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
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How to Buy, Lease & Manage Rental Houses for Profit
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Description: Kenneth Raupple, President of Castle Keepers, Inc., has designed this course for the real estate investor. Tips will be presented for buying, leasing, and managing rental houses. Learn how to buy foreclosed, VA & FHA assumable homes below market value; how to fix them up, lease and manage them for profit and retirement income. Learn how to avoid legal pitfalls while increasing "the bottom line." Other topics include the rental application, the first month's rent, pet and security deposits as well as credit check fees. The final session discussion will center on how you can "flip" a property, how to avoid paying mortgage insurance and write off more expenses on your tax return.
Materials Needed: Notebook and DVDs optional
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Maximize Real Estate Value Thru Home Inspection
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Description: Designed to teach home owners and realtors how to use the inspection process to maximize the value of a real estate purchase. Learn how to manage the most expensive aspects of buying or maintaining a home including energy conservation, roofing, HVAC, and wood destroying insects. Other topics will be foundations, walls, ceilings, doors, appliances, and water heater. This course is in the process of becoming TREC approved for Realtors and should be approved for the August session.
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RE Salesperson's License Exam Prep
Prerequisite(s): Completion of Real Estate Licensure classes.

Description: This course is designed to assist the student who has finished his educational requirements for licensure to prepare for the Texas Real Estate Salesperson Exam. Included will be a review of the materials in the basic courses, exam taking strategies and tips, and actual testing.
Materials Needed: Text included
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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 Finance
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Description: An overview of the U.S. monetary system, primary and secondary money markets, sources of mortgage loans, federal government programs, loan applications, processes and procedures, closing costs, alternative instruments, laws affecting mortgage lending and the State Housing Agency.
Materials Needed: Text. TI Business Analyst II Plus Calculator
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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 Law of Contracts Weekend
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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 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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