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Our Courses
Intro to Property Management
E0484
This comprehensive course covers commercial, office, industrial, and residential property management with a special emphasis on managing a property management company. Topics include leases, risk management, security, maintenance, advertising, fair housing, and tenant relations. This course provides tips, advice, sample forms and case examples.
Homeowner's Association Management
E0479
This course will give the student a broad view of Homeowner Association Management. It starts by showing the manager how to set up a non-profit association and the legal documents required. The board of directors and their role in running the association, drawing up bylaws and how the board operates are covered thoroughly. The course also covers CC&Rs and other restrictions and laws that all managers need to know. Resolving disputes through litigation and non-litigious means are also covered in the course.
Basics of Real Estate Finance
E0477
This course will provide the student with an overview of the history of finance and the major theories, trends, and cycles in real estate finance. Students will explore the government agencies that regulate the economy as well as banking and finance laws. The course also features valuable information about the real estate cycle, monetary system, and interest rates. The roles of the primary market, the secondary market, mortgage companies, and federal and state regulations will also be discussed. The student will learn about investment, federal credit agencies, consumer protection, and the various financial instruments used in lending.
Property Management - Taking Care of Business
E0476
This property management course focuses on the operational aspects of running a property management firm. Students will learn how to analyze and manage liability risks and insurance and the security and safety responsibilities of a property manager. The course discusses the pros and cons of private maintenance companies, setting up a maintenance system, evaluating a property's maintenance needs, and common maintenance problems that property managers deal with. Proper recordkeeping, promotion, and advertising are also covered. This course teaches students how to handle problem tenants, complaints, waiting lists, late rent, evictions, fair housing issues, and owner relations. The course also contains valuable information about the organization of a property management office, creating policy manuals, management costs and fees, the hiring process, employee management and evaluation, and what it takes to open and maintain a successful property management firm.
Environmental Basics
E0153
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, wetlands.
Real Estate Math
E0158
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.
Home Inspection
E0154
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.
Advanced Home Inspection
E0483
This course takes the student through the maze of learning the major components of a home. By first teaching the student what constitutes good construction and maintenance and the operation of systems within the house, the student will have a basis to understand what to look for in the inspection. Each lesson pinpoints the exact markers to inspect for the benefit of the licensee, the buyer and the seller.
NARPM Tenancy
This course provides the student with the knowledge and skills to analyze and deal with the factors affecting residential housing. Explore federal fair housing legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, and Megan’s Law. Students will learn about common issues and problems that arise in the tenancy cycle such as tenant screening, disclosures, and unlawful detainer actions, as well as how to handle tenant relations and maintenance and security issues. Learn how to create an effective policies and procedures manual, and maintain consistent documentation in every aspect of residential tenancy.
The Loan - An Overview
E0472
This course provides the student with an overview of the home loan process. Students will learn how to fill out a loan application and what information lenders require. Elements of conventional financing, loan-to-value ratios, and private mortgage insurance will be discussed. Then students will explore commercial loan products, construction loans, special purpose loans, and the loan needs of farmers and ranchers. The course also examines various kinds of alternative financing, adjustable rate mortgages, FHA and VA loans, purchase money mortgages, wrap-around financing, land contracts, lease/option plans, and other types of creative financing.
Pricing Property
E0156
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.
Human Land Use
E0235
Definitions of land and land use; four powers reserved by the state; property ownership; court decisions affecting land use controls and zoning; land description; site programming; analysis of site context and surrounding land use; sources of climate and weather information, microclimate, water resources and watershed planning; geology, geologic and other natural hazards, soil survey; concept of highest and best use in the context of global sustainability; land use conflict with respect to mining, agriculture and developed land uses; relationship between human quality of life and land use.
Managing - All Types of Rental Units
E0474
This course offers an overview of the different types of properties that property managers handle and the specific processes and procedures they involve. Students will examine residential property management contracts and learn how to set rents, screen applicants, and prepare, show, and lease property. Rent collection and eviction procedures will also be discussed. Then the course explores the unique challenges of managing commercial, office, and industrial properties as well as managing other types of properties such as condominiums and resort properties.
ADA Fair Housing
E0151
The goal of this course is to enable participants to comply with the fair housing laws and ADA by approaching all consumers in the same manner regardless of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin. History of Fair Housing in the USA. The seven protected classes, exemptions from the fair housing laws; fair housing violations and application of fair housing exemptions; the difference between legal and illegal advertising under the fair housing laws; the penalties for violations of the fair housing laws; The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
Meth Madness
E0155
This course was designed to make licensees aware of the dangers of Methamphetamine labs to the environment, to real property ownership and to innocent lives of customers, clients and the real estate practitioner. What is Meth and what are the health risks; How to recognize a meth lab; Meth ingredients; Clean-up. Resources for more information.
Real Estate Ethics
E0157
General Business Ethics; Brief History of the Code of Ethics; The Preamble in detail; The Structure of the Code of Ethics; Code of Ethics (2007) reference copy; Articles vs. Standards of Practice; Key concepts associated with Articles: 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 16 and 17, with detail of specific related Standards of Practice; Key concepts: mediation, arbitration and procuring cause. Enforcement of the Code of Ethics; Who May File a Complaint?; Who May Judge a Complaint? Case Interpretations and structured questions regarding the Articles and Standards of Practice.
Contracts
E0152
Review of the requirements for a valid contract; various types of real estate contracts; how contracts may be discharged; Distinguish among bilateral and unilateral, executed and executory and valid, void and voidable contracts.
A Day in the Life of an Appraiser
E0480
A Day in the Life of an Appraiser is designed to introduce the field of appraisal to the student. This course covers the licensing needed, government officials, and how to satisfy the entities that will need appraisal information. Navigating tax forms, the assessor's office and the fee appraisal process are also introduced. The course then tours the home, pointing out the important factors of appraisal, what to look for and how to record it. The appraiser's day ends with figuring valuation and relating to customers.
Client Focused Communications
E0473
This course teaches the student how and why we communicate. Learning these basics will provide the student the basis for effective client communication. Knowing what the client wants and being able to find the perfect property based on good communication skills will result in more sales and satisfied clients.
Agency - The Big Picture
E0470
This comprehensive overview of agency explains the origins of the MLS system and explores different types of agency relationships: buyer agency, seller agency, dual agency, designated agency, implied agency, sub-agency, and single agency. The course examines a 1983 FTC report and the effect those findings had on disclosure of agency relationships.
NARPM Ethics
This three-hour course, required by NARPM for all RMP® designees, explores ethical issues and professional standards related to property management. The NARPM Code of Ethics and the Standards of Professionalism and fair housing laws are reviewed in depth to remind NARPM members they must subscribe to the highest ethical and professional standards. Case studies relating to everyday property management issues are also included.
Qualifying - Buyer and Property
E0471
This course explores the roles and practices of underwriters and appraisers as they qualify borrowers and properties for loans. Other requirements for loans, leases, and titles will also be discussed. The student will examine loan settlement procedures, the role of the Truth-in-Lending Act, and the effects of the Fair Housing Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Bad Loans - Predatory and Fraud
E0478
Bad Loans delves into predatory lending practices and common mortgage fraud schemes. Students will learn to identify and avoid the tactics of predatory lenders and fraud perpetrators. The course examines the lines on mortgage forms, good faith estimates, fees, discounts, prepayment penalties, and how these items are used by predatory lenders. This course also features valuable information about dealing with issues such as late charges, tax reserves, property insurance, foreclosures, and note modification. Then students will explore popular mortgage fraud schemes and examples from real cases. Fraud tools such as flipping, straw sellers and buyers, No-Doc loans, silent second mortgages, and false money will also be discussed.
Introduction to Employee Relocation
This 3-hour course explores the unique challenges of the employee mobility industry. Providing relocation services involves working simultaneously for two different clients with two distinctively different service requirements, some of which overlap. This course surveys corporate relocation policies, tax issues, relocation management companies and the services they provide, home sale programs, corporate listings, RMC guidelines, and Worldwide ERC.
Promissor Exam Prep
What’s on the test? Eliminate the guess work with an exam prep created by John R. Morgan, national and international real estate test developer. This 80-question sample exam follows the test specifications as outlined and approved by Promissor, the test vendor. An exam assessment breaks down your scores by topic areas and allows you to identify the subjects requiring more study. Retake the sample exam as many times as you want.
