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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.

An excellent overview of the financial side of commercial real estate, this online course begins with the history of the savings and loan business and walks you all the way up the commercial real estate industry's financing practices today. Not only does this real estate continuing education course cover the various types of commercial property financing, it takes a deep dive into the characteristics of each. Additionally, it covers the different approaches for investment evaluation including appraisal, property comparison, capitalization rates, and the time value of money.

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.

Leases can be a huge source of commission for agents looking to pursue commercial real estate. This online course offers the need-to-know information for the 3 major types of commercial leases: office, retail and industrial. Highlights include: major negotiation points, how to determine rent based on formulas, and technical concerns exclusive to industrial leases.

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.

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.

This online course is an overview of short sale transactions, alternatives to short sales, how short sales affect buyers, lenders and sellers, the Home Affordable Modification Program (both HAMP Tier 1 and 2 are included) and the Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternative (HAFA II/Short Sale). Highlights include defining what a licensee's role is in a short sale and how to put together the packet needed in a short sale for a lender. Additional topics include how the MARS Rule affects real estate licensees who are working with a client on a short sale, tenant rights in relation to a short sale and also the kinds of lender fraud that licensees should be on the lookout for during the process of a short sale.

Which laws affect commercial real estate? This online course answers that by covering commercial transactions, the ownership of commercial real estate and the federal laws that real estate agencies are required to abide by. Topics included are tenancy, foreclosures, contracts, easements, deeds, agency, zoning, estates, liens, restrictions, leases, court decisions and title transfers. This is a perfect elective for those looking to gain a better insight into the world of commercial real estate.