Florida Real Estate Continuing Education Courses

•  Explore the Americans with Disabilities Act and whom it protects 
• Uncover the purpose, history, application and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act

Do you feel prepared for a cyber attack? This course will help you to identify scams and how cybercriminals gain access to organizations’ network systems with the intention of stealing data or holding files hostage. You will learn why real estate organizations are targeted, preventative measures to protect your data, and guidelines for establishing a cybersecurity policy manual.

Course Highlights

•    Learn about types of cybersecurity attacks
•    Understand why cybersecurity is necessary
•    Explore why real estate organizations are targeted for cyber crimes
•    Gain knowledge on how to prevent cyber attacks
•    Learn how to establish a cybersecurity policy
 

• Gain confidence teaching buyers about the buying process 
• Learn to show buyers how to get their finances to purchase a home
• Know how to help buyers systematically search for a home in in their current market 
• Understand how to teach buyers how to negotiate like a pro 

• Educate your sellers during the listing presentation. 
• Teach your clients of the importance of staging to sell.
• Help sellers understand strategies when their home hasn’t sold.
• Teach sellers how to evaluate and handle multiple offers.
• Help sellers better navigate contract negotiations.

Fair and equitable treatment in housing and real estate transactions is a right by law. This course covers information to ensure licensees comply with the federal Fair Housing Act, including protected classes, exemptions, prohibited conduct, and enforcement. The course is approved for two hours of continuing education.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• Learn why fair housing laws are necessary by learning about the history of housing discrimination and its lasting impact.
• Review the laws that make housing discrimination illegal, and the actions prohibited and required by these laws in the business of real estate.
• Recognize the personal characteristics that federal law protects from discrimination in housing, and state and local government protections that may exceed federal protections.
• Gain an understanding of what steering is and strategies to avoid it.
• Recognize the danger in making assumptions based on stereotypes, and the importance of allowing consumers to choose which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in.
• Describe what reasonable accommodations and modifications for people with disabilities may be required by fair housing laws.
• Apply best practices in fair housing marketing and advertising.
• Use interventions to aid in the interruption of implicit biases so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness.
• Discover fair housing resources to assistance your clients.

• Discuss fair housing law developments through the years
• Examine advertising policies and exemptions through case studies
• Pocket useful tips on how to stay clear of discriminatory practices in sales, rentals, and financing of real estate

• Examine the components of a competitive market analysis
• Discuss the process of a transaction from offer to contract to closing 
• Explore issues that can arise between contract and closing

• Learn techniques to help buyers prioritize their must-have list 
• Explore how you can simplify the home-buying process for your clients

This course will cover a brief history of the mortgage industry and introduce the players. We will discuss financing, security instruments, and legal clauses commonly included in these instruments. We’ll look at various loan types, including government-backed mortgage programs and discuss mortgage fraud and predatory lending. Finally, we will examine the loan process, qualifying standards for borrowers, and mortgage laws.

• Learn about the types of properties managed.
• Identify the factors examined in a market analysis.
• Know the steps in a risk assessment
• Know how to develop a maintenance program.

• Explore the Millennial generation and how they affect the real estate market 
• Uncover their wants and fears when it comes to homeownership 
• Learn strategies for recruiting Millennials to your brokerage

• Narration
• Learn how to use an investment property worksheet to analyze a property 
• Explore how to determine a property’s investment value quickly and effectively 
• Uncover the ins and outs of the passive loss rules 
• Examine how to maximize the tax-savings benefits of depreciation through a bifurcation strategy

This course provides an overview of various forecasts and predictions made for the real estate market in 2023 and describes adaptive reuse and accessory dwelling units. Additionally, it provides a review of economic cycles and the economic theory of supply and demand, which is the backbone of real estate markets.

It is intended to enhance the knowledge and effectiveness of real estate licensees and is approved for 3 hours of continuing education.

• Explore tips for protecting yourself and your clients
• Identify safety tips for getting a client’s home ready to sell
• Learn how to conduct safe showings

Most people have questions about taxes in a real estatetransaction. It may not be apparent, but taxation is an indirect—yetimportant—factor affecting the value of property. In this course, we will seehow taxes impact buying and selling real property. As a student, use this unitfor general knowledge about real estate taxation; however, always refer yourclients and customers to an expert for their own tax information as well ascurrent tax laws.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• Learn the tax-saving benefits of owning real estate.
• Differentiate the deductions and the capital gains exclusion for main and second homes
• Gain an understanding of 1031 exchanges. 

• Identify proper accounting, its impact, and accounting documentation 
• Go inside federal, state and local trust fund rules and regulations 
• Analyze links between real estate trust accounts and the dangers of commingling funds 
• iPad compatible

An appraisal is an inevitable part of buying a home foranyone who needs a mortgage and, like it or not, it can make or break thetransaction. Real estate agents should understand the appraisal process. Eventhough you may prepare a competitive market analysis (CMA) for your clients,CMAs are not as detailed, nor do they serve the same purpose as an appraisal.This course provides a review of the sales comparison, cost, and income approachesin appraising real estate. 

Real estate licensees should have some familiarity with the laws that prohibit discrimination against persons who have a disability and their animals. This course covers how to comply with the anti-discriminatory provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act that protect persons with disabilities and their animals.