Hawaii's Source for Real Estate Education

Learn how to avoid risk and protect your clients with this 4-hr CE course designed for experienced and novice licensees alike.

Learn how to avoid risk and protect your clients with this 4-hr CE course designed for experienced and novice licensees alike.

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.

Gain an understanding of green homes and their influence and impact on buyers and sellers.

The course objectives include understanding Green as a new way of thinking, learning the terminology, understanding the benefits, analyzing savings, and learning to leverage this knowledge to better market green homes.

This course is a must for all agents who want to provide good service for clients interested in Green and/or LEED homes.     

The course learning objectives:

• Explain Green as a new way of thinking
• Learn the terminology of Green Homes
• Understand the benefits of Green
• Analyze how it reduces the cost of home ownership
• Explain how it increases purchasing power 

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 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 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.

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  

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.

The course is written to provide the licensee with a better understanding of the valuation process in the practice of real estate.

The course is written to provide the licensee with a better understanding of real estate valuation.  

Learning objectives include: 

• Understand terminology of investments
• Rank Alternatives High to Low
• Assemble Data
• Prepare Income Statement
• Learn Various Types of Valuation Models
• Learn Methods of Making Decisions
• Match results of analysis with Investor Preference and Risk Profile 

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 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 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.

Written for active time share agents and those considering time share sales.  The newly published course is divided into three sections: (a) the history and evolution of times shares; (b) HRS 514E, Time Share Plans and (c) Selling and Closing Time Share Sales.  This elective will provide licensees 3 hours of CE credit which can be used towards license renewal or reactivation.

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 10 years and 40 years in the industry. Hawaii's culture and real estate market are unique. Don't risk your tuition money on providers without real world experience with Hawaii real estate. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

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). 

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 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.

Learn about the ethical dilemmas in the practice of real estate through case studies. NOTE: This course is not eligible for NAR Credit, if looking for dual credit please find our course that includes the words: "Code of Ethics" in the title.

Learn about the ethical dilemmas in the practice of real estate through case studies. NOTE: This course is not eligible for NAR Credit, if looking for dual credit please find our course that includes the words: "Code of Ethics" in the title.

Great course for learning the basics about the requirements and benefits of Chapter 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code.

1031 exchange is a swap of one investment property for another that allows capital gains taxes to be deferred. Learn the requirements and benefits of Chapter 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code and how to leverage them for your client.

Course Topics:

• Basic Rules of an Exchange
• Understand: Productive Use
• Investment Property
• Inventory
• Dealer
• Personal Use
• Like Kind property
• 45 day ID, 135 Extension "180 days"
• Second Half Rule
• Three Property Rule
• 95% and 200% Rules
• Example of an Exchange
• Forms to Execute an Exchange
• When to Seek Professional Advice 
   

Gain an understanding of the fundamentals of practicing in commercial real estate.

This course covers:

• Understand terminology of investments
• Rank Alternatives High to Low
• Assemble Data
• Prepare Income Statement
• Learn Various Types of Valuation Models
• Learn Methods of Making Decisions
• Match results of analysis with Investor Preference and Risk Profile

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 an out-of-state provider. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

The Home Inspections course is a Commission-approved elective course that counts toward 3-hrs of Hawaii continuing education credit to be used toward license renewal or reactivation.

Course Features Include:

Accepted by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.  Approved Provider #54
The ability to complete the courses online and at your convenience
Low price, high-quality, narrated courses
Easy to use
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 providers lacking feet-on-the-ground experience in Hawaii. Real estate is a local business requiring knowledge of Hawaii and the way Hawaii works.

Learn about social media as it applies to everyday practices in Hawaii Real Estate. During this course licensees will learn about how social media has impacted the real estate profession and consumer, identify the best practices for employing social media in real estate, understand how to apply advertising rules to social media, and identify the duties and risks that accompany social media and technology

This course draws on Hawaii real estate commission publications of complaints, investigation and related findings. Increase your knowledge and compliance with the law with this popular course.

This course draws on Hawaii real estate commission publications of complaints, investigation and related findings. Increase your knowledge and compliance with the law with this popular course.

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 a 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.

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.

Gain knowledge, reduce liability by learning more about Fair Housing and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Fair Housing is a three hour course accepted for Continuing Education Credit by the Hawaii Real Estate Commission.
This course is designed to educate the CE Student on the subject of the Federal and State Fair Housing Laws.

The objective is to increase awareness, sensitivity and compliance with the Laws. The session will explain how to comply with Fair Housing Laws, providing all clients and customers Equal Housing Opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, disability, AIDS/HIV or need for use of service animals.

This course is a must for all agents who want to provide good service in compliance with the law.

The course objectives:

• Create Awareness of Fair Housing and American's With Disabilities Acts
• Define the protected classes and rights of those persons with disabilities
• Explain Equal Rights and Fair Housing by Providing Examples and Stories
• Provide general understanding of the Agents' Obligations under Fair Housing and Americans With Disabilities Act

The course covers:

•  Fair Housing Act
• Amendments to the Act
• Prohibited Practices and Investigations
• Significant Changes to the Act
• New Construction
• Accessibility Requirements
• Reasonable Modifications / Accommodations
• Protected Groups
• Avoid the Appearance or Practice of Discrimination
• Individuals with Disabilities
• Occupancy Standards under HUD Guidelines
• Marketing within Fair Housing Laws
• Complaint Procedures
• Penalties for Violations
• Practices, Policies, and Procedures to provide Equal Opportunity

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 a 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.

• By the end of this course, expect to be able to:
  • Identify the basic principles of value
  • Understand the steps to better protect your clients
  • Know data sources for Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)
  • Know the 3 basic valuation models
  • Explain steps in a reconciliation process
  • Display critical contents of a listing presentation
  • Define valuation terminology

Increase your social media presence for your marketing campaigns. Abide by advertising rules and guidelines in the practice of today’s real estate

Serve your Military Clients with the latest VA Loan benefits. Course serves as a 1-2-3 step guide on guiding buyers and sellers through the VA Loan process

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