Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate Preferred Courses
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate has partnered with Rockwell Institute to offer the preferred course(s) and package(s) listed below:
Preferred Course List
HOW IT WORKS
Attend instructor taught courses in our Bellevue classroom location with on-site courses, or from the convenience of your own home with livestreams. Classes are scheduled from 8:00am-4:30pm and run for approximately three weeks. Click HERE to review the class calendar.
WHY IT’S FOR YOU
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Attend instructor taught courses in our Bellevue classroom location with on-site courses, or from the convenience of your own home with livestreams. Classes are scheduled from 8:00am-4:30pm and run for approximately three weeks. Click HERE to review the class calendar.
WHY IT’S FOR YOU
- You learn best in a traditional classroom
- You are local
- Looking for classroom interactions
WHAT’S INCLUDED
HOW IT WORKS
Complete all your courses online. Set your own schedule and complete them at your own pace.
WHY IT’S FOR YOU
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Complete all your courses online. Set your own schedule and complete them at your own pace.
WHY IT’S FOR YOU
- You are a disciplined self-starter
- Have a basic understanding of real estate
- Looking to self-study on your own schedule
WHAT’S INCLUDED
This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the Washington Department of Licensing, and includes instruction in real estate law, types of interest and ownership in real estate, home ownership, legal descriptions, titles, liens, taxes, encumbrances, listing advertising, appraisal, finance, closings, and professional code of ethics.
This is one of three courses required for managing broker license eligibility. It may also be used for the 30-hour continuing education requirement. This correspondence course covers a full range of topics and activities that will prove useful—even essential—to anyone who aspires to own a brokerage, who is interested in managing an office, or who expects to function in any kind of supervisory position in the future. Since it's a correspondence course, you can complete it anywhere, anytime, at your own pace. Simply read the textbook, and take the online lesson quizzes and the final exam.
Looking for an extra boost of real estate terminology? Flash cards offer you the chance to memorize the critical words and phrases found most often on the state exam. The set includes 240 flash cards.
MSRP: $39.99
This prelicense package includes the three 30-hour courses you must complete before you can take your managing broker's license exam:
- Advanced Real Estate Law (30 hours)
- Brokerage Management (30 hours)
- Business Management (30 hours)
Advanced Washington Real Estate Law offers an overview of the legal aspects of real estate. This 30-hour course discusses the laws governing the ownership and sale of real estate in Washington, examines common problems in real estate transactions, and provides examples from actual court cases. You must complete this course if you wish to take the managing broker's license exam.Topics covered include:
- Real estate license law
- The distinction between real and personal property
- Methods of land description
- Easements, liens, and other interests in real estate
- Forms of co-ownership
- The law of real estate agency
- Earnest money agreements and other real estate contracts
- Deeds and title transfer
- Deeds of trust, mortgages, and foreclosure
- Zoning and other land use controls
- Taxation of real estate
- Fair housing issues
- Landlord/tenant law
- Employment law
While no one can really guarantee that you'll pass the managing broker's license exam, the Managing Broker's Cram online course provides the greatest possible assurance. You are shown what is likely to be tested on the license examination, plus you get the opportunity to take several practice exams and answer hundreds of practice questions.The Cram narrows your search for relevant topics, saving you both time and unnecessary stress. As the exam date approaches, nothing is more frustrating and stressful than studying in great detail information that may be altogether unimportant. Save yourself a lot of needless grief and enroll in the Cram course today.
This correspondence course guides managing broker candidates through the techniques of managing their own business. It covers such topics as: starting a service-oriented business; developing a business plan; financing a business; marketing; public relations; and office management. Since it's a correspondence course, you can complete it anywhere, anytime, at your own pace. Simply read the textbook, and take the online lesson quizzes and the final exam. Note: this course may also be used for the 30-hour continuing education requirement.
This package includes the required 90 hours of CE to renew your license.
- Real Estate Advanced Practices (30 hours)
- Real Estate Law (30 hours)
- New Washington Fair Housing (6 hours)
- Core Curriculum (3 hours)
- Elective Courses – End of the Paper Trail, Real Estate Safety, Going Green, and NAR: May the Code Be With You (21 hours)
This package includes the required 30 hours of CE to renew your license. Courses included are:
- Core Curriculum (3 hours)
- New Washington Fair Housing (6 hours)
- Elective Courses - End of the Paper Trail, Real Estate Safety, Going Green, and NAR: May the Code be With You. (21 hours)
This continuing education course addresses the specifics of the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics and ethical practices and decision-making for real estate professionals. Additionally, this course may potentially be approvable for REALTORS® who wish to fulfill Code of Ethics requirement from the National Association of REALTORS®. Check with your local REALTORS® association.
This course is divided into the following:
- Introduction to the Code of Ethics
- Duties to Clients and Customers
- Duties to the Public
- Duties to REALTORS®
- Arbitration of Disputes
Statistically speaking, real estate is a very safe profession. However, there are many potential dangers that agents and their clients are exposed to. While the number of work-related deaths and injuries in the real estate profession are relatively low, they do exist. Female real estate agents are more likely to become victims than men; however, men are not immune. Buyers and sellers also face risks from cyber theft to personal property damage and theft, to assaults.
Think about it: real estate licensees often meet complete strangers by themselves, in vacant properties, at odd hours, with little or no background information on the prospect. When you think about our profession in this way, the job can sound dangerous. We can reduce this risk with some basic safety protocols. Even if your brokerage has a set of security procedures, there are additional steps you can take to keep yourself and your clients safe. The truth is that many brokerages rely on individual agents to establish their own safety measures
The End of the Paper Trail: How to Conduct Paperless Transactions
$59.00
$47.20
The goal of this course is to prepare real estate licensees to have paperless transactions. The course progresses through the entire transaction process, starting with how to secure a computer and network to paperless marketing and advertising. Next, electronic signatures and digital record keeping are discussed, along with some key pieces of federal and state legislation. The course wraps up with follow-up ideas for closing and after the sale.
Washington Real Estate Law offers an overview of the legal aspects of real estate. This 30-hour course discusses the laws governing the ownership and sale of real estate in Washington, examines common problems in real estate transactions, and provides examples from actual court cases. Topics covered include:
- The distinction between real and personal property
- Methods of land description
- Easements, liens, and other interests in real estate
- Forms of co-ownership
- The law of real estate agency
- Earnest money agreements and other real estate contracts
- Deeds and title transfer
- Deeds of trust, mortgages, and foreclosure
- Zoning and other land use controls
- Taxation of real estate
- Fair housing issues
- Landlord/tenant law
Can you imagine paying cash for all your purchases? Saving up to purchase property with 100% down? Up until relatively recently, that was the way purchasing occurred. Credit was not handed out or even solicited, and purchasing property came after years of diligent saving. Today, most consumer goods, and property is purchased with mortgage credit. It is estimated that 80% of consumer goods, and 70% of all residential properties are purchased with credit. Even with the prevalence of credit, recent events and changes in credit availability have led to many potential property buyers being unable to afford the property they desire. Being able to counsel people on improving their financial standing can not only improve your service to current clients, it can also be used as a marketing tool to attract and help new clients!