Oregon
Online Real Estate
Continuing Education

Learn how to use home inspections to the advantage of your clients.

Course covers topic of how home inspections benefit and protect buyers and sellers. Licensees learn levels of inspector certifications and the purpose and benefits of inspection. Course provides the licensee with an understanding of the condition of a property, costs to maintain, and how to reduce risk to buyer and licensee.

Course enables students to:

• Describe the purpose and use of a home inspection
• Explain how home inspections benefit / protect both buyers and sellers
• Describe the home inspector’s scope of work and presentation of results
• Discover the scope of a home inspection; the areas / components it includes
• Recall the seller’s disclosure obligations
• Understand the scope of the agent’s role in home inspections
• Recall where to find credentialed inspectors
• Recognize your role as an agent in educating clients on the benefits of having a home inspection

Purpose of Course

• Course covers topic of how home inspections benefit and protect buyers and sellers. Licensees learn levels of inspector certifications and the purpose and benefits of inspection. Course provides the licensee with an understanding of the condition of a property, costs to maintain, and how to reduce risk to buyer and licensee.

Learn about social media, advertising rules and guidelines in the practice of real estate.

This course provides licensees with information about the applicability and proper (compliant) usage of social media for the real estate professional. Key topics include the import of social media in real estate, the usage of social media mediums (ex: Facebook) and the advertising rules and guidelines that will allow you to make use of online media and advertising

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

Course enables students to:

• Understand the advantages and precautions associated with the use of social media
• Understand how advertising rules apply
• Caution clients about how social media impacts privacy
• Avoid risky social media behavior

Purpose of Course

• Explains how licenses can abide by disclosure, agency and license law to use social media to further the interest of the public while observing privacy and bad actors.

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.

Course enables students to:

• Understand risk as it relates to the client and transaction
• Identify categories and types of risk
• Identify the entry points for risk
• Apply risk reduction techniques to protect clients
• Design each transaction to reduce and mitigate risk
• Prioritize the risk factors to be considered
• Improve competence and professionalism by mitigating risk

Purpose of Course

• Course covers topics to prompt students to be diligent in recalling the protective intent of critical statutes and rules designed to protect both the licensee, consumer and public.

How will this course improve professionalism?

• Understanding the rationale behind critical statutes and rules improves licensees’ ease of recall and ability to identify the applicability of these rules to their everyday “best practices”
• Covers issues, knowledge, concepts related to understanding roles, scope of professional services and ability to readily identify applicability of disclosures, rules, laws to practice

The Property Management course is designed to provide licensees with an understanding of the roles, responsibilities and issues involved with property management. This course covers the handling of day-to-day issues, administrative activities, and legal practices.

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 

This course covers the importance of a policy manual and the standard types of information and materials necessary for constructing a good policy manual.

Gain an improved understanding of the role of policies in reducing liability, risk and improving performance

This course covers the importance of a policy manual and the standard types of information and materials necessary for constructing a good policy manual. Serves as an aid for those creating a policy manual. Improves your ability to provide consistent professional services to consumers and avoid liability.

Learning Objectives:

• 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 Topics:

• Topics include:
• 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 managemen

The mandatory 3-hr Law and Rule Required Course (LARRC) covers the State's required topics including Oregon Revised Statute 696 and Oregon Administrative Rule 863, as well as input from Board, the Oregon Real Estate Agency staff, and other stakeholders.

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

Buyer agency laws vary from state to state but this course focuses on the specialty tools of serving the single client, to protect and guide, pay full attention to needs; disclose material facts, advice and counsel; grow new business, negotiate for your best interests and attempt to resolve any problems to the client's best advantage.

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

The course provides a detailed look at the laws and professional conduct that promote fair and equitable treatment during housing and real estate transactions.

This Code of Ethics course is designed to provide 3-hrs of continuing education credit and meet the National Association of Realtors (NAR) ethics requirement. 

Note: As always, it is at your local Board / Association's discretion to accept this course for credit toward their Ethics requirement. Check ahead of purchase.