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We’ve all heard that we should never go to bed angry with a loved one. Here’s a new twist to this sage advice: never go into an exam angry. Not surprisingly, the physical changes associated with anger (elevated blood pressure, increased heart rate, etc.) interfere with your ability to think clear...
08/13/2013
Today’s restaurant review for our Bellevue real estate students features one of our go-to lunch spots: Oma Bap. This casual Korean eatery opened in 2011 and quickly became an office favorite, even among co-workers who were unfamiliar with Korean food. In fact, Oma Bap offers a great introduction ...
08/07/2013
Let’s explore another common real estate term, the "fee." We generally use "fee" to describe a fine, such a late fee for missing a bill payment. But real estate agents know that it also refers to an estate in land; it’s used in our courses in phrases such as "fee simple" and "defeasible fee." Whe...
07/29/2013
In this new blog series, we’ll be discussing the meaning and origin of some common (and some not-so-common) real estate terms. The language of real estate transactions is filled with words used nowhere else—words that often sound archaic, foreign, and legalistic. So why do we use them and where d...
07/10/2013
You have one day to cram for the real estate exam. What do you do? A lot has been written about effective exam prep strategies, but many of them require advance planning. What if your exam is tomorrow? Don’t freak out—we’ve got some tips for you. First: Take a deep breath and relax. Don’t waste y...
07/10/2013
Welcome back to our restaurant review series for our Bellevue real estate students! Today we visited Let’s Do Lunch, located just a few short blocks from our office complex. This unassuming but pleasant café offers a nice variety of tasty, made-to-order hot or cold sandwiches, entrée salads, and ...
07/09/2013
Most of us learned in elementary school that making lists and then memorizing them is a top study technique. However, here’s a new twist on list-making: the serial positioning effect. This refers to the way the brain retains information depending on the order in which it’s presented. There are tw...
07/09/2013
Today’s lunch spot suggestion for our real estate students is Caspian: a Persian restaurant just a few blocks from Rockwell, tucked away amidst several high-end car dealerships here in Bellevue. Originally located in Seattle, Caspian moved to Bellevue in April 2011. It’s a pleasant, nicely decora...
02/18/2013
Home prices are on the rise, but apparently they aren’t rising fast enough to make the Federal Housing Administration feel entirely secure about the solvency of its mortgage insurance fund. So the FHA is raising the annual insurance premiums it charges for new loans as it did last year about thi...
02/14/2013
Welcome back to our Instructor of the Month series. This month, we’re talking with Mary Ellen Brady, who teaches Real Estate Principles, Escrow, and Finance at Cerritos College in Norwalk, CA. Rockwell: How long have you been teaching? Mary Ellen: I’ve been teaching at Cerritos Community College ...
01/23/2013
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Rockwell Institute is a real estate school and publisher since 1974, and we've trained thousands of real estate students in Washington and California. We've learned a lot over the years about getting a real estate license and studying for license exams, and we've often got news about changes in real estate laws and regulations. So we’ll let our writers and instructors share some of their wisdom and pass on the answers to some of our common student questions.