist in large urban cities.
What is Rent Control?
200
The Registry you can put your Phone Number on so that Telemarketers cant call you. (Exceptions -- Businesses you have a relationship with)
What is the National Do Not Call Registry?
200
The Act that protects old people (over 40) from being fired or not hired.
What is the Age Discrimination in Employment Act?
200
An arrangement whereby the driver of a car pays the dealership each month to drive the car, but does not own the car when the term of this agreement is up.
What is a Lease?
200
A lease enabling the tenant to leave with 30 days' notice, and the LL to evict or raise rent with 30 days' notice.
What is a Month-to-Month lease?
300
A form the landlord uses to determine whether someone qualifies for a rental property.
What is a Lease Application?
300
A place where you can take your Civil case for cheaper cost, but you may not be able to appeal the decision and the judge makes the decision, not a jury.
What is Small Claims Court?
300
States where Employees cannot be charged Union Dues if they are not in the Union.
When a tenant remains on the property beyond the end of the lease with the understanding that the tenant may leave or be asked to leave at anytime.
What is a Tenancy at Will?
400
The provision of a lease that requires the tenant to obtain the landlords permission before allowing someone else to live on the premises and pay all or part of the rent.
What is a Sublease Clause?
400
A civil court remedy in which the breaching party must do exactly what he or she promised under the contract.
What is Specific Performance?
400
The federal government agency that sets safety standards (and tests innocent monkeys, at least in the 70's) so that all workers will be safe at work.
What is OSHA? (Occupational Health and Safety Administration)
400
The first thing to do when a person is involved in a car accident.
What is Check for Injuries? (Don't forget though, never attempt to move an injured person)
400
A lease agreement that allows the tenant to live in the property for a definite period of term greater than 6 months, and in which the landlord may not generally raise the rent or evict the tenant.
What is a Tenancy for Years?
500
A tenant's basic right to use a rented or leased property without disturbance by the landlord or other tenant.
What is the Right to Quiet Enjoyment?
500
A civil remedy where the contract to pay is cancelled, and the money is returned to the consumer. (2 words)
What are Rescission and Restitution?
500
An employment requirement that is considered reasonable because it is necessary to perform the job -- Employers may discriminate based on this.
What is a Bona-Fide Occupational Qualification (BFOQ)?
500
Names of the 2 major United States Stock Markets.
What are the NYSE and the NASDAQ?
500
Those things that once attached to a rental property, the tenant may not remove when they move out.