Real Estate/ Continuing Education/ Texas/ Technology Tools, Trends, and Risk Management (4 hr)

Technology Tools, Trends, and Risk Management

$49

This product includes:

LICENSE RENEWAL PERIOD: 2 YEARS. *NOTE: If you have been made a supervisor by your broker, you must also complete the 6-hour Broker Responsibility course as a mandatory part of your 18 hours of CE. Elective Hours: 4 Mandatory Hours: 0 Total Hours: 4

Description

State Requirements

Technology is a tool. Used wisely, it can free up time usually spent on mundane tasks to allow licensees to work at a higher (and higher touch) level of client service. Used poorly, it can waste a lot of time better spent elsewhere and worse—alienate clients, and even put them and the licensee’s reputation—at risk.

Clients and prospective clients want their real estate professional to be accessible and tech-savvy on their behalf. According to a National Association of REALTORS® real estate report, staying up to date on new platforms and systems will remain one of the biggest challenges for brokerages in the coming years. The industry is constantly changing, and technology is a big driver of that change.

This course helps real estate professionals work with technology and reinforces putting client relationships first in the push to provide cutting edge tools and services.

Course highlights include:

Technology tools to enhance service to sellers, including drones, live streaming, single-property sites, and speaking photos; ways to minimize risks involved in their use
How to use technology to secure buyer representation agreements, assist buyers with financing qualifications, and pre-showing data to help them make informed purchasing and financing decisions
Technological advances in transaction management, including document sharing, electronic signatures, cloud storage, and photo, document, and email organization software, and identify risk management safeguards for online data storage and transaction management
How to keep online data secure
Technology tools you can use now to provide enhanced client service, and emerging trends to watch for

Package Content:

State Requirements For Texas

Texas State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: Every two years by the end of the month in which the license was initially issued

Hours Required: 18 hours

4 hours – Legal Update I: Laws, Rules and Forms
4 hours – Legal Update II: Agency, Ethics, and Hot Topics
3 hours - Contracts-related course
7 hours – Electives

Note: If you are a supervising agent, have sponsored one or more sales agents, served as the designated broker for a business entity broker that sponsors sales agents, or have been made a supervisor of other license holders, you will need to complete the 6-hour broker responsibility course as part of your required 18 hours of CE.

The CE Shop’s Offering: 18 hours

The CE Shop is an approved provider in Texas.

Provider Approval Number: 0505

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 Exams: Passing a final exam is not required to receive continuing education credit in Texas, therefore our system is set up so that final exams can be passed with a 0% passing score.

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. If TREC records do not reflect completion of CE requirements at the time you submit your renewal application, you must pay a $200 CE Deferral Fee, or renew in inactive status. Payment of the CE Deferral Fee allows you to remain active for an additional 60 days from your expiration date to complete CE requirements.

Repeat Course in Back-to-Back Renewals: According to Texas Rule Chapter 535, Subchapter I, Section 535.92 (3h), credit will not be given for attendance of the same course more than once during the term of the current license or during the two?year period preceding the filing of an application for late renewal or return to active status.

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