Alaska Real Estate Continuing Education Courses

WHY IT’S FOR YOU 

• You are a real estate professional and want to build your skills to make more money.
• You need to renew your license and want to go above and beyond your CE requirements.
• You want access to all CE courses in your state at a fraction of the cost.
• You want 24/7 access to professional development tools, real estate coaches, informational videos, industry discounts and MORE!

WHAT’S INCLUDED 

• All CE courses in your state
• Real estate coaching tool
• Pro-Series webinar on-demand library
• How-to videos
• Sherri Johnson 90-day Boot Camp
• 100+ job aids (worksheets, scripts, and checklists)
• Product and service discounts
• Knowledgeable education specialists

Licensed in more than one state? Check out the multi-state CE Plus membership.

In any real estate firm, the employing broker is usually the most important person in the business structure. It’s up to you and other brokers to do your best to properly supervise, teach, manage, and lead by example by sharing office policy manuals, training sessions, and trying to inspire your affiliate licensees and unlicensed personnel as consistently as possible. Your properly educated and informed staff can then most effectively work with their clients as you all generate income together and succeed together.

Learning Objectives
• Summarize the definition of broker supervision
• Describe the broker’s responsibilities for policies and procedures
• Explain the importance of broker policy and how to protect a client’s confidentiality
• Analyze proper trust fund or recordkeeping procedures
• Identify potential risks and consequences for not properly supervising
• Recognize how a broker can best manage one or more branch offices

Welcome! The field of real estate agency is a fiduciary relationship business that is built upon key factors such as honesty, confidentiality, loyalty, accounting, and especially ethics. Brokers and other licensees who don’t consistently treat their clients and fellow licensees and other third-party professionals with ethical and honest behaviors may have relatively short careers in the real estate profession. An unhappy customer or client can quickly share their negative experiences with you or other licensees around town or online with rather damaging reviews about you and your services.

Do your best to fully disclose any potential conflicts of interest with your clients, and don’t share private, confidential information told to you by your clients that could later financially hurt them or their personal or business reputations. You will learn various ways that clients, licensees, or state or federal agencies can take civil or criminal actions against you if you don’t act in an ethical manner with them. Finally, you will learn about other professions’ ethics practices that share many similarities with the real estate brokerage profession

Welcome! This course is about various ways how you can reduce your risk exposure and avoid any unintentional misrepresentation or fraudulent activities. Alaska, just like every other state, has local, state, and federal laws that must be adhered to by each real estate licensee and citizen. You will learn about the importance of making full disclosures in regard to agency relationships, property defects, advertising, commission payments or receipts, and working with unlicensed assistants. We send you best wishes for success with this course that will help you continue down the road towards future prosperity as a real estate broker.

Welcome! You will learn about how a successful advertising campaign can help you build a successful real estate career. Online marketing offers you both risks and opportunities for finding new clients while working from your principal business or home office. You will learn about how and why it's so important to stay up to date with the latest local, statewide, and federal laws and other regulations that can directly impact you as a broker when advertising on platforms such as social media. You will also better understand the potential to become quite busy as a broker after you learn the most effective ways to use social media and other online marketing portals.

Do you feel confident teaching your clients about the homebuying process? This course provides you with tools, techniques, and ideas to educate buyers and guide them through the homebuying process, so they know exactly what to expect and what they need to do to successfully find and purchase the home they want.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• 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 

To be successful in the real estate industry, you need to study the trends to understand the consumer, so you can know how to provide better service. Today’s consumers are looking for real estate agents who understand technology and can use various technologies and applications to communicate. In this course, we will discuss the best methods of communication when working with Millennial and tech-savvy consumers. You will learn why video is one of the number one tools you need to take advantage of to attract these consumers. By the end of the course, you will have the resources you need to take advantage of current technology and apps that will help you communicate effectively with a variety of consumers.

This continuing education course addresses the specifics of the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics and ethical practices and decision making for real estate professionals. Additionally, this course may potentially be approvable for REALTORS® who wish to fulfill Code of Ethics requirement from the National Association of REALTORS®. Check with your local REALTORS® association. 

Equip yourself with the crucial knowledge you need for short sales and foreclosures. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Learn how to maneuver the complexities of short sales and how to identify distinct opportunities in foreclosures 
• Get insights on definitions, challenges, and finding leads for short sales and foreclosures 
• Identify the market opportunity for foreclosures and types of foreclosures 
• Get insights on the entire process of listing, marketing, and closing a foreclosure/REO property

Do you feel confident teaching your clients about the homebuying process? This course provides you with tools, techniques, and ideas to educate buyers and guide them through the homebuying process, so they know exactly what to expect and what they need to do to successfully find and purchase the home they want.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS:

• 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 

To be successful in the real estate industry, you need to study the trends to understand the consumer, so you can know how to provide better service. Today’s consumers are looking for real estate agents who understand technology and can use various technologies and applications to communicate. In this course, we will discuss the best methods of communication when working with Millennial and tech-savvy consumers. You will learn why video is one of the number one tools you need to take advantage of to attract these consumers. By the end of the course, you will have the resources you need to take advantage of current technology and apps that will help you communicate effectively with a variety of consumers.

This continuing education course addresses the specifics of the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics and ethical practices and decision making for real estate professionals. Additionally, this course may potentially be approvable for REALTORS® who wish to fulfill Code of Ethics requirement from the National Association of REALTORS®. Check with your local REALTORS® association. 

Equip yourself with the crucial knowledge you need for short sales and foreclosures. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Learn how to maneuver the complexities of short sales and how to identify distinct opportunities in foreclosures 
• Get insights on definitions, challenges, and finding leads for short sales and foreclosures 
• Identify the market opportunity for foreclosures and types of foreclosures 
• Get insights on the entire process of listing, marketing, and closing a foreclosure/REO property

Familiarity with the Code of Ethics will allow you to build stable and lasting relationships with your clients in Alaska and around the country. In this course, we will review how the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the National Association of REALTORS® applies to real estate professionals and enhance your understanding of ethical behavior by providing you with sample scenarios and common illegal practices to guide your decision-making process. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS 

• Learn ways to reduce risks with arbitration and mediation
• Understand the latest Statute of Limitations guidelines and ongoing legal risks for agents 
• Recognize possible illegal “fix and flip” activities that could jeopardize your license status and lead to serious legal problems

To understand how internal and external factors can positively or negatively impact property values, we will review the many benefits associated with title insurance, surveys, appraisals, and other third-party reports. The more details you understand about the benefits of title insurance and other reports and how to best minimize disputes associated with things like encumbrances, easements, and other potentially negative issues, the more likely you will lead a long and successful real estate career.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS 

• Explain how the title insurance process works 
• Recognize the impact of easements on properties
• Understand the many different types of value.

In this course, we will review the many different ways that contracts, mortgages, and disclosure forms are used to buy and sell properties. Agents need to learn as much as possible about the most effective and ethical ways to complete these contract forms and how to verbally explain their details to clients. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS 

• Identify types of contractual relationships 
• Recognize illegal contractual relationships 
• Know what risks you and your sellers may encounter

In this course, we will review the importance of disclosures and inspection reports for principals, agents, and property managers. All of these written disclosure and inspection reports can help to minimize risks and future legal disputes between consumers and real estate professionals. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS 

• Learn to identify and disclose potential risks for properties and occupants. 
• Understand the risks of not closely following Fair Housing laws, especially when a tenant has a perceived emotional or physical challenge. 
• Differentiate between potential management liabilities and sound business practices, which include detailed inspection reports and disclosures.

Gain useful information on the complexities of a relationship between a buyer and a real estate agent. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Learn how to communicate effectively with your client
• Explore useful tools you need to make a successful sale 
• Gain insights on the fiduciary duties, the process, and possible issues in a real estate transaction 
• Pocket useful tips on buyer preferences, locating suitable properties and constructing an offer

The biggest generation in history - Millennials - will likely have the largest impact on real estate for the foreseeable future. Uncover what influences them, how to market to them and how brokers can recruit them. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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

Take your real estate business to the level by expanding your knowledge of real estate investing. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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

Gain insights on how to confidently counsel your clients on improving their financial standing. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Identify tactics you can use to counsel your clients about their credit scores 
• Refresh your knowledge on the four basic types of credit
• Learn specific actions your clients can take to improve their credit score