Washington 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.

The Washington State Department of Licensing, Real Estate Education Unit, has outlined the 2020/2021 Core Course curricula specifically designed to provide a mandated three-hour legislative, legal, and business practices update for real estate professionals. This material was adopted by the Commission on September 25, 2019, to be implemented as of January 1, 2020.
The course will be outlined in three(3) sections:
            Section 1: Forms and Loan Program Updates
            Section 2: Legislative Update
            Section 3: Business Practices Updated and Professional Standards
With this in mind, this course will help Washington real estate licensees to become more familiar with state statutes, administrative rules, and overall best practice scenarios. In addition, this course will emphasize the importance of recognizing how each of the aforementioned components can work together as highly integral factors in the modern-day real estate practice.
This continuing education is required to be a three-hour course per Washington state law for real estate brokers and managing brokers as well, per Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 308–124A–785 and WAC 308–124A–790.

Boost your knowledge of working with real estate investors. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore insights on the investor market and uncover opportunities to grow your business 
• Learn the skillsets, terminology and experience required to work with investor clients 
• Gain confidence in evaluating an investment property 
• Supplement your learning with real world case studies, worksheets, audio, and video

Master the skills you need to work successfully with real estate investors. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Gain confidence in evaluating real estate investment properties  
• Examine cash flow, NOI, depreciation, rate of return, cap rate, cash on cash and more 
• Learn how to leverage five different methods to determine a rental property’s value

In this course, you will learn the technical terms, tools, and processes used to deliver professional experiences to home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals. This course will benefit you as an on-the-go real estate professional and provide insight into improving your client's overall experience. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

• Learn the benefits, risks, standard functions, best practices, and setup of transaction management software 
• Create and manage online transactions with the buyer’s experience in mind 
• Deliver better seller experiences through clear communication and effective online transaction management

Gain valuable insights on the least understood – and most-used document in real estate: the contract. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Take a unique look at contracts including their history, evolution and definitions 
• Learn how to create a valid contract and the proper format
• Gain insights on contract types and Statute of Frauds 
• Learn how to recognize a breach of contract

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

Learn safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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

Transform your real estate business by exploring and identifying a real estate specialty suited for your interests, market, and skills. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Uncover processes for thinking strategically about developing a real estate specialty 
• Explore different real estate niches and their potential opportunities 
• Identify strategies for marketing your niche

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 

Real estate agents and brokers are directly or indirectly affected by local, state, and national rules and laws that might change every year or few years. Agents must stay up to date in regard to the latest changes to laws that impact their profession that were based upon legislative rule changes and / or recent legal cases in Washington state or in federal courts far away. Students in this course will learn about the most effective and legal ways to work with clients, advertise for new prospects, and how to properly disclose agency relationships and finalize contract deals while learning new strategies to minimize risky situations while maximizing productivity in the real estate field.

Boost your knowledge of working with real estate investors. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore insights on the investor market and uncover opportunities to grow your business 
• Learn the skillsets, terminology and experience required to work with investor clients 
• Gain confidence in evaluating an investment property 
• Supplement your learning with real world case studies, worksheets, audio, and video

Master the skills you need to work successfully with real estate investors. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Gain confidence in evaluating real estate investment properties  
• Examine cash flow, NOI, depreciation, rate of return, cap rate, cash on cash and more 
• Learn how to leverage five different methods to determine a rental property’s value

In this course, you will learn the technical terms, tools, and processes used to deliver professional experiences to home buyers, sellers, and real estate professionals. This course will benefit you as an on-the-go real estate professional and provide insight into improving your client's overall experience. 

HIGHLIGHTS 

• Learn the benefits, risks, standard functions, best practices, and setup of transaction management software 
• Create and manage online transactions with the buyer’s experience in mind 
• Deliver better seller experiences through clear communication and effective online transaction management

Gain valuable insights on the least understood – and most-used document in real estate: the contract. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Take a unique look at contracts including their history, evolution and definitions 
• Learn how to create a valid contract and the proper format
• Gain insights on contract types and Statute of Frauds 
• Learn how to recognize a breach of contract

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

Learn safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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

Transform your real estate business by exploring and identifying a real estate specialty suited for your interests, market, and skills. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Uncover processes for thinking strategically about developing a real estate specialty 
• Explore different real estate niches and their potential opportunities 
• Identify strategies for marketing your niche

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 

The Washington State Department of Licensing, Real Estate Education Unit, has outlined the 2020/2021 Core Course curricula specifically designed to provide a mandated three-hour legislative, legal, and business practices update for real estate professionals. This material was adopted by the Commission on September 25, 2019, to be implemented as of January 1, 2020.
The course will be outlined in three(3) sections:
            Section 1: Forms and Loan Program Updates
            Section 2: Legislative Update
            Section 3: Business Practices Updated and Professional Standards
With this in mind, this course will help Washington real estate licensees to become more familiar with state statutes, administrative rules, and overall best practice scenarios. In addition, this course will emphasize the importance of recognizing how each of the aforementioned components can work together as highly integral factors in the modern-day real estate practice.
This continuing education is required to be a three-hour course per Washington state law for real estate brokers and managing brokers as well, per Washington Administrative Code (WAC) 308–124A–785 and WAC 308–124A–790.

Boost your knowledge of staying in compliance with ADA laws in your everyday real estate practices. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

•  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 want to build trusted relationships with your clients and colleagues? The REALTOR® Code of Ethics is more than just a set of rules and obligations. This course, which features a mock arbitration, will help you understand the true value of the Code of Ethics in protecting and promoting the interests of clients and the public and its importance in helping you build the trusted relationships that underlie and define our profession.

In Chapter 1, we will examine the historical framework for the evolution of the Code of Ethics and familiarize you with its purpose and meaning. In Chapter 2, we will review the processes and procedures for resolving disputes regarding the Code of Ethics, including both ethics complaints and requests for arbitration. We will look more closely at arbitration in Chapter 3, to prepare you for the mock arbitration in the final Chapter. The mock arbitration was filmed especially for this course, to bring the arbitration process to life...and hopefully to entertain you.

Transform your real estate business by exploring and identifying a real estate specialty suited for your interests, market, and skills. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Uncover processes for thinking strategically about developing a real estate specialty 
• Explore different real estate niches and their potential opportunities 
• Identify strategies for marketing your niche

Marijuana, cannabis and hemp (all different names for essentially the same plant) has a long history in the United States, with periods where it was encouraged, discouraged, criminal, and most recently legalized in some states. This class covers a brief history of marijuana then goes on to discuss the conflict between federal and state laws. Next, an overview of commercial real estate matters, followed by residential real estate topics will be covered. The last chapter goes over some basics for those who may consider specializing in this new and growing real estate specialty!

Boost your knowledge of working with real estate investors. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore insights on the investor market and uncover opportunities to grow your business 
• Learn the skillsets, terminology and experience required to work with investor clients 
• Gain confidence in evaluating an investment property 
• Supplement your learning with real world case studies, worksheets, audio, and video

Explore the many intricacies of the listing contract. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore terms and conditions within a listing agreement
• Familiarize yourself with new laws regarding listings 
• Get up to speed on useful resources for listing agreements
• Apply your learnings through course case studies

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

Leverage useful insights to grow your real estate business and help your buyers and sellers in a hot sellers’ market. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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 safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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

Boost your knowledge of staying in compliance with ADA laws in your everyday real estate practices. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

•  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 want to build trusted relationships with your clients and colleagues? The REALTOR® Code of Ethics is more than just a set of rules and obligations. This course, which features a mock arbitration, will help you understand the true value of the Code of Ethics in protecting and promoting the interests of clients and the public and its importance in helping you build the trusted relationships that underlie and define our profession.

In Chapter 1, we will examine the historical framework for the evolution of the Code of Ethics and familiarize you with its purpose and meaning. In Chapter 2, we will review the processes and procedures for resolving disputes regarding the Code of Ethics, including both ethics complaints and requests for arbitration. We will look more closely at arbitration in Chapter 3, to prepare you for the mock arbitration in the final Chapter. The mock arbitration was filmed especially for this course, to bring the arbitration process to life...and hopefully to entertain you.

Transform your real estate business by exploring and identifying a real estate specialty suited for your interests, market, and skills. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Uncover processes for thinking strategically about developing a real estate specialty 
• Explore different real estate niches and their potential opportunities 
• Identify strategies for marketing your niche

Marijuana, cannabis and hemp (all different names for essentially the same plant) has a long history in the United States, with periods where it was encouraged, discouraged, criminal, and most recently legalized in some states. This class covers a brief history of marijuana then goes on to discuss the conflict between federal and state laws. Next, an overview of commercial real estate matters, followed by residential real estate topics will be covered. The last chapter goes over some basics for those who may consider specializing in this new and growing real estate specialty!

Boost your knowledge of working with real estate investors. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore insights on the investor market and uncover opportunities to grow your business 
• Learn the skillsets, terminology and experience required to work with investor clients 
• Gain confidence in evaluating an investment property 
• Supplement your learning with real world case studies, worksheets, audio, and video

Explore the many intricacies of the listing contract. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• Explore terms and conditions within a listing agreement
• Familiarize yourself with new laws regarding listings 
• Get up to speed on useful resources for listing agreements
• Apply your learnings through course case studies

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

Leverage useful insights to grow your real estate business and help your buyers and sellers in a hot sellers’ market. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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 safety protocols real estate professionals can employ in the field. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

• 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