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STANDARD RENEWAL PACKAGE
Includes:$149
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Choose your 27-hour elective option:
- Real Estate Safety: Protect Yourself and Your Clients - 6 Hrs.
- The End of the Paper Trail: How to Conduct Paperless Transactions - 6 Hrs.
- Going Green: Elements of an Eco-friendly Home - 6 Hrs.
- What Everyone Should Know About Their Credit History - 6 Hrs.
- NAR Ethics: May the Code Be with You - 3 Hrs.
OR
- Financing Residential Real Estate
- Washington Real Estate Principles
- Washington Real Estate Appraisal
- Property Management
- Washington Laws and Regulations
Select your elective options on the registration page.
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Don't need the full CE package? Click Register for one or more of the individual courses listed below.
Real Estate Continuing Education Requirements
To renew your active Broker license for the 1st time after initial licensing, you must complete:
- Washington Advanced Real Estate Practices - 30 hours
- Washington Real Estate Law - 30 hours
- 27 hours of approved continuing education
- 3 hour Core course
For all subsequent Broker license renewals and all Managing Broker's license renewals, you must complete:
- 27 hours of approved continuing education
- 3 hour Core course
For more information, consult the WA DOL site: www.dol.wa.gov/business/realestate/index.html
Washington Real Estate Continuing Education FAQ
- When do I have to renew my license?
- When do corporation and partnership licenses have to be renewed?
- What are the requirements for license renewal?
- Am I required to take 30 hours while my license is on inactive status?
- How long can my license remain inactive?
- My license was supposed to be renewed ten months ago but I didn't do it. Is it too late to renew the license?
- My license wasn't renewed within twelve months of expiration. Does this mean I have to take the license exam again?
- How do I renew my license?
- How much is the fee for my license renewal?
Question: When do I have to renew my license?
Answer: Your real estate license expires every two years (on the anniversary of the dates of issuance), at which time you must apply for renewal and pay a renewal fee. If the renewal application is late, you must pay a late fee.
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Question: When do corporation and partnership licenses have to be renewed?
Answer: Licenses issued to corporations and partnerships must be renewed every two years. The renewal date is the calendar date on which the license was issued.
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Question: What are the requirements for license renewal?
Answer:
- If you have NEVER renewed your license before, you must complete: a 30-hour Advanced Real Estate Practices course, a 30-hour Real Estate Law course, and 30 hours of other approved real estate courses, including the three-hour Core Curriculum course.
- If you are renewing your license for the second (and each subsequent) time, you must complete: 30 hours of approved real estate courses, including the three-hour Core Curriculum course.
- You can only use a course to fulfill the renewal requirement if you began the course: (1) after issuance of your initial license; and (2) within 36 months of your renewal date.
If you have taken more than 30 hours during a renewal period, up to fifteen hours of any excess can be carried forward to the next two-year renewal period.
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Question: Am I required to take 30 hours while my license is on inactive status?
Answer: No. However, if your license is inactive for more than three consecutive years you will be required to complete a 30-hour course before being allowed to activate the license.
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Question: How long can my license remain inactive?
Answer: Indefinitely, as long as you continue to pay your required renewal fees.
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Question: My license was supposed to be renewed ten months ago but I didn't do it. Is it too late to renew the license?
Answer: No. You can renew by simply paying the renewal and late fees up to twelve months after expiration. After twelve months the license is canceled.
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Question: My license wasn't renewed within twelve months of expiration. Does this mean I have to take the license exam again?
Answer: Not necessarily. A license can be reinstated within two years after cancellation if you do all of the following:
- Successfully complete 60 hours of approved real estate courses (including a 30-hour real estate law course) within one year before applying for reinstatement;
- pay all back renewal fees, plus penalties; and
- pay a reinstatement penalty.
Alternatively, you could just take the state examination again. Unless more than three years have elapsed since you took your real estate fundamentals course—in which case you would have to complete it again to be eligible for the exam—it might be easier and more cost-effective to take our exam review course (the Cram course) and sit for the examination.
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Question: How do I renew my license?
Answer: The Department of Licensing website has a page to help you through the renewal process: www.dol.wa.gov/business/realestate/brokersrenew.html.
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Question: How much is the fee for my license renewal?
Answer: The most up-to-date fee schedule can be found on the Department of Licensing website: www.dol.wa.gov/business/realestate/fees.html.
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