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EducationMandatory CE courses required for new licensees
Newly licensed agents may have taken lots of continuing education classes but if they haven’t taken the new courses developed just for them, they won’t be able to renew their licenses next year.
PA State Real Estate Commission requires new agents, licensed on or after December 1, 2007, to take one seven-hour general course and one of two electives, either a residential-focused or commercial-focused course.
The PA REALTORS® Institute’s (PRI) general course, Mandatory Core Continuing Education for New Licensees, is being offered through different local associations throughout the state. The general course provides an overview of daily real estate practices including: written agreements, agency relationships, closing costs, zoning issues, disclosure and environmental concerns.
Other real estate schools are offering courses to meet these new requirements. Newly licensed REALTORS® should confirm that the course they are considering meets the real estate commission’s requirements. While the commission has approved the outline for the course work, there is no standard name for the course. When in doubt, contact your local association to determine whether the course has been approved for new licensees.
If a real estate licensee is unsure when he was licensed, he can visit the real estate commission’s web site to verify the date.
All real estate licensees are required to complete 14 hours of continuing education in order to renew their licenses by May 31, 2010.
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About Kim: Kim Shindle is the Communications Specialist at the Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS®. |
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Lisa has a good point but the blog is suggesting that new licensee members of REALTOR® associations should contact their local Associations for additional information as their first step. If their local Association is offering a “newbie” course (either through their own school or a partnership with another entity), the Local will know if the course was approved for new licensees. Even if the Local Association isn’t offering the course, the Local may also know more about the school or course in question or may offer other suggestions to the new licensee/member as to who to contact to determine applicability (including the State Real Estate Commission). As noted in the blog, there is no consistency in the way these courses for new licensees are named and it is definitely confusing.
???? When in doubt, contact your local association to determine whether the course has been approved for new licensees.
I would say they should contact the RE COMMISSION for verification, how would an association who doesn’t have their own school know if a particular class was approved or not?
My reason for questioning you, is there are many schools out there.
We here at BCAR are fortunate enough to be contracted with a outside school and have such classes and they are approved. But there are at least a half a dozen schools in our area and we would not know what is or is not approved. And could potentially be swamped with such calls.