Georgia Institute of Real Estate is partnering with The CE Shop to offer online real estate courses.

We are excited to let you know that the Georgia Institute of Real Estate has partnered with The CE Shop to provide you with all of your Continuing Education needs online! Taking real estate courses online is a great alternative to driving long distances or sitting through long seminars to maintain your required real estate continuing education hours. Now you can save time and money while experiencing your required real estate continuing education from the comfort of your own home. This site provides convenience, valuable real estate courses, easy to use navigation, and allows you to take your real estate continuing education at your own pace.

To register for any of the courses, click on the register button below and you will be taken to The CE Shop's website to complete the registration process.

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This popular online discounted course package includes all 24 of the hours needed to renewal an active sales or brokers license in Georgia. The courses included are as follows. See the individual course listings for course overviews.

• Real Estate Appraisal for Agents - 6 hours
• Basics of Real Estate Taxation - 6 hours
• Foreclosures Demystified - 3 hours
• Going Green: The Environmental Movement in Real Estate - 3 hours
• Cracking the Code of Ethics - 3 hours + MEETS NAR QUADRENNIAL
• Selling to Your Sphere of Influence - 3 hours

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This popular online discounted course package includes all 24 of the hours needed to renewal an active sales or brokers license in Georgia. The courses included are as follows. See the individual course listings for course overviews.

• From Contract to Keys: The Mortgage Process - 6 hours
• Foundations of Real Estate Finance - 6 hours
• Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients - 3 hours
• Real Estate Technology: The Professional's Guide to Success- 3 hours
• Title and Escrow: Two Families, One Transaction - 3 hours
• Today's MLS: New Paradigms, Better Results - 3 hours

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Taxes! Yuck, who wants to talk about taxes? This course brings the experience of a certified public accountant, attorney and avid real estate investor to share what all real estate licensees should know about the taxes associated with buying, owning, and selling residential real estate. By exploring such basic questions as “what is a residence?” the course provides students with a practical view of taxation that can be leveraged to better assist clients. One unit of the course is dedicated to the taxes associated with a home office, bringing immediate practical application to many agents.

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TAs a real estate professional, part of your responsibilities is breaking through barriers and assisting your clients in locating the property that best meets their needs and desires. This course brings a fresh perspective to this not new topic of Fair Housing. The course authors draw upon the perspective of the real estate licensee in an effort to help agents in best serving their client's needs while navigating themselves away from potential legal trouble. The course reviews fundamentals such as the evolution of the legislation including clear definitions of the actual types of discrimination that exist. The course continues by providing agents with tools for identifying the signs of trouble and tips for avoiding the potential pitfalls.

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This course meets the NAR Quadrennial Ethics Requirement!

Today's real estate marketplace is in greater turmoil than ever. Professional and ethical real estate professionals who adhere to a high set of standards will be the foundation for restoring confidence and stability in an already unsure marketplace.

The National Association of REALTORS (NAR) relies on its Code of Ethics to ensure that all REALTORS® are conducting business in an honest manner and with the highest degree of integrity. You will learn the Code of Ethics in depth, explore its various applications and relate it to your daily practice. The quadrennial ethics requirement is not a continuing education requirement, but is a requirement of your membership of the National Association of REALTORS®. As part of your real estate continuing education, this course will provide you state licensing continuing education credits as well as fulfill the requirement for Ethics training mandated by the National Association of REALTORS®.

REALTORS® is a registered trademark name of the National Association of REALTORS®.

The United States of America is an ever increasingly diverse land where cultural, generational, racial and preferential differences amongst our population continue to expand. This is especially true for real estate professionals engaged to assist their clients in the sale and purchase of residential and commercial property. Success in real estate today depends in large part on a licensee's ability to learn, adapt and respond to the increasingly diverse marketplace. Our course authors have constructed this course in a way that goes beyond regulatory Fair Housing issues by investigating why diversity is important and the reasons why it should be embraced by all professionals. Students will have an opportunity to reflect on their own "view of the world" to better understand our perceptions versus reality. The course concludes with practical tips for successfully servicing clients from a variety of diverse backgrounds. This course is a must-have for the professional dedicated to growing their business by delivering a higher level of service, respect and understanding to all those with whom they engage.

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In the real estate marketplace, foreclosures and short sales are a part of the landscape. With the increases in foreclosures over the recent past, real estate professionals must understand the reasons behind this phenomenon, the ways homeowners can avoid foreclosure and the various alternatives. If foreclosure occurs, understanding the processes and steps involved will help you as a real estate professional to better service your clients and customers. This course will enhance your real estate continuing education by providing you with the knowledge needed to understand the processes and clarify the legal procedures involved in mortgage foreclosures.

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Finance is at the heart of all real estate transactions. This course offers an excellent overview of the fundamentals with updates on current industry players, their roles and trends facing the industry. The features, benefits and risks associated with various conventional mortgage products are discussed providing agents with general talking points when working with clients. Both government and alternative financing solutions are covered providing licensees with an excellent overview and update on these critical financing options. This course features extra worksheets and tools for both home affordability and payment calculations.

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Over 95% of all real estate purchases involve the procurement of one or more loans or mortgages. This content packed course demystifies the entire mortgage process from the time a purchase contract is signed to the day the keys are handed over and how real estate professionals can most appropriately and professionally participate in the process. The course provides practical tips, tools and steps agents can take to better serve clients before and during this critical stage of any transaction. Students are walked through each step including the application process, loan processing, underwriting and what all parties enjoy, the closing!

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The current real estate industry is influenced not only by serious changes to market climates but another type of climate as well - the environment itself. Everyone is talking about "Going Green."

Politicians are debating it. The media is glorifying it. Science is researching it. When property owners make changes to "go green" within their homes, those properties become not only more energy efficient and environmentally friendly, but they also become more desirable to potential buyers. The Going Green course will help you complete your real estate continuing education by learning about "going green", including cool new ideas and technologies for decreasing carbon footprints. Learn about how recycled building materials, energy producing solar panels and many more ideas that can slow the electric meter and reduce power bills. Properties that use less energy and have a lower ecological impact now provide sellers with a market advantage when they go to sell their property. So, what can you do to take advantage of the environmental movement within your real estate business? This course will show you.

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2009 Revised Edition!

Along with the recent increase in identity theft and numerous high profile business scandals coupled with the collapse of the mortgage market real estate fraud has become an even larger industry concern. Sales professionals must understand the issues so you can better serve your clients.

Real estate is no stranger to the white collar criminal. Many will use real estate as a vehicle to steal the life savings out of unsuspecting home owners and defraud lenders out of millions of dollars for their own gain. This course will identify several types of real estate fraud schemes, both minor and major, and how you as a real estate professional can protect and educate your clients on this growing problem.

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How many times has the results or an appraisal caused a delay or even killed a deal? Few agents have a good understanding of the appraisal process and all the components that derive an appraised value of property. This course leverages decades of experience from seasoned appraisal experts who also are engaged in and have a real life understanding of the life of a real estate licensee. As a student of this course, you will learn the fundamentals of the appraisal process including the various methods of valuation and the steps and rationale commonly used. The course author draws upon vast experience including the results of thousands of appraisal reviews to help licensees understand the role of the appraisal. The information derived from this course will aid licensees in better understanding the appraisal process so they can better support their clients through the transaction process.

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Put today's technology to work for you, your business and your clients! Technology is constantly changing and is no longer considered a ‘nice to have' but rather an essential part of success in our dynamic industry. This course explores today's technology in language that is simple enough for those agents who haven't fully adopted the latest and greatest while still providing fresh ideas and applications for the established technology guru. Our course authors are techno-enthusiasts who begin the course by exploring such gadgets and gizmos as tablet PCs, PDAs and GPS systems using layman's terms and photos to bring the ideas and concepts to life. The course continues with dialogue around the power of software and websites, including agent, agency and the growing popularity of property specific sites and applications. The course concludes with a section dedicated to the growing trends of blogging, video streaming, online mapping technologies and many more. This course is great fun for all licensees with a hunger for how to improve and or grow their business.

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This course has been recently updated and enhanced for today's market!

While most real estate agents agree that a strong Sphere of Influence, (or SOI; a personal network of friends, family and past clients), is fundamental to success, the majority of agents are still beating the street in hopes of attracting business from strangers. Lead generating techniques are a hot topic in real estate offices and agent discussion groups, with active debates on the costs and benefits of various methods such as lead purchasing, search engine placement and of course, the more traditional prospecting activities of cold-calling, door-knocking and For-Sale-by-Owner chasing. Every real estate agent is looking for the magic bullet to guarantee a steady supply of quality leads.

In today's economic and real estate market climate, that magic bullet may be an effective SOI Business Model. This course will teach you how to respectfully generate business and referrals from an SOI, without annoying anybody. From building and maintaining a contact database to writing an effective reconnection letter to planning and implementing an ongoing SOI strategy, this course can change your professional life.

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Property Title is a topic that has been historically “veiled” in legal jargon by many real estate professionals. This course defines and clarifies the terms and processes of title transfer and the escrow process while following two families as they navigate through a typical real estate transaction bringing this process to life. The course authors begin with simple definitions of items such as title, including the ways in which it can be held, liens and judgments. The course continues following our families through the concepts of title searches, reports and title insurance and the impact these may have on each party to the transaction. The escrow process is introduced as the transaction progresses to include the roles and responsibilities of the escrow company, its closing agents as well as the closing process. Conclusion of the transaction comes with the actual title transfer, closing, final walk through and our new homeowners receiving the keys to the property. By gaining a greater understanding the concepts of title and the escrow process, licensees are better able to prepare and support their clients.

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The Multiple Listing Service (MLS) is the most powerful tool that you as a real estate professional have at your disposal. In addition to other agents and brokers being able to see your listings, MLS listings are now seen by your potential buyers through various internet sites. How you use the MLS communicates your professionalism and attracts other brokers, agents and buyers to your properties over those of your competitors. But ask yourself one question: Am I getting the results I want from the time and resources I put into the MLS? This course revolutionizes the use of the MLS, providing you with common sense theory and industry best practices from listing experts to guide you on how to harness the power of the MLS. Your real estate continuing education will be enhanced by explaining the implications of the data flow in and out of the MLS, how to write exceptional listing descriptions and how to remain in compliance with fair housing, advertising and anti-trust regulations.

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