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Thinking about "going green?" The prevalence of green home construction continues to expand in the U.S. Don't you want to have a better understanding of this market? This online course covers various topics in both sustainable design and green home construction including waste management, lot shopping, special safety applications, site work, and building material choices.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Settlement Statement is very intensive and complicated. This online real estate CE course walks the student through its completion in detail. Students will enjoy the discussion of different calculations needed to properly complete the form accurately.

Want to understand the financial component of residential real estate better? A comprehensive overview of finance for residential real estate, this online course touches on a multitude of topics including FHA, VA loans, assumptions, alternative financing, conventional financing and purchase money mortgages. This online course also covers legislation in regard to financing.

What is your role as a real estate licensee? This online continuing education course is specifically designed to give you a full understanding of your role in real estate transactions. Know what your obligations are and what you need to know to fulfill them completely.

Learn all the steps included in the income approach to home and property valuation. This online course dives into how to estimate rates of capitalization as well as income and expenses. Highlights include coverage of yield capitalization and direct capitalization as well as multiple examples designed specifically to help students better absorb and fully comprehend the material covered.

Commercial real estate is very different from residential. This online course breaks down in detail the different types of property ownership that are mainly unique to commercial real estate. The topics of each included are taxes, set up, regulations, liability, management, benefits and drawbacks.

An introduction into property management, this real estate online course helps the student understand various types of rental agreements and tenancies while also defining key terms. Students will learn how to handle subletting, security deposits, rental agreement assignment, trust accounts, rental agreement termination and trust funds.

Fully understand all the facets of commercial sales and tax deferred exchanges in commercial real estate. This elective online course takes a deep dive into the particulars of the commercial contract, procedures for closing, and essential documentation for commercial sales. Additionally, this real estate CE course contains insight into the requisites for and advantages of tax deferred exchanges.

Gain insight into how the sales comparison approach to valuation works. This online course takes a step-by-step look at the approach. Additionally, this continuing education real estate course covers the process for data collections as well as different ways that adjustments can be estimated. Example problems help students to better retain and apply the information.

Selling and pricing your client's property, so that they can get the most they can for their property is a critical. So how do you determine the right price? This real estate online course is designed to help you better understand the concepts of pricing property, approaches to pricing property, principles of value, replacement cost value and the application of market data.

What types of tax benefits are unique to homeowners? This online course gives the student insight into different kinds of homeowner benefits and also teaches how to calculate taxes that can affect the purchase of a home. This is an elective real estate continuing education course.

Using a hands-on approach to understanding valuation of a property from a cost approach standpoint, this online course helps students learn by walking through various examples as the study material progresses. This real estate continuing education online course focuses on the various methods for estimating cost as well as calculating depreciation.

This real estate continuing education course is an excellent fundamental overview of writing contracts. Topics include: legal descriptions, help with the wording for the method of payment, special stipulations and how to present offers. 

This course discusses the importance of ethical behavior in the practice of real estate, and how a licensee's ethical standards can improve or harm a licensee's career, and the profession as a whole. The course compares and contrasts ethics, morality and the law. It describes principles supporting high ethical standards in real estate, the role of ethics in proper disclosure, and the types of ethical challenges a licensee may face in a competitive market. It discusses ethics as they relate to advertising and pricing, and how a licensee can best be supported to maintain high ethical standards. It concludes with a discussion of the types of ethical complaints commonly made against licensees, and how licensees may best avoid and respond to those complaints.

This course is approved by the local regulating body but does not provide credit from NAR. Please contact your local association or NAR directly for information on NAR Code of Ethics credit.

Protect yourself. Understand your responsibility for disclosure when environmental hazards are involved. This online course provides an overview of the regulations, standards and legal rules in real estate for property disclosure. Specifically covered in detail are lead, mold, methamphetamine labs, asbestos, radon, and other environmental hazards.

Mandatory for all Georgia real estate agents and brokers as of July 1, 2016, this 3-hour online course is Georgia-specific and breaks down rules, regulations and laws regarding the practice of real estate into simple, easy-to-understand content helping students to better understand and stay within the boundaries of the Georgia state laws.

Topics included are:

1. The effects on license status by a licensee of prohibited conduct
2. Transfer of a license from one firm to another
3. Requirements concerning trust or escrow accounts
4. Unfair trade practices
5. Brokerage relationships
6. Management responsibilities of real estate firms
7. Requirements for advertising
8. Handling real estate transactions
9. Licensees acting as principals

A high-level view of commercial real estate, this elective online course examines various types of commercial real estate including retail space, storage facilities, and office space. Additional highlights include land development, site selection, industrial real estate brokerage and how both local and regional labor markets can have an effect on commercial real estate.

Learn all about tax free exchanges. This online course is an excellent introduction to the implications of tax free exchanges for investment properties in residential real estate. Learn what is required to qualify for a tax free exchange, what different kinds of exchanges are available and also various ways that the title can be transferred for the purpose of an exchange.

This online continuing education course provides an overview of real estate financing, and describes the different types of loans and loan programs as well as lending sources. Students will learn how to calculate debt ratios and use loan factors to complete mathematical calculations related to mortgage loans. Students will also estimate closing costs for different types of loans. The course concludes with the student completing prequalifying computations and a loan comparison worksheet for the buyers in the scenario.

What makes a green home green? Students will gain insight into different features included in green design. This real estate continuing education online course highlights water and energy efficiency, appliances, methods of controlling heat loss, how to conserve energy in a home, lighting, and renewable energy.

Fair Housing and the Americans with Disabilities Act legislation affects the business of every real estate professional. This real estate CE online course covers the law and how it pertains to real estate professionals, while refreshing their knowledge of the Federal Fair Housing Laws.

This online course covers the prohibitions in the Fair Housing Act, how an individual can enforce the Fair Housing Act, the provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It also covers the purpose and scope of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and its effects on licensees of the ADA.