Description
Package
content and courses
State Requirements
This complete continuing education package includes all 7 hours required to renew an active license in Arkansas.
Courses in this package include:
- Personal Safety (1 required hour)
- Wholesaling in Today’s Market (3 elective hours)
- Property Inspection Issues (3 elective hours)
Package Content:
Personal Safety
Attacks on real estate professionals have made headlines at an alarmingly more frequent rate in recent years. After an incident where a licensee is harmed, everyone vows to do better, and the topic of safety is pushed to the front of training schedules. Then complacency sets in.
Criminals count on complacency.
This course reviews studies and statistics of safety issues in the real estate industry, and best practices for personal safety.
Course highlights include:
- Crime statistics and studies that challenge preconceived notions
- Risk factors and vulnerabilities that unique to real estate professionals
- Case studies to illustrate how criminals target their victims
- How to develop a personal warning system and trust your instincts when something feels “off”
- Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
Wholesaling in Today's Market
Real estate wholesaling is not a new concept. However, the practice, regulation, and public perception of wholesaling have changed significantly in recent years. For real estate professionals navigating a market where wholesaling is becoming more popular and increasingly problematic, understanding its legal, ethical, and professional implications is more important than ever.
This three-hour course provides a straightforward examination of wholesaling: how it operates, when it crosses legal and ethical boundaries, and why it faces greater scrutiny from lawmakers and the public. You’ll examine how some investors use wholesaling as a legitimate and transparent strategy to build wealth, while others exploit it to bypass licensing requirements, mislead sellers and buyers, and disrupt housing stability, particularly in vulnerable communities.
Whether you are new to wholesaling, advising clients involved, or simply looking to avoid legal issues, this course is designed for you.
Course highlights include:
- Foundational principles of wholesaling
- Strategic uses of wholesaling
- State laws and licensing implications of wholesaling
- Red flags to indicate predatory wholesaling practices
- When wholesaling becomes illegal
- Ethical wholesaling
- Collateral damage of wholesaling
- Legal and civil penalties
- Effects of predatory wholesaling on housing market
- Real-world cases, interactive scenarios, and activities to understand wholesaling in your real estate practice
Property Inspection Issues
The inspection period is a big hurdle to jump over on the way to closing. The inspector’s job is to call out defects. The buyer agent’s job is to negotiate repairs. The seller agent’s job is to mitigate damage. It can sometimes be hard to hold a deal together.
Protecting your buyer as a buyer’s agent means understanding the importance of the home inspection contingency and its deadlines, and identifying the need for specialized inspections.
Protecting your seller as the listing agent means helping the seller understand disclosure obligations, prepare for the inspection, and respond to a buyer’s reasonable repair requests.
Course highlights:
- The importance of the inspection contingency
- The licensee’s role in the inspection process
- Licensee and seller disclosure obligations
- Red flags related to common structural, plumbing, and electrical issues
- Specialized inspection types addressing radon, asbestos, sewer lines, septic tanks, mold, lead, and wells
- Interactive activities and scenarios
State Requirements
For Arkansas
Arkansas State Requirement Details for Real Estate Salesperson and Broker Continuing Education
Renewal Date: Renew for upcoming year by September 30th to avoid penalty. License expires on December 31st.
Hours Required by the State: 7 hours
- 1-hour Required Safety Course
- 6 hours of electives
The CE Shop’s Offering:
- 1-hour Required Safety Course
- 6 hours of Electives
Reporting: The state requires course completions to be reported to the state. We will report your course to the state upon completion. To ensure that completed CE is reported to the state by the end of year, students are encouraged to complete by midnight on 12/26/25. The CE Shop will not be able to report any course completions for 2025 after 3pm Central Time on 12/31/2025. Students who complete a course in the last week of 2025 are strongly encouraged to self-report to the Arkansas Real Estate Commission.
Expiration Date of Course: Course expiration dates vary by course. Each individual course will have an expiration date listed in your account. See Terms & Conditions for more details.
Certificates: Immediately upon course completions, The CE Shop will provide students with an electronic copy of the course certificate of completion. Certificates will remain in your account for a minimum of five years, should you need additional copies at a later time. Please refer to your application to determine if you need to submit your certificate(s) of completion. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your certificate of completion will reflect this.
License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state can be found here.
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