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California Real Estate Post-License Course Packages

CA Salesperson First Time Renewal CE Requirements

What You Need

Mandatory Hours: 35 hrs
Elective Hours: 10 hrs

Total Hours Required: 45 hrs

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CA Salesperson First-Time Renewal CE Package

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Why it’s for you:
  • Courses in this package are designed to meet California First-Time Renewal requirements.
  • Take courses online at your own pace!
  • NAR EthicsThis course was designed to meet the NAR and ethics requirements in California.
  • Accessible Narrated Audio with Adjustable Speeds
What’s included:
Mandatory Hours: 35 hrs
Elective Hours: 12 hrs

Total Hours: 47 hrs
Narrating Audio for Coursework:

Learn how you want – listen to all of your course materials with our narrating audio learning option. With this new learning option, learn how, when, and where you want to stay compliant in California.


Courses:
  • California 3-Hour Ethics (OC): Learn how to build stable and lasting relationships with your clients by practicing sound real estate ethics. Review the history of the Code of Ethics, The Articles and Standards of Practice, due process, enforcement, arbitration, mediation, Article 2, 3, 12, and 16 of the Code of Ethics.
  • California 3-Hour Agency Law (OC): This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the California Department of Real Estate, including instruction in the coverage of agency relationships and duties in a modern real estate brokerage practice. Learn how to establish clear agency relationships with clients. Explore required disclosures.
  • California 3-Hour Trust Fund Handling (OC): Discover the potential problems in dealing with customers, clients, and competitors in the California real estate market. Learn how to avoid lawsuits or lost business, gain insights on federal and state legal guidelines, and discuss the importance of standardized agency policy and communication.
  • California 3-Hour Risk Management (OC): Discover the potential problems in dealing with customers, clients, and competitors in the California real estate market. Learn how to avoid lawsuits or lost business, gain insights on federal and state legal guidelines, and discuss the importance of standardized agency policy and communication.
  • California 3-Hour Fair Housing (OC): This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the California Department of Real Estate, and includes instruction in Federal and State fair housing laws relating to the sale and rental of real estate, selected Federal and State civil rights and anti-discrimination laws relating to real property transactions and business establishments, the voluntary affirmative marketing agreement (VAMA) and its application in the real estate industry, and how to avoid practices that could be considered discriminatory in commercial and residential transactions and facilities.
  • California 2-Hour Implicit Bias Training (OC): Everyone seems to be talking about implicit bias and diversity. Implicit bias is the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual’s understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. Businesses offer training on it, politicians support it, the media extols it. But what exactly is implicit bias and diversity? Unfortunately, some real estate agents let their biases get in the way of working with people from diverse cultures. However, successful licensees realize that working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds creates an opportunity for business and possibly personal relationships.
  • California 15-Hour Green Building Consumer Protection (OC): With environmental concerns escalating each year, the market for eco-friendly homes is flourishing. Learn how California is attempting to reduce its environmental footprint and how it can positively impact your real estate career.
  • California 11-Hour Consumer Protection Investment Course (OC): Gain a working knowledge of proper decision-making strategies for real estate investment. Review IRS rules and guidelines on §1031, grow your skills for working with investor clients, and explore negotiations, closings, and homebuyer credit scores.
  • California 4-Hour Marketing Elective Course (OC): Uncover how to develop innovative marketing strategies to maintain and develop relationships with past and future clients, generate leads, and gain an advantage over your competition.
  • May the Code Be With You: This course covers the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, ethical practices, and decision-making in real estate. This course may be approvable for REALTORS® interested in fulfilling NAR’s Code of Ethics requirement. To find out, check with your local REALTORS® association.

CA Subsequent Renewal CE Package

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Why it’s for you:
  • Courses in this package are designed to meet California CE requirements.
  • Take courses online at your own pace!
  • NAR EthicsThis course was designed to meet the NAR and ethics requirements in California.
  • Accessible Narrated Audio with Adjustable Speeds
What’s included:
Mandatory Hours: 27 hrs
Elective Hours: 19 hrs

Total Hours: 46 hrs
Narrating Audio for Coursework:

Learn how you want – listen to all of your course materials with our narrating audio learning option. With this new learning option, learn how, when, and where you want to stay compliant in California.


Courses:
  • California 9-Hour Combined Survey Course (OC): Examine seven specific topic areas for real estate professionals in California: ethics, agency, fair housing, trust fund handling, risk management, management and supervision, and implicit bias.
  • California 15-Hour Green Building Consumer Protection (OC): With environmental concerns escalating each year, the market for eco-friendly homes is flourishing. Learn how California is attempting to reduce its environmental footprint and how it can positively impact your real estate career.
  • California 11-Hour Consumer Protection Investment Course (OC): Gain a working knowledge of proper decision-making strategies for real estate investment. Review IRS rules and guidelines on §1031, grow your skills for working with investor clients, and explore negotiations, closings, and homebuyer credit scores.
  • California 7-Hour Elective Topics Course (OC): Learn how to become your clients’ go-to source for the complexities of home buying and mortgage financing options. Explore real estate financing options and the financing process, review laws and regulations that govern real estate financing transactions, and take an in-depth look at listing agreements.
  • California 4-Hour Marketing Elective Course (OC): Uncover how to develop innovative marketing strategies to maintain and develop relationships with past and future clients, generate leads, and gain an advantage over your competition.
  • May the Code Be With You: This course covers the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics, ethical practices, and decision-making in real estate. This course may be approvable for REALTORS® interested in fulfilling NAR’s Code of Ethics requirement. To find out, check with your local REALTORS® association.

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Individual California Real Estate Post-Licensing Courses

Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 11-Hour Consumer Protection Investment Course

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The real estate market can be fiercely competitive, particularly in the state of California. Being a successful real estate professional is not only dependent on building customer relationships or closing a sale. Your advancement in the industry is also reliant on a continuing intake of knowledge concerning new marketing strategies and developing investment trends in the field of California real estate. Learn more about these topics by taking our California 11-Hour Consumer Protection Investment Course. This course is designed to provide California real estate professionals with 11 hours of mandatory course material. This course also provides a wide array of information concerning real estate investment issues including a summary of the IRS rules and guidelines on §1031, an introduction to working with investor clients, negotiations, and the closing sale of a property, also an overview of homebuyer credit scores.
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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 15-Hour Green Building Consumer Protection

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The real estate market can be fiercely competitive, particularly in the state of California. Being a successful real estate professional is not only dependent on building customer relationships or closing a sale. Your advancement in the industry is also reliant on a continuing intake of knowledge concerning emerging industry trends or advancements in the field of California real estate. Recently, California has been attempting to reduce its environmental footprint by employing green building operations and practices. Learn more about these practices by taking our 15-Hour Green Building Consumer Protection Course. This course is designed to provide California real estate professionals with 15 hours of mandatory course material. This course also covers a wide array of “green” topics including a brief history of marijuana, the conflict between federal and state laws, and how the  new marijuana laws are affecting the real estate market, an introduction to a variety of methods for making a home more environmentally healthy, an overview of recent activity across the United States regarding the green building movement and how consumers are responding, an in depth look at the most important aspects of sealing and insulating a home, a study of property flood risk and how to disclose flood risk to prospective buyers, and an examination of paperless real estate transactions.
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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 2-Hour Implicit Bias Training

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Everyone seems to be talking about implicit bias and diversity. Implicit bias is the attitudes or stereotypes that affect an individual’s understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. Businesses offer training on it, politicians support it, the media extols it. But what exactly is implicit bias and diversity? Unfortunately, some real estate agents let their biases get in the way of working with people from diverse cultures. However, successful licensees realize that working with people from diverse cultural backgrounds creates an opportunity for business and possibly personal relationships.

Biases, preferences, attitudes, stereotypes, and prejudices are all examples of psychological constructs. Psychological constructs are mental associations that can influence a person’s behavior and feelings toward an individual or group. If the person is unaware of these mental associations, the biases, preferences, attitudes, stereotypes, or prejudices are said to be implicit.

Having biases or preconceived feelings is normal human behavior. Everyone has biases of one kind or another. It’s okay to have different likes and dislikes. Biases are harmless as long as they are about unimportant things, like preferring Pepsi over Coke (or vice-versa for you Coke lovers). But when we hold prejudices against other people, and then act on those prejudices in an illegal discriminatory way, we create all kinds of problems.
 

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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 3-Hour Agency Law

3
This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the California Department of Real Estate, and includes instruction in the coverage of agency relationships and duties in a modern real estate brokerage practice, including the disclosures to be made and the confidences to be kept in the various agency relationships between licensees and the parties to real estate transactions.
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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 3-Hour Ethics

3

This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by your state’s Real Estate Commission, and includes instruction in the history of the Code of Ethics, The Articles and Standards of Practice, due process, enforcement, arbitration, mediation, Article 2, 3, 12 and 16 of the Code of Ethics and Case studies.

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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 3-Hour Fair Housing with Role-Play Activity

3

This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the California Department of Real Estate, and includes instruction in Federal
and State fair housing laws relating to the sale and rental of real estate, selected Federal and State civil rights and anti-discrimination laws
relating to real property transactions and business establishments, the voluntary affirmative marketing agreement (VAMA) and its application
in the real estate industry, and how to avoid practices that could be considered discriminatory in commercial and residential transactions and facilities.
 

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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 3-Hour Risk Management

3
This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the California Department of Real Estate, and includes instruction in the principles, practices, and procedures calculated to avoid errors and omissions in the practice of real estate licensed activities, and the ability to recognize and resolve issues and appropriately handle situations that most frequently result in litigation.
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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 3-Hour Trust Fund Handling

3
This course will take you through all the subjects mandated by the California Department of Real Estate, and includes instruction in the legal requirements for receiving and handling trust funds in real estate transactions (as set forth in the Real Estate Law and the Regulations of the Real Estate Commissioner), the requisites for maintaining a trust fund account, and trust fund record keeping requirements.
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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California 9-Hour Combined Survey Course

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The course will examine seven specific topic areas: ethics, agency, fair housing, trust fund handling, risk management, management and supervision, and implicit bias. Both national and California-specific laws and legislation for each subject area will be discussed and the relevance to real estate agents explained. The various ways in which an agency relationship may be established, the types of relationships, and some features of agency agreements will be examined as well. Students will be introduced to those sections of the California Business and Professions Code that deal with ethical practices as well as the differences between business and personal ethics. The organizations responsible for enforcing Fair Housing will be examined as well as some of the penalties that a violator may face. The course will also discuss the proper procedures for opening and maintaining trust accounts. Students will explore what agents can do to assess the areas which present the highest risk to them, how to prepare for those risks and ways to shift risk to other professionals in the real estate industry. Further, we’ll review information pertinent to the proper management and supervision of a brokerage firm. Finally, the concept of implicit bias will be explored and strategies to improve interactions with diverse communities will be provided.

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Correspondence
Mandatory

Online Correspondence: California Management and Supervision

3

Brokers (sole practitioners or corporate broker-officers) who employ salespeople have a duty to supervise their 
licensed activities. As an agent of his or her employing broker, a salesperson has a duty to perform real estate 
activities in compliance the Real Estate Law and the Commissioner’s Regulations. The Department of Real Estate’s 
Enforcement Section receives a large number of complaints each year. Most (if not all) of these complaints could 
have been avoided simply by brokers properly supervising the licensed activities of their sales associates.

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Online
Non-Credit

May the Code Be With You

This continuing education course addresses the specifics of the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics and ethical practices and decision making for real estate professionals. Additionally, this course may potentially be approvable for REALTORS® who wish to fulfill Code of Ethics requirement from the National Association of REALTORS®. Check with your local REALTORS® association. 

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Elective

Online Correspondence: California 4-Hour Marketing Elective Course

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The real estate market can be fiercely competitive, particularly in the state of California. Being a successful real estate professional is not only dependent on building customer relationships or closing a sale. Your advancement in the industry is also reliant on a continuing intake of knowledge concerning new marketing strategies in the field of California real estate. Learn more about this topic by taking our California 4-Hour Marketing Elective Course. This course is designed to provide California real estate professionals with 4 hours of course material. This course will provide a wide array of information concerning real estate marketing and a list of tools necessary to successfully market, negotiate, and close the sale of a property, along with a “how to” guide on niche marketing.
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Correspondence
Elective

Online Correspondence: California 7-Hour Elective Topics Course

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The real estate market can be fiercely competitive, particularly in the state of California. Being a successful real estate professional is not only dependent on building customer relationships or closing a sale. Your advancement in the industry is also reliant on a continuing intake of knowledge concerning business practices associated with California’s residential real estate. Learn more about these practices by taking our 7-Hour Elective Topics Course. Topics of this course include an introductory explanation of real estate financing options, the financing process, and the laws and regulations that govern real estate financing transactions, an in-depth look at listing agreements, and a comprehensive review of fiduciary duties, the risks associated with real estate transactions, and the best practices for minimizing those risks.

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Correspondence
Consumer Protection

Online Correspondence: Cybersecurity: Protecting the Real Estate Transaction

3

In today’s technological society, we have more computing capabilities than ever. We are dependent on computers and other devices for our daily communications: from emails to social media to cloud-based apps and storage. We cannot imagine life without this! But what many of us don’t realize is that ruthless cybercriminals are waiting for opportunities to target organizations by spreading chaos and disruption to our network systems with the intention of stealing data and money. In this course, you will learn why real estate organizations are targeted, preventative measures to protect your data, and guidelines for establishing a cybersecurity policy manual.

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Correspondence
Elective

Online Correspondence: Helping Buyers Narrow in on Their Dream Home

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Sometimes buyers don’t know what they want, or they think they know what they want, but nothing is quite right.  This course will start with the importance of having buyers pre-approved for financing if they need it.  We will provide some techniques to help buyers prioritize the things they want in a home and adjust his or her standard buying strategies to suit the needs of different buyers.  While summarizing some important consumer preference studies we will shed light on how real estate licensees can simplify the home-buying process.  We know that every buyer is different and this course will drill down the facts to help buyers discover what they truly want in their home. 

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Correspondence
Consumer Protection

Online Correspondence: Property Condition Discovery and Disclosure Compliance

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Do you feel confident teaching your clients about the homebuying process? So many buyers go through the property search with unrealistic expectations only to end up disappointed. Some may even blame their agent if they can’t get the type of home they want. This course provides you with tools, techniques, and ideas to educate buyers and guide them through the homebuying process, so they know exactly what to expect and what they need to do to successfully find and purchase the home they want.
In chapter 1, we will explore ways to help buyers get ready to buy before they start their search, from getting their finances in order to understanding the local market. In chapter 2, we’ll look at ways to help them conduct their search, structure their offer, and negotiate with the seller. Finally, we will learn how to prepare them for their responsibilities from contract to closing in chapter 3.
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Correspondence
Consumer Protection

Online Correspondence: Real Estate Interests and Land Use

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A 9-hour continuing education course which covers real property interests, public restrictions on land use, and adjacent owner issues.
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Correspondence
Consumer Protection

Online Correspondence: Sales Comparison Techniques

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A 9-hour continuing education course which covers the appraisal process, property inspection and the sales comparison approach.
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Correspondence
Consumer Protection

Online Correspondence: Service, Support and Companion Animals

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Do you feel confident teaching your clients about the homebuying process? So many buyers go through the property search with unrealistic expectations only to end up disappointed. Some may even blame their agent if they can’t get the type of home they want. This course provides you with tools, techniques, and ideas to educate buyers and guide them through the homebuying process, so they know exactly what to expect and what they need to do to successfully find and purchase the home they want.
In chapter 1, we will explore ways to help buyers get ready to buy before they start their search, from getting their finances in order to understanding the local market. In chapter 2, we’ll look at ways to help them conduct their search, structure their offer, and negotiate with the seller. Finally, we will learn how to prepare them for their responsibilities from contract to closing in chapter 3.
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Consumer Service

Online Correspondence: Serving Generational Clients

3

As our nation changes over time, you need to stay aware of demographic shifts that impact the buying and selling of real estate. Demographics refer to statically gathered information that characterizes a given population by distinctive criteria. For instance, demographic analysis may divide persons into groups based on age, income, gender, or religion. And persons in a defined demographic group tend to demonstrate similar characteristics, such as preferred methods of shopping or a bias toward buying products with certain features.

In this course, we focus on demographic groups of people called generation groups. In Chapter 1, you will learn about the label for generation groups based on birth year and life experiences. In Chapters 2 and 3, you will learn about generational-specific buying and selling trends and how to better identify and serve the individualized needs of group members. Specifically, Chapters 2 and 3 cover a detailed review of the following four topics based on current home buying trends to ensure agents have important tools for guiding different generation group members through the home buying process:

  • Environmentally-friendly homes
  • Accessory dwelling units
  • Planned unit developments
  • First-time home buyer preparedness
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Correspondence
Consumer Service

Online Correspondence: The Who, What and Why of Escrow

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A 9-hour continuing education course which covers the escrow process, escrow instructions, and opening escrow.
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Correspondence
Consumer Service

Online Correspondence: Workforce Housing: Solutions for Homes and Financing

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Do you feel confident teaching your clients about the homebuying process? So many buyers go through the property search with unrealistic expectations only to end up disappointed. Some may even blame their agent if they can’t get the type of home they want. This course provides you with tools, techniques, and ideas to educate buyers and guide them through the homebuying process, so they know exactly what to expect and what they need to do to successfully find and purchase the home they want.
In chapter 1, we will explore ways to help buyers get ready to buy before they start their search, from getting their finances in order to understanding the local market. In chapter 2, we’ll look at ways to help them conduct their search, structure their offer, and negotiate with the seller. Finally, we will learn how to prepare them for their responsibilities from contract to closing in chapter 3.
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FAQs

What is the post-license course in California real estate?

The 45 Hour real estate Post License course in California contains practical training and information about real estate business planning, prospecting, and real estate documents. This Post License course is all you need to fulfill the state requirements to renew your California Real Estate License. 

How do I renew my real estate license in California?

To renew a real estate license as a newly licensed salesperson, you need to meet the post-licensing requirements by completing a 45-hour post-licensing course in California. 

How soon do you need to complete the real estate Post-Licensing course in California?

In California, you will have to complete a 45-Hour real estate post license course within 12 months of acquiring your license.

How much does a real estate post-license course cost in California?

At Colibri, a real estate post-license course generally costs $69 in California. 

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