Oklahoma Contracts and Forms: Residential Sales explores the Oklahoma Uniform Contract of Sale of Real Estate Residential Sale form, as well as pertinent disclosures, including the Residential Property Condition Disclosure statement and the Disclosure of Information of Lead-Based Paint and/or Lead-Based Paint Hazards form. The course also examines guidelines for disclosures relating to square footage and psychologically impaired properties.

Course highlights include:

• When an offer becomes a contract
• A deep dive into the Oklahoma Uniform Contract of Sale of Real Estate Residential Sale form
• The Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act, including duties, seller liabilities, and buyer remedies
• Tips for properly disclosing information pertaining to square footage
• Guidelines for disclosing information relating to psychologically impaired properties
• Required disclosures for lead-based paint
• Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts

Proper document management provides proof that a licensee did what was required, when it was required. It serves to protect the consumer and it reduces the licensee's risk of litigation.

Get ready to become more comfortable with selecting and using transactional documents. 

Course highlights include:

• Common documents used in real estate transactions
• Common contract clauses, addenda, and contingencies
• Avoiding the unauthorized practice of law
• Multiple offer management
• Document signatures, notarizations, and identification
• Transaction management methods and best practices
• Document management and retention methods and best practices
• Technology and security for document management
• Legalities of electronic communication
• Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts

Oklahoma Contracts and Forms Update explores the Oklahoma Uniform Contract of Sale of Real Estate Residential Sale form, as well as the disclosure requirements of the Oklahoma Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act. The course also examines guidelines for disclosures relating to square footage representation.

Understanding the recent changes to Oklahoma’s real estate contracts and forms is essential for any real estate professional seeking to serve clients in the state. For that reason, other topics included in this two-hour course include a review of Exclusive Right-to-Sell Agreements in OK, Vacant Lot or Tract Sales, and a look at new forms, relevant addenda, and specialized guidelines for various real estate sales.

Contracts and forms serve as the foundation of all real estate transactions, and even minor adjustments to these documents can have significant implications for compliance, negotiations, and client trust.

Course highlights include:

• A review of when an offer becomes a contract
• A comprehensive overview of the Oklahoma Uniform Contract of Sale of Real Estate Residential Sale form
• A discussion of the Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act, including a look at your duties, seller liabilities, and buyer remedies
• Tips for properly disclosing information pertaining to square footage
• An overview of Exclusive Right-to-Sell Residential Listing Agreements
• A discussion of Vacant Lot or Tract Sales
• Information about new Oklahoma real estate forms and changes to existing forms

While conducting real estate business, have you encountered a situation in which you weren’t sure what the proper course of action was? What the right thing to do might be? Or maybe you’ve heard your colleagues’ stories and got that uncomfortable, itchy feeling that an action they took wasn’t quite on the up and up.

Let’s look at an uncomfortable truth: real estate agents have a small tarnished image problem. With every transaction being unique, real estate licensees often face ethical gray areas. Some real estate professionals simply don’t understand how to handle complex issues in the most ethical manner, and others bend the rules if they think it’ll keep a transaction on track or a commission in their bank account and not a competitor’s.

Aligned to the requirements of the current NAR cycle, this three-hour course helps licensees deepen their knowledge—and practice—of ethical rules of conduct according to the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice. The code isn’t applicable to REALTORS® only, who are duty-bound to uphold the code as a privilege of membership. The code’s guidance serves anyone possessing a real estate license, and licensees who heed the code’s various articles and standards of practice can do the greatest good of all: protecting consumers while also bolstering the reputation of all the industry’s professionals.

Course highlights include:

• Laws vs. morals vs. ethics
• Top articles of the code involved in the most complaints (plus a few more)
• A candid look at the industry’s image problem
• Common ethical dilemmas and using the code to solve them
• Foundation and enforcement of the code
• Competency in real estate practice as a matter of ethics
• Steering clear of procuring cause disputes
• Ethics concerns with technology and social media
• Tips and best practices to keep your reputation polished to a high shine

*This course was designed by us 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.

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.

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