Kansas Real Estate Broker Exam — All Questions

In Kansas, a licensee who has met the broker qualifications but works under another broker rather than running a firm holds a license as a(n):

• a.Unlicensed assistant of the supervising broker
• b.Associate broker affiliated with that broker✓
• c.Property manager restricted to rentals only
• d.Provisional salesperson working toward broker

K.S.A. 58-3035(c) defines an associate broker as an individual who has a broker's license and who is employed by another broker, or associated with another broker as an independent contractor, and who participates in the activities listed in subsection (f). It is a full broker credential exercised under someone else's supervision, which is exactly the situation described. Calling that person an unlicensed assistant misses the central fact, because this licensee holds a broker's license and may perform brokerage acts an unlicensed person may not perform at all. Limiting the license to property management understates it: the qualification earned is the broker qualification and is not confined to one line of business, and K.S.A. 58-3035(j) does not even treat residential renting as a 'lease' for the act's purposes. And there is no provisional or probationary salesperson class in the Kansas act; the ladder runs salesperson, associate broker, and then the broker who supervises an office.

A Kansas broker's license expired three months ago and nothing has been filed since. The broker may now:

• a.Keep practicing under the expired license while a renewal is processed
• b.Renew at any time within two years by paying double the usual fees
• c.Apply for late renewal within six months and pay a $100 late fee✓
• d.Reapply only as an original applicant and retake both exam portions

K.S.A. 58-3045(b)(2) says that failing to file the renewal application on or before the expiration date automatically expires the license on that date, and subsection (c) supplies the cure: the Commission may reinstate and renew if, within six months following expiration, the licensee submits a late renewal application on the Commission's form with the renewal fee plus a late fee of $100. The safe-harbor in subsection (d), which lets an applicant keep operating past the expiration date while the Commission decides, applies only to an application filed in compliance with subsection (b), meaning filed on time; it does not rescue a broker who let the date pass. The two-year figure is the maximum term of a license under subsection (a), not a grace period, and the act sets no double-fee option. Retaking the examination belongs to a different rule altogether: under K.S.A. 58-3047(g) it is required only of a licensee whose license has been deactivated for a continuous period of more than five years.

Besides the Kansas Real Estate Broker Fundamentals course, an original Kansas broker applicant must complete:

• a.A 24-hour ethics and fair housing sequence taken in a classroom
• b.A 60-hour appraisal course approved by the Commission's staff
• c.A 45-hour property management practicum under a licensed broker
• d.A 30-hour Kansas real estate management course before applying✓

Kansas asks a broker applicant for two separate courses, and candidates who prepare only for the first are surprised by the second. K.S.A. 58-3046a(b) requires a Kansas real estate fundamentals course of not less than 30 and no more than 45 hours, completed within the 12 months before the application is filed. K.S.A. 58-3046a(d) then requires, for anyone applying on or after January 1, 2020, a Kansas real estate management course of not less than 30 and no more than 45 hours, completed within the six months immediately preceding the Commission's receipt of the application, and says in terms that those hours are additional to the fundamentals hours. After licensure the obligation changes shape: subsection (f) requires not less than 12 hours of approved continuing education completed during each renewal period, and subsection (l) bars issuing or renewing a license until the applicable requirements are met. The act prescribes no appraisal course, no supervised practicum, and no separate ethics sequence; a licensee may of course take such a course, but it satisfies the requirement only as approved continuing education.