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12 Ways to Save Your License – 3 Hours Legal Issues
This course is a practical treatment of due process, from licensee conduct through the dispensing of discipline, presented in a positive context to make the licensee aware of the steps and options in the regulatory disciplinary processes.
30 Things Brokers Should Know About Frequent Litigation Issues – 3 Hours Legal Issues
Based on recent and/or recurring litigation topics, students will gain a more practical understanding of many of the top problems experienced by agents in the field, leading to enhanced broker policies, supervision and training.
Agency Law & the NAR Code of Ethics – 3 Hours Agency Law & NAR COE
Through interactive quizzes, Q & A and participative discussion, and with particular focus on agency law, this course will strengthen licensee understanding of the purpose, effect and application of “codes of conduct” through an examination of the interaction and harmony between the Arizona Real Estate Code and the NAR Code of Ethics.
Agency Principles and Practice - A Contemporary Examination - 3 Hours Agency Law
This examination of agency law essentials and practical application agency representation, disclosure of agency relationships, attendant fiduciary duties and recurring practice issues, highlights many poorly understood but fundamental applications of real estate agency.
Advanced Agency Perspectives – 3 Hours Agency Law
This course will introduce and strengthen brokers’ understanding and application of real estate agency through an in-depth discussion of frequently unappreciated issues, including: duty versus fiduciary duty; fiduciary duty versus honesty and disclosure; subagency applications today; forfeiture of commission; contested dual agency issues; and the fiduciary’s burden of proof.
Disclosure Issues in a Litigious Environment – 3 Hours Disclosure Law
Through a highly participative classroom approach, to provide a comprehensive and practical review of contemporary disclosure issues.
Preparing for the ADRE Audit (How to Complete the Broker Audit Declaration) – 3 Hours of Commissioner’s Standards
Through a line-by-line examination of the Broker Audit Declaration, with emphasis on the real estate laws relating to each item, designated brokers, managing brokers, branch managers and office managers will be given a tutorial and “how-to” for completing the Broker Audit Declaration, thus preparing for the eventual ADRE audit.
Professional Conduct and the NAR Code of Ethics – 3 Hours Commissioner’s Standards
Through interactive quizzes, Q & A and participative discussion, this course will strengthen licensee understanding of the purpose, effect and application of “codes of conduct” through an examination of the interaction and harmony between the Arizona Real Estate Code and the NAR Code of Ethics.
Grounds for Discipline!! (a tour of regulatory pitfalls for the licensee) – 3 Hours Legal Issues
Through discussion and examples, the licensee will receive a comprehensive overview of and insight into conduct that constitutes violations under the Real Estate Code.
Unlicensed Real Estate Activity – 3 Hours Legal Issues
The licensee will be subjected to an in-depth treatment of the real estate license exemptions. Upon course completion, the licensee will have a broader and more in-depth understanding of license requirements and the application of license exemptions.
Subdivisions [the public report, exemptions and violations] – 3 Hours Commissioner’s Standards
The student will gain a significant insight to and understanding of the subdivisions laws, through an intensive and highly interactive review of purpose, relevant definitions, rescission rights, exemptions, special provisions and violation examples.
Arizona Land Fraud [a tour of definitions, case law, 5-splitting and illegal subdividing] – 3 Hours Legal Issues
Through an intensive review of the meaning and application of the subdivision code and case law, plus heavy use of examples, the licensee will gain a working understanding of lawful and unlawful activities in the context of land divisions.
Broker Management Clinic & Skills IDWs
BMC #1 – Statutes & Rules – 3 Hours Commissioner’s Standards
Using a true/false instructional approach, this course provides a contemporary examination of broker management practice, statutes and rules, based on interpretation, application, timeliness, and relevance to the designated broker in complying with real estate law and ADRE policies.
BMC #2 – Case Law Shapes Broker Policy – 3 Hours Commissioner’s Standards
The complexity of the administration and management of a brokerage is fundamentally influenced by case law (AKA common law). Common law is not codified as statutes and rules are, making review challenging. Brokers will gain a better understanding of how common law impacts and shapes real estate brokerage policies and how its understanding is essential to developing and implementing better broker practice policies.
BMC #3 –Case Law Guides Broker Supervision – 3 Hours Commissioner’s Standards
The implications of designated broker supervision are profoundly based on the reality of ADRE disciplinary actions and civil litigation filed against the brokerage and its agents. Case law highlights the red flags of real estate practice. This review of actual civil litigation cases that resulted in case law will assist the DB to better supervise regulatory compliance imperatives of the brokerage. Case law has the same effect on brokerage practice as do statutes and rules.
Skills IDW Part I: Fun & Effective Teaching – 3 Hours of Instructor Certification
This course presents an overarching adult teaching methodology for real estate instructors – practical, applied and participative. Instructors will participate in a range of practical skills that make the real estate education experience more fun, meaningful and memorable.
Skills IDW Part II: Fun & Effective Teaching – 3 Hours of Instructor Certification
This course will present an instructional evaluation of selective practical and participative teaching methods, techniques, skills and practices for real estate instructors. The variety of didactic options will introduce instructors to a range of fun, meaningful and memorable teaching options
How to be an Effective Expert Witness – 3 Hour Class (No CE Credit)
Have you ever thought about offering your services as an expert witness in civil litigation? Testifying expert witnesses are in demand. This real estate expert witness seminar is a one-of-a-kind course! Similar seminars cost more than $1,000 plus travel expenses. Do you have the credentials needed to be an expert witness? Are you a longtime real estate broker? A real estate instructor? Are you articulate? Have great writing skills? Then you may be a perfect candidate!