Qualifying Broker Live Course Calendar

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

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.

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

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.
• Identify and illustrate to customers or clients 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.

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.

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!*

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 is designed for the qualifying broker, associate broker, or owner/employee acting as manager of staff who manage and lease residential units. 

You will cover operations management of marketing, leasing, and management of residential units.  We will discuss a supervision plan for the brokerage, including reporting, staff training, supervision, and components of a policy/procedure manual for the brokerage, as well as how to handle an emergency at your property.

*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

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

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

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.

Do not be overwhelmed by the rules and regulations that sometimes bog down other brokers…understand how civic laws play into real estate!

Cities all over the United States utilize “Planning and Zoning Departments”, or variations thereof, to multiple degrees, dependent on local statutes, to carry out the directive of the law.

Designed for comprehensive coverage of how the various functions of government interplay, and hold domain, or jurisdiction, when crossing over into the field of commercial real estate.

Topics Include:

• Local starts within the city level
• County directives play a big part
• Where does the state come in
• Federal domain – The last word

If you are not up-to-date with zoning, it can easily change the course of a deal!

Zoning can be defined as a tool or mechanism that is used in planning and utilization of land. This is most commonly put into practice through the various branches of local government. The term zoning is derived from the practice of assigning set, permitted use of lands based on mapped areas that separate one land use from another.

This course is outlined to provide an easy-to-follow overview of some of the main elements that revolve around zoning, as they apply to commercial real estate. We will also lay out a simple format to follow when it comes to local municipal planning.

This course is a core elective.

Key Benefits:

• Identify the six areas of the Standard City Planning Enabling Act (SCPEA).
• Discuss the four categories of zoning.
• Examine the zoning applications, as they are the most tangible components in commercial real estate and municipal planning.
• Understand the exceptions in standard zoning and how they influence the area of commercial real estate.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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.

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!*

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.

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What does it mean to repurpose property, and how does it apply to today’s real estate market? This course presents many opportunities currently untapped for buyers, sellers, and licensees, including strategies for bringing people together to make these projects possible. Students will learn tips for obtaining community support that can result in successful projects that benefit entire neighborhoods. The text-plus-video format and a series of case studies will engage students and inspire them to seek opportunities in repurposing properties.

Topics Covered:

• The Supersizing of Homes
• Crowdfunding—The Future of Real Estate Finance?
• Putting Foreclosed Properties Back to Use
• Urban Repurposing Trends
• Repurposing Suburbia
• Rural Repurposing

The course category is elective.