| A Practical Guide To Business Entities for The Real Estate Professional |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| As a Real Estate Professional you daily encounter customers who are investors in Corporations or Partnerships or Limited Liability Companies. Ever wonder why they get involved in such legal entities? Want to understand what your customers are doing? This is the class that will go over all the nuts and bolts. It's a great beginning class for all Real Estate Professionals. The information contained in the handout materials is worth the price of this class alone. |
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| ADA Fair Housing |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: CD |
| Approaching all consumers in the same manner regardless of race, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin is the most important part of a salespersons job. This course will give the student the understanding of all the issues involved in this complex topic and especially The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA). |
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| Advanced Issues in Completing 1031 Exchanges |
| Commercial |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| This Advanced 1031 Exchange class will cover the areas of Exchanges that most agents are not aware of. Reverse exchanges, partnership issues, simultaneous exchange, delayed exchanges and much more will be covered in this advanced class. (You must have taken the "How a 1031 Exchange Can Benefit You" class or equivalent.) |
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| Buyer Representation |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Karen Turner & Martin Burns |
| The Law of Agency can be overwhelming to any new agent or Buyer. This class is taught by a Real Estate Professional and an Attorney. In this class you will learn how Agency affects your buyers and how to effectively use the Buyer Broker Agreement to insure your buyers will stay loyal to you. |
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| Buyer Representation in Real Estate |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course is a great introduction for buyer agents with a focus on the legal and technical aspects such as due diligence and fiduciary duties. |
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| Changing Business in a Changing Economy |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Anne Hartman |
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| Commercial Real Estate: Understanding Investments |
| Computer |
Clock Hours: |
Instructors: Online |
| This course introduces basic concepts critical to successfully working with investment clients and properties. The key concepts and formulas build on one another, and students have an opportunity to apply them through the problems presented in the many case studies.
This course introduces basic concepts critical to successfully working with investment clients and properties. The concepts and formulas presented build on each other, and students can apply them through the problems contained in the case studies. The course covers the types and concerns of investment customers, what factors affect the market values of properties, and methods for analyzing real estate investments now and in the future. The Total Instructor Resource Package (online) is designed with components that will allow all real estate instructors to teach this course effectively and with ease. It includes an extensive Power Point presentation. |
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| Community Ethics |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course is designed to inform practicing and prospective real estate professionals about the tested and proven ethical strategies that make communities of any kind increasingly productive. These principles will be applied to the real estate professional community.
This course helps one understand "productivity" in a human community, as well as the principal strategies that evolved over billions of years of biological adaptation to advance and sustain such productivity. These strategies lead inevitably to a system of ethical principles that will improve both the productivity of one's professional practice as well as the quality of one's professional and personal life.
Despite always-limited resources and the constant potential for violent and often lethal conflict, nature evolved powerful strategies that, over 4.6 billion years, resulted in a progression of increasingly complex, increasingly productive communities. Those principles, applied to the real estate industry in general and to brokerage offices in particular, mandate a system of ethics that results in greater and more sustained professional productivity and significantly improves quality of life in our work environment, homes and communities.
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| Contracts |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Online |
| Review the requirements for a valid contract; various types of real estate contracts; how contracts may be discharged; and distinguish the differences. A must have class in today’s world of changing Real Estate. |
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| CORE 2008-2009 (Current Issues in Washington Residential Real Estate) |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| REGISTER DIRECTLY WITH TPCAR WWW.TPCAR.ORG OR 253-473-0232.
This mandatory class is required by the Department of Licensing in order to renew your Real Estate License. This class is updated during each two year period and must be taken by all agents once during each two year renewal period. Mr. McFerran makes the required subjects come to life and have some fun in the process. This class will meet the requirements for Commercial agents also. |
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| Cover Your Assets |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Anne Hartman |
| This course helps an agent understand how to deal with the court system and attorneys as well as creating systems that provide an accurate record of their real estate activities. They will also learn about anti-trust issues. |
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| Diversity and Doing Business |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| Helps the Student explore how diversity issues impact real estate transactions. The text explains how affirmative action and fair housing laws have affected diversity issues and offers practical advice for working with individuals of all backgrounds.
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| Effective Consumer Advertising |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Karen Turner |
| Deciding how and when to advertise and what can we really say is an important function of the Real Estate business. This class will lead you to a higher level of ad writing and what is effective in the market place today. You will lern how to write an ad that will reach the maximum amount of purchasers out in the marketplace.
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| Electronic Transactions in Real Estate |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| The first-0f-its-kind continuing education that explores e-signatures, digital signatures and security issues. The text reviews fundamental contract law basics and how they apply to electronic transactions |
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| Environmental Basics |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| Environmental factors that may require disclosure in a listing agreement, environmental hazards with which a licensee should be aware for residential, commercial, and developers. Lead, radon, asbestos, formaldehyde, Urea Formaldehyde, Foam Insulation, biological pollutants, mold, the importance of clean water, and wetlands. |
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| ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN YOUR REAL ESTATE PRACTICE |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| To sell in today’s safety-conscious marketplace, agents must go beyond simply disclosing known hazards. This text helps agents identify potential environmental hazards and advise clients on how to handle them. The text also discusses evaluating a property, performing, “due diligence” regarding environmental issues, and avoiding legal liability. |
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| ETHICS & REAL ESTATE |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| In daily real estate practice, agents are required to make decisions that involve ethical reasoning. This text explores the ethical issues surrounding real estate transactions and provides a blueprint for evaluation a situation and making the ethical decision for all involved. |
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| Ethics for Mortgage Professionals |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Marty Lough |
| Enron, Tyco, Adelphia. Today’s headlines are filled with companies forced into bankruptcy, corporate officers going to jail, shareholder lawsuits, ruined investor confidence and lost sales and customers. In this environment, how can you arm yourself with the skills and knowledge to positively impact both your corporation’s reputation and its bottom line?
Ethics in Mortgage lending will help you to respond to the broad range of challenges you face daily. In this course, you will obtain the knowledge you need to make sound legal and ethical decisions. Ethics in Mortgage Lending will train you to:
• Understand the industry’s laws, rules and regulations that govern their behavior
• Respond to situations in a more effective, pro-active manner
• Employ both the Canon of Ethics and industry Best Practices
• Prevent ethical and legal lapses from occurring!
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| FAIR HOUSING |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| : This popular title, approved for continuing education in 25 states and required by 7, has been updated with contemporary topics that will be of interest to the student. |
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| FAIR HOUSING LAW & PRACTICE |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 12 |
Instructors: Online |
| New updated topics include discussions about cultural diversity, property management, and more. Additional case studies follow each chapter. |
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| FAIR HOUSING PRACTICES |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Karen Turner & Martin Burns |
| Come join an Attorney and a Realtor disecting the Fair Housing laws and how they affect your business. The class will allows you, the student, to pick and choose areas of Fair Housing Law that are the most relevant in your business with buyers, sellers, or rental property. |
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| FORM 17, WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| Law requires the Seller Disclosure Statement and the Real Estate Professional is not allowed to fill it out for the client. It seems there are always lots of questions from the Seller and with this class you will know how to answer those questions and keep both you and your Seller safe from possible problems. |
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| Home Inspection |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This is a basic course. About home inspection; the Home Inspector; Inspecting the property; Exterior building inspection; interior inspection- walls, ceilings, floors, insulation & Vapor barriers, Ventilation; Steps, Stairs & Railings, Patios & Porches, Heating & Air Conditioning, Cabinets & counters, Doors & windows, Fireplaces & Woodstoves, Plumbing & electrical, Mold. |
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| HOSTING DAZZLING OPEN HOUSES |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Robert Tibbits |
| Looking for Buyers? Want your listing to get great exposure? Then this is the class you want to take. You will learn how to get the most from your time spent on Saturday or Sunday afternoons holding the best Open House in the business.
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| HOW A 1031 EXCHANGE CAN BENEFIT YOU |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| A 1031 Tax Exchange can be an excellent way to increase your income. When you have completed this class you will understand how an exchange really works and how you can use the information to the benefit of your clients and yourself also. This class is required before taking the Advanced 1031 Class. |
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| Human Land Use |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course covers definitions of land and land use, the four powers reserved by the state, property ownership, court decisions affecting land use controls and zoning, land description, site programming, and the analysis of site context and surrounding land use. Other topics include sources of climate and weather information, microclimate, water resources and watershed planning, geology, geologic, and other natural hazards, and soil surveys. The course explains the concept of highest and best use in the context of global sustainability, land use conflicts with respect to mining, agriculture and developed land uses, and the relationship between human quality of life and land use. |
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| INTRODUCTION TO COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SALES |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This popular continuing education elective provides a comprehensive introduction to the potential lucrative field of commercial real estate. The course discusses the categories of commercial property and the financial elements involved in real estate investments. |
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| INVESTMENT PROPERTY PRACTICE & MANAGEMENT |
| Commercial |
Clock Hours: 12 |
Instructors: CD |
| This combination course incorporates the topics covered in Introduction to Commercial Real Estate Sales and Property Management and Managing Risk. This user-friendly interactive course explores the nature of commercial real estate, classification of real property, lease types, market value, and the rate of return analysis. |
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| LISTING COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES |
| Commercial |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| From single retail sites to large office complexes, this practical guide provides all the information an agent needs to successfully list commercial properties. The course explores investment analysis, zoning terms and regulation, and special listing considerations for commercial properties. |
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| MAKING USE OF TITLE INSURANCE IN YOUR REAL ESTATE PRACTICE |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| (Approved for both Real Estate Agents and Mortgage Professionals) The practicing Real Estate Professional often misunderstands title insurance but with this class you will see that Title Insurance is really a very valuable tool to use in your business. You will learn to look for possible problems and how to clear them before you get to the closing table. |
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| Meth Madness |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Online |
| Methamphetamine labs pose a danger to the environment, to real property ownership and to the innocent lives of customers. This course will make the student aware of how to identify a property that has been used as a Meth lab, and how it should be cleaned up. What Meth is and the health risks associated with it are also explored. Additional resources for more information are provided with links to websites. |
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| Pricing Property |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Online |
| The concepts and types and approaches to value - CMA, Cost approach, Income approach basic economic principles of value; market value; market price; highest and best use; substitution; supply and demand; conformity; anticipation; contribution; competition; change. |
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| Property Disclosures: The Real Estate Prof. Guide to Reducing Risk |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course discusses legal liability issues facing real estate professionals today including misrepresentation, active and passive fraud, negligent nondisclosure, and more. |
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| PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & MANAGING RISK |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This practical approach to property management explores the major functions of practitioners. This course helps real estate professional juggle property management and sales with managing liability in today’s litigious society.
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| PURCHASE & SALE FROM START TO FINISH |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 7 |
Instructors: Karen Turner & Martin Burns |
| This class will take you line by line on the NWMLS Form 21, Purchase and Sale Contract, and discuss the required addenda and all the other forms that are required when you have a Buyer who wants to BUY. A Realtor and an Attorney team teach this class for some very insightful information and provides a format for student participation. Karen Turner is the REALTOR and Martin Burns is the Attorney. A lively class you will not want to miss. |
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| REAL ESTATE & TAXES |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: CD |
| In clear and simple language, this course helps demystify tax laws and their impact on anyone owning real estate. The text explores the effects of tax law changes on real estate investments and helps agent know when to recommend that clients seek the advice of a tax professional. |
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| Real Estate Agent / Mortgage Professional |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This dynamic training course offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of today’s mortgage industry. Upon completion, students will have a better understanding of how today’s mortgage business really works. They will be better able to pre-qualify home buyers and match them with available loan programs, and speak directly with mortgage professionals on their level. With informative graphics, forms, and interactive exercise, this course is an excellent tool for any continuing education student. |
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| Real Estate Ethics |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Anne Hartman |
| This course provides an overview of general business ethics and the history of the Code of Ethics. Also includes the structure of the Code of Ethics. Other topics include Standards of Practice and the key concepts of mediation, arbitration, and procuring cause. You will also learn about enforcement of the Code of Ethics, who may file a complaint, and who may judge a complaint. (Approved for Real Estate Agents CE) |
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| Real Estate Ethics |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course provides an overview of general business ethics and the history of the Code of Ethics. Also included are the preamble in detail, the structure of the Code of Ethics, and a Code of Ethics (2004) reference copy. Other topics include Articles vs. Standards of Practice, key concepts associated with Articles: 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 16, and 17 with a detail of specific related Standards of Practice, and the key concepts of mediation, arbitration, and procuring cause. The course also covers the enforcement of the Code of Ethics, who may file a complaint, and who may judge a complaint. The student is provided with case interpretation and structured questions regarding the Articles and Standards of Practice. |
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| REAL ESTATE FINANCE & TAX ISSUES |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 12 |
Instructors: Online |
| This user friendly interactive course provides a comprehensive look at the use of principal financing instruments and how the government influences real estate financing. |
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| REAL ESTATE FINANCE TODAY |
| Computer |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| Building on strong financial principals, this updated edition introduces residential real estate financing basics and mortgage lending trends. Real Estate Finance Today discusses new affordable loan products, government influences on real estate finance, and special financing alternatives, including seller financing and loans for self-employed borrowers, as well as an annual update for the latest loan limits. |
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| Real Estate Investment Fundamentals |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course introduces basic concepts critical to successfully working with investment clients and properties. The key concepts and formulas build on one another, and students have an opportunity to apply them through the problems presented in the many case studies. |
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| REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT STRATEGIES |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 30 |
Instructors: Don Arsenault |
| This class will take you through the process of finding and evaluating many different types of investment properties and which ones may be the best at any given time. A great class for investors and Real Estate Professionals alike. This class will be held every Wednesday for 10 weeks beginning April 4th and ending June 6th. Student needs an HP10B or 12C finacial calculator for this class. Text Book is extra. |
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| Real Estate Law |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 30 |
Instructors: Anne Hartman |
| This is one of the 3 mandatory courses prescribed by the Department of Licensing for agents to achieve their broker’s license. Students will learn abut the laws that apply to their everyday practice, they will be able to apply those laws when dealing with clients and customers and act in the best interests of their clients using good legal and ethical concepts and procedures. |
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| Real Estate Math |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| Fractions, decimals and percentages; measurements; prorations. Designed to provide the licensee with a check of his /her math knowledge and to help reinforce what is already known. Interactive problems and an interesting approach to learning. |
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| Residential & Small Commercial Landlord Tenant Law |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| When owning rental properties, either Residential or Commercial, it is beneficial to understand Washington Landlord Tenant Laws. This course will cover the relationship of landlords and tenants of Residential or Commercial properties and how the laws affect either the landlord or tenant and sometimes both. |
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| RESPA Reform - Doing Business in a Changing World |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| With the Federal Government looking closely at what service providers are doing to enhance their business the class is a must for all Real Estate Professionals. You will learn what is legal and what is not and how to be sure that you are not caught in the web if violations are found.
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| Reverse Mortgages for Senior Homeowners |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This ARELLO course explores the application process, fees, closing costs, tax benefits, and treatments of reverse mortgages. |
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| Risk Management |
| Computer |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course offers the essentials on risk management that every sales professional must know to avoid legal problems and provides an action plan for minimizing liability. |
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| Short Sale Negotiators Forum |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 0 |
Instructors: RoundTable Forum |
| This monthly forum will be offered this winter through McFerran University on the first Wednesday of each month from 1-3 PM.
Our thanks to PC Bank Home Loans who have agreed to provide scholarships to as many as 30 people in attendance. Space is limited. You must reserve a spot. No-shows will be precluded from attending upcoming forums.
Doing a Short Sale? Negotiating yourself? Thinking of taking a listing? Want to find out about certain lenders processes? How long will it all take?
This is your opportunity for a free forum administered and coordinated by those involved daily in administering over 150 short sale files.
Bring your questions. Bring your war stories. We will share all lender information. PC Bank will be there to provide the lenders perspective.
In addition, we thank PC Bank Home Loans for providing lunch and drinks for our attendees at this special event. Realtor Assistants are welcome as well, but must be associated with a realtor.
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| Short Sales & Foreclosures Under the New Distressed Property Rules |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 4 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| (Approved for both Real Estate Agents and Mortgage)
This four hour class has been revamped to focus on the impact of the recently passed Distressed Property rules on Realtors and Mortgage Professionals. Class includes information on the foreclosure process as well as an in-depth look at short sales and their negotiations. Class books from previous class offerings have been totally updated to include all the new forms that you will need to successfully maneuver this trying time in the real estate industry.
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| Tax Strategies for Real Estate Agents |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| A class developed by the Internal Revenue Service for Realtors or other Sole Proprietors. This class will provide the student with information that is needed to keep good records and to understand what is a deduction and what is not. This class is a Team effort with Karen Turner and Mauray Laufler EA. Class is limited so sign up early. |
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| Tax Strategies for the Independent Contractor |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course takes you through all the issues you need to know for the IRS and your business. |
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| THE CLOSING PROCESS |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Ed McFerran |
| This class will take you through the process of what goes on behind the scenes to close a transaction. From the time it comes to the closing agent to the signing of the documents by the buyer and seller plus some insights on how an agent can help in the process for a smooth closing. Makes for a "Win, Win" transaction and best of all, Payday!
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| The People in the People Business - An Agent's Guide |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3.5 |
Instructors: Bob Tibbits |
| Generation X, The Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, & The Y Generation are the new “buzz” words in our business. This class is designed for you to have an insight on the different generations and how to provide Real Estate services in the most effective way. A class for all "People in the People Business" |
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| The Truth About Mold |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This class provides students with practical information on remediation, reducing liability, sampling and testing kits, heath effects of mold, and the differences between mold and other environmental red flags. |
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| Understanding 1031 Tax-Free Exchanges |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This ARELLO course explores the history, evolution, rules, and forms for the strategy used to defer tax liability until a later date; includes real-life calculation examples. |
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| UNDERSTANDING INVESTMENTS |
| Commercial |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course prepares students to meet the challenges and opportunities of working with investment properties and clients. |
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| WASHINGTON LICENSE LAW |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| The general purposes of the real estate license law; how licenses laws/statutes and administrative rules are created and their differences. The significant differences of the licensing terms and how they are regulated is discussed at length. The major grounds for disciplinary action against licensees and the procedures outlined in the license law addressing disciplinary actions and how the broker plays a role in the process. Agency relationships, disclosure laws and the landlord tenant law are all covered in this course. |
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| Washington Real Estate Practices |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 30 |
Instructors: Online |
| This is the mandatory course for new licensees. It must be completed within the first licensing period. - This course may be used as continuing education and as the 30-hour elective for the broker licensing requirement. Topics include: Agency Listings; Pricing Property; Qualifying the Buyer; Purchase and Sale Agreements with Earnest Money Provisions; Closing Costs; Property Management / Landlord Tenant Issues; Fair Housing; Commercial Sales & Leasing; Environmental Considerations and Governmental Considerations. |
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| Water Resources |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 3 |
Instructors: Online |
| Analyze and put current global and U.S. water use in the context of water supply; evaluate global population growth in perspective, including U.S. population growth and policy; Diagram the history of the environmental movement in the U.S. and the genesis of environmental legislation; Point and no-point sources of water pollution; water quality standards; natural wetlands - distribution, history and ecological value; worlds oceans and their zonation; coastal and marine environmental problems; floods; water conservation |
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| Work Smarter, Not Harder |
| Residential |
Clock Hours: 6 |
Instructors: Online |
| This course was created, with permission, as a continuing education course from the material in The Millionaire Real Estate Agent written by Gary Keller. It will assist real estate agents to understand the key models and systems that will enable them to transform their sales practice into a business and grow that business exponentially. Devoted to the enhancement of the professionalism of a real estate agent, this material presents issues relating to business growth in a current real estate market and equips students with the knowledge to achieve competence in the practice of their profession. |
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