Hawaii's Source for Real Estate Education

Learn about key formulas and calculations used in real estate assessment and transactions.

This 3-hour course prepares students for continued practice in Hawaii's changing real estate market.

The course objectives:

• Understand the math involved in real estate transactions
• Learn the steps to solve math problems
• Classify the twelve ( 12 ) types of math problems regularly seen and used in Real Estate

1. Commission and Split Calculations
2. Net Proceeds
3. Profit Per Cent
4. Loan Points
5. Annual Property Tax
6. Straight Loan Interest
7. First Payment of Amortized Loan
8. Discount of a Note
9. Inflation of Price
10. Prorating
11. Area Math
12. Appraisal Using Cap Rate   

Course Features Include:

1. Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.  Approved Provider #54
2. The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
3. Low price, high-quality, narrated courses
4. Easy to use
5. Well received and reviewed by other real estate professionals

Developed in Hawaii
Our courses are developed with local knowledge of Hawaii's real estate market. Our instructor, David Catanzaro, has taught and practiced real estate in Hawaii for over 20 years. Hawaii's culture and real estate market are unique. Don't risk your tuition money on provider without feet-on-the-ground experience in Hawaii real estate. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

This 3-hr electives CE course covers the role of the property manager, fair housing laws, fiduciary duty, and rental forms.

Property Management is a three-hour, intermediate level, elective CE course accepted by the State of Hawaii for CE credit. The course covers
the role of the property manager, fair housing laws, fiduciary duty, and rental forms.

Learning Objectives:

• Define and Understand the Role of the Property Manager
• Create & Apply a PM Log to comply with Fair Housing Laws
• Understand Property Manager's Fiduciary Duty
• Become Familiar with Standard Rental Forms
• Synthesize the essence of case studies with professional practice
• Create a Property Management Job Description and Department
• Identify Risks and Develop a Strategy to Reduce those Risks
   

Topics covered include:

• Residential Landlord Tenant Code
• Terminology and Definitions
• Personnel
• Job Descriptions, Duties
• Rental Agreements
• Security Deposits
• Repairs
• Prohibited Practices
• Termination of Tenancy
• Landlord Obligations
• Tenant Obligations
• Landlord Remedies
• Civil Remedies for Landlord Tenant Code
• Debt Collection
• Time Lines for Landlord Tenant Code Obligations
• Mandatory Disclosures for Property Management
• Federal Fair Housing Discrimination
• Discrimination in Real Property Transactions
• State Civil Rights Commission
• Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Case Studies 

Course Features Include:

1. Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.  Approved Provider #54
2. The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
3. Low price, high-quality, narrated courses
4. Easy to use
5. Well received and reviewed by other real estate professionals

Developed with Local Knowledge of Hawaii
Our courses are developed with local knowledge of Hawaii's real estate market. Our instructor, David Catanzaro, has taught and practiced real estate in Hawaii for over 20 years. Hawaii's culture and real estate market are unique. Don't risk your tuition money on an out-of-state provider. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

Learn about the procedures, forms, rules and risks encountered in a good property management practice.

This course is written to provide the licensee with a better understanding of the role of policies in the practice of real estate.

This intermediate level, three-hour elective, CE credit course on Policies to Reduce Risk is accepted by the State of Hawaii.  The course is written to provide the licensee with a better understanding of the role of policies in the practice of real estate.

The course covers:

• Importance of a Policy Manual
• Important policies
• How to develop a policy manual
• Office policies
• Electronic and Internet policies
• Standard forms
• Mandatory disclosures
• Improving customer service
• Increasing compliance with laws
• Ethics
• Risk management

The course learning objectives are:

• Explain importance of a Policy Manual
• Increase compliance with the law
• Improve level of service to consumers
• Better management of high-risk areas of practice
• Aid the in the development of a policy manual 

Course Features Include:

1. Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.  Approved Provider #54
2. The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
3. Low price, high-quality, narrated courses
4. Easy to use
5. Well received and reviewed by other real estate professionals

Developed in Hawaii
Our courses are developed with local knowledge of Hawaii's real estate market. Our instructor, David Catanzaro, has taught and practiced real estate in Hawaii for over 20 years. Hawaii's culture and real estate market are unique. Don't risk your tuition money on providers lacking feet-on-the-ground experience with Hawaii real estate.. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

This course reviews the methods of creating buyer agency, methods of developing new business and duties of the buyer agent.

Increase your market penetration through these specialized techniques. Single agency by design. This course reviews the methods of creating buyer agency, methods of developing new business and duties of the buyer agent.

Learning objectives:

• How buyer representation serves the client 
• Types of agency and relevance of single agency 
• Understanding the buyer representation contract 
• The duties; obligations and benefits of buyer representation 

Course Features Include:

1. Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.  Approved Provider #54
2. The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
3. Low price, high-quality, narrated courses
4. Easy to use
5. Well received and reviewed by other real estate professionals

Developed with Local Knowledge

Our courses are developed with local knowledge of Hawaii's real estate market. Our instructor, David Catanzaro, has taught and practiced real estate in Hawaii for over 20 years. Hawaii's culture and real estate market are unique. Don't risk your tuition money on an out-of-state provider. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

Provide better service to clients and reduce liability as you learn about the details of the Landlord Tenant obligations, remedies, and rules concerning security deposits, repairs and prohibited practices. Property Management is an area that generates a large percentage of administrative hearings so this course pays special attention to these critical areas. 

In this course licensees will be able to:

•  Apply rules and laws as they apply in the Landlord Tenant Code (LTC) 
•  Compare tenant and landlord obligations 
•  Recall tenant and landlord remedies 
•  Recognize prohibited practices 
•  Recall and apply the rules associated with security deposits 
•  Plan for proper tenant/client money handling

New laws and trends require an update. Equality, inclusion and diversity are integral to Fair Housing. Use this course to deliver on the promise of equal access to housing and non-discrimination

Learn classic risk reduction and mitigation techniques that use knowledge and compliance of the laws.

Reduce your risk of complaints and litigation. Most litigation arising from real estate stems from allegations concerning disclosures. This course offers the latest risk reduction and mitigation techniques that use knowledge and compliance of the laws. This course covers key areas of disclosure including an understanding of the Seller's Real Property Disclosure Statement, how to properly disclose and document agency relationships, understanding and defining 'Material Facts,' and determining the required notices and informational updates that need to be provided to the Real Estate Commission.

Learning objectives:

• Understand disclosure requirements, their import, and applicability.
• Identify hidden conflicts and material facts that must be disclosed.
• Comply with seller disclosure law.
• Better understanding of disclosure pitfalls and the import of timely disclosure.
• Understand the timeline for the types of events and situations that must be disclosed to Real Estate Commission.

This course covers Comparative Market Analysis and Broker Price Opinions (BPOs), an opinion of value developed according to industry standards by a real estate licensee.

This course defines the BPO as an opinion of value developed according to industry standards by a real estate licensee. It describes standards,  procedures, methods of adjusting and calculating the BPO. The three hour session, is used to explain duties and responsibilities associated with the BPO assignment; professional standards for selecting comparables; grading conditions; and how to adjust comparables to calculate value. Concepts taught in the course are valid for CMA, BPO and general valuations.

Learning objectives:

•  Define and describe a BPO
• Know the Recent BPO Legislation
• Understand related duties and obligations
• Understand standards set by the industry with regard to:
• Selecting Comparables
• Know how to Qualify and Value Features
• Understand BPO terminology
• Use simple mathematical models of BPO
• Improve communications with appraiser, lender, and client
   

Course Features Include:

1. Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission
2. The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
3. Low price, high-quality, professionally narrated courses
4. Easy to use. Presentations run themselves.
5. Well received and reviewed by other real estate professionals  

This easy-to-follow ethics-based course is based on real-world cases and hearing panel decisions from the National Association of Realtors.  Learn best practices for handling conflicts and dispute resolution to protect the consumer, industry and licensee.

Being Honest Is the Code We Live By (3 hrs)

Learning objective:

• Learn best practices for handling ethical dilemmas in real world scenarios
• Learn ethical guidelines, evidenced in case studies to increase the licensee’s ability to protect the public

Course features include:

1. Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.  Approved Provider #54
2. The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
3. Low price, high-quality, narrated courses
4. Easy to use
5. Well-received and reviewed by other real estate professionals

Learn more on the Basics of Investment Property.  NOTABLY, there is a 3-hr and 4-hr version of this investments course. This 4-hr course is the extended of the 3-hr course titled: "Basic Steps to Analyze Investment Property." Both are great courses. Select either the 3 or 4-hr version (but not both). 

Learn more on the Basics of Investment Property.  NOTABLY, there is a 3-hr and 4-hr version of this investments course. This 4-hr course is the extended of the 3-hr course titled: "Basic Steps to Analyze Investment Property." Both are great courses. Select either the 3 or 4-hr version (but not both). 

Learn the tools to analyze investments and better service clients (3 hrs).   
*For an extended version of this course, please see the 4-hr 'Basics of Investment Property' course. 

This course covers basic investment concepts and analytical tools. The instructor provides real estate and financially-based models to help licensees rank and analyze investment alternatives and risk.