Description
Package
content and courses
State Requirements
This complete continuing education package includes 12 elective hours required for the November 16, 2025 through November 15, 2026 CE cycle.
Courses included in this package:
- Lead Awareness and Compliance (3 elective hours)
- Wholesaling in Today's Market (3 elective hours)
- Personal Safety (3 hours)
- Selling to Your Sphere of Influence (3 hours)
PLUS, this package includes the ProPath Mastering the Closing Process professional develoopment program!
- Navigating the Financing Process: Master the ins and outs of real estate financing. Get essential knowledge, from loan terms and mortgage insurance, to distinguishing between pre-qualification and pre-approval. Learn how to connect with lenders, simplify the process for your clients, and provide personalized guidance.
- Navigating the Appraisal Process: Fully understand the appraisal process and learn how to demystify it for your clients. Learn how to identify factors affecting property value, recognize and report appraisal bias, navigate special loan appraisals, and acquire the skills to compile effective appraisal packages.
- Navigating the Inspection Process: Learn how to explain the importance of inspections, identify critical factors for buyers and sellers, and understand your responsibilities as an agent. Practice analyzing reports and communicating findings. Gain insights into selecting inspectors, scheduling, and pre-inspection preparation.
Professional development courses do not qualify for CE credits. This package includes a total of nine hours of professional development content that is not included in the mandatory or elective course hours listed.
ProPath Professional Development
This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training
Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics
training, will accept this course.
Package Content:
Lead Awareness and Compliance
Lead hazards aren’t just a concern for homeowners—they’re also a big deal for real estate professionals. If you're listing a home built before 1978 or guiding buyers through disclosures, understanding the risks of lead exposure isn’t just helpful—it’s essential. Federal laws require specific disclosures and safety measures and skipping them can lead to hefty fines and legal trouble.
This course helps you recognize where lead hazards lurk, stay on top of your legal responsibilities, and follow safe practices help protect you, your clients, and your transactions. But beyond compliance, having a strong grasp of lead safety makes you a trusted advisor. When clients see that you take their health and safety seriously, it strengthens your reputation and sets you apart as a knowledgeable, reliable real estate professional. Ultimately, keeping people safe, reducing risk, and staying compliant aren’t just obligations—they’re smart business moves supporting long-term success.
Course highlights include:
- Common sources of lead in residential properties
- Health risks of lead exposure
- Community-based approaches to lead hazard prevention
- Review of federal lead disclosure laws
- Compliance with lead disclosure laws
- Consequences of non-compliance with disclosure requirements
- Mitigating lead hazards
- Lead-safe work practices for renovations and repairs
- EPA’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Program
- Preventing lead hazards long-term
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
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
Selling to Your Sphere of Influence
The Sphere of Influence approach to building your real estate business is based on nurturing relationships within your circle of friends, family, past clients, neighbors and acquaintances. Not pounding the pavement, buying bus signs and billboards, or purchasing leads.
This course helps you turn your acquaintances into your biggest advocates through respectful, non-intrusive methods.
Course highlights include:
- Tips to ensure you present a professional, enthusiastic image to your contacts
- How to plan and implement an SOI strategy
- How to build and maintain a contact database
- Tips for writing effective reconnection communiques
State Requirements
For North Dakota
North Dakota State Requirement Details for Real Estate Broker Continuing Education
Renewal Date: Licenses expire on December 31st of each year. CE must be completed by November 15th of each year.
Current CE Cycle - November 16, 2025 through November 15, 2026
Hours Required by the State: 12 hours
- 12 hours on elective topics
Note: There are NO mandatory topic hours or courses for this CE cycle.
The CE Shop’s Offering for the November 16, 2025 through November 15, 2026 cycle:
- 12 hours on elective topics
Reporting: The state requires course completions to be reported to the state. We will report your course to the state upon completion.
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.
Final Exam: Final exams must be passed with a minimum of 75%.
License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state can be found here.
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