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District of Columbia Real Estate Continuing Education Salesperson Courses

Packages

15-Hr. DC CE Package

Total Hours: 15 Mandatory: 12 Elective: 3 NAR Ethics
$159

GREAT DEAL!

This package includes 15 hours (12 mandatory and 3 elective) required for Sales license renewals. 

Courses included in this package:

  • DC Ethics (3 mandatory hours)*
  • DC Fair Housing (3 mandatory hours)
  • DC Legislative Update (3 mandatory hours)
  • Property Management in DC (3 mandatory hours)
  • First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On (3 elective hours)

*This course was designed by The CE Shop to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

12-hr. DC Mandatory Package

Total Hours: 12 Mandatory: 12 Elective: 0 NAR Ethics
$135

AMAZING DEAL!

This package includes 12 of the 15 hours (12 mandatory) required for Salesperson license renewals.

Courses included in this package:

  • DC Ethics (3 mandatory hours)*
  • DC Fair Housing (3 mandatory hours)
  • DC Legislative Update (3 mandatory hours)
  • Property Management in DC (3 mandatory hours)

*This course was designed by The CE Shop to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

15-Hr. DC CE Package Plus ProPath

Total Hours: 15 Mandatory: 12 Elective: 3 Approval Number: Package ProPath NAR Ethics
$189

GREAT DEAL!

This package includes 15 hours (12 mandatory and 3 elective) required for Sales license renewals. 

Courses included in this package:

  • DC Ethics (3 mandatory hours)*
  • DC Fair Housing (3 mandatory hours)
  • DC Legislative Update (3 mandatory hours)
  • Property Management in DC (3 mandatory hours)
  • First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On (3 elective hours)
PLUS, this package includes the ProPath Real Estate Business Builder professional development program.
  • Pricing Strategies: Learn the essentials of pricing homes and the impact proper pricing has on your sales goals and income. Work through case studies and examples and get ready to translate into your own business.
  • Tax Planning for the Self-Employed: Gain the knowledge to manage your individual finances and formulate an advantageous tax plan, plus how to select the best retirement plan for tax savings.
  • Budget to Build Your Business: Learn how to estimate earnings and expenses and calculate what you need to save for taxes and emergencies. Craft your own budget, paving the way for success in your real estate career.
Professional development courses do not qualify for CE credits. This package includes a total of nine hours of professional development content that is not included in the mandatory and elective course hours listed above.

*This course was designed by The CE Shop to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

15-Hr. DC CE Package for REALTORS

Total Hours: 15 Mandatory: 12 Elective: 3 NAR Ethics
$159

This package includes 15 hours (12 mandatory and 3 elective) required for Sales license renewals.

Courses included in this package:

  • DC Ethics (3 mandatory hours)*
  • DC Fair Housing (3 mandatory hours)
  • DC Legislative Update (3 mandatory hours)
  • Property Management in DC (3 mandatory hours)
  • Check Your Bias and Fair Housing Practices (3 elective hours)*

*These courses were designed to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics and Fair Housing training requirements. Please confirm that your local association, who administers this training, will accept these courses.

Individual Courses

Roadmap to Success - Business Planning for Real Estate Professionals

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9802
$45

More than 80% of real estate licensees leave the business within the first two years, and this is primarily due to a lack of understanding of what it takes to succeed. Of those who stay, very few earn a lucrative living at it.

Don't be that licensee.

Whether you're just launching your business or you think it's time to level up, this course will give you the tools to launch your career from a solid foundation, one that lets you know what you need to do today, this week, this month, this quarter, and this year to execute your well-considered business plan.

This course will show you how to take stock, create a vision, and gather the tools necessary to achieve that vision so you can create a professional, exemplary, referral-driven business that serves clients needs and exceeds client expectations.

Course highlights include:

  • Helpful ideas for defining your real estate business, vision statement and mission statement
  • A Business Plan Worksheet that will help you determine goals and execute your plan
  • Details about identifying strengths and weaknesses, and setting realistic, attainable goals
  • An editable, customizable Business Plan Template
  • How to calculate the action steps needed to achieve success as you define it

 

Selling to Your Sphere of Influence

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9823
$45

The Sphere of Influence approach to building your real estate business is based on nurturing relationships within your circle of friends, family, past clients, neighbors and acquaintances. Not pounding the pavement, buying bus signs and billboards, or purchasing leads.

This course helps you turn your acquaintances into your biggest advocates through respectful, non-intrusive methods. 

Course highlights include:

  • Tips to ensure you present a professional, enthusiastic image to your contacts
  • How to plan and implement an SOI strategy
  • How to build and maintain a contact database
  • Tips for writing effective reconnection communiques

Keeping it Honest: Understanding Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9317
$45

Fraud has become a major issue in the industry. Lawbreakers use real estate as a vehicle to steal the life savings of unsuspecting homeowners and defraud lenders out of millions of dollars for their own gain. Federal, state, and local governments have taken steps to combat real estate fraud, but it remains a major problem—one you need to have a solid understanding of to ensure you're able to shield your clients and yourself from being defrauded or unknowingly committing fraud.

Keeping It Honest: Understanding Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud has been updated to discuss the latest fraudulent schemes and explain recent government initiatives aimed at stopping fraud and protecting consumers.

Course Highlights:

  • Fraud and its impact on the real estate industry
  • The newest and most prevalent types of fraudulent schemes
  • Red flag behaviors that suggest someone is engaging in fraud
  • How to report fraudulent or suspected fraudulent activities to the proper authorities
  • Key government initiatives aimed at stopping fraud and protecting consumers
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content

Advocating for Short Sale Clients

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC8230
$45

Tactics that work with motivated, excited sellers don't always translate well when working with short sale sellers and short sale buyers. Add lender approvals, junior lien holders, and inflexible timelines into the mix, and you end up with a whole new ball game.

In a short sale transaction, the motivation for each party is different than the standard transaction, and as the professional in the scene, you need to adjust accordingly. This course speaks to your interaction with short sale sellers, and how you can help them through a tough process while diligently advocating on their behalf.  We cover how to figure out an appropriate listing price, negotiate with the lender's representative, sort through debt settlement terminology, and carry the deal through to closing. We also look at the process from a buyer's agent perspective. Additional cautions, considerations, and fraud prevention tactics are required when advocating on behalf of these deal-seeking buyers.  

The Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9983
$45

The Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate covers the need-to-know information on a broad range of commercial topics.

If you're an experienced residential licensee, a few of the fundamentals of commercial real estate will be familiar to you—the importance of location, for example. In other regards, commercial differs sharply from residential real estate. Executives, investors, and business owners in commercial real estate focus squarely on the bottom line.

This course will provide a foundation for the more complex aspects of commercial real estate as you gain more experience in the industry.

Course highlights include:

  • Key terms and concepts of commercial real estate
  • How to identify and meet the needs of commercial real estate clients
  • How commercial and residential sales differ
  • Valuation methods for real estate and businesses
  • Tips on gathering the demographic and location-related details that clients need to make well-informed decisions

DC Fair Housing

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 3 Elective: 0 Approval Number: PC8645
$45

Every year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HUD investigates complaints of housing discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, disability, or familial status. HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, along with its partners in the Fair Housing Assistance Program, investigate approximately 10,000 housing discrimination complaints every year. 

This three-hour course reviews the federal fair housing laws and the D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977, discusses the protected classes and traits under each, and examines the numerous activities that constitute unlawful discriminatory acts in housing. This course meets the District of Columbia's mandatory requirement for CE on Fair Housing topics.       

Course highlights include:

  • A review of the federal Fair Housing Act and related federal laws that prohibit discrimination in housing based on the seven protected classes of race, color, national origin, religion, disability, familial status, and sex.  
  • A review of the D.C. Human Rights Act of 1977 and related regulations that prohibit discrimination in housing based on 18 protected traits, including race, color, national origin, religion, disability, familial status, family responsibilities, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, political affiliation, source of income, matriculation, place (of home or business), status as a victim of an intrafamily offense, marital status, age, and personal appearance.
  • A look at actual fair housing case studies from across the United States.
  • A detailed discussion regarding unlawful discriminatory acts, and acceptable and unacceptable wording in advertisements and other communications.
  • A look at the federal and D.C. processes for filing fair housing complaints, including the applicable penalties for federal and D.C. violations.
  • Activities and examples to seal in the new information and frame it in everyday context

Residential Property Management Essentials (3)

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9767
$45

For many real estate professionals, property management is a natural extension of their expertise. Whether you’re thinking about taking on your first property or looking to grow your property management business, this is a niche business requiring specialized skills and knowledge.

Explore the role of the property manager, common tenant issues, and federal laws.

Course highlights include:

  • Property management contracts
  • Property types and evaluating factors
  • Tips for building a successful working relationship with property owners
  • Landlord and tenant obligations
  • Tips for screening and retaining tenants
  • Informal rental agreements and the risks involved
  • How to deal with delinquent tenants
  • Fair housing guidelines and exemptions

Note: This is an introduction and overview of property management.

Foundations of Real Estate Finance

Total Hours: 6 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 6 Approval Number: PC9038
$79

Financing is integral to real estate transactions, and the more you know about how buyers qualify, the better you'll be able to help both buyers and sellers in your practice. 

Course highlights include:

  • Roles and regulations of FNMA, GNMA, FHLMC, FHA, and VA
  • Affordability Worksheet, to assist clients in calculating their maximum affordable purchase price
  • Homebuyer Do's and Don'ts 
  • Calculating LTV, front-end and back-end ratios, and monthly mortgage payments
  • Details and qualification requirements for several popular financing options

Did You Serve? Identifying Homebuying Advantages for Veterans

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC8781
$45

With more than 20 million veterans living in the U.S. today, real estate professionals can provide a valuable service to a strong client base by walking in their eligibility shoes.

If the answer to “Did You Serve?” is yes, this can open the doors of homeownership for Veterans and service members who may not qualify to purchase a home through conventional financing.

Course highlights include:

  • A glimpse into the military lifestyle, what it means to serve, and how best to communicate with those who served
  • Tools and techniques for informing veterans on the benefits available to them
  • VA home loan program benefits, qualifications, and process
  • Strategies for identifying appropriate home options for Veterans  
  • Myths and misconceptions about VA loans
  • Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts

Marketing, Advertising, and Social Media Compliance (3h)

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9392
$45

The internet is full of promotional opportunities. Whether it’s a post on Facebook or a tweet linking to your new listing, a status update on LinkedIn, a virtual home tour on YouTube, or photo collage on Pinterest, you can easily promote your professionalism, highlight your expertise, increase your connections, and showcase your listings. Or you can fall flat on your face.

This course shows how to use the unique advertising and marketing opportunities available online to better serve your clients and customers, and further promote your own brand.

Course highlights include:

  • How consumers—and agents and agencies—are using social media and how this is impacting the real estate industry
  • How to use various social media platforms—including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Pinterest—to promote your business and better serve your clients and customers
  • How various social media platforms differ and how to select the ones that are best for you and your needs
  • Tips for creating an online marketing strategy
  • Legal and ethical issues surrounding online marketing
  • Copyright law, trademarks, and public domain content
  • Tips for avoiding common social media missteps.
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content

DC Ethics

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 3 Elective: 0 Approval Number: A0794 NAR Ethics
$45

As a real estate professional, you’re likely to encounter unexpected ethical dilemmas as you go about your daily business. That’s why the National Association of REALTORS® provides its members with a regularly updated Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.  Adopted in 1913, the Code consists of 17 Articles and supporting Standards of Practice that provide ethical principles for dealing with clients and customers, the public at large, and other REALTORS®.  Of course, knowing those guidelines and understanding how to efficiently put them into practice can be two different matters. 

Enter DC Ethics, aligned to the requirements of the current NAR cycle. In this course, you’ll review each Article, gain insight into recent changes, and discover important takeaway points you can apply to your day-to-day business dealings to ensure you’re always ethical in your business practices. Plus, you’ll walk through real-life scenarios designed to hone your ethical instincts.

In addition, you will review ethics that are particular to the District of Columbia, starting at the top with the DC Real Estate Commission and working through to the nuts and bolts of managing transactions in DC from an ethical perspective.

Course highlights include:

  • A review of recent revisions and additions to the Code of Ethics
  • Tips for applying the Code’s principles and guidelines to your practice
  • A discussion on the benefits of mediation
  • The scope of practice for each sales professional type
  • Ethics at the district level
  • Activities and examples to illustrate the practical application of the new information and frame it in everyday context

*This course was designed by The CE Shop to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

Working With Real Estate Investors: Understanding Investor Strategies

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC10184
$45

Unlike most owner-occupied homebuyers, real estate investors enter the market to make money. By learning about investor motivators and criteria, you’ll be in a better position to help your clients navigate this asset strategy.

Working with Real Estate Investors examines investor goals and strategies, different investment property types, key financial considerations, and your role in locating, negotiating for, and marketing investment properties.

Course Highlights:

  • An overview of residential and commercial investment property types
  • Short- and long-term investment property acquisition strategies 
  • Financial factors that influence investor decisions, including depreciation, 1031 tax exchanges, and cash flow
  • Financing options available to real estate investors, including conventional loans, commercial loans, and private money lenders
  • Tips for locating and marketing investment properties
  • Pros and cons of working with investor clients
  • Ethical duties when working with investor clients
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content

 

Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC8796
$45

The real estate market reflects our nation's diverse population, and the successful real estate professional understands and adapts to each client's needs.

What's new in fair housing? What isn't? 

Course Highlights:

  • The newest fair housing guidelines relating to criminal background screening, reasonable accommodation for assistance animals, and hoarding
  • A look at the socioeconomic impact of discriminatory practices in housing
  • An online test to check your own inherent bias 
  • The court case that led to sexual orientation and gender identity being afforded federal fair housing protection 
  • Resources that will help you identify and better serve the diverse populations within your market
  • Statistics and demographics on homeownership from:
    • The National Association of REALTORS®
    • The U.S. Census Bureau
    • The National Fair Housing Alliance 
  • Two proposed additions to the seven federally protected classes

DC Legislative Update

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 3 Elective: 0 Approval Number: PC8725
$45

From an ever-rotating lineup of government servants, to millions of annual visitors, to generations’ worth of lifelong residents, you’ve chosen to serve a truly unique population by practicing real estate in the District of Columbia. It’s the DC Council’s job to serve those diverse populations by creating legislation designed to preserve the District’s historic nature, propel the city into the future, and protect DC’s residents—and it’s your job to keep up with the laws that impact those residents.

This three-hour course provides an in-depth examination of laws in two areas particularly important in DC: affordable housing and rental-related laws. We’ll also explore recent amendments to foundational legislation, as well as new laws that have been introduced to ensure the protection, empowerment, and prosperity of DC residents. Knowledge of these laws is key to your success in serving clients, customers, and the public as an informed real estate licensee.

Course highlights include:

  • Affordable housing protections
  • Rent control
  • Vacant and blighted property issues
  • Landlord and tenant protections
  • Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act
  • District Opportunity to Purchase Act
  • Environmentally conscious legislation
  • Other notable legislation licensees need to know about

 

Personal Safety

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: PC9574
$45

Attacks on real estate professionals have made headlines at an alarmingly more frequent rate in recent years. After an incident where a licensee is harmed, everyone vows to do better, and the topic of safety is pushed to the front of training schedules. Then complacency sets in.

Criminals count on complacency.

This course reviews studies and statistics of safety issues in the real estate industry, and best practices for personal safety.       

Course highlights include:

  • Crime statistics and studies that challenge preconceived notions
  • Risk factors and vulnerabilities that unique to real estate professionals
  • Case studies to illustrate how criminals target their victims
  • How to develop a personal warning system and trust your instincts when something feels “off”
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content

Technology Tools, Trends, and Risk Management (3 hr)

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A1508
$45

Technology is a tool. Used wisely, it can free up time usually spent on mundane tasks to allow licensees to work at a higher (and higher touch) level of client service. Used poorly, it can waste a lot of time better spent elsewhere and worse—alienate clients, and even put them and the licensee’s reputation at risk.

Clients and prospective clients want their real estate professional to be accessible and tech-savvy on their behalf.  According to a National Association of REALTORS® real estate report, staying up to date on new platforms and systems will remain one of the biggest challenges for brokerages in the coming years. The industry is constantly changing, and technology is a big driver of that change.  

This course helps real estate professionals work with technology and reinforces putting client relationships first in the push to provide cutting edge tools and services.

Course Highlights:

  • Technology tools to enhance service to sellers, including drones, live streaming, single-property sites, and speaking photos; ways to minimize risks involved in their use
  • How to use technology to secure buyer representation agreements, assist buyers with financing qualifications, and pre-showing data to help them make informed purchasing and financing decisions  
  • Technological advances in transaction management, including document sharing, electronic signatures, cloud storage, and photo, document, and email organization software, and identify risk management safeguards for online data storage and transaction management
  • Technology tools you can use now to provide enhanced client service, and emerging trends to watch for

Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices (3hr)

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A1507
$45

Whether for a buyer or seller, the comparative market analysis, properly done, can mean several thousands extra dollars in their pockets, and can determine whether a deal can be struck at all. But because it’s such a well-worn tool, it’s tempting for a licensee to get complacent with the CMA, and “phone it in.”

Don’t be that licensee!

This course covers the how-tos of a professionally researched  comparative market analysis.          

Course Highlights:

  • The three-step approach to market analyses: the market, the property, the numbers
  • Sources for subject property data and market data
  • Using expired and active listings to inform pricing strategy
  • How to prioritize criteria when selecting comparables
  • How to adjust and homogenize selected comparables 
  • How to weight selected comparables when selecting a list price range

Assistance Animals And Fair Housing (4 Hours)

Total Hours: 4 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 4 Approval Number: A2095
$55

Must a property manager accept a tenant's emotional support animal, and under what conditions? What proof can a property manager or landlord require of a tenant who claims a need for an emotional support animal? What about homeowners associations—must accommodation be made in these communities?

This course explores the issues and options for landlords and property managers surrounding assistance animals, helping real estate professionals who represent them to ensure that individuals with disabilities have equal access to housing in compliance with the law.

Course highlights include:

  • The evolving fair housing law
  • How the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act intersect--and don't
  • Types of assistance animals
  • How to handle reasonable requests for accommodation
  • Case studies and legal trends 
  • Examples and scenarios to help apply course content to real life

Note: This course does not meet NAR Fair Housing requirements.

Sex and Real Estate: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, and Fair Housing

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A2094
$45

Thanks in part to movements such as #MeToo and Time’s Up, sexual harassment and discrimination have moved to the forefront of the national conversation. Responsible agents not only reject sexually predatory behavior but also actively dismantle toxic workplace environments to ensure a safe place for all. It’s up to agents to reject behaviors or ideologies that could damage neighbors, clients, and each other.

In this course, we’ll take a closer look at how sexual harassment is defined and the impact such behavior can have on your clients, your brokerage, and your reputation. Additionally, we’ll discuss actions you can take to ensure that your office is inclusive and welcoming to all, and that your clients’ best interests are always protected. This includes tips for putting together a comprehensive office policy that thoroughly addresses sexual harassment and discrimination.

Course highlights:

  • How sexual harassment is defined by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR)
  • Protections offered through Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the federal Fair Housing Act
  • Ramifications of sexual harassment within a brokerage, including how it affects clients and customers
  • Federal Sexual Harassment Housing Initiative
  • Federal and state laws protecting sexual orientation and gender identity in housing
  • Landmark legal cases relating to sexual harassment and gender discrimination
  • Tips for putting together a comprehensive office policy that addresses sexual harassment and the complaint process
  • Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts

Document Excellence for Smoother Transactions

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A2745
$45

Proper document management provides proof that a licensee did what was required, when it was required. It serves to protect the consumer and it reduces the licensee's risk of litigation.

Get ready to become more comfortable with selecting and using transactional documents. 

Course highlights include:

  • Common documents used in real estate transactions
  • Common contract clauses, addenda, and contingencies
  • Avoiding the unauthorized practice of law
  • Multiple offer management
  • Document signatures, notarizations, and identification
  • Transaction management methods and best practices
  • Document management and retention methods and best practices
  • Technology and security for document management
  • Legalities of electronic communication
  • Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts

Property Inspection Issues

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A2964
$45

The inspection period is a big hurdle to jump over on the way to closing. The inspector’s job is to call out defects. The buyer agent’s job is to negotiate repairs. The seller agent’s job is to mitigate damage. It can sometimes be hard to hold a deal together.

Protecting your buyer as a buyer’s agent means understanding the importance of the home inspection contingency and its deadlines, and identifying the need for specialized inspections.

Protecting your seller as the listing agent means helping the seller understand disclosure obligations, prepare for the inspection, and respond to a buyer’s reasonable repair requests.

Course highlights:

  • The importance of the inspection contingency
  • The licensee’s role in the inspection process
  • Licensee and seller disclosure obligations
  • Red flags related to common structural, plumbing, and electrical issues
  • Specialized inspection types addressing radon, asbestos, sewer lines, septic tanks, mold, lead, and wells
  • Interactive activities and scenarios

Section 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchanges

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A2967
$45

Chances are good that, if it hasn't happened yet, you will one day work on a transaction involves a property that’s part of a tax-deferred exchange. When this happens, will you be ready to guide your client through the process and ensure they meet the critical deadlines?

With an appropriately formed exchange, an investor can defer paying taxes on the profit from one investment and instead use all of the profits to fund another investment. 

This course helps licensees become more comfortable with guiding clients through a 1031 tax-deferred exchange transaction and ensuring critical deadlines are understood and met.  

Course highlights include:

  • Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange definitions
  • Starker’s Exchange background and application
  • U.S. Internal Revenue Code requirements
  • IRS Safe Harbor Guidelines
  • Investor taxes advantages
  • Setting up an exchange
  • Selecting a Qualified Intermediary
  • Licensee role in a Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange
  • The non-exchanger's role in a Section 1031 transaction
  • Reverse exchanges
  • Rare exemptions to exchange deadlines

First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A2881
$45

Whether you want to develop a niche business working with first-time homebuyers or simply increaseyour overall knowledge so you can better help inexperienced first-time homebuyers, this course willprovide you with the necessary foundation to serve this unique population.First-time homebuyers often rely heavily on agents’ expertise, and many feel overwhelmed, intimidated,and fearful of the prospect of buying a home. Your knowledge and calm influence can lead them towardtheir goal of homeownership, step by step.In this three-hour course we’ll explore the key characteristics of this niche market, how to cultivaterelationships with these buyers, and how to prepare them for the transaction ahead.

Course highlights include:

  • First-time homebuyer market stats
  • Pros and cons unique to working with this market
  • Housing affordability’s impact on new buyers
  • Targeted marketing approaches and conveying homeowner benefits
  • Providing value to first-time homebuyer clients
  • Walking clients through each step of the transaction
  • Financing, loans, offers, negotiations, and closing

Serving the Unique Needs of the Senior Market

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: A2880
$45

Did you know that a report issued by Census.gov, An Aging Nation: The Older Population in the United States, notes that “In 2050, the population aged 65 and over is projected to be 83.7 million”? That’s almost double what that population numbered in 2012. This population group’s numbers are rising fast, and that adds up to opportunities for licensees.

The senior market needs the services of real estate professionals who understand its unique real estate needs. Working with seniors comes with some of its own challenges, concerns, and rewards. A comprehensive understanding of the particulars and practicalities of this market segment will equip licensees to serve older adult clients with the respect and honor they deserve.

In this course we’ll explore best practices in addressing the distinctive considerations in the senior marketplace. Course highlights include:

  • Senior market stats in the U.S.
  • Important financial and lifestyle considerations for older clients
  • Seniors and legal competence
  • Senior seller and property preparation for listing
  • Four significant considerations for older adult buyers
  • Potential snags and how to overcome them
  • Options in senior adult communities, both traditional and noteworthy
  • Housing programs for low-income seniors
  • The senior market as a niche

Property Management in DC

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 3 Elective: 0 Approval Number: PM0001
$45

Property management in the District of Columbia is uniquely exciting. Between the tourists, the politicians, the foreign dignitaries, and the families who have called the District home for generations, DC property managers serve a diverse population with equally diverse needs.

With this in mind, a DC property manager has to juggle not only the everyday demands of property management—rent collection, tenant screening, and property maintenance, for example—but also the unique owner and tenant needs that come as a result of calling this thriving metropolis home.

This three-hour course delves into property management basics such as licensure requirements and the rights and responsibilities of DC landlords and tenants, as well as issues surrounding fair housing and human rights. It also includes a rundown of District-specific initiatives, laws, and practices that a property manager needs to be effective and proactive in the nation’s capital.

Course highlights include:

  • Property management definitions
  • Licensure, exemptions to licensure, role, and fiduciary duties of the DC property manager
  • Managing common interest communities and community associations
  • Reporting and record keeping requirements
  • Fair housing, human rights, and property management
  • DOPA, TOPA, and HOPA
  • Technology and data security
  • DC sustainability practices and initiatives
  • Historic preservation
  • Inclusionary zoning
  • Capital improvements

Check Your Bias and Fair Housing Practices

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: Approved
$45

In this course, you’ll learn about the history of housing discrimination and its lasting impact in order to better understand why fair housing laws are necessary. You’ll review the federal laws that provide protection against housing discrimination and what actions are prohibited and required by these laws in the business of real estate. This will include reviewing the personal characteristics—race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability--that federal law protects from discrimination in housing. Besides these federal protections, there are state and local government fair housing laws that protect additional personal characteristics from discrimination in housing and you’ll find out where to get more fair housing information for your clients.

You’ll also learn some best practices for fair housing marketing and some strategies to avoid steering and making assumptions based on stereotypes. You’ll role play some scenarios to practice interrupting any implicit biases so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness. By allowing consumers to choose which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in, you can do your part to uphold fair housing laws and end housing discrimination.

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Fair Housing Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Fair Housing training, will accept this course.

Lead Awareness and Compliance

Total Hours: 3 Mandatory: 0 Elective: 3 Approval Number: Pending
$45

Lead hazards aren’t just a concern for homeowners—they’re also a big deal for real estate professionals. If you're listing a home built before 1978 or guiding buyers through disclosures, understanding the risks of lead exposure isn’t just helpful—it’s essential. Federal laws require specific disclosures and safety measures and skipping them can lead to hefty fines and legal trouble.

This course helps you recognize where lead hazards lurk, stay on top of your legal responsibilities, and follow safe practices help protect you, your clients, and your transactions. But beyond compliance, having a strong grasp of lead safety makes you a trusted advisor. When clients see that you take their health and safety seriously, it strengthens your reputation and sets you apart as a knowledgeable, reliable real estate professional. Ultimately, keeping people safe, reducing risk, and staying compliant aren’t just obligations—they’re smart business moves supporting long-term success.

Course highlights include:

  • Common sources of lead in residential properties
  • Health risks of lead exposure
  • Community-based approaches to lead hazard prevention
  • Review of federal lead disclosure laws
  • Compliance with lead disclosure laws
  • Consequences of non-compliance with disclosure requirements
  • Mitigating lead hazards
  • Lead-safe work practices for renovations and repairs
  • EPA’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program
  • Preventing lead hazards long-term

State Requirements for District of Columbia

District of Columbia State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: 8/31 every odd-numbered year

Hours Required: 15 hours

Salesperson:
9 hours – Mandatory (DC Fair Housing; DC Ethics; DC Legislative Update)
3 hours – Property Management
3 hours – Electives