Upcoming real estate courses
-- including continuing education --
The following is a list of courses available through GMAR, including real estate continuing education, real estate licensing and more.
Please call (248) 879-5730 to register.
Not a GMAR member? You can still sign up for a course. We'd love to help you achieve your real estate goals, too!
Accredited Buyer Representative
The Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR®) designation is the benchmark of excellence in buyer representation. This coveted designation is awarded by the Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council (REBAC), an affiliate of the National Association of REALTORS®, to real estate practitioners who meet the specified educational and practical experience criteria.
In addition, REBAC provides many membership benefits to help your business grow and keep you up-to-date and networked, with new enhancements added each year. The overall goals of the ABR® Designation Course are to:
- Prepare real estate professionals to thoroughly represent buyer-clients in real estate transactions and provide the quality of service and degree of fidelity to buyers that sellers have customarily enjoyed.
- Offer ideas and methods for building a buyer representation business.
- Develop a self-customized tool for conducting a buyer counseling session.
FIRST YEAR MEMBERSHIP DUES TO REBAC INCLUDED AT NO EXTRA COST FOR ALL STUDENTS WHO SUCCESSFULLY PASS THE ABR COURSE ($110.00/year thereafter to maintain membership).
March 15-16: 9 am - 5 pm (Troy) FREE for MemberMax™ members; $195 for GMAR members, $225 for non-members
Continuing Education & Code of Ethics
Topics for this year’s Continuing Education program speak to the challenges REALTORS® face today – while signs point to a recovery, the effects of the downturn are still present. Today's issues involve:
- Cash, debt, credit and savings problems
- Bankruptcies
- Property tax appeals and foreclosures
- Lease and property management questions
- Confusing foreclosure documents
- Vacant home, inspection, and winterization problems
- New rules affecting short sale processing
- And more!
To stay competitive, today's professional agent has to know more than at any other time. This Continuing Education course will help you get there … register today!
Please note:
Troy sessions are conducted at MCAR's 2125 Butterfield location; Clinton Twp. sessions are conducted at the ConCorde Inn at 44315 N. Gratiot Ave.
Schedule
March 5: 9 am - 3:30 pm (Clinton Twp.) | $25
April 20: 9 am - 3:30 pm (Troy) | $30
May 2: 9 am - 3:30 pm (Clinton Twp.) | $30
e-PRO® Day 1 Course
Available for the first time in a classroom setting, the new e-PRO® gives you a roadmap to build your business and serve the hyper-connected consumers of today and tomorrow. Learn about the changing market and how to connect with consumers, manage your online reputation, generate leads and gain referrals by signing up for Day 1 of the certification course. Upon completion of Day 1, students must complete Day 2 online to earn the e-PRO® certification. e-PRO® is not just about technology - it's about how you can leverage your most powerful asset, your people-skills, into doing more business on the Internet.
March 8: 9 am - 3:30 pm (Farmington) FREE for MemberMax™ members; $99 for GMAR members, $119 for non-members
Green
NAR's Green Designation is a real estate designation designed for residential real estate professionals looking to green their businesses and their lives.
Students who complete this course will understand how the issues of green and sustainability impact all facets of real estate--from smart growth, new urbanism, and community development to the factors that make a building or home green to today's generation of green clients and customers. In order to earn NAR's Green Designation, students must successfully complete the core course and one of three elective courses.
When you earn NAR's Green Designation, you'll gain:
- A comprehensive understanding of what it means to go green and the
- concerns of consumers seeking green knowledge about real estate
- Valuable real estate education that broadens your abilities in the eyes your clients,
- prospective clients and associates
- Enhanced ability to participate in the green real estate market
- Ongoing specialized training and resources that help you stay on top of green real
- estate issues and trends
- Access to customizable members-only marketing tools to help you build your business and gain a competitive edge
If you're ready to be a green real estate leader in your community, get started today.
April 17-19: 8:30 am - 5 pm (Farmington) FREE for MemberMax™ members; $250 for GMAR members, $295 for non-members
Green Designation Residential Elective Course
NAR's Green Designation Residential Elective Course provides real estate professionals with knowledge and awareness of green building principles applied in residences so that they can guide buyer-clients in purchasing and retrofitting green homes as well as help sellers by listing and marketing green properties. The Course encourages the real estate professional to be an advocate for green principles in the design and use of homes and a positive force for creating sustainable communities.
- Respond to customer trends and preferences for green home features in new construction and remodeling/retrofitting of existing homes.
- Describe resource-efficient home systems, appliances, building methods, and materials.
- Explain the benefits of an energy audit and guide clients and customers in obtaining one.
- Assist clients and customers in evaluating the cost-benefit of green home features and actions.
- Discuss green home principles and actions and respond to consumer preferences for green home features in new construction and remodeling/retrofitting of existing homes.
- Guide clients and customers in evaluating the cost-benefit of remodeling/retrofitting green-home features.
- Take into account green-home features when developing a price-proposal/offer for a seller or buyer.
- Demonstrate the cost/benefit value of green-home features in marketing properties.
- Inform clients and customers of green housekeeping, gardening, and landscaping methods.
- Recognize sources of VOCs and toxins that impact indoor air quality and the environment.
- Guide clients in selecting energy-efficient appliances and disposing of old ones.
- Exemplify green principles in disposal of recyclable and unrecyclable items.
- Identify coalition partners in the community.
- Compile information on green resources and programs in the community.
- Develop a network of professionals who adhere to green principles (contractors, designers, builders, repair service providers, landscapers).
No sessions are currently scheduled: Check back later for upcoming classes! FREE for MemberMax™ members; $150 for GMAR members, $165 for non-members
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).
Troy classes are held at MiRealSource's location at 920 E. Long Lake Rd.
Clinton Twp. classes are held at ConCorde Inn at 44315 North Gratiot Avenue
Schedule
March 5-9 (one week accelerated course): 9 am – 5:30 pm (Clinton Twp.; ConCorde Inn) | $235
March 12 - April 11 (Mondays & Wednesdays): 6 pm – 10 pm (Troy; MiRealSource) | $235
April 9-13 (one week accelerated course): 9 am – 5:30 pm (Troy; MiRealSource) | $235
May 7-11 (one week accelerated course): 9 am – 5:30 pm (Clinton Twp.; ConCorde Inn) | $235
May 7 - June 11 (Mondays & Wednesdays): 6 pm – 10 pm (Troy; MiRealSource) | $235
Short Sale and Foreclosure Resource Certification
Designed for real estate professionals at all experience levels, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification, or SFR for short, gives you a framework for understanding how to:
- Direct distressed sellers to finance, tax, and legal professionals
- Qualify sellers for short sales
- Develop a short-sale package
- Negotiate with lenders
- Tap into buyer demand
- Safeguard your commission
- Limit risk
- Protect buyers
As many agents can attest, your ability to close short sales and foreclosures depends in part on your confidence in seeing these transactions through.
Begin building your confidence today with SFR!
June 20: 8:30 am - 5:00 pm (Troy) FREE for MemberMax™ members; $79 for GMAR members, $99 for non-members
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