REAL ESTATE BROKER or REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON. An individual, whether licensed or not, who for a fee, commission, salary, or other valuable consideration or who with the intention or expectation of receiving or collecting consideration, lists, sells, purchases, exchanges, rents, or leases any housing accommodation, including options thereupon, or who negotiates rents or leases any housing accommodation, including options thereupon, or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate such activities; or who advertises or holds oneself out as engaged in such activities; or who negotiates or attempts to negotiate a loan secured by a mortgage or other encumbrance on transfer of any housing accommodation or who is engaged in the business of charging an advance fee or contracting for collection of a fee in connection with a contract whereby a person undertakes to promote the sale, purchase, exchange, rental, or lease of any housing accommodation through its listing in a publication issued primarily for such purpose; or an individual employed by or acting on behalf of any of these.
REAL PROPERTY. Includes buildings, structures, real estate, lands, tenements, leaseholds, cooperatives, condominiums, and herediments, corporeal and incorporeal.
ROOMING UNIT. Any room or group of
rooms forming a single, habitable unit used for living or sleeping, but which does not contain cooking and kitchen facilities.
SEXUAL ORIENTATION. An individual’s actual or imputed heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality.