Featured Packages
Iowa Elective Renewal Package 1
Includes:1. Pricing Property to Sell - Pricing compared to appraisal, basic concepts of pricing property, principles of value, and more.
2. Methods of Residential Finance - Covers conventional, FHA, VA Loans, loan assumptions, purchase money mortgages, and alternative financing options.
3. Tax Free Exchanges - Tax free exchange of residential investment property.
4. ADA and Fair Housing - What the laws cover and how they pertain to you, refresh your knowledge of the Fair Housing Laws.
5. Tax Advantages of Home Ownership - Types of tax benefits for homeowners and how to calculate the taxes that will impact the purchase of a home.
This package meets the allowed 18 hours of distance education and will count towards the required 24 hours of elective education.
Iowa Elective Renewal Package 2
Includes:1. Basic Real Estate Finance - Financing instruments, promissory notes, mortgages, assumptions, priority of loans, foreclosures, and more.
2. Methods of Residential Finance - Conventional, FHA, VA Loans, and alternative financing options.
3. Consensual Dual Agency - Agency relationships and the inherent conflicts of interest of each, dual agency, agency policy, procedures for implementing, and more.
5. Ethics in Real Estate - NAR Code of Ethics and case studies.
6. Pricing Property to Sell - Pricing compared to appraisal, basic concepts of pricing property, principles of value, and more.
This package meets the allowed 18 hours of distance education and will count towards the required 24 hours of elective education.
Individual Courses
Pricing Property to Sell
Course Description
Presents methods and principles for pricing property. Covers pricing compared to appraisal, basic concepts of pricing property, principles of value, approaches to pricing property and application of the market data and replacement cost methods. Basic Real Estate Finance (v3)
Course Description
Covers basic principles of real estate finance. Topics include financing instruments, promissory notes, mortgages, assumptions, priority of loans, foreclosures, trust deeds, types of loans, sources of funds, loan practices and closing costs. Methods of Residential Finance (v3)
Course Description
All of the various forms of residential real estate financing; including conventional, FHA, VA Loans, loan assumptions, purchase money mortgages, alternative financing are explained in this course. Also covers legislation relating to financing. Tax Advantages of Home Ownership (v3)
Course Description
Course covers types of tax benefits for homeowners and how to calculate the taxes that will impact the purchase of a home. Consensual Dual Agency
Course Description
This course describes agency relationships and the inherent conflicts of interest of each, followed by coverage of dual agency, agency policy and procedures for implementing, documenting and changing agency policy. ADA and Fair Housing
Course Description
ADA legislation affects the business of every real estate agent. Find out what the laws cover and how it pertains to you, while refreshing your knowledge of the Federal Fair Housing Laws. Ethics in Real Estate (V6)
Course Description
Ethics in Real Estate covers the NAR Code of Ethics and reviews case studies pertaining to the code. Sample scenarios are included as a decision making practice for licensees. This course will insure that real estate professionals have a strong understanding of the National Association of Realtors ® (NAR) Code of Ethics and understand the difference between ethical and unethical behavior. (Meets NAR's 3-Hour Mandatory Ethics Renewal Training)
Tax Free Exchanges
Course Description
Covers the basics of a tax free exchange of residential investment property. Topics covered include requirements of a tax free exchange, types of exchanges and the methods for transferring title when an exchange takes place. 