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Pkg # 901 Economic Trends in California Real Estate — Most Topical Understand the 25 factors affecting the CA real estate market

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Includes revelations about the 25 game-changing market factors pushing and pulling our California real estate market. Numerous charts vividly display critical data shaping tomorrow's real estate transactions, with narration about the insight you need to anticipate future action in our real estate market.

Pkg # 1001 Video Renewal Course: Real Estate Made Reel™ — Easiest Video Renewal Course: Real Estate Made Reel

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California's first – and only – video-based renewal experience. 6 hours of cinematic video supported with online reading, audio and quizzes. The course contains a comprehensive overview of ownership concepts and real estate law, the use of various types of listing agreements, proper handling of property disclosures, applied real estate valuation, notes and their provisions, and foreclosure proceedings.

Pkg # 104 Real Estate Matters — Unique to California Debunks common real estate myths

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A collection of today’s hot-button real estate issues currently affecting California real estate transactions. Topics include licensee conduct, conditions of purchase, buyer's contracts and contingencies, property management, real estate finance, current real estate economics, as well as controversial real estate myths obscuring California’s dynamic market today.

Pkg # 603 Landlords, Tenants and Property Management A manual on property management and leasing

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Studying this course will dramatically increase your competency in handling the legal aspects of both residential and commercial landlord-tenant relationships under California law. Best of all, the long-term and recession-proof occupation of income property management and leasing is a consistent moneymaker.

Pkg # 802 Due Diligence and Disclosures Mitigate risk of losses on your SFR practice

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Discover how you can expand and even perfect your ability as a real estate agent to document disclosures by using the correct forms. Forms are presented as checklists to assist you in the preparation of listing and purchase agreements to help you better understand all the contractual aspects of a California real estate sales transaction.

Pkg # 305 Income Property Brokerage — California Commercial Evaluate and broker income properties for your investor clients

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Learn how a commercial agent evaluates and arranges transactions on various income-producing properties for owner and investor clients. This book has vast scope in practice and offers compelling advice on leasing, property management, tax analysis and syndication.

Pkg # 405 Tax Benefits of Ownership Learn to advise clients and yourself on CA and IRS tax aspects

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Prepare for any discussion about taxes on any type of real estate transaction or ownership you might encounter—principal residence, business-use property and income producing property. Covers the brand new proposition 19 progressive tax scheme which significantly alters prop 13 benefits for parent-child property transfers and transfers of assessments to a replacement residence for homeowners aged 55 or more.

Pkg # 505 California Mortgage Lending — Consumer & Commercial Best practices for mortgage origination in CA

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A manual on the best practices for originating, servicing and foreclosing on consumer and business mortgages under state and federal rules. Topics include licensing and management, consumer mortgage practice and reports, types of mortgages, consumer protection laws, servicing, default and foreclosure and private lender mortgages.

Pkg # 203 Buying Homes in Foreclosure & Creating Carryback Financing Explore seller carrybacks and CA equity purchase deals

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Discover how to prepare the proper documentation and advise investors on the purchase of seller-occupied, one-to-four unit residential property in foreclosure in California. Learn the financial benefits, risks, legal consequences and the deferred tax impact of carryback financing arrangements.

Pkg # 702 Forming Real Estate Syndicates & Creating Carryback Financing Learn how to syndicate and do carryback sales in CA

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Discover how to create investment groups and control large income properties structured as an LLC providing a liability shield for all participants. Learn the financial benefits, risks, legal consequences and the deferred tax impact of carryback financing arrangements.

• Each of our ten 45-hour CE packages include the DRE mandated

• 20 BO-AFTER hours comprising Implicit Bias, Office Management, Agency, Fair Housing, Trust Funds, Ethics and Risk Management, and
• 25 Hours of Consumer Protection

• Complete as soon as six days by selecting printed and e-book or just e-book (without timer)
• Or complete within 3 days by selecting online-timed e-book requiring 45 hours of reading
• After enrolling, you may switch to a different course or upgrade from e-book to printed book for a fee of $17.50

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Critical Aspects

• These courses are homestudy correspondence courses;

  - California-specific content by Realty Publications, Inc., updated online monthly

• All-inclusive pricing — taxes, shipping included
• All books are delivered in print, e-book, video or HTML
• Online access is immediate - printed books arrive via USPS in 5-7 business days
• Videos by firsttuesday bring the DRE-mandated topics to life — 2+ hours of viewing and
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• Includes Access for All: A Fair Housing Game™. An engaging interactive experience that puts you directly into the shoes of transaction participants
• There is an additional charge to switch from one package topic to another after ordering
     - Paper testing materials sent direct by mail available for additional fee of $17.50
• Course content is fully linked to RPI forms and provisions, for best comprehension
• Have a question on content? Next day answer, via email
• Print your Certificate of Completion on passing all courses
• You have one year to complete the courses
• You receive email reminders to complete before course expiration
• 100% Money Back Guarantee during enrollment before any testing

• Questions? See our 45-Hour CE Course Instructions

     - Or call us at 951.781.7300

Testing Procedures

Your 45-hour continuing education package is divided into 3 sections. Each section has its own quizzes and exam(s). To complete your 45 hours, follow your personalized course outline online.

On enrollment, your course reading materials are immediately available online. You may complete your course in as little as 6 days, unless you are enrolled in the 45-hour online-timed course (104). You may test on no more than 15 credit hours of continuing education during a 24-hour period.

Quizzes are mandatory and available online immediately after enrollment. Quizzes are not timed and there is no minimum passing score. you have unlimited quiz attempts. Quizzes are taken online by clicking on "Take Quiz" link in your course outline. Feedback on your quiz performance and quiz answers are provided after you complete each quiz.

Before reviewing any course material online, DRE requires you to acknowledge, under penalty of perjury, that you are the person enrolled, and you will be the only person to complete the course.

You must pass all exams with a score of 70% to receive 45 hours of continuing education credit. Exams are multiple choice and open book. The exam(s) for each section become available only after you've met the minimum study time and taken the quizzes for that section. You may only test on 15 hours of continuing education (one section) per 24-hour period. Sections must be completed in sequential order. The maximum time allowed per exam is equal to 1 minute per question. Exams are available online by clicking on the "Take Exam" link in your course outline. Online exams are graded instantly upon completion.

When you fail any exam, a backup exam is immediately available online. If you also fail the backup exam, the section automatically resets requiring you to repeat the study and exam process. For Sections 1, 2 and 3 resets, you retake the quizzes and wait the minimum study time before receiving 2 more attempts to pass the section exam.

Minimum study times for reset sections vary;

• two days when you fail Section 1 or 2 exams;
• four days when you fail both sections 1 and 2 exams; and
• for Section 3, you wait 3 hours per failed exam.

You incur no charge for retakes on resets during your 1-year enrollment.

NOTICE: Students enrolled in 45 hour CE packages other than #203 and 702, have their scores for exams on Sections 1 and 2 averaged. When your averaged score is less than 70%, both Sections 1 and 2 reset.

Professional Services

• Customer Service Fast, friendly, LIVE customer service on first ring 8:30AM - 5:00PM, Monday-Friday
• Dictionary An online dictionary of real estate words and jargon to help you on the State Exam
• Books In Print & Online Highest-quality, California-specific materials published by firsttuesday/RPI
• 400+ Real Estate Forms firsttuesday real estate forms online
  - visual application of rules in practice
• The firsttuesday Journal Our online real estate news with market trends, legislation, regulations, and cases, 50,000+ unique readers monthly
• Realtipedia 16 e-book volumes for enhanced comprehension and professional reference
• 200+ FARM Letters FARM letter templates and copy to market your practice, create your brand
• Client Q&A Marketing Flyers Download FREE Client Q&A Flyers for marketing your practice as an advisor
• Broker Search Search for an employing broker
• Career Manual Your practice built on "who you are"
  - branding by assessable achievements

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Student testimonials

I liked the videos, for me it was a better way of studying and picked up on things I either forgot or did not know.

Brian G.
DRE Broker
on Package #1001

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Greg D.
DRE Broker
on Package #901

The course was relevant to today's real estate market. It helped explain the practice and laws in real time.

Theresa H.
DRE Sales Agent
on Package #901

Very professional overall. The website and licensing course materials are very well organized and easy to navigate.

Gary G.
DRE Broker
on Package #901

I was able to learn a new concept that makes me more marketable in my profession.

David M.
DRE Sales Agent
on Package #405

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DRE Broker
on Package #901

I felt like the material was well organized and easy to use.

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