Self-Study Modules
Self study courses are a flexible way to complete continuing education credits around your schedule. OAR offers a variety of self-study courses including fair housing, ethics and real estate, risk management, property inspection guide and more.
- Agency Plus (8 hours required education)
Real estate professionals today must understand the complex law of agency and be able to explain it clearly to new buyers. This course provides one of the clearest explanations of this trouble-prone area. - Red Flags: Property Inspection Guide (8 hours required education)
Real Estate agents and brokers are responsible for faithfully representing the condition of a property along with the duty of inspecting a property for “red flags” (visual signs or indications of a defect). Brokers and agents who understand and comply with disclosure laws stand a better chance of avoiding legal liability or having a sale fail. - Fair Housing (10 hours required education)
Fair housing legislation has been aimed at dramatically strengthening the enforcement mechanisms and remedies enacted in 1968. Agents today must be careful to deliver “equal professional service” to avoid legal trouble. This course will help you provide the consistency, objectivity and documentation of service that the law requires. - Intro to Commercial Real Estate Sales (8 hours required education)
Commercial real estate can be lucrative for both agents and investors. This course delves into the many aspects of listing and selling small commercial properties and provides a blueprint for commercial real estate transactions. - Risk Management (8 hours required education) This module addresses issues such as misrepresentation, fair housing, The Americans with Disabilities Act and antitrust laws.
- Environmental Issues in Your Real Estate Practice (8 hours required education)
Environmental disclosure is a crucial area of concern in the real estate profession. The text arms students with the practical knowledge needed to fulfill their responsibility as agents and to avoid liability disputes. - Ethics and Real Estate (4 hours in elective education)
This module addresses not only the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, but also ethics and the real estate business as well as ethical dilemmas in real estate. - Real Estate & Taxes: What Every Agent Should Know
Dispel the mysteries surrounding the taxation of real estate after the passage of the Taxpayers Relief Act of 1997. This module is specifically for the real estate licensee who works with real estate investors, the occasional users of real estate tax knowledge, and not written for real estate tax specialists. This does not promote offering tax advice, but provides a basic knowledge of tax issues. - Diversity and Doing Business (8 hours required education)
This module will provide key terms used to discuss diversity issues; identify the origins of diversity issues in the United States; understand the impact of affirmative action and fair housing laws on diversity issues; identify the demographic factors that will affect spending power now and in the immediate future; understand the two approaches to diversity and recognize how diversity factors can impact your business, and more.
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