Continuing Education Courses
ONLINE 2008-2010 PA CE Course Information
Instructor-Led Continuing Education Courses
1031 Tax Free Exchanges in Today's Market - CR007783This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
Topics include: ways to exchange, proper vesting, reverse exchanges,
purchase/sale contracts, exchange accounts and much more, plus answers
to the most commonly asked questions.
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Agreement of Sale - CR007794This course will satisfy 7 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
It is an intense look at Consumer Notice, Buyer Agency
Contract, and Agreement of Sale.
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Buying Real Estate wih an IRA/401K - CR007784This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit. This course is designed to provide a basic level of proficiency in understanding techniques and methods to diversify your retirement account by investing in real estate and real estate related opportunities such as making loans, buying lease options and contracts. The course will reveal the power of tax deferred and tax free compounding to increase overall wealth. It will develop an awareness of the IRS tax rules relating to real estate in retirement plans. The ability to channel rental income and capture appreciation with leveraged real estate in a retirement plan will be apparent. The student will gain the information necessary and be provided with a step-by step approach to make commercial or residential real estate investments with retirement plan funds
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Certified Home Marketing Specialist (CHMS) - CR007785This course will satisfy 7 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit. Learn more about staging concepts and processes to enable agents to better serve consumers. Manage staging as an element of full service real estate is directly related to the ability of the licensee to serve and meet the needs of clients and the duty of the licensee to keep informed of real estate practices.
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Commerical Contracts - CR007786This course will satisfy 7 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
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Condo and Homeowners Associations: This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
Topics include: History of Condos, HOAs and Cooperatives, Overview
of the Uniform Condominium Act, Creating the Condominium or
Planned Community, and Title Issues.
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Environmental Issues: Contracts, Disclosure, Testing & Knowledge - CR007789This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
Abundant examples, sharing of resources, and classroom discussion will underscore
the agent’s ethical responsibilities in dealing with environmental issues of real estate.
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Ethics for the Commercial Practitioner - CR007790This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
Topics include: History & Background of the Code of Ethics, Ethics &
Arbitration Complaints, Mediation, and Procuring Cause for the
Commerical Practitioner
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Market Analysis- So your comps aren't perfect - Adjust! - CR007791This course will satisfy 7 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit, PA Board of Certified Appraisers and Appraisal Institute CE.
This course discusses how appraisers and real estate licensees can identify appropriate comparables, specifically in situations where no paired sales exist, and make market-based adjustments to the comps in order to produce a credible report. You'll use case studies with a pool of comps to decide which comps are most appropriate for the subject and given market data, you'll make inferences about the markets.
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Personal Real Estate Safety - Currently UnavailableThis course will satisfy. This course includes statistics, how crime effects the Real Estate industry, information and guidelines regarding how to safely conduct business inside and outside of the office.
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Pricing in a Changing Market (Economics & Appraising) - CR007788This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit, PA Board of Certified Appraisers and Appraisal Institute CE.
Learn how to track economic trends in order to stay on top of the market. This course covers the relationship between the micro and macro economic forces on appraisal values and the appraisal business. You'll examine the long-term effects on the housing market of Federal Reserve policy, the performance of the stock market and other macro economic events, then examine the micro effects of local markets on real estate values.
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Professionalism in Real Estate: This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit and the
NAR quadrennial Ethics requirement.
Topics include: History & Background of the Code of Ethics, Ethics &
Arbitration Complaints, Mediation, and Procuring Cause.
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Ultimate Real Estate Technology Certification (UTC) - CR007796This course will satisfy 7 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit. Licensees will be able to use NAR’s consumer research to select technology tools to enhance marketing and transaction management services on behalf of consumers, employ common tools to facilitate the delivery of information and counseling to buyers, lower marketing costs and optimize days on market for sellers, and comply with federal marketing regulations (like CAN SPAM Act) when using various technologies. UTC Flyer
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Understanding Home Inspections - CR007799This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
Discussion issues will include: An overview of PA and NJ Laws,
Home Inspection standard of practice, the Home Inspection Code of
Ethics, Home Inspection procedure & philosophies environmental issues,
and national home inspection organizations.
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When Did They Change That? - CR007797This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC CE credit.
Stay On the top of your game. Be aware of the new changes in PA Real Estate rules and
regulations regarding: advertising, Consumer Notice, agency, environmental issues and the Agreement of Sale.
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You Want What on Which Line? - CR007798This course will satisfy 3.5 hours of 2008-2010 PA REC credit, PA Board of Certified Appraisers and Appraisal Institute CE.
The large players in mortgage underwriting - FannieMae and Freddie Mac - keep providing new forms to appraisers, resulting in confusion about what an appraiser should put where. Sometimes the forms require additional comments by the appraiser to make sense of the report. This is a hands-on, step-by-step, fill-in-the-blanks course that will show the novice or the old pro how to fill out forms in accordance with FNMA guidelines.
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