Real Estate School Online

This updated comprehensive set of more than 600 flash cards offers you the chance to thoroughly review key concepts covered in the Modern Real Estate Practice textbook. Enhance you classroom experience and textbook studying with this study tool to ensure you pass the real estate exam on the first try.

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This 4-credit textbook course provides detailed home inspection techniques with illustrations and background information on asbestos, radon, lead, and other hazards to homeowners.

Credit Hours: 4

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This 6-credit textbook course reviews home mortgage interest deduction; taxation of profit; computing gains and losses; exclusion rule for gain on sales of principal residence; office-in-home rules; and more. The course requires a monitored final exam for credit.

Credit Hours: 6

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This in-depth Law textbook course is intended to provide the student with the understanding of the basic principles of the license law, the law of agency, contract law, property rights, description and use of real estate, and obligations relating to the transfer and disposition of real property interests.

This 30 hour course is required for all individuals who seek a real estate associate broker or qualifying broker license. Students will complete required reading and workbook assignments from printed text and proceed online to complete final exam. For those students unable to access a computer with the minimum system requirements, print option is available upon request.

Credit Hours: 30

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Upon successful completion of this course the student will have insight to the basics of real estate finance, appraisal, real estate math, recordation, abstracts, title insurance, and anti-discrimination laws and income taxation.

This 30 hour course is required for all individuals who seek a real estate associate broker or qualifying broker license. Students will complete required reading from printed text and workbook assignments than proceed online to complete final exam. For those students unable to access a computer with the minimum system requirements, print option is available upon request.

Credit Hours: 30

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With the risk of legal liability an increasingly serious problem for real estate brokers and agents, this textbook course provides the essentials of risk management that every sales professional must know to avoid legal problems and give their clients the best service possible.

Credit Hours: 4

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It contains a format that allows students to use it as a workbook. Real Estate Math can be used either as a supplement to your prelicensing courses or as a book for a math review course.

Highlights:

• NEW – Additional section and new post-test designed for broker candidates
• NEW – Over 75 new problems added to the book’s chapters, allowing more practice on every concept
• NEW – Explanation and examples of multi-step problems in key concept areas

A complete set of Instructor Resources is also available.

Current trends are covered, along with other plans of action, including relationship and marketing techniques, selling skills, calling scripts, and the principles behind a high-producing business.

Real Estate Brokerage: A Management Guide holds a unique place in the market. There is no book that covers real estate brokerage in such a comprehensive manner.

The text is organized around these topics:

• How to become a leader and manager, including suggestions on improving communication skills
• Planning and organizing your office, including everything from ethics to finances, and even marketing and advertising
• Hiring and directing your staff, with suggestions on how to make employees more effective through professional development practices
• Tips for monitoring your operations and risk management.

Real Estate Brokerage Management Guide and Workbook holds a unique place in the market. There is no book that covers real estate brokerage in such a comprehensive manner. The text is organized around these topics:

• How to become a leader and manager, including suggestions on improving communication skills
• Planning and organizing your office, including everything from ethics to finances, and even marketing and advertising
• Hiring and directing your staff, with suggestions on how to make employees more effective through professional development practices
• Tips for monitoring your operations and risk management

Agents spend more time writing than ever before, with email dominating as the preferred mode of communication for banks, clients, other agents, escrow, and more. Beyond email, real estate professionals need writing skills to prepare compelling client handouts, website text and other marketing material, making writing key to real estate business development in any type of market. Even though written communications now drive the profession, many agents lack basic writing skills. Some books teach general writing skills, but no other book addresses the specific needs of real estate professionals the way Before Hitting Send does. And with over 200 templates to pull from, the once-tedious task of writing becomes more satisfying.

Before Hitting Send will give your students the writing instruction and tools they need to improve their writing techniques, as well as examples and exercises to help them write more effectively. Power Real Estate E-mails & Letters provides ready-to-go templates; all the user needs to do is fill in the blanks. It also covers related legislation that might impact communication with clients and includes template letters for touchy situations real estate professionals encounter in day-to-day situations.

The second edition offers practical tips for fast-tracking your first transaction, developing a marketing strategy, successfully dealing with competitors and much more.

Highlights:

• Interviews and real-life insights from the real estate industry's most successful and top producing brokers and agents.
• Revised and updated technology chapter offers a jargon-free explanation of the hi-tech options available today.
• New appendix outlines the nearly 200 elements of a real estate transaction in a quick, at-a-glance checklist.
• New end-of-chapter tips offer practical, take-away advice and highlight key concepts.

Essentials of Real Estate Finance can be used for prelicensing students, or in semester-length courses in two-and four-year colleges. Features include a complete glossary, review questions with detailed answer rationales, and Instructor Resources.

A principles section and a practices section allow instructors to adjust the curriculum to their needs and the concise workbook format helps facilitate learning. Coverage explores investment trends, tax laws, regulations, and market conditions.

Based on the PSI Examination Content Outline, this text offers more questions and answers than any other PSI book.

As part of Dearborn™ Real Estate Education’s line of professional development products, this text provides lists of online resources, real-life examples of the more difficult concepts, and an appendix of due diligence checklists. Each chapter includes important terms to know, industry examples drawn from the author’s experience, case studies with thought-provoking questions, and end-of-chapter questions. The book is well suited to independent study or classroom use.

The convenient portable size of the pocket guide makes it easy for both Spanish and English speaking real estate professionals to carry in their tote the tools needed to successfully compete in today’s market.

This textbook course will teach you the ins and outs of acting as a buyer’s agent. It discusses the changes in real estate relationships and identifies the elements of the agency relationship. The course requires a monitored final exam for credit.

Credit Hours: 4

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Students will find this to be am excellent resource as they study for their licensing exams and seasoned professional will find it an essential addition to their reference library.

Highlights:

• More than 2,500 terms offer students or professionals comprehensive definitions as they come across unfamiliar phrases
• Subject classification index list terms by topic
• Spanish key terms help both ESL students and those who will be working with ESL customers
• Comprehensive appendixes that cover abbreviations, designations, organizations, and federal laws, as well as construction diagrams with labels in both Spanish and English

Recent 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 textbook helps students provide the consistency, objectivity, and documentation of service that the law requires. The course requires a monitored final exam for credit.

Credit Hours: 4

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Disc One:

Introduction 
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Real Estate Business
Chapter 2: Real Property and the Law
Chapter 3: Concepts of Home Ownership
Chapter 4: Agency
Chapter 5: Real Estate Brokerage
Chapter 6: Listing Agreements and Buyer Representation
Chapter 7: Interests in Real Estate
Chapter 8: Forms of Real Estate Ownership
Chapter 9: Legal Descriptions
Chapter 10: Real Estate Taxes and Liens
Chapter 11: Real Estate Contracts
Chapter 12: Transfer of Title

Disc Two:

Chapter 13: Title Records
Chapter 14: Real Estate Financing: Principles
Chapter 15: Real Estate Financing: Practice
Chapter 16: Leases
Chapter 17: Property Management
Chapter 18: Real Estate Appraisal
Chapter 19: Land-Use Controls and Property Development
Chapter 20: Fair Housing and Ethical Practices
Chapter 21: Environmental Issues and the Real Estate Transaction
Chapter 22: Closing the Real Estate Transaction
Chapter 23: Real Estate Investment

This textbook reflects the latest PSI exam outline in weight and content, and features an entire chapter devoted to test-taking strategies. Students will benefit from matching quizzes, a variety of math problems, and practice exams.

This book features

• : Over 800 questions
• Matching quizzes for each chapter cover all key terms and concepts
• Special appendix with 50 math problems and solutions
• Updated Web site directory for useful reference

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After providing information for two generations, we now consider MREP to be a classic title in the field of Real Estate. The book has been selectively edited to find a better balance between being used in the classroom to prepare students for their exam and providing a well-rounded education.

This textbook course presents the basic elements of commercial real estate underwriting and is designed for both the entry level commercial real estate underwriter and others currently involved in residential real estate who desire to learn more about the commercial side of the industry. The course requires a monitored final exam for credit. 

Credit Hours: 4

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This textbook course presents an overview of the real estate construction process from the perspective of the mortgage lender. It begins with an introduction to construction lending and covers the reasons a lender would want to make a construction loan, including a review of a construction loan agreement. The course requires a monitored final exam for credit.

Credit Hours: 4

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Its flexible format adjusts to various hour requirements and includes case studies and sample forms to enhance student application and instructor materials to help with class preparation.

This textbook course provides a practical approach to property management and explores the major functions of practitioners. It focuses on real-life practice, and provides an overview of the property management field and describes the major functions of property managers. This textbook is intended for the real estate professional who wants a comprehensive introduction to the challenging field of property management. The course requires a monitored final exam for credit. 

Credit Hours: 4

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