Missouri Real Estate 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

• Review the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the National Association of REALTORS® 
• Enhance your understanding of ethical behavior through sample scenarios and common illegal practices 
• Get tips and tools to guide your practical decision-making

• 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

• 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

• 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 

Most people have questions about taxes in a real estate transaction. It may not be apparent, but taxation is an indirect—yet important—factor affecting the value of property. In this course, we will see how taxes impact buying and selling real property. As a student, use this unit for general knowledge about real estate taxation; however, always refer your clients and customers to an expert for their own tax information as well as current 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. 

• 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.

• Review the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of the National Association of REALTORS® 
• Enhance your understanding of ethical behavior through sample scenarios and common illegal practices 
• Get tips and tools to guide your practical decision-making

• Explore strategies for listing in a hot sellers’ market 
• Develop creative strategies for working with buyers in a hot sellers’ market 
• Examine contract implications in a hot sellers’ market
• Uncover ways to ethically and successfully represent both buyers and sellers in a transaction

• 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

• Examine how wildfires impact land, structure, insurance, businesses, and water resources 
• Uncover the potential impact that wildfires have on growing communities and how they influence zoning, design and use
• Assess municipal guidelines in which wildfires and related concerns dictate protocol 
• Gain insights on marketing homes in high-risk areas

• Get tips and tricks for how to use video to elevate your brand.
• Learn how video can build better relationships. 
• Brush up on the ins and outs of regulatory and legal requirements for using video.

• Learn how the primary and secondary mortgage markets interact with one another 
• Explore how the Central Bank and federal government open and close off access to money 
• Examine how mortgage prospects and real estate agents can find loan services from well-known financial institutions or private lenders