Growing Green: Environmental Awareness and Your Real Estate Practice

$45

This product includes:

LICENSE RENEWAL PERIOD: 2 YEARS Elective Hours: 3 Mandatory Hours: 0 Total Hours: 3

Description

State Requirements

Whether you're representing a seller who's listing a high-efficiency home or working with a buyer to find one, it's important to be able to recognize a home's green features and the value they bring to the property. This means understanding the benefit of big-ticket green items such as solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating and cooling systems, solar water heaters, or even energy-efficient windows, as well as knowing the value in quick-and-easy updates like low-flow faucets, LED lighting, and smart thermostats. It also means knowing the difference between HERS and HES and SEER and LEED. Of course, greening up a home isn't cheap. Letting your clients know about available federal and state programs and incentives is another way you can ensure your clients are getting the best service around.

Course highlights include:

An overview of the green home movement
Green terminology, certifications, and ratings
A review of energy-efficient upgrades, including solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating and cooling systems, solar water heaters, and more
Tips for assisting green homebuyers and sellers
A review of the FHA's Energy Efficient Mortgage and the 203(k) Rehabilitation Mortgage programs
Qualifications for the DOE's Weatherization Assistance Program
Interactive activities and scenarios to seal in the new information and frame it in everyday context

Package Content:

State Requirements For District of Columbia

District of Columbia State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: 2/28 every odd-numbered year

Hours Required: 15 hours

Broker:
9 hours – Mandatory (DC Fair Housing; DC Ethics; DC Legislative Update)
3 hours – Property Management
3 hours – Broker Supervision

The CE Shop’s Offering: 15 hours

The CE Shop is an approved provider in the District of Columbia.

Provider Approval Number: 603799

Reporting: Effective 04/01/2021, OPLA ceased operations for their course reporting system for all schools. LICENSE RENEWALS MUST STILL BE COMPLETED ONLINE on time. Completion of required continuing education hours will be attested to in the license renewal process. Course completion reporting will resume at a later date. OPLA may audit continuing education compliance for licensees at any time. Please complete your CE as usual and renew online by 2/28/2025.

Expiration Date of Course: The District of Columbia provides that a course must be completed within 3 months from the date of purchase.

Final Exams: Final exams must be passed with at least a 70% and may be taken as many times as necessary in order to pass.

Certificates: Immediately upon real estate course completion, 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 renewal application to determine if you need to submit your certificate(s) of completion with your renewal. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your certificate of completion will reflect this.

Duplicate Courses: Please note that a licensee (active or reinstatement) will NOT be given credit on transcripts for taking the same course(s) within the same cycle.

CE Exemptions: Newly licensed brokers, salespersons and property managers are exempt from taking CE courses for the remainder of a licensing cycle during which their license is obtained, but are required to renew the license when that first cycle ends. CE credits taken by (new) licensees do not roll over and cannot be carried forward into the next cycle.

License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state is to log in to the licensing system online and follow the prompts to renew.

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