Qualifying Broker Live Course Calendar

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.

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

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?

Here are 20 cost-effective home improvements that add value and enjoyment for every homeowner.

Homeowners are spending more time and money on fixing up their homes than ever before. In fact, U.S. Census Bureau statistics indicate that maintentance and repairs make up about 30 percent of the expenditures. The other 70 percent is spent for alterations, major replacements, additions, and outside additions and alterations.

This is your guide to 20 home improvements that will maximize resale value. You will learn where the money goes in a typical remodeling job, as well as how much is spent on kitchen and bathroom remodeling, plumbing, HVAC, roofing, and more. Discover tips and ideas to help you communicate with your clients and customers about value-added home improvements.

The course category is elective.

Key Benefits:

• Learn how to add value to a home and increase revenue
• Explore which improvements your clients should complete before listing a property
• Increase your commission by helping your clients to add value

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

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.

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 elective.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

• 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!*

Stay up-to-date on the latest changes in real estate financing!

Knowing and understanding today’s mortgage and financing options is a critical part of the home buying and selling process for real estate professionals.
This course guides you through the integral financing process of a real estate transaction and the complex choices in mortgage financing. You will learn how to thrive in this business by understanding the current trends, laws, and requirements in this industry. The course covers topics such as COVID-19, condominium association approvals, steps for a successful closing, credit scoring and FICO 10, and loan programs, as well as recent changes to the typical loan program choices and mortgage regulations.

This course is a core elective.

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

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

All qualifying brokers must take this course to renew their real estate license every three years!

All qualifying brokers must take the Qualifying Broker Refresher course to renew their real estate license. Even qualifying brokers who are otherwise exempt from mandatory continuing education must take this course. This course does not count for any CE credit hours toward your 36-hour renewal requirement. It is important to note that the Qualifying Broker Refresher is just that—a refresher course.  This course is not a thorough teaching on any one topic, but rather a review of information that qualifying brokers should understand.

This course is designed to be interactive to maximize its benefit to you. It is structured around six modules, a fictional case study, and the New Mexico Real Estate Commission Rule book. You will also find extra resources and additional information located at the end of each module.

Topics Include:

• Qualifying broker roles, responsibilities, and requirements
• Qualifying broker duties and rules that impact qualifying brokers
• Legislative and regulatory influences
• Impact of judicial decisions on a brokerage
• Risk reduction in the 21st century

Key Benefits:

• Differentiate between the responsibilities of a qualifying broker and an associate broker as described in a brokerage according to Part 16 and Part 17 of the New Mexico Real Estate Commission Rules
• Implement policies that will ensure compliance with the rules in your brokerage
• Identify key compliance issues for a brokerage as required by various Federal and New Mexico legislative and regulatory requirements
• Analyze selected court cases to determine the implications that each judicial decision has on qualifying brokers and their respective brokerages
• Develop risk reduction policies for the brokerage

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 study and fulfill your requirements.

• 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!*

4 Credit Hours Live Online $69

This course category is elective.

This course has been developed as an easy to follow and concise referral source to aid in deciphering the ever-evolving complexities existing within real estate transactions, usage, development, and management and the symbiotic relationship with civic laws and their scope of reach.

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.

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.

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.

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

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!*

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.

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 elective.

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

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

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Live online courses make it more convenient than ever to study and fulfill your requirements.

• 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!*

8 Credit Hours Live Online $99

The course category is elective.

Quick Start to Inside Sales is a 2-day course with 4 hours of virtual classroom instruction each day. Both days must be attended to receive credit.

This course will give you the comprehensive training you need to find prospecting new leads, lead follow-up, and cultivating potential clients.

Learn what an Inside Sales Associate ‘ISA’ is and its importance to a team, licensing Laws and Requirements to perform in the role of an ‘ISA’, and review articles from The National Association of Realtors. Students also learn tips for scheduling and managing time, writing a business plan, and writing emails and text messages.

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 elective.

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 approaches
• Avoiding liability related to radon in real estate transactions

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 elective.

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

History has shown in great detail that most human patterns of migration and subsequent colonization have resulted in the establishment of villages, neighborhoods, or similar enclaves of societal gathering that eventually link together, growing to become towns and cities.

This course will provide a detailed summation of the current aspects of “Modern Urbanism” and the application of sustainable real estate growth.  It 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.

Topics Include:

• The history of urban development
• Municipal Impact
• The practicality of Modern Urbanism
• The application of Modern Urbanism

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.

Learn how to prepare for court, so you have the best chance of victory. 

This course is designed for residential owners, property managers, and leasing representatives of rental property. It is important that you have a thorough understanding of the court process for evictions and so on for New Mexico. The course will review the owner-tenant responsibilities, violations, and the court process.

Gain the knowledge you need to represent clients skillfully in common interest community (CIC) transactions!

Learn about the required documents you need to secure for your buyer’s time-sensitive review. Many potential real estate buyers are intrigued about owning a property with shared amenities and services they would not be able to afford on their own, but they should be knowledgeable about the fees and limitations associated with these properties. You’ll also learn what to spot in those documents to help your clients determine whether the properties they are considering are sound investments.

Key Benefits:

• Understand your role and the value you bring to your clients by identifying the key documents to review
• Spot red flags to help your clients avoid potential bad investments
• Help your clients determine the financial health of the real estate
• Learn how to uncover hidden costs, so your clients aren’t caught off guard

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.