This course discusses the categories of commercial property and the financial elements involved in real estate investments.
Course objectives:
• Describe
the advantages and disadvantages of investments in real estate
• Identify
the four main categories of investment property and list the significant
characteristics of each
• Define basic
key terms and concepts in real estate investments
• Calculate
rent per square foot and rent due on percentage leases
• Understand
and explain the basic financial elements involved in a real estate investment
• Define key
terms
in income and expense analysis
• Use your
learned skills to perform a basic financial analysis of a real estate investment
• Identify
the elements of value in a real estate investment
• Define key
terms involved in the valuation process
• Perform the
analysis necessary to establish an investment's value
• Perform the
analysis necessary to determine return on investment
• Describe the types
of listings and compensation arrangements relevant to real estate investment
transactions
• Define the key
concepts and terms involved in marketing a real estate investment opportunity
• Identify marketing
opportunities and develop a marketing plan for a real estate investment
• Describe
and apply the skills required for closing an investment transaction
Course objectives:
This practical approach to property management explores the major functions of properyt magingers and helps them juggle management and sales while managing liability. Written by Robert Kyle and Floyd M. Baird, RPA/SMA.
Course content:
Course objectives:
Real Estate and Taxes is an complete update on the tax consequences of selling, owning, and investing in real estate. The course includes illustrative stories and sample situations and includes warnings about items that might have significant tax consequences if not handled properly. The course is not designed to be a substitute for professional tax advice.
WARNING: This course routinely takes more than
4 hours to complete while the other online courses tend to take no more
than 4 hours.
This ethics course meets the National Association of REALTOR® requirement for quadrennial ethics training. This four-hour ethics course covers the following topics and exercises:
• reasons why real estate professionals should develop
their ethical decision making skills.
• the public perception of the real estate industry’s
honesty and integrity.
• the research studies on the ethical maturity of real
estate professionals.
• The purposes and impact of codes of ethics on American
businesses.
• the characteristics of a profession.
• the organization of the NAR Code of Ethics as a model
for ethical decision making skills.
• The critical concepts in the Preamble to the NAR®
Code of Ethics.
• the Articles of the NAR® Code which are mentioned
most frequently in complaints and discuss the reasons why those Articles
are cited.
• the professional standards enforcement process of the
board or association.
• case studies and periodic exercises for review purposes.
• a discussion of models for ethical decision making.
Are real estate agents ethical? What about the ethical IQ of attorneys, politicians, and labor union leaders? Find out what the public thinks about the integrity of licensed professionals and what you can do about it. Join veteran educator/author Deborah Long in a provocative discussion about the her controversial study on the ethical judgment of real estate agents and the moral reasoning skills of professionals. 2 to 7 hour programs available.
Keynote Address: Ethics Education: What Difference Does It Make?
Ethics educator Deborah Long, DREI, addresses a compelling question
about real estate ethics education. Can character education for licensed
professionals agents really make a difference? 45 minutes to 1.5
hours long.
This is a course for computer-literate real estate professionals. Participants will learn how to:
Did you know the Irish fled to America because of the potato famine? It was caused by mold! Several of the plagues that Moses "visited" on the Pharaoh involved mold, including the Nile River red. Mold-induced poisoning probably caused the strange behavior of the girls involved in the Salem witch trials. The curse of the tomb raiders? You guessed it--mold.
Mold is a natural part of the environment, but the dramatic increase
in recent lawsuits and insurance claims have made mold an occupational
hazards for real estate agents. This three or four-hour course on
the
latest environmental and health issue facing real estate professionals
will help agents:
Among the topics covered
in this workshop are:
This course is designed for active real estate practitioners, appraisers, and investor-wannabes who want to understand more about how to value investment real estate. Students must bring a calculator to class but it can be a simple, hand-held calculator.
At the end of a four-hour workshop, participants will be able to:
• Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of real estate as an investment;
• Compare and contrast various measures of return;
• Apply concepts of present value, before- and after-tax cash flow,
after-tax proceeds, financial management rate of return; and
• Perform a market/financial analysis of income/rental property.
To see where and when this class is offered next, go to Schedule of Classes.
This course was written to respond to four critical areas of community and housing design: universal design issues; affordable housing; transit-oriented design; and healthy homes.
Each one of these design issues focuses on consumers who have special needs: e.g., universal design affects people with disabilities and seniors; affordable housing design affects working Americans who cannot participate in the American Dream because they do not earn enough income; transit-oriented design responds to those affected by increasing energy costs; and healthy home design involves homeowners who have environmental sensitivities or who wish to build homes with healthier materials.
Real estate licensees are in the unique position of influencing home and community design because of their direct contact with consumers, architects, building and city planners, and politicians. Licensees are likely to have familiarity with related issues (for example, they may be aware of ADA regulations but not about universal design; they are aware of the rise in median sales prices of homes but not about the affordable housing crisis; they are aware of mold and radon, but not about other hazards in building materials; they know the price of gas is going up but not how it is affecting suburban property value). However, real estate professionals may need the information from this course to make use of their influence to bring about these necessary changes and to protect and educate consumers regarding housing choices.
This continuing education program hopes to accomplish two major goals:
· one, to familiarize real estate licensees with critical issues in universal design issues; affordable housing; transit-oriented design; and healthy homes, and
· two, to familiarize real estate licensees with resources about universal design, affordable housing, transit-oriented design; and healthy homes.
To see where and when this class is offered
next, go to Schedule of Classes.
This four-hour course covers the following topics:
- Factors influencing international buyers to invest in U.S. real estate and those which influence Americans to buy overseas.
- U.S. restrictions on foreign investment as well as restrictions on U.S. citizens buying overseas.
- Issues regarding culture, documentation, and financing which affect foreign borrowers and Americans buying overseas.
- Inappropriate business behavior from the perspective of an international clientele.
- Behaviors to overcome communication barriers when dealing with international clients.
- U.S. laws which affect international real estate purchasers and discuss their impact.
- Resources for developing an international real estate brokerage business.
- Definition of terms such as permanent resident alien, non-permanent resident alien, and non-resident ethnocentrism.
To see where and when this class is offered next, go to Schedule of Classes.
A Course on Lawfully Collecting and Providing Referral Fees, Answering
Questions about Your
Fees and Services as well as Minimum Services Companies, and Anti-Trust
Issues
The subject of commissions and other fees generates a lot of confusion. Real estate licensees face increasingly more difficult questions from consumers requiring them to defend their fees and to contrast them with other firms who advertise their commissions in the marketplace. “Minimum services companies” and virtual office websites (VOWs) have entered the market in increasing numbers, and they typically charge non-traditional professional fees, such as hourly compensation or menu-driven fees. Inappropriate answers by licensees regarding fees could lead to price-fixing and antitrust violations.
Licensees are also confused about paying and receiving referral fees and rebates. Whether the payment or receipt of fees is lawful depends on a myriad of state and federal laws and rules as well as ethics. Some states permit referral fees to non-licensees; most states do not. Some states have attempted to regulate minimum services companies but have incurred the wrath of the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission for doing so.
It is the intent of this course to familiarize real estate licensees with these complex regulations and issues and to provide them with the information to respond appropriately to consumer questions about their compensation.
By the end of this four-hour program, participants will be able to describe and comply with federal and state laws & rules regarding:
• Vendors’ kickbacks or rebates
• Referral fees
• Minimum/discount brokers
• Competitor’s fees
Students will be able to define, characterize and discuss concepts such as minimum services broker, virtual office websites, andantitrust.
To see where and when this class is offered next, go to Schedule of Classes.
Real estate licensees who wish to maintain active licensure must participate
in a 4 hour Mandatory Update Course developed by the North Carolina Real
Estate
Commission. The topics are:
Virtually all brokers-in-charge (BIC) who wish to maintain their BIC status must take this course (plus the Mandatory Update--see above) every year. This is a new licensing requirement as of July 1, 2006. This year's course content is about agency relationships.
To see where and when this class is offered next, go to Schedule of Classes.
Enjoy surfing the Internet with Deborah Long as she provides a cyber field trip to her favorite website for real estate teachers. Learn how to more efficiently search the Internet for information that will liven your course presentation and add depth to course information. You will also learn the many nuances of search engines, particularly Altavista and Google.
The Struggle for Character:
A Workshop for Real Estate Teachers Interested in Teaching Ethics
Join veteran educator and ethics specialist Deborah Long, DREI, in
a provocative discussion about real estate agents and their ethical maturity.
You will learn how to identify and enhance the ethical reasoning skills
of your students as well as appropriate teaching strategies, such as thought-provoking
cases, research studies and psychological theories of moral development.
3 hours to 7 hours.
Lights, Camera, Action! Movies and TV Clips in the Real Estate Classroom
Join former cinema teacher Deborah Long, DREI, in a fun-filled matinee’ performance about visual learners and how they love to learn. Deborah will bring clips from her favorite movies and discuss their appropriate and lawful use in the real estate classroom. 2-3 hours long.
Instructor Development Workshop
This six-to-eight hour program takes beginning instructors through the steps of becoming an excellent presenter and educator.
The following topics are covered in the workshop:
Participants in this six-to-eight hour program will develop a lesson
plan for real estate course meeting or exceeding standards for adult education
established by the Real Estate Educators Association (referred to as “GAPE”—Generally
Accepted Principles of Education. Topics include: