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Texas Real Estate Continuing Education

Texas Real Estate School The Real Estate market in Texas is as strong as ever! Stay on top of our fast moving market with the latest continuing education. Our new 18 hour Texas Real Estate Packages brings you the latest information and requirements so you can rest assured that you are being the best real estate agent that you can be. Grow your business and succeed in real estate. Our courses can help.

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18 Hours
Texas Real Estate Agent Continuing Education Package

5 Courses
18 Hours
Approval Number #10137

Fulfill your 18-hour real estate agent continuing education requirement from your phone, tablet or the web with the TREC-certified AceableAgent.

18 Hours
This full 18-hour package includes 10 elective hours and 8 mandatory hours required for the renewal of active licenses.

Courses included in this package:

Texas Legal Update 1 (4 mandatory hours)
Texas Legal Update 2 (4 mandatory hours)
Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions (3 mandatory hours and 1 elective hour)
Hot Topics in Real Estate (3 elective hours)
Code of Ethics: Good For Your Clients and Your Business (3 elective hours)*

18 Hours
What's included:

Texas Legal Update Part 1 (2020-2021)
Texas Legal Update Part 2 (2020-2021)
A New Look at Contract Law
NAR: May the Code Be With You
Real Estate Investing: Beyond the Basics

18 Hours
Save money and streamline your Texas Broker CE! This real estate CE package includes the required 2020-2021 TREC Legal Updates I & II, Contracts, and Broker courses.

This package includes:

TREC Legal Updates I
TREC Legal Updates II
Texas Real Estate Contracts
TREC Broker Responsibility

18 Hours
This full 18-hour package includes 10 elective hours and 8 mandatory hours required for the renewal of active licenses.

Courses included in this package:

Texas Legal Update 1 (4 mandatory hours)
Texas Legal Update 2 (4 mandatory hours)
Contract Competence in Texas (3 core hours)
Assistance Animals and Fair Housing (4 elective hours)
Current Issues: Cooperation, Negotiation, iBuyers, and Disasters (3 elective hours)

18 Hours
Courses Included

Texas Legal Update Part 1 (2020-2021) (4 hrs)
Texas Legal Update Part 2 (2020-2021) (4 hrs)
A New Look at Contract Law (3 hrs)
Broker Responsibility Course 2021-2022 (6 hrs)
NAR: May the Code Be With You (3 hrs)

18 Hours
Save money and streamline your Texas CE! This real estate CE package includes the required 2020-2021 TREC Legal Updates I & II and Contracts courses. This package also includes 6 additional hours of elective continuing education.

This package includes:

TREC Legal Updates I
TREC Legal Updates II
Texas Real Estate Contracts
Pricing Property to Sell

18 Hours
This full 18-hour package includes 14 mandatory hours and 4 hours of electives required for the renewal of Supervising Agent active licenses.

MCE courses included in this package:

2021 Broker Responsibility (6 mandatory hours)
Texas Legal Update I (4 mandatory hours)
Texas Legal Update II (4 mandatory hours)
Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions (3 mandatory hours and 1 elective hour)

This package includes:

TREC Legal Updates I
TREC Legal Updates II
Texas Real Estate Contracts
Green Home Construction

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4 Hours
This course provides a comprehensive discussion about laws, regulations, and guidelines affecting real estate practice. Scenarios and case studies woven throughout illustrate practical application of concepts presented, as well as consequences when a license holder fails to comply.

Understanding the law pertaining to your business will help keep you in compliance, and keep your license intact. Course highlights include:

Key TREC rule updates
Statutory changes to the Texas Real Estate License Act, including licensing related bills recently passed by the 2019 Texas legislative session
Alterations to the TREC Seller's Disclosure Notice and other seller disclosure documents
Best practices related to selecting and using seller disclosures and related to inspection reports
Important changes made to the One to Four Family Residential Contract (Resale) and associated addenda
Considerations regarding "smart home" technology
Property management issues, particularly tenant screening, protections for tenants during a building foreclosure, and consumer reports
Security issues related to technology, including in-home surveillance during showings and cyber fraud
Effective ways for license holders to protect themselves and their clients from cyber fraud

4 Hours
It's sometimes hard for license holders to navigate murky waters related to ethics, agency, advertising, and more. It can be even more of a challenge to explain these often-misunderstood areas of real estate practice to consumers.

This course puts you in good stead for both. It also provides a discussion of title and closing issues, RESPA compliance, and lender and inspector relationships. Course highlights include:

Ethics requirements for real estate professionals
Working with unrepresented buyers
Residential rental locators
Seller term requirement sheets/seller offer guidelines
Intermediary review
Rebates and referral fees
Recent TREC cases related to agency and rebate violations
Advertising and social media compliance
Copyright review and proper usage of copyrighted material
Issues with closing LLCs and trusts
T-47 misconceptions
Escrow requests to avoid
RESPA and Rule P-53 compliance
Marketing service agreements
Inspector FAQs
Lender relationships

6 Hours
The purpose of this course is to provide brokers with instructional materials on the rules, policies and regulations governing the real estate industry in the state of Texas.

Topics in this course include:

Introduction
Scope and Competency
Fiduciary Responsibilities
Property Management and Trust Accounts
Delegated Supervisors and Teams
Advertising and Registration of Names
Written Policies
Additional broker Duties

This course meets the requirement for 6 hours of mandatory continuing education in broker responsibility.

3 Hours
TThis is a 4-hour course that teaches the fundamentals of real estate contracts in the state of Texas. This course reviews the basics of real estate contracts and forms. It also discusses the deceptive trade practices act, presenting offers and how to create a contract. Additionally, it covers common contract mistakes and ends with a practice contract-based scenario.

Effective 2/1/2021 all Texas sales agents and brokers are required to complete at least three hours in contract-related coursework as part of the 18 hours of continuing education (CE) required to renew a license.

6 Hours
Successful Texas real estate license brokers are conversant with the latest TREC rules and best practices for the Texas real estate industry. The 2021 Broker Responsibility course comprises the Texas Real Estate Commission's timely content covering topics that affect real estate brokers and other license holders in the state. Scenarios and case studies are woven throughout the content to illustrate practical applications of pertinent points.

This six-hour course, which reviews a range of rules that govern broker responsibility, offers the latest information on policies and procedures that TREC has identified as being critical to providing compliant brokerage supervision and exceptional brokerage services to consumers. It also meets Texas's mandatory requirement for CE renewing a license for brokers who sponsor sales agents, designated brokers of a business entity, and license holders who are delegated supervisors of one or more license holders. In addition, any license holder may take this course, which counts for six hours of MCE elective credit.

Course highlights include:

TREC Rules, regulations, and standards pertaining to brokers' responsibilities
Subject matter and geographic competency
Best practices for Texas contract oversight
Fiduciary responsibilities that brokers owe to clients
Policies for virtual open houses and showings
Advanced issues relating to intermediary relationships
Transactions involving iBuyers
Property management rules
Review of trust account rules
Delegated supervisors and team leaders
The Consumer Protection Notice and Information about Brokerage Services Form
Licensed entities in Texas
Advertising rules and examples of acceptable advertising
TREC required broker policies and procedures
Copyright basics, infringement, and effects on brokerages, including copyright liability issues
The Americans with Disabilities Act and website accessibility
Brokerage succession planning and policies
Case studies, activities, and examples to provide real-world context