Florida Real Estate Sales Associate Examination Content OutlineReal Estate Brokerage Activities and ProceduresMedium
A Florida real estate sales associate decides to resign from their current brokerage. What is the sales associate's primary responsibility regarding their real estate license upon resignation?
- AKeep their license until they find a new employing broker.
- BNotify all their current clients of their departure and transfer their listings.
- CNotify the DBPR directly of their change in employment.
- DReturn their license to the employing broker for cancellation.
Show answer & explanationAnswer & explanation
Correct answer: D. Return their license to the employing broker for cancellation.
When a sales associate resigns, they must return their license to their employing broker. The broker then notifies the DBPR by submitting the license, rendering it inactive until the sales associate is employed by a new broker.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Keeping the license does not make it active; it must be held by a broker.
- B. While ethical, this is not the *primary* responsibility regarding their license; it's about the license's status.
- C. The broker, not the sales associate, is responsible for notifying the DBPR of the termination.
License Transfer Responsibility (Sales Associate)
When a Florida real estate sales associate leaves an employing broker, their primary responsibility regarding their license is to return it to the broker for proper processing of their termination.
- Sales associate returns license to the broker.
- Broker then notifies the DBPR.
- License becomes involuntarily inactive until new employment.
Memory trick: RESIGNATION: License goes BACK to the BOSS, not the State.