Real Estate School Online

This 60-hour textbook course gives in-depth exposure to the issues in real estate laws that are specific to the Texas real estate practitioner. It includes real estate law key terms & concepts as well as an examination of relevant court cases and case studies to promote further thought on important issues. The text provides relevant sample forms, concise chapter summaries, a user-friendly index-glossary and sections covering the most important constitutional and statutory provisions accompanied by explanations making the law digestible by the layperson. This course includes textbook and the convenience of an online exam.

Credit Hours: 60

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

Included are the elements of a contract, offer and acceptance, the statute of frauds, specific performance and remedies for breach, unauthorized practice of law, commission rules relating to use of adopted forms, owner disclosure requirements and comprehensive case studies in which many of the forms play a part.

Contract Law is being sold "pending approval".

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional.

This 30-hour textbook course covers ownership interests in real estate, financing for real estate investments, income taxes and real estate investments, and feasibility studies of real estate investments. Explore the financial analysis of real estate investment, and investing in various types of properties (land, residential, office, strip stores, shopping centers and industrial).

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

The 30-hour textbook course will teach you about property management, an exciting area of specialization in the real estate industry. This course covers the development of property managers, property management economics and planning, managing owner relations, marketing, leases, lease negotiations, and tenant relations. This course also explores managing maintenance and construction, reports and insurance, federal and state laws, managing residential property, specialized housing, office property, retail property and industrial property.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

This 30-hour textbook course will teach you how to own, operate, and manage a real estate office. The course discusses the "challenge of change" and planning the organization (analyzing the business climate, analyzing the market, developing a plan, and structuring your organization). It also covers organization topics like structuring your business systems, structuring your finances, business policies and procedures, and marketing and advertising). Explore staffing and directing, controlling the organization, and your personal growth.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

This 30-hour textbook course covers ownership interests in real estate, financing for real estate investments, income taxes and real estate investments and feasibility studies of real estate investments. Explore the financial analysis of real estate investment, and investing in various types of properties (land, residential, office, strip stores, shopping centers, and industrial).

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

This 30-hour textbook course will review basic math skills including fractions, percentages and decimals. Learn how to calculate commissions, pricing, interest, appraisal, taxes and proration and lease calculations. You’ll also learn the "circle strategy," a useful tool that can be applied to almost any real estate math calculation to simplify solving the problem.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

Sales and Marketing 101 for Real Estate Professionals in Texas is a 30-hour textbook course that will teach you how to increase revenue by using a complete and professional marketing strategy. Learn marketing strategies that will drive the right clients to your and the selling skills you need to close the sale.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

This textbook course will teach you how gains and losses are computed, capital gains taxation, and installment sales. You’ll also explore Like Kind Exchanges (tax-free exchanges, types of simultaneous exchanges, deferred exchanges and minimum requirements for an exchange). Additionally, this course identifies tax solutions at purchase and during ownership and passive loss regulations.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

This textbook course gives students an in-depth exposure to the issues in agency law that is specific to the Texas real estate practitioner. It includes the key terms and concepts used in agency relationships, examples of agency forms and related listing and buyer representation agreements, provisions of the TRELA and TREC rules that impact agency, and in-depth coverage of the relationships between real estate agents and the public.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

Learn the Steps to Success in Marketing and Sales with this 30 hr. home study course. This course walks you step by step through how to prospect for seller appointments, buyer listing procedures, client follow-up, objection handling techniques and more.

Credit Hours: 30

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

This textbook CE course provides students with a complete overview of foreclosures, short sales, REOs, and auctions, in addition to special tax credits and other programs that may assist Texas agents in dealing with these properties. Students will gain a better understanding of key topics, such as: the foreclosure process, identifying short-sale properties, marketing short-sale listings, short-sale contracts, purchasing lender-owned (REO) properties, and broker and client auction procedures.

Credit Hours: 9

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

While self-employed individuals are entitled to many tax deductions, most entrepreneurs have little time to stay abreast with ever-changing federal and state tax codes. This textbook CE course was created to give the independent business owner an understanding of the effective tax write-offs they may be missing. If you want to save your hard earned money and claim the deductions to which you are entitled, register for this course now.

Credit Hours: 9

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional. 

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

This textbook course will teach you how super agents are thriving in a chaotic world. This course will show you how to create a continuous flow of new clients and how savvy agents are tapping into past clients, family, friends, and getting involved in community organizations to make their business thrive! Understand how critical it is to be able to guide clients through a short sale or foreclosure deal.

Credit Hours: 3

This course is powered by Kaplan Real Estate Education, also doing business as Kaplan Real Estate Schools, Kaplan Professional Schools and Kaplan Professional.

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.

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

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

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.

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.