Texas Real Estate Salesperson CE 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.

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!*

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

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

iBuyers are quickly becoming a force in the market…understand what that means for the future of real estate.

Instant home offers make iBuyers an intriguing option for many home sellers. These companies are emerging across the country and marketing to sellers as a quick, easy, hassle-free sale, but what’s really in the fine print of those purchase contracts? Is it really in a homeowner’s best interest to sell to an iBuyer? How does this type of home sale impact the future buyer and the industry as a whole? How can you position yourself compared to the online, fast sale concept? This class will break down the advantages, disadvantages, and potential warnings, and delve into the impact of iBuyers on the future of real estate.

Key Benefits:

• Understand what iBuyer means and how the iBuyer process works
• Learn how to represent buyers in the iBuyer process
• This class discusses the future of iBuyers and how to compete with them

Mandatory Course

Effective January 1, 2020, all active salespersons and brokers not subject to Salesperson Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements are required to complete 18 hours of CE for an active license renewal. Four hours of this education must consist of Legal Update I. Additionally, salespersons under the SAE requirements must also complete four hours of Legal Update I as a part of their SAE requirements.

In this course, you will explore up-to-date information concerning current legal issues and the proper procedures to appropriately manage these issues. You face a changing, and increasingly competitive, marketplace in which quick, accurate decisions are crucial to cultivating successful transactions. This mandatory course will provide the knowledge you need to stay current and competitive in the Texas real estate industry.

Key Benefits:

• Explore current information about current legal issues and management
• Required course for your SAE and CE education
• Stay up-to-date on the most recent legal changes

Protect your client and safeguard your real estate business and career!

Can you name three of the top ten legal issues real estate professionals face today? This course enlightens you to all top ten issues, plus helps you navigate through the murky waters that can prevail when a clear understanding of real estate laws, statutes, and rulings is loosely or vaguely interpreted.

This course illuminates the issues that create problems in real estate transactions. You will learn to identify what constitutes negligence, and when it is the “F-word”, fraud. You’ll sharpen your understanding of what happens when a client makes a Breach of Contract claim, and how to avoid misleading statements that can have disastrous ramifications for you, your client, and your business. Your expert instructor will lead you through case studies to identify critical issues, determine what happened, how a situation could have been handled appropriately, and how to
resolve legally and within the scope of the law. This engaging course will prepare you for real life real estate, in today’s world, and help you avoid risky and costly business mistakes.

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

Topics include:

• Top ten legal issues for licensees
• Failing to disclose a property defect
• Breach of duty
• Representing clients in unfamiliar territory
• Misleading statements equals deception
• Breach of Contract claims
• Failing to recommend inspections
• Negligence—when is an action innocent; when it is not

Mandatory Course

Effective January 1, 2020, all active salespersons and brokers not subject to Salesperson Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements are required to complete 18 hours of continuing education (CE) for an active license renewal. Four hours of this CE must consist of Legal Update II. Salespersons under the SAE requirements must also complete four hours of Legal Update II as a part of their SAE requirements.

You face a changing, and increasingly competitive, marketplace in which quick, accurate decisions make the difference in cultivating successful transactions. This TREC Legal Update course is designed to help you increase your knowledge of the ethics requirements pertaining to Texas real estate transactions. This in-depth review will confirm your understanding and help foster proper administration of many issues such as agency, advertising, title and closing, and more.

Key Benefits:

• Learn in our dynamic live class
• Required course for your SAE and CE education
• Stay up-to-date on ethics requirements

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

Mandatory Course

Effective January 1, 2020, all active salespersons and brokers not subject to Salesperson Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements are required to complete 18 hours of CE for an active license renewal. Four hours of this education must consist of Legal Update I. Additionally, salespersons under the SAE requirements must also complete four hours of Legal Update I as a part of their SAE requirements.

In this course, you will explore up-to-date information concerning current legal issues and the proper procedures to appropriately manage these issues. You face a changing, and increasingly competitive, marketplace in which quick, accurate decisions are crucial to cultivating successful transactions. This mandatory course will provide the knowledge you need to stay current and competitive in the Texas real estate industry.

Key Benefits:

• Explore current information about current legal issues and management
• Required course for your SAE and CE education
• Stay up-to-date on the most recent legal changes

Mandatory Course

Effective January 1, 2020, all active salespersons and brokers not subject to Salesperson Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements are required to complete 18 hours of continuing education (CE) for an active license renewal. Four hours of this CE must consist of Legal Update II. Salespersons under the SAE requirements must also complete four hours of Legal Update II as a part of their SAE requirements.

You face a changing, and increasingly competitive, marketplace in which quick, accurate decisions make the difference in cultivating successful transactions. This TREC Legal Update course is designed to help you increase your knowledge of the ethics requirements pertaining to Texas real estate transactions. This in-depth review will confirm your understanding and help foster proper administration of many issues such as agency, advertising, title and closing, and more.

Key Benefits:

• Learn in our dynamic live class
• Required course for your SAE and CE education
• Stay up-to-date on ethics requirements

Attend live classes from the comfort of your home or office! Our live online courses make it more convenient than ever to obtain your required continuing education credits.

What’s all the hype about?

Witness this emerging market segment as you learn about the new world of tiny house living. In The Tiny House: Is it a Phase or Craze?, you’ll learn the origin of the tiny house, different types of tiny houses, the structural elements, costs and considerations, valuation of property, and when a tiny house is considered real property. We’ll also identify financing options specific to the tiny house and introduce you to tiny house communities developing across the country. The tiny house is a reflection of expressed values by a growing number of buyers today: simple living in natural surroundings and smaller more-efficient living spaces.

This course will reveal a client group whose needs may be unclear, until now. This course will prepare you to be knowledgeable of the construction and informed about market needs as well as provide you with options to discuss with your clients who are seeking this type of real estate.

Topics include:

• Emerging Values Increase Demand for Tiny Houses
• Real Estate Solutions Addressing New Needs of Clients
• Momentum of Demand
• Concerns and Obstacles
• What A Tiny House Is and Is Not
• Basic Structural Elements
• Valuation and Financing the Tiny House
• Explosive Markets of Tiny House Communities across the U.S.

iBuyers are quickly becoming a force in the market…understand what that means for the future of real estate.

Instant home offers make iBuyers an intriguing option for many home sellers. These companies are emerging across the country and marketing to sellers as a quick, easy, hassle-free sale, but what’s really in the fine print of those purchase contracts? Is it really in a homeowner’s best interest to sell to an iBuyer? How does this type of home sale impact the future buyer and the industry as a whole? How can you position yourself compared to the online, fast sale concept? This class will break down the advantages, disadvantages, and potential warnings, and delve into the impact of iBuyers on the future of real estate.

Key Benefits:

• Understand what iBuyer means and how the iBuyer process works
• Learn how to represent buyers in the iBuyer process
• This class discusses the future of iBuyers and how to compete with them

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

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

Continuing Education (CE) Course

The Texas Real Estate Commission Rules require a broker who sponsors salespersons, a designated broker of a business entity, and a licensee who is a delegated supervisor of one or more licensees, to have an understanding of the regulatory aspects of the management, operation, and supervision of a real estate brokerage firm in Texas. This course is designed to give the licensee the knowledge required for adequate performance of these duties.

This 6-hour class covers topics such as agency relationships, broker supervision responsibilities, organizational and operational considerations for brokerages, and how a complaint to TREC is handled. Finally, this course will give you a solid understanding of the laws regarding a real estate brokerage firm in Texas. Enroll today!

Key Benefits:

• Meets TREC requirement for broker CE (6-hour broker responsibility course)
• Learn in our dynamic live online classroom

iBuyers are quickly becoming a force in the market…understand what that means for the future of real estate.

Instant home offers make iBuyers an intriguing option for many home sellers. These companies are emerging across the country and marketing to sellers as a quick, easy, hassle-free sale, but what’s really in the fine print of those purchase contracts? Is it really in a homeowner’s best interest to sell to an iBuyer? How does this type of home sale impact the future buyer and the industry as a whole? How can you position yourself compared to the online, fast sale concept? This class will break down the advantages, disadvantages, and potential warnings, and delve into the impact of iBuyers on the future of real estate.

Key Benefits:

• Understand what iBuyer means and how the iBuyer process works
• Learn how to represent buyers in the iBuyer process
• This class discusses the future of iBuyers and how to compete with them

Protect your client and safeguard your real estate business and career!

Can you name three of the top ten legal issues real estate professionals face today? This course enlightens you to all top ten issues, plus helps you navigate through the murky waters that can prevail when a clear understanding of real estate laws, statutes, and rulings is loosely or vaguely interpreted.

This course illuminates the issues that create problems in real estate transactions. You will learn to identify what constitutes negligence, and when it is the “F-word”, fraud. You’ll sharpen your understanding of what happens when a client makes a Breach of Contract claim, and how to avoid misleading statements that can have disastrous ramifications for you, your client, and your business. Your expert instructor will lead you through case studies to identify critical issues, determine what happened, how a situation could have been handled appropriately, and how to
resolve legally and within the scope of the law. This engaging course will prepare you for real life real estate, in today’s world, and help you avoid risky and costly business mistakes.

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

Topics include:

• Top ten legal issues for licensees
• Failing to disclose a property defect
• Breach of duty
• Representing clients in unfamiliar territory
• Misleading statements equals deception
• Breach of Contract claims
• Failing to recommend inspections
• Negligence—when is an action innocent; when it is not

Mandatory Course

Effective January 1, 2020, all active salespersons and brokers not subject to Salesperson Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements are required to complete 18 hours of CE for an active license renewal. Four hours of this education must consist of Legal Update I. Additionally, salespersons under the SAE requirements must also complete four hours of Legal Update I as a part of their SAE requirements.

In this course, you will explore up-to-date information concerning current legal issues and the proper procedures to appropriately manage these issues. You face a changing, and increasingly competitive, marketplace in which quick, accurate decisions are crucial to cultivating successful transactions. This mandatory course will provide the knowledge you need to stay current and competitive in the Texas real estate industry.

Key Benefits:

• Explore current information about current legal issues and management
• Required course for your SAE and CE education
• Stay up-to-date on the most recent legal changes

Mandatory Course

Effective January 1, 2020, all active salespersons and brokers not subject to Salesperson Apprentice Education (SAE) requirements are required to complete 18 hours of continuing education (CE) for an active license renewal. Four hours of this CE must consist of Legal Update II. Salespersons under the SAE requirements must also complete four hours of Legal Update II as a part of their SAE requirements.

You face a changing, and increasingly competitive, marketplace in which quick, accurate decisions make the difference in cultivating successful transactions. This TREC Legal Update course is designed to help you increase your knowledge of the ethics requirements pertaining to Texas real estate transactions. This in-depth review will confirm your understanding and help foster proper administration of many issues such as agency, advertising, title and closing, and more.

Key Benefits:

• Learn in our dynamic live class
• Required course for your SAE and CE education
• Stay up-to-date on ethics requirements

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

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! Our live online courses make it more convenient than ever to obtain your required continuing education credits.

What’s all the hype about?

Witness this emerging market segment as you learn about the new world of tiny house living. In The Tiny House: Is it a Phase or Craze?, you’ll learn the origin of the tiny house, different types of tiny houses, the structural elements, costs and considerations, valuation of property, and when a tiny house is considered real property. We’ll also identify financing options specific to the tiny house and introduce you to tiny house communities developing across the country. The tiny house is a reflection of expressed values by a growing number of buyers today: simple living in natural surroundings and smaller more-efficient living spaces.

This course will reveal a client group whose needs may be unclear, until now. This course will prepare you to be knowledgeable of the construction and informed about market needs as well as provide you with options to discuss with your clients who are seeking this type of real estate.

Topics include:

• Emerging Values Increase Demand for Tiny Houses
• Real Estate Solutions Addressing New Needs of Clients
• Momentum of Demand
• Concerns and Obstacles
• What A Tiny House Is and Is Not
• Basic Structural Elements
• Valuation and Financing the Tiny House
• Explosive Markets of Tiny House Communities across the U.S.