Legal Track
Advanced WA Real Estate Practices
This course covers some of the same topics from Real Estate Practices but goes in-depth on topics. Upon completion you will have an increased understanding of Brokerage, Agency, Contracts, Marketing, Negotiation, Leases and Property Management, Risk Management and current issues.
Battle of the Brokers: 5 Different Views of the Purchase & Sale Agreement
This is one of our most popular courses. A panel of our expert principal managing brokers along with our corporate real estate attorney discuss and debate the ins and outs of the NWMLS forms related to purchase and sale documents.
Best Practices: Multiple Offers
In a limited inventory market, multiple offers are very common. The Best Practices Multiple Offers course will help you understand how to best write and present multiple offers to position your buyers to have their offer accepted.
Best Practices: Writing a Purchase & Sale Agreement
This course is designed to teach you best practices when writing the purchase and sale agreement.
Contract Review
We recommend that all brokers take this course to ensure they know how to properly fill out the purchase and sale agreements and supporting addenda to best represent their clients. This course is taught by our certified principal managing brokers, who are very well versed in the contracts and forms and work with these forms daily.
Core Curriculum
In this required course, you will learn all about Legislative updates, Legal updates, Business Practices updates, an alignment review of RCW, WAC and other legislative mandates, an assessment of real estate compliance data, and an identification of new key issues/trends and out-of-date content/topics based on stakeholder input via survey processed.
Guiding Clients Through Inspection and Financing
This course prepares you to write the inspection and financing addenda and advise your clients on two very important steps in the home buying process.
Real Estate Law
This course will give you an understanding of WA real estate law, contract law, torts, agency law, practices and the law and the law environment. Real Estate Law is required for a broker’s first renewal.
REALTOR® Code of Ethics
REALTORS® are required to complete ethics training of not less than 2 hours, 30 minutes of instructional time within two-year cycles. The training must meet specific learning objectives and criteria established by the National Association of REALTORS®. This course satisfies the requirement.
Fair Housing and Anti-Discrimination
This course will teach you to identify the categories that form the basis for discrimination under The Federal Fair Housing Law, Washington State Anti-Discrimination Law and U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
You will be able to explain and understand what constitutes discrimination in advertising as well as, explain and understand what constitutes discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Additionally, you will be able to define compliance with the laws governing anti-discrimination, price fixing; group boycotts; Tie-in arrangements and understand the WA unfair Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act.
Understanding Buyer and Seller Agency
Upon completion, you will be able to understand and explain buyer and seller agency, who represents whom? Explaining the forms to buyers and sellers, and best practices when writing contracts.
Writing, Presenting and Receiving Offers
How do you know your client is ready to write the offer when it’s time do you know how to write a strong, clean offer? This class will teach you how to write, present and negotiate your best offer for your clients.