Description
Package
content and courses
State Requirements
This full 18-hour package includes 9 hours of mandatory/core and 9 hours of electives required for active license renewals.
Courses included in this package:
- Utah Mandatory Residential Course (3 core hours)
- Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (3 core hours)*
- Residential Property Management Essentials (3 core hours)
- Roadmap to Success - Business Planning for Real Estate Professionals (3 elective hours)
- Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices (3 elective hours)
- Personal Safety (3 elective hours)
*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:
Utah Mandatory Residential Course (Core)
This commission-required course covers various topics that impact licensees’ real estate career, including everything from basic reviews of evergreen topics to statutory and administrative code changes they need to know about to comply with state laws and rules. In this course, licensees revisit what agency is, and the agent’s roles and responsibilities, what’s needed to represent a consumer, seller disclosures, earnest money requirements, and other specific points of the real estate purchase contract, among other topics. Additionally, they are brought up to speed on hot topics in the industry and Utah enforcement procedures.
Moving forward, equipped with valuable information and advice in this three-hour Utah Mandatory Residential Course, licensees will be better positioned to offer their clients timely advice and superior representation.
Course highlights include:
- Agency basics review
- Fiduciary duties
- Limited agency
- Earnest money basic requirements
- The importance of seller disclosures
- Conditions of purchase
- Use of addenda
- Notice and acceptance
- Legislative and Administrative Code updates and enforcement
- Enforcement and industry issues
Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (Core)
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.
Residential Property Management Essentials (Core)
For many real estate professionals, property management is a natural extension of their expertise. Whether you’re thinking about taking on your first property or looking to grow your property management business, this is a niche business requiring specialized skills and knowledge.
Explore the role of the property manager, common tenant issues, and federal laws.
Course highlights include:
- Property management contracts
- Property types and evaluating factors
- Tips for building a successful working relationship with property owners
- Landlord and tenant obligations
- Tips for screening and retaining tenants
- Informal rental agreements and the risks involved
- How to deal with delinquent tenants
- Fair housing guidelines and exemptions
Note: This is an introduction and overview of property management.
Roadmap to Success - Business Planning for Real Estate Professionals
More than 80% of real estate licensees leave the business within the first two years, and this is primarily due to a lack of understanding of what it takes to succeed. Of those who stay, very few earn a lucrative living at it.
Don't be that licensee.
Whether you're just launching your business or you think it's time to level up, this course will give you the tools to launch your career from a solid foundation, one that lets you know what you need to do today, this week, this month, this quarter, and this year to execute your well-considered business plan.
This course will show you how to take stock, create a vision, and gather the tools necessary to achieve that vision so you can create a professional, exemplary, referral-driven business that serves clients needs and exceeds client expectations.
Course highlights include:
- Helpful ideas for defining your real estate business, vision statement and mission statement
- A Business Plan Worksheet that will help you determine goals and execute your plan
- Details about identifying strengths and weaknesses, and setting realistic, attainable goals
- An editable, customizable Business Plan Template
- How to calculate the action steps needed to achieve success as you define it
Preparing a Market Analysis - Best Practices
Whether for a buyer or seller, the comparative market analysis, properly done, can mean several thousands extra dollars in their pockets, and can determine whether a deal can be struck at all. But because it’s such a well-worn tool, it’s tempting for a licensee to get complacent with the CMA, and “phone it in.”
Don’t be that licensee!
This course covers the how-tos of a professionally researched comparative market analysis.
Course Highlights:
- The three-step approach to market analyses: the market, the property, the numbers
- Sources for subject property data and market data
- Using expired and active listings to inform pricing strategy
- How to prioritize criteria when selecting comparables
- How to adjust and homogenize selected comparables
- How to weight selected comparables when selecting a list price range
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
State Requirements
For Utah
Utah State Requirement Details for Real Estate Broker and Sales Agent Continuing Education
Renewal Date: Licenses are valid for a two-year period and must be renewed no sooner than 45 days prior to and no later than the expiration date. All CE must be completed by the 15th of the renewal month to ensure on-time renewal.
Hours Required by the State: 18 hours
- 3-Hour Mandatory Course in Residential, Commercial, or Property Management
- 6 hours of other core topics
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state-approved forms and contracts
- other industry used forms or contracts
- ethics
- agency, agency agreements, and fiduciary duties
- short sales or sales of bank-owned property
- environmental hazards
- property management
- prevention of real estate and mortgage fraud, including wire fraud
- federal and state real estate laws
- fair housing, diversity, identifying bias, promoting equity, and inclusion
- division administrative rules
- broker trust accounts
- water law, rights and transfer
- multiple offers
- 9 hours of other core topics or elective topics
Stringham Schools Offering: 18 hours
- 3-Hour Mandatory Course in Residential or Commercial
- 6 hours of other core topics
- 9 hours of other core topics or 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, Stringham Schools 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.
Max Hours in a 24-Hour Period: Licensees will not receive credit for more than 8 hours of continuing education in a 24-hour period. Our online course delivery system manages this requirement for you.
License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state can be found here.
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