Course description The 21st century has so far presented multiple challenges to the real estate industry, notably a housing boom and rising property values in the early 2000s, followed by economic decline, mortgage defaults, and a very unsettled market place that has only recently begun to stabilize. Determining property values depends more than ever on professional expertise, competence, the … [Read more...]
Corporate Relocation: The Next Move
Course description Corporation Relocation: The Next Move provides students with knowledge of the corporate relocation landscape that can be applied to help them recognize and take advantage of business opportunities, as well as, create methods for developing a relocation real estate niche, deliver positive results for all transaction stakeholders, and gain valuable referrals. Course … [Read more...]
43 Ways to Lose Your License
Course Description: Can a licensee write a personal check for a client's option fee? Do you have to have written authorization to place a "For Sale" sign on a property? Learn the answers to these questions and more. Students will learn best practices and practical ways to avoid complaints and stay out of hot water with the Texas Real Estate Commission. This course will inform real estate … [Read more...]
Avoiding Common Contract Mistakes
Course Description: The purpose of this course is to familiarize the real estate professional with the basic understanding of a contract along with the most common contract errors made when writing a contract. Agents will learn about the Short Sale Addendum and the new RSC Disclosure required by TREC. Plus hear about other often misunderstood TREC forms and their proper use. Also how to handle … [Read more...]
Best Practices for Better Buyer Business
Course Description: All about Buyers! Working with buyers is often the first activity of a real estate practitioner. Turning a suspect into a prospect, to a client to a happy homeowner! Where to find them, including the six most overlooked buyer clients, what to (and not to) say, how to cause them to desire representation, instilling loyalty, get them to the bank, getting them focused and ready to … [Read more...]
Contracts – What You Need to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
Course Description: This course explores the most frequently used contract in real estate: the TREC One to Four Family Residential Resale contract. This course deliberately delves into the intricate details of this nine page document that governs the exchange of both property and money between the buyer and the seller. Agents will learn about critical dates and timeframes within the contract, as … [Read more...]
Handling Multiple Offers & Multiple Buyers
Course description: It’s important you take the right steps during negotiations. In this class, license holders will learn what the seller’s options are in responding to multiple offers, and what their options are in communicating the responses. The REALTOR® Code of Ethics will also be incorporated. The license holder will learn what forms are available to help guide them through the process. This … [Read more...]
Keep it Together: The Contract is Just the Beginning
Course Description: Starting with a very thorough discussion about Transaction Management, aimed at making sure everything that is supposed to happen… does, is crucial to reaping the rewards of all your hard work to get all the way to contract. Then, to simply move on to the next transaction robs your future of untapped income possibilities, so we will discuss Post-Closing follow-up, and then the … [Read more...]
Opting Out – How to Exit a Contract
Course Description: Did you know that in the one-to-four contract and third party financing addendum there are multiple ways that you can get your buyers out of the contract? This course will explain the various options available to exit a contract and retrieve earnest money according to contract guidelines. This course will provide the licensee with the right training, and knowledge to … [Read more...]
Perfect Pricing With Easy, Accurate CMAs From RPR®
Course Description: RPR’s powerful analysis tools are helping REALTORS® across the country educate and impress clients. Starting with the AVM or RVM® for a property, we’ll show you how to apply your local market intelligence to refine this starting point with adjustments, addition of home improvement values, subtracting value for needed home improvements, and comparison refinement tools based on … [Read more...]
The ABCs of CMAs
Course description: To calculate accurate price comparisons requires training and practice. This course will provide the basic knowledge to complete a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA). The course will offer training in choosing comparable, applying adjustments and determining a value for a property. It will cover what determines an appropriate comparable between properties, how to make … [Read more...]
The ABCs of CMAs – RPR Assisted
Course description: To calculate accurate price comparisons requires training and practice. This course will provide the basic knowledge to complete a Comparative Market Analysis (CMA). The course will offer training in choosing comparable, applying adjustments and determining a value for a property. It will cover what determines an appropriate comparable between properties, how to make … [Read more...]
The Buyers Rep Agreement
Course Description: This course is for the licensee who represents buyers. It is designed to give licensees the skill and confidence to successfully navigate through the common areas of concern in buyer representation. Topics covered include compensation, effective presentation tools and skills, agent risk reduction practices and tools, and methods for getting the buyer representation agreement … [Read more...]
The Forms You Need to Know
Course Description: This course reviews the most widely used TREC and TAR forms needed to conduct real estate transactions. Included are various sales contracts and a wide range of addendum. This course teaches the proper use and completion of these forms and provides a comprehensive view of the types of contracts available for use in real estate transactions. It will also cover how to handle … [Read more...]
Understanding a Condominium Contract
Course Description: This class analyzes the liability aspects of the TREC forms, discussing the structure of the contract, the nature of written contracts, default, alternative dispute resolutions, HOA provisions and earnest money disputes. In this course, we will also discuss how to identify condominium properties, warrantability factors, the absence of surveys and the significance of HOA … [Read more...]
Using RPR to Better Serve Buyers and Sellers
Course Description: The student will learn how to utilize RPR as a tool for applying integrated data sources to better serve home buyers and sellers. The course will include an overview of specific features such as Property History, Value Refinement, Market Activity, and Neighborhood information. The course will also include information on how create a CMA, and utilize Chart and Graph comparisons … [Read more...]
You Mean Real Estate Contracts Must Be Written?
Course Description: The objective of this course is to instruct real estate agents in the fundamentals of real estate contracts and addenda. This course covers the fundamentals of real estate contracts and addenda, those promulgated or produced by the Texas Real Estate Commission and those produced by the Texas Association of REALTORS®. The course will focus on contracts and addenda relating to … [Read more...]
Texas Real Estate Education and our instructors work hard to provide broadcast class environments where real state professionals can learn how to better perform in the real estate industry, better represent their clients, and learn material that actually benefits their business and clients. Nobody likes the feeling of “CE Jail” (you know those classes that feel like a waste of time just to get the credit). We recognize that continuing education is not one's favorite way to spend their time. However, we do our best to engage all of the students in each class to participate and hopefully learn something new thing in each class.