This course teaches students that aspect of US law covering federal and state statutes and local ordinances dealing with real estate, real property, property rights and interests, buying and selling real property, landlords and rental property, renters’ and tenants’ rights. It will focus on personal interests in property, such as rights of ownership, establishing property title, requirements in sales and transfers of property, real estate lending, and foreclosures and settlement of claims against property. Students will learn about purchase and sale agreements, property title, deeds, liens, escrow, purchase and sale and closings, leases, loans as well as handle disputes involving foreclosures, receiverships as well as boundary and title disputes.