Just the other day, I passed the last of the eight required courses for the real estate broker exam. Now all that’s left is to re-digest all the fun facts that were on tap for the salesperson exam, along with a little more depth.

You have to wonder when the state makes up a test. Now if I were making up a broker exam, I’d have on there all of the paperwork we normally fill out, with a heavy emphasis on when and under what conditions certain things are required. In other words, it’d be focused on transaction management — on the day to day details of brokerage.

Instead, what will be on there are questions about riparian rights and median lines. That is to say, stuff you never use.

When I was thinking about getting my salesperson license and asking licensed agents about it, one agent quipped that you never use any of it except for the number of square feet in an acre.

That might be a little bit of an exaggeration, however, to honor his spirit, let me work it badly into a sentence: 43,560.

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