Home Staging
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Description: Designed for the home owner or the professional real estate agent to prepare a home for resale. Learn the benefits of home staging and how staging a property for resale can help you achieve a faster sales time and top dollar.
Materials Needed: Text
Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Successful Real Estate Investing           

How to Buy, Lease & Manage Houses for Profit
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Description: LEARN HOW TO BUY, PRE/POST AND AT AUCTION FORECLOSURE HOUSES, VA & FHA HOUSES, BELOW MARKET VALUE; how to repair, lease and manage, or flip them for profit. Course includes how to write purchase agreements for short sales, buying “subject to” and how to write the best lease to protect yourself. Tax benefits of real estate investing, and rudimentary financial planning are also included. Ideal for beginning real estate investor, and investors interested in supplementing their income.
Materials Needed: Notebook and DVDs optional
Suggested Follow-up Courses:   Successful Real Estate Investing           

Real Estate Appraisal Weekend
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Description: A study of the central purposes and functions of an appraisal, social and economic determinant of value, appraisal case studies, cost, market data and income approaches to value estimates, final correlations, and reporting.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Real Estate Investments Weekend
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Description: Financing, evaluation and management of real estate investment. Emphasis on real estate investment characteristics, techniques of investment analysis, time-valued money, discounted investment criteria, leverage, and applications to property tax implications of owning real estate.
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Real Estate Law of Agency
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Description: A study of law of agency including principal-agent and master-servant relationships, the authority of an agent, the termination of an agent's authority, the fiduciary and other duties of an agent, employment law, deceptive trade practices, listing or buying procedures, and the disclosure of an agency.
Materials Needed: Text. Text. TI Business Analyst II Plust Calculator optional
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Real Estate Law of Contracts
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Description: Course includes the elements of a contract, offer and acceptance, the statue of frauds, specific performance and remedies for breach, unauthorized practice of law, commission rules relating to use of adopted forms, and owner disclosure requirements.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Real Estate Marketing
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Description: A study of real estate professionalism and ethics; characteristics of successful salespersons; time management; psychology of marketing; listing procedures; advertising, negotiating and closing financing; and the Deceptive Trade Practice Act, Consumer Protection Act, and Commercial Code.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Real Estate Math
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Description: Mathematical logic and basic arithmetic skills including percentages, interest, time-valued money, depreciation, amortization, proration, and estimation of closing statement.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator
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Real Estate Principles I
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Description: An overview of licensing as a real estate broker or salesperson. Includes ethics of practice as a license holder, titles to and conveyance of real estate, legal descriptions, deeds, encumbrances and liens, distinctions between personal and real property, appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, and real estate mathematics. Covers federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination, and community reinvestment. Fulfills 30 of at least 60 hours of required instruction for salesperson license.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Real Estate Principles I - Distance Learning
Prerequisite(s): Immediately after registering for this course, contact the professor for Orientation and Log-On information. Email Mary Milford at mmilford@ccccd.edu or call 469.365.1801.

Description: An overview of licensing as a real estate broker or salesperson. Includes ethics of practice as a license holder, titles to and conveyance of real estate, legal descriptions, deeds, encumbrances and liens, distinctions between personal and real property, appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, and real estate mathematics. Covers federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination, and community reinvestment. Fulfills 30 of at least 60 hours of required instruction for salesperson license. The following course is Self-Paced/Flex entry course. You may start anytime within any of the indicated dates. The course must be finished no later than the end of the semester.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Real Estate Principles II
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Description: An overview of licensing as a real estate broker and salesperson, ethics of practice, titles to and conveyance of real estate, legal descriptions, law of agency, deeds, encumbrances and liens, distinctions between personal and real property, contracts, appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, and real estate mathematics. Also includes federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination, and community reinvestment.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator
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Real Estate Principles II - Distance Learning
Prerequisite(s): Immediately after registering for this course, contact the professor for Orientation and Log-On information. Email Mary Milford or call 469.365.1801.

Description: An overview of licensing as a real estate broker or salesperson. Includes ethics of practice as a license holder, titles to and conveyance of real estate, legal descriptions, deeds, encumbrances and liens, distinctions between personal and real property, appraisal, finance and regulations, closing procedures, and real estate mathematics. Covers federal, state, and local laws relating to housing discrimination, housing credit discrimination, and community reinvestment. Fulfills 30 of at least 60 hours of required instruction for salesperson license. The following course is Self-Paced/Flex entry course. You may start anytime within any of the indicated dates. The course must be finished no later than the end of the semester.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Real Estate Property Management
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Description: A study of the role of the property manager, landlord policies, operational guidelines, leases, lease negotiations, and tenant relations, maintenance, reports, habitability laws and the Fair Housing Act.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator (optional)
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Successful Real Estate Investing
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Description: Learn how to research and evaluate properties, buy properties below market value and turn properties into profits. Topics covered will include: how to bid on HUD and foreclosure properties, estimating rehab costs, obtaining a loan, types of loans available, methods investors use to find distressed properties, creative exit strategies for investors, as well as tax benefits of owning investment property. Discussions will include specific areas in North Texas.
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Suggested Follow-up Courses:   How to Buy, Lease & Manage Houses for Profit