Associate Broker CE Live Course Calendar

Green is not a stagnant definition. Rather, practices…a philosophy of interconnected ideas and choices…resulting in reduced environmental impact. Green building techniques have been used for centuries. The modern green building movement began in the 1970s as a result of both oil price increases and the rise of the environmental movement.

This course provides you with a basic understanding of green attributes and lifestyles. It establishes a baseline of information and investigation, creates common terminology and resources for green building, and explores associated tax incentives.

Topics Include:

• Build Green New Mexico
• LEED
• Energy Star
• Sustainability
• Passive solar design
• Thermal solar
• Tax credits and rebates

Key Points:

• Understand the Build Green New Mexico levels
• Learn what Energy Star means
• Discuss the “green” philosophy
• Review the elements of a “green” home
• Differentiate passive solar and thermal solar
• Identify tax credits and rebates

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours. Learn anywhere you have internet access!*

In this live online video replay of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission Meeting (NMREC), Qualifying Brokers will fulfill their requirement to attend either a NMREC Commission Meeting or a NMREC Disciplinary Hearing once in their 3-year cycle. Associate brokers who offer or intend to offer property management services shall also be subject to the same meeting attendance requirements.

A keen understanding of new construction and the ability to educate your clients has never been more important!

In this course, you’ll learn about the opportunities, costs, features, advantages, and challenges of new construction today. Whether you have a buyer determined to build or investigating building versus buying an existing home, this course will equip you to answer and advise your clients with confidence. Learn what’s changed in the last few years as new construction has made a comeback: land prices have increased steadily and building materials have sky-rocketed, while labor shortage is at an all-time high.

Learn the answers to these questions:

• What factors do you need to assess before you consider building?
• What are the options for building? Type of structure, square footage, location, technology enhancements, and more!
• How much will upgrades cost versus what clients see in model homes? Including assessing builder grade versus desired upgrades—the potential range may determine feasibility of build
• What are change orders?
• What are the soft costs that may be hidden?
• How do building codes affect the cost of new construction?
• What is the difference in financing a new versus existing home for your client?
• How do you explain lot and homestead tax to your client?
• What does a new construction contract look like?
• How are commissions paid for representation on new construction and to whom?
• What are the options for affordable housing with new construction?

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

This course will review case studies based on the Uniform Owner/Resident Relations Act,  including evictions, court cases, and other cases that interpret the act.  Rules of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission related to property management will be demonstrated via case studies as well as complaints and hearings.  Other industry-available residential property management case studies will also be reviewed.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

All associate brokers must complete this course within their first year of licensure! 

This 30-hour course is required of all new associate brokers licensed for the first time on or after January 1, 2009. Effective January 1, 2012, this must be completed within the first year of licensure. This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to begin your real estate career with confidence. Real estate is a profession, and this course is designed to apply the information to your particular real estate practice. Positioning yourself with solid business process and best practices will help you succeed as a real estate professional.

New Broker Business Practices covers everything from the basics of establishing a real estate business to the successful closing of a transaction. It is presented in a format that will facilitate your learning in a systematic approach. Jump-start your real estate career by attending this class as soon as possible after receiving your license. 

Topics Include:

• Prospecting
• Creating a database and business plan
• Working with buyers: important first steps and the purchase agreement
• Working with sellers: important first steps and the listing process
• Making the sale: presenting and negotiating offers and counteroffers
• Closing the transaction

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

Are you ready to grow your business?

Prospecting is essential for the lifeblood of any real estate professional, especially early in their career. Prospecting is also one of the most difficult tasks real estate professionals will face, but actively searching for potential customers is essential in order to drive business forward and create more income.

This course is designed to assist real estate professionals in learning ‘the art of prospecting’ to help grow their business and produce more transactions.

Topics Include:

• Finding prospects
• Prospecting methods
• Prospecting plans

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours. Learn anywhere you have internet access!*

In this live online video replay of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission Meeting (NMREC), Qualifying Brokers will fulfill their requirement to attend either a NMREC Commission Meeting or a NMREC Disciplinary Hearing once in their 3-year cycle. Associate brokers who offer or intend to offer property management services shall also be subject to the same meeting attendance requirements.

Why should you be concerned about radon?

This four-hour class is designed to provide attendees with a summation of radon risks, potential sources, how radon enters and accumulates in buildings, and its health effects and risks.

The information provided is outlined to help attendees with the understanding that there is no safe level of radon, that radon can vary among areas, and can only be detected by testing. In addition, we will summarize the basic mitigation and testing approaches, and explain why real estate licensees and their clients should be concerned about radon.

This course category is education.

Topics Include:

• Health effects and risks; Radon characteristics and sources
• Client information and issues; Government programs and information resources; Certification for testing and mitigation
• Mitigation approached
• Avoiding liability related to radon in real estate transactions

Learn the importance of using current forms and how to avoid transaction liability related to using out-sated forms.

This four hour class is designed to provide attendees with a professional working knowledge of the RANM Purchase Agreement and other forms likely to be used with it.

Topics Include:

• Compliance with Part 19 rules
• Parties to the Contract
• Ernest Money
• Appraisal Contingency
• Closing Process
• Inspections
• Disclosures
• Contract Signing
• Addendums
• Responses and Counters

Key Benefits: 

• Identify and select the current RANM purchase agreement and related form for his or her transactions
• Explain and interpret the current RANM purchase agreement and the reasons for its most significant recent changes
• Apply the current RANM purchase agreement and tis mist recent changes as he or she prepares transaction documents
• Illustrate to his or her customer or client the meaning of the paragraphs in the current RANM purchase agreement
• Summarize and justify the importance of the verbiage in the current RANM purchase agreement
• Prepare professional transaction documents for his or her client or customer, incorporating the current RANM purchase agreement

This course is a core elective.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Learn the importance of using current forms and how to avoid transaction liability related to using outdated forms.

This four hour class is designed to provide attendees with a professional working knowledge of the NMAR Listing Agreement and other forms likely to be used with it. Save time and energy by eliminating your commute to class. Our Live Online class allows you to experience the benefits of a classroom setting from your home or office. Receive direct instruction from instructors who know what it takes to succeed!

Topics Include:

• Listing Agreement including the most recent changes
• Listing Agreement Amendments
• HOA Disclosure
• Public Improvement District Disclosure
• Lead Based Paint Addendum
• Lead Based Paint Renovation and Repair

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours. Learn anywhere you have internet access!*

In this live online video replay of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission Meeting (NMREC), Qualifying Brokers will fulfill their requirement to attend either a NMREC Commission Meeting or a NMREC Disciplinary Hearing once in their 3-year cycle. Associate brokers who offer or intend to offer property management services shall also be subject to the same meeting attendance requirements.

This course provides an in-depth look at the requirements of the Code of Ethics and its enforcement. The Code ensures that consumers are served by requiring REALTORS® to cooperate with each other in furthering clients' best interests.  Meet both New Mexico Real Estate Commission continuing education requirements and National Association of Realtors requirements with this class.

The course category is ethics.

Perplexed by property management?  You are not alone – but the confusion can be addressed and money made!!

Property management is a very prominent aspect in the field of commercial real estate.  This category of commercial real estate can be heavily regulated, dependent on locale, and in most areas it is typically overseen at the municipal level by specific commissions or licensure boards. The law of a particular region will help shape the framework, but the elementary principles that are involved in the actual day to day tasks of property management remain the same. Commercial real estate, as applied to property management, focuses on principles, and where applicable local laws and standards, to help get a broad view of the subject.
 

Topics Include:

• Functions and property management
• Responsibilities in the field
• Protocol for managers
• Basic rules in commercial real estate

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

This is your chance to get up to speed on fair housing requirements and ensure you’re following the law.

This course will help you with those concerns and will provide you with an in-depth analysis of the Federal Fair Housing Act and Amendments.  The class also challenges brokers to be aware of the fair housing risks in managing rental property, including becoming aware of the new HUD guidance regarding assistance animals.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

Make sure you know and follow marketing guidelines!

Advances in marketing technology and methodology are great for business, but they can be worrisome for regulators who are responsible for ensuring consumers aren't being deceived through ads and testimonials. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to protect consumers and to fulfill the disclosure and transparency requirements of federal law and regulations by avoiding business practices that can result in consumer confusion and deception. Learning objectives and key concepts are reinforced with video instruction, as well as interactive practice activities, quick quizzes, and unit exams.

Key Benefits:

• Understand how to meet the requirements for transparent advertising and marketing
• Learn how to protect yourself against complaints
• Interactive activities bolster your key concept instruction
• Quick quizzes test your topic comprehension

Whether you are involved in ownership, management or leasing of rental property, it is important that you have a thorough understanding of New Mexico Landlord-Tenant laws. 

This course provides an in-depth analysis of the provisions of the Uniform Owner/Resident Relations Act, including the obligations of both owners and residents.  Learn the proper way to notify tenants, how to properly handle deposit refunds, and the step by step process involved in an eviction procedure. You will also learn the Act’s requirements regarding disposition of property abandoned on the premises and what your rights are regarding right of entry.

 Avoid litigation down the road by learning your rights and responsibilities as a landlord!

This course is a core elective.

Key Benefits:

• Learn key definitions of the Act.
• Examine the various types of notices provided for in the Act.
• Explain the requirements of handling security deposits.
• Analyze the obligations of both owners and residents.
• Become familiar with the Act’s right of entry provision.
• Describe breach of the agreement by both owner and resident.
• Illustrate the requirements regarding disposition of property left behind.
• Summarize the eviction process.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours. Learn anywhere you have internet access!*

In this live online video replay of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission Meeting (NMREC), Qualifying Brokers will fulfill their requirement to attend either a NMREC Commission Meeting or a NMREC Disciplinary Hearing once in their 3-year cycle. Associate brokers who offer or intend to offer property management services shall also be subject to the same meeting attendance requirements.

We are always seeking the beauty of nature.  Building more and more in the forests among the trees that will, sooner or later turn into flames.  Wildfire is a natural hazard.

This class is designed to provide attendees with a detailed summation of current aspects of wildfire risk in real estate and the application of responsible real estate growth.  This class will provide a view of the main elements that revolve around the constantly evolving complexities related to both commercial and residential responsible land use, positive environmental planning, and manageable real estate growth, as they apply to wildfire risk.
 

Topics Include:

• Residential real estate and wildfires
• Real estate business relevance and wildfires
• Property management and wildfires
• The import of smoke and contaminate testing after a wildfire

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

This course provides an in-depth look at the requirements of the Code of Ethics and its enforcement. The Code ensures that consumers are served by requiring REALTORS® to cooperate with each other in furthering clients' best interests.  Meet both New Mexico Real Estate Commission continuing education requirements and National Association of Realtors requirements with this class.

The course category is ethics.

All associate brokers must complete this course within their first year of licensure! 

This 30-hour course is required of all new associate brokers licensed for the first time on or after January 1, 2009. Effective January 1, 2012, this must be completed within the first year of licensure. This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to begin your real estate career with confidence. Real estate is a profession, and this course is designed to apply the information to your particular real estate practice. Positioning yourself with solid business process and best practices will help you succeed as a real estate professional.

New Broker Business Practices covers everything from the basics of establishing a real estate business to the successful closing of a transaction. It is presented in a format that will facilitate your learning in a systematic approach. Jump-start your real estate career by attending this class as soon as possible after receiving your license. 

Topics Include:

• Prospecting
• Creating a database and business plan
• Working with buyers: important first steps and the purchase agreement
• Working with sellers: important first steps and the listing process
• Making the sale: presenting and negotiating offers and counteroffers
• Closing the transaction

Learn how the most powerful force of nature impacts property.

This course will the show the challenges facing our finite amount of water and outline how to optimize the applicable scenarios to a client base.
The need to protect and manage our finite water will be expressed, and the reliance on clean water and the impact and importance to the real estate industry and clients will be detailed. The fact that local impact translates to global impact will also be delineated.

This course category is education.

Topics Include:

• Water in and on the land impacting real estate
• Who owns the water and associated costs and problems
• Informing and protecting your client
• Avoiding liability related to radon in real estate transactions

It is not difficult to see how leasing in commercial real estate works in any economy!

A commercial real estate lease is viewed as a legal contract that represents a conveyance of possessory rights to real estate. Legal aspects will vary dependent upon local rules and regulations.

The focal point of this course is the principles that are behind the fundamental elements that make up a commercial real estate lease. The course is outlined to give a very easy-to-understand way of recognizing the potential for any broker in the field of leasing.

Key Benefits:

• Identify a variety of specific business categories with commercial real estate leasing.
• Examine lease distinctions.
• Understand lease functions, calculations, and implementation.
• Review terminology that applies.

Clear up any questions you may have that relate to commercial real estate sales in one easy-to-follow format!

The spectrum of commercial real estate sales encompasses a large array of property categories, and each commonly carries with it various degrees of complexity that have to be taken into account. The most common way to view commercial real estate sales are categorically by vacant land, pending construction, those with a structure or structures on premises, and those properties that are already comprised of existing tenants.

This course will give you a simple review of how commercial real estate sales really work in today’s market.

Key Benefits:

• Examine the sale of vacant land and how to attain value.
• Understand structural presence and external facets.
• Learn the importance of gathering all of the financial details of tenant-occupied property.
• Identify how converting figures into numbers that define pricing is as easy as knowing how the formulas work.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

Are you ready to grow your business?

Prospecting is essential for the lifeblood of any real estate professional, especially early in their career. Prospecting is also one of the most difficult tasks real estate professionals will face, but actively searching for potential customers is essential in order to drive business forward and create more income.

This course is designed to assist real estate professionals in learning ‘the art of prospecting’ to help grow their business and produce more transactions.

Topics Include:

• Finding prospects
• Prospecting methods
• Prospecting plans

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

To get a quick refresher, or a simple breakdown of how commercial real estate works, this course can help!

Forming an essential, necessary, base or core, one of central importance. This is the description of the term fundamental. In the practice of commercial real estate, there exist many categories, types, and specialties. In each case, the fundamentals behind the vocation are utilized to help form the essential core of principles. Commercial real estate itself generally refers to property that is intended to generate a profit. This typically takes the form of capital gains, sales, or some other type of rental income that utilizes the real estate itself.

• This course is a concise guide designed to help filter through some of the complexities related to commercial real estate and to narrow the comprehensive scope to a more basic format.

Topics Include:

• Introduction to commercial real estate formats
• Dimensions and their roles
• Application of components
• Terminology for commercial real estate

Using recent New Mexico Real Estate Commission disciplinary cases, learn the broad range of sanctions available to the Commission in the disciplinary hearing process. 

The course provides opportunity for a general overview of NM Real Estate License Law and Commission Rules especially pertinent to the case studies that will be used in the class. Attendees will function as commissioners and respondents in each of the case studies and decide whether or not there were violations and what sanctions would be appropriate.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

No two transactions are the same; therefore, licensees need extensive knowledge to troubleshoot any circumstance encountered.

In this course, you’ll see how some of the most common issues are also the most time-consuming and carry the greatest risk for your client and yourself. You’ll have an opportunity for lively discussion as you are guided through the obstacles, dilemmas, and hurdles that you are likely to encounter in your real estate transactions. By identifying the potential minefields and possible remedies in various situations, you’ll be prepared to guide your clients to a smooth and memorable real estate experience.

This course has been approved by the Minnesota Commissioner of Commerce for 3.75 hours of real estate continuing education.

Key Benefits

• Discusses issues from the perspective of the buyer and the seller
• Allows for ample discussion—you’ll get to hear interesting problems others have faced and how those issues were resolved, as well as share your experiences with others
• Addresses topics that can only come from experience in dealing with people—the more you know about what other professionals have faced, the better prepared you can be when you’re in a similar situation

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

The line between residential real estate and commercial real estate does not have to be blurred because of lack of basic knowledge!
Commercial real estate is a broad subject that has numerous components and can be extremely complex. Commercial property itself typically includes office buildings or complexes, malls, shopping centers or separate individual retail stores, multiple types of industrial property, warehouses, medical center, hotels, farmland, and multi-family housing. The practice of commercial real estate incorporates many terms and acronyms that must be understood to interpret it clearly and gain an accurate picture of the numerous components that play a role.

Commercial Real Estate Overview was developed with the fundamentals of commercial real estate, focusing on principles, as well as applicable local laws and standards.

Topics Include:

• Introduction to commercial real estate
• How sales play a part in commercial real estate
• Leasing and the basics
• Property management

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

Today’s real estate professional works in a highly litigious environment with approximately two-thirds of all lawsuits brought against brokers based on misrepresentation, negligence, or fraud.
This course will provide students with a basic understanding of how courts create law via rulings and interpretation of laws.

We will discuss disclosure requirements based on the New Mexico Real Estate License Law and Commission rules, required disclosures listed in the Broker Duties and how courts can impose additional duties via rulings and risk management techniques.

We will review six appellate court opinions and understand what the courts have said about how we must act in the real estate profession.

Topics Include:

• Broker Duties
• Barber’s vs Stryker Realty
• Amato vs Rathbun
• Easton vs Strassburger
• Swallows vs Laney
• Gouveia vs Citicorp
• Robertson vs Carmel Builders

This course is a core elective.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

Learn how to spot red flags and what to do once they have been identified.

Real estate professionals are held to a standard of reporting if they find something that is a “red flag” (a visual sign or indication of a defect), yet many are inadequately informed of what qualifies as a red flag and what their responsibility is when they find one. You are not responsible for a full inspection – a home inspector is – but since you have exposure to the home, there is an obligation to disclose what you see.

Red flags always cause negotiations and can threaten sales, but they can be especially troublesome in a buyers market, when buyers can afford to be picky about many issues. And with as much inventory as we currently have, the individuals who are looking to buy these properties are more likely to be investors who are generally more familiar with these issues. Recent legislation has directed you with the responsibility of inspecting properties for “red flags” – especially an extreme issue such as asbestos or mold. Brokers and agents who understand and comply with their state's disclosure laws stand a better chance of avoiding legal liability or a sale falling through.

Limit your personal risk by being better informed of what to look for and how to correctly respond to the finding.

Topics:

• Red Flags overview
• Specific issues such as asbestos and hazardous vegetation
• Disclosure law compliance
• How to communicate findings.

This course is a core elective. 

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

Solar Photo Voltaic (PV) are increasingly present in New Mexico homes.  Does this represent value?  Can this create difficulties for the transaction?

This course will familiarize you with the impact and potential pitfalls that Solar PV can have on a transaction.  Can Solar PV truly add value?  What must you address in your transactions to protect the public?

Key Benefits:

• Become familiar with the history of PV in New Mexico.
• Understand the exponential growth of home PV systems.
• PV product warranties and their transferability.
• The role that PNM plays with the “Customer Generator”.
• Property tax and its impact on Solar PV.
• How appraisers currently view PM systems for value.
• Lease verses own and the impact that will bring to the transaction.
• Questions to ask to protect the consumer, both seller and buyer.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Green is not a stagnant definition. Rather, practices…a philosophy of interconnected ideas and choices…resulting in reduced environmental impact. Green building techniques have been used for centuries. The modern green building movement began in the 1970s as a result of both oil price increases and the rise of the environmental movement.

This course provides you with a basic understanding of green attributes and lifestyles. It establishes a baseline of information and investigation, creates common terminology and resources for green building, and explores associated tax incentives.

Topics Include:

• Build Green New Mexico
• LEED
• Energy Star
• Sustainability
• Passive solar design
• Thermal solar
• Tax credits and rebates

Key Points:

• Understand the Build Green New Mexico levels
• Learn what Energy Star means
• Discuss the “green” philosophy
• Review the elements of a “green” home
• Differentiate passive solar and thermal solar
• Identify tax credits and rebates

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

This course provides an in-depth look at the requirements of the Code of Ethics and its enforcement. The Code ensures that consumers are served by requiring REALTORS® to cooperate with each other in furthering clients' best interests.  Meet both New Mexico Real Estate Commission continuing education requirements and National Association of Realtors requirements with this class.

The course category is ethics.

A keen understanding of new construction and the ability to educate your clients has never been more important!

In this course, you’ll learn about the opportunities, costs, features, advantages, and challenges of new construction today. Whether you have a buyer determined to build or investigating building versus buying an existing home, this course will equip you to answer and advise your clients with confidence. Learn what’s changed in the last few years as new construction has made a comeback: land prices have increased steadily and building materials have sky-rocketed, while labor shortage is at an all-time high.

Learn the answers to these questions:

• What factors do you need to assess before you consider building?
• What are the options for building? Type of structure, square footage, location, technology enhancements, and more!
• How much will upgrades cost versus what clients see in model homes? Including assessing builder grade versus desired upgrades—the potential range may determine feasibility of build
• What are change orders?
• What are the soft costs that may be hidden?
• How do building codes affect the cost of new construction?
• What is the difference in financing a new versus existing home for your client?
• How do you explain lot and homestead tax to your client?
• What does a new construction contract look like?
• How are commissions paid for representation on new construction and to whom?
• What are the options for affordable housing with new construction?

Property managers face numerous challenges in the day-to-day operations of the properties they manage.

One of the best risk reduction tools available to property managers involves taking courses designed to maximize knowledge in key areas of liability. Property managers often work with individuals who are complete strangers. Useful websites provide an excellent resource to access vital information regarding criminal activity, as well as any connection a rental prospect may have to sex offender sites.

This course will explore several laws that are relevant to property management, such as the Fair Housing Act. Property managers must stay informed of current changes to existing laws to ensure they are in compliance. Past students have raved about the safety tips presented in Property Management Essentials.

Topics Include:

• Stigmatized property and Megan’s Law
• Illegal drug activity
• Safety tips
• Lead-based paint disclosure
• Uniform Owner/Resident Relations Act update
• Fair Housing and property management

This course is a core elective.

Commercial leases are long and intricately tailored legal documents that properly reflect the intent of both Landlord and Tenant with respect to the commercial property.

This eight-hour class is designed to provide attendees with a detailed summation of the principle aspects of a commercial real estate lease.
It is designed to provide an exhaustive view of the main elements that revolve around how a commercial real estate lease is formatted.

This course is a core elective.

Key Benefits:

• Identify and understand the current working components as they apply to a commercial real estate lease contract and how they function.
• Explain and interpret how fundamental commercial real estate leasing principles impact the broker and client and keep them current.
• Apply in their practice the common elements related to a commercial real estate lease and the legal standards that governed its use.
• Identify and illustrate to his/her customer or client functional lease variables and distinguish these from non applicable customers.
• Summarize and justify the importance of base line commercial real estate lease functions as they relate to both business and legal standards.
• Prepare or aid the client in finding professional documentation and pertinent tangible information related to a commercial real estate lease contract.

All associate brokers must complete this course within their first year of licensure! 

This 30-hour course is required of all new associate brokers licensed for the first time on or after January 1, 2009. Effective January 1, 2012, this must be completed within the first year of licensure. This course will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to begin your real estate career with confidence. Real estate is a profession, and this course is designed to apply the information to your particular real estate practice. Positioning yourself with solid business process and best practices will help you succeed as a real estate professional.

New Broker Business Practices covers everything from the basics of establishing a real estate business to the successful closing of a transaction. It is presented in a format that will facilitate your learning in a systematic approach. Jump-start your real estate career by attending this class as soon as possible after receiving your license. 

Topics Include:

• Prospecting
• Creating a database and business plan
• Working with buyers: important first steps and the purchase agreement
• Working with sellers: important first steps and the listing process
• Making the sale: presenting and negotiating offers and counteroffers
• Closing the transaction

Make sure you know and follow marketing guidelines!

Advances in marketing technology and methodology are great for business, but they can be worrisome for regulators who are responsible for ensuring consumers aren't being deceived through ads and testimonials. This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge you need to protect consumers and to fulfill the disclosure and transparency requirements of federal law and regulations by avoiding business practices that can result in consumer confusion and deception. Learning objectives and key concepts are reinforced with video instruction, as well as interactive practice activities, quick quizzes, and unit exams.

Key Benefits:

• Understand how to meet the requirements for transparent advertising and marketing
• Learn how to protect yourself against complaints
• Interactive activities bolster your key concept instruction
• Quick quizzes test your topic comprehension

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

This course reviews state and federal rules and laws for property managers and leasing representatives.  In addition, we will cover best practices in management agreements and rental agreements.  We will also cover applicant screening, property maintenance, reporting to owners, marketing and lasing of the property, and risk management.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

We are always seeking the beauty of nature.  Building more and more in the forests among the trees that will, sooner or later turn into flames.  Wildfire is a natural hazard.

This class is designed to provide attendees with a detailed summation of current aspects of wildfire risk in real estate and the application of responsible real estate growth.  This class will provide a view of the main elements that revolve around the constantly evolving complexities related to both commercial and residential responsible land use, positive environmental planning, and manageable real estate growth, as they apply to wildfire risk.
 

Topics Include:

• Residential real estate and wildfires
• Real estate business relevance and wildfires
• Property management and wildfires
• The import of smoke and contaminate testing after a wildfire

Why should you be concerned about radon?

This four-hour class is designed to provide attendees with a summation of radon risks, potential sources, how radon enters and accumulates in buildings, and its health effects and risks.

The information provided is outlined to help attendees with the understanding that there is no safe level of radon, that radon can vary among areas, and can only be detected by testing. In addition, we will summarize the basic mitigation and testing approaches, and explain why real estate licensees and their clients should be concerned about radon.

This course category is education.

Topics Include:

• Health effects and risks; Radon characteristics and sources
• Client information and issues; Government programs and information resources; Certification for testing and mitigation
• Mitigation approached
• Avoiding liability related to radon in real estate transactions

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

There is not always a right or wrong answer. Rather, the answer depends on the many nuances in financing commercial transactions!
When a commercial property owner lists their property for sales and the buyer submits a purchase offer, the pre-qualification is different than applying for a residential mortgage.  In a residential mortgage, the lender can pre-qualify a borrower based on their personal income and credit.  In a commercial loan, the lender can give a rough estimate based on property type, loan-to-value ratio and net operating income. This course will give the basic understanding of commercial real estate financing and general metrics used by lenders.

Topics Include:

• Types of Lenders
• Types of Loans
• Key Commercial Mortgage Metrics
• Rates
• Prepayment Penalties
• Loan Applications/Submissions

This course is a core elective.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

What rules do you have to follow when conducting real estate transactions?
This course will review the rules of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission that apply to all brokers in New Mexico. It will cover the statutory basis for licensure and the rules of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission. A relatively large portion of this course is designed to assist you in using the rules book to look up answers to your questions in the field.

Rules of the Real Estate Commission is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. It is structured around five modules, and your instructor will lead you through each module and encourage participation.

Topics Include:

• Statutory authority
• Structure of the rules
• Review of the most frequently encountered rules
• Rules case study
• This course is a core elective.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.

Perplexed by property management?  You are not alone – but the confusion can be addressed and money made!!

Property management is a very prominent aspect in the field of commercial real estate.  This category of commercial real estate can be heavily regulated, dependent on locale, and in most areas it is typically overseen at the municipal level by specific commissions or licensure boards. The law of a particular region will help shape the framework, but the elementary principles that are involved in the actual day to day tasks of property management remain the same. Commercial real estate, as applied to property management, focuses on principles, and where applicable local laws and standards, to help get a broad view of the subject.
 

Topics Include:

• Functions and property management
• Responsibilities in the field
• Protocol for managers
• Basic rules in commercial real estate

This course provides an in-depth look at the requirements of the Code of Ethics and its enforcement. The Code ensures that consumers are served by requiring REALTORS® to cooperate with each other in furthering clients' best interests.  Meet both New Mexico Real Estate Commission continuing education requirements and National Association of Realtors requirements with this class.

The course category is ethics.

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course.  This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. 

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties

The course category is mandatory.

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to complete your continuing education hours.

• You get access to the same great Kaplan Real Estate Education content and instructors.
• Our courses offer opportunities to engage with other students and your instructor.
• As an added bonus, you can learn anywhere you have internet access!*

The NMREC Core Course replaces the NMREC Mandatory Course. 
All licensees must take the 4-hour NMREC Core Course to renew their real estate license.  This 4-hour course is an annual required course and must be completed each year of your license renewal. This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you.

NOTE: This course will need to be completed annually to maintain your license.

Topics Include:

• A review of E & O claims and how our industry can reduce them
• Score brokers on the broker duties in an interactive case study where we watch a deal unravel, unfold and play out
• The latest legal updates on a federal, state, local level
• Rule changes from the New Mexico Real Estate Commission
• How to improve the QB/QB relationship via the independent contract agreement
• Latest changes to Broker duties
• The course category is mandatory.

*For additional information on supported devices, please visit www.kapre.com/company/system-requirements.