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Check Your Bias and Fair Housing Practices

$45

This product includes:

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

NAR® Fair Housing

Description

State Requirements

In this course, you’ll learn about the history of housing discrimination and its lasting impact in order to better understand why fair housing laws are necessary. You’ll review the federal laws that provide protection against housing discrimination and what actions are prohibited and required by these laws in the business of real estate. This will include reviewing the personal characteristics—race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability--that federal law protects from discrimination in housing. Besides these federal protections, there are state and local government fair housing laws that protect additional personal characteristics from discrimination in housing and you’ll find out where to get more fair housing information for your clients.

You’ll also learn some best practices for fair housing marketing and some strategies to avoid steering and making assumptions based on stereotypes. You’ll role play some scenarios to practice interrupting any implicit biases so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness. By allowing consumers to choose which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in, you can do your part to uphold fair housing laws and end housing discrimination.

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Fair Housing Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Fair Housing training, will accept this course.

Package Content:

State Requirements For District of Columbia

District of Columbia State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: 8/31 every odd-numbered year

Hours Required: 15 hours

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

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 8/31/2025.

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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