Courses available at MCAR

View the complete MCAR education calendar here. To register for a particular class, login to your member account. Not an MCAR member? You're also welcomed to sign up for a class; simply create a guest account.

Code of Ethics
To maintain your status as a REALTOR®, you must fulfill the Code of Ethics requirement. The deadline for the current cycle is December 31.

For information on the requirements click here. To take a free online course, click here.

Upcoming class:

December 16: 9 am - 12 pm  (Clinton Twp.)

Continuing Education/Quadrennial Ethics
The MCAR School of Real Estate is offering NAR's quadrennial ethics course, approved for three hours of continuing education credit, with continuing education course 900-3 to fulfill your six hours of continuing education credit.

Course topics include: Code of Ethics (first three hours of class), Michigan laws and rules update, real estate-related case law (NAR 2007 Legal Scan, buyer agency, cybersquatting, Michigan Consumer Protection Act, predatory lending, REALTOR® association rules, right of first refusal).

Upcoming classes:

December 18: 9 am - 3:30 pm (Clinton Twp.) 
December 30: 9 am - 3:30 pm (Clinton Twp.)

Real Estate Salesperson Licensing
This 40-hour course will prepare you for the Michigan Real Estate Salesperson's Examination. It features the most up-to-date, easy-to-read real estate training manual in the state.

Topics include real estate laws and rules, real estate contracts, financing ownership, brokerage and real estate valuation.

Classes meet:

• Tuesday and Thursday from 6 pm - 10 pm for five weeks (10 days);
• Monday and Wednesday from 6 pm - 10 pm for five weeks (10 days); or
• Monday through Friday from 9 am - 5:30 pm for one week (5 days).

Upcoming class:

December 8: 9 am - 5:30 pm (Troy)

Questions about continuing education?

If you have any questions about continuing education, call the MCAR School of Real Estate at (248) 879-5730.

Remember that you can visit the State of Michigan’s Web site to check your continuing education requirements. In the "Licensee Information" section toward the bottom of the page, click on "Check Real Estate CE Credits" and then enter the search criteria of your choice.

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Quadrennial ethics report now available

Now available upon request: a report of agents who have fulfilled their quadrennial ethics requirement, tailored specifically to your office. Designated REALTORS® or office managers may request the report via e-mail or by calling MCAR at (248) 879-5730.

NAR requires that all REALTORS® take quadrennial ethics training once every four years. We are in the final year of the current cycle, which ends December 31. Failure to complete this requirement could result in suspension of REALTOR® membership. 

How to fulfill your requirements:

• Take your continuing education through MCAR
• Attend a free quadrennial ethics class
• Take the course online at Realtor.org

You may have already fulfilled your requirement in one of the following ways:

• You attended orientation at MCAR between 1/1/05 and 12/31/08
• You took continuing education from 5/1/08 to 12/31/08 at MCAR
• You took the online continuing education courses Introduction to Real Estate Ethics or Ethics in Real Estate through MCAR
• You attended the MAR Professional Standards Workshop between 2005 and 2008
• You viewed the Code of Ethics DVD available through from MCAR

For your convenience, MCAR has had the quadrennial ethics course approved for continuing education credit and is offering it as part of our regular program.