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GRI Cancellation/Refund policy:

GRI/MRE Cancellation/Refund Policy: If the course is canceled or the student withdraws at least 5 days prior to the course in writing, a full refund will be issued. Cancellation within 5 days of the course will result in a refund of the tuition less a 25% cancellation charge. If the student fails to appear for class or fails to cancel, no refund will be issued. Any refund due to the student will be issued with in 30 days of cancellation subject to receipt of a written request.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JCAR Cancellation/Refund policy:

A full refund will be issued to the student if 1) the course or event is canceled by JCAR, 2) the student withdraws from the class three (3) days in advance of the scheduled course. Cancellation less than 3 days of the course will result in a 75% refund of tuition. Students withdrawing on the date of the course will result in a 50% refund of tuition. Students may also opt to have the tuition credited to their education account. Requests for refunds must be in writing.

If a student fails to appear for the course and/or fails to cancel, no refund or credit will be issued.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Broker Administration

Course Objective: To protect the public by providing a course of study to aspiring employing brokers for the practical application of laws, rules and sound business practices for the establishment and everyday management, operation and supervision of a real estate brokerage company. This course is a requirement for upgrade to employing broker.

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Public Trustee Foreclosures

This class is intended to familiarize the student with the Public Trustee Foreclosure System in Colorado. It will cover the system's history, purpose and description. The course will cover the foreclosure process and timelines throughout its various stages. It will address current issues and trends in the foreclosure arena today, as well as to address the real estate professional's role in the process, so that the student can gain a practical understanding of the foreclosure process. This class is taught by Gary Kujawski, Esq., Director of title Operations-Foreclosure/Investor Division of Title America

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Commission Update

Get the latest information on legislation and regulations direct from the Real Estate Commission. Required of all REALTORS.

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Ethics Update

The National Association of REALTORS recently added a requirement for REALTOR membership. As of January 1, 2001 all REALTORS must take an Ethics Update course every four years in order to maintain their REALTOR membership. If you have NOT taken an Ethics class since January of 2001, you must do so by December 31, 2004, and every four years thereafter in order to remain a member in good standing. This requirement is completely distinct and separate from the Real Estate Commission Update requirement. However, JCAR has obtained CE credit for the Ethics Update course and it therefore applies toward the elective credits required to renew your license.

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Publisher: Make Your Own Marketing Materials


Make eye-catching flyers, postcards, and other marketing materials, with Microsoft Publisher. Create just listed and just sold announcements for your farm areas.

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Digital Cameras and the REALTOR


Digital cameras have become a standard tool of the trade, but do you know how to make it work for your business needs? Don't forget to consider your ethical obligation as you "touchup" photos! Too much manipulation can get you in serious trouble. Learn more by attending this fun and interactive class.

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CRS 210: Building an Exceptional Customer Service Referral Business


A highly interactive course designed to deliver all the essentials for refocusing the students business plan to a customer service centered, repeat and referral business. The information provided will help identify the expectations of the new consumer, the new behaviors necessary to meet those expectations and specific systems to make the agents business more productive, more profitable and more enjoyable.

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How To Attract More Buyers & Create More Sales

Jeff Elias will show you how a better grasp of financing and real estate tax laws will substantially increase your sales volume and commission income while giving your buyers and sellers exactly what they want. Jeff covers eleven new ideas for buying agents and ten new ideas for selling agents in this class.

 

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Spanish for REALTORS

This class is designed to give the Real Estate agent an overview of Spanish so they can better serve the growing Hispanic market in the Denver metro area. This class is important as the amount of Hispanics looking to buy Real Estate keeps growing on a daily basis. In order to make the Latin community feel comfortable when purchasing a home it is often helpful for the agent to be able to communicate with them and ask them key questions about what the client is interested in.

 

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Perfect Assistant Workshop: If you don't have one, you are one

Perfect Assistant is one of only two accredited training programs in the US that offers specialized, in-depth, organized, systematic, personal real estate training. The 2 day workshop is presented in a concise, interesting and formatted handbook, which serves as a business planning tool for the assistant, agent and team. Topics include: Business planning, Time Management, systems and checklists, Pro active marketing, Database management, Organization and delegation, Customer and client support, Processes implementation, Lead generation and follow up, Contract administration, Computer support, Goal development. JCAR members get a $100.00 discount and an agent may attend with an associate for $145.00.
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Intro to the Internet: The Internet and the Real Estate Professional


Get the essential skills on how to use the Internet. Learn to track online listing information for accuracy, and use various search functions and techniques to find and learn state and national guidelines, regulations and information.

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MRE How to be a Good Transaction Broker


This course covers the legal background of a Transaction Broker, disclosures required, methods of representation, Code of Ethics concerns, changing relationships, in-house and out-of-house roles and contract provisions.

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Doing Business on the Net (Intermediate Internet)


This course is designed to provide real estate professionals the skills necessary to use the Internet for increased productivity, profitability and improved services for their clients. It is not necessary to take the introductory level class prior to taking this if you have some familiarity with the Internet.

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Creating a Listing Presentation with PowerPoint

Create professional-quality presentations with this easy-to-learn program! You will learn how to create slides, add exciting transitions and animation, and save your presentation to play on another PC.

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MRE ADVANCED LAW III - CREATIVE FINANCING

(8 HOURS). This course investigates alternatives to traditional financing methods to provide students with the ability to make more transactions happen. Students will analyze unique scenarios of transactions that seem to be destined to failure, but by applying creativity and resourcefulness, the broker can bring buyers and sellers together by better understanding the debt instruments. Students will be able to envision applications that better serve sophisticated buyers and sellers.

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MRE ADVANCED LAW IV - DISTRESSED SALES -

(8 HOURS). This course delves into the foreclosure process and will provide students with the knowledge to be able to assist sellers in distress, sell their property and possibly purchase again.

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MRE Mediation: Negotiation Skills for REALTORS


Mediation is the alternative dispute resolution process of the future, and increasingly of the present. Students will learn to use professional techniques to avoid conflicts and negotiate better in their transactions, as well as to resolve conflicts when they do arise.

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MRE Advanced Contracts


This course delves into the foreclosure process and will provide students with the knowledge to be able to assist sellers in distress, sell their property and possibly purchase again.

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MRE Water Rights


Designed to provide an understanding of where the most common areas of liability in relation to water rights exist in everyday real estate transactions. This "user friendly" course will point out the red flags and risk management practices that will help reduce confusion and increase service to buyers and sellers.

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Real Estate Tax Update -Mary Lou Schwab, CPA, Bankers Escrow

Concise Review of Current Tax Law for Real Estate. Learn

**Primary Residence Sales
**New Tax Rates
**Rental Property Tax Rules
**Vacation Homes-what's deductible and when reportable
**Installment Sales
**Home Office Deductions - pitfalls & audit risks
**Foreclosures, repossessions & condemnations
**1031 Exchange Update
**REALTOR Tax Advise No No's!

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MRE elective Borrow with Confidence


Students will learn how to assist minorities to own homes by sizing the opportunity, and knowing what the current market trends are in addition to leaning the ramifications of local public policy on local housing issues.

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1031 Exchanges, Simple to Complex

-Mary Lou Schwab, CPA, Bankers Escrow

What you will learn:

**Discover how to double your commissions
**Protect yourself with proper disclosures & assignments required for a 1031 exchange
**Gain knowledge on reverse, construction, multi-use & complex Exchanges
**Determine your Investment Tax Saving potential & debt reduction strategy
**Concise 1031 Exchange Overview

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1031 Tax Exchanges - Kennan Cohen, Asset Preservation Inc.
"A Subsidiary of Stewart Title Company"

Understand basic and advanced 1031 exchange principles and procedures by learning to analyze the local market and apply creative 1031 exchange strategies to stimulate new business. This class will also help you develop your skills at solving a wide range of investor problems and how improvement and reverse exchanges will provide new options for you to offer your investors. Complete 1031 exchange closing procedures will be discussed.

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MRE Advanced Closings


This course is designed to give students an opportunity to explore and prepare for their role as the listing or selling licensee in a transaction from contract acceptance through closing follow-up. Students will gain insight into how to practice preventive techniques that will ensure successful closings and provide superior client/customer service and satisfaction while protecting the rights and interests of those served.

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Investment Analysis
- Kennan Cohen, Asset Preservation Inc. "A Subsidiary of Stewart Title Company"

Enhance your skills by mastering how to determine what an investor wants to accomplish with their investment and how to price and market investment properties. You'll walk away with the skills to utilize investment analysis to unlock new sources of income from your clients and learn new strategies for listing and selling investment properties. As an added benefit, you'll gain the knowledge to analyze the local market and apply creative 1031 exchange strategies to stimulate new business and solve a wide range of investor problems. Acquiring the knowledge of how to use improvement & reverse exchanges will provide new options for you to present to your investors.

A calculator of any kind is required for this class!


 

 

 

 

 


MRE Listing and Selling Business Opportunities


Learn contract preparation, evidence of title, licenses and permits. Gain confidence in how to better serve clients more professionally.

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MRE Clauses for Winners


Learn what makes a good clause which can make all the difference in a transaction. Guidelines and techniques to writing winning clauses are reviewed.

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The Internet and the Real Estate Professional (Intro to the Internet)

Get the essential skills on how to use the Internet. Learn to track online listing information for accuracy, and use various search functions and techniques to find the information you need.

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FINANCIAL STRATEGIES FOR REAL ESTATE INVESTORS (REALTORS)

-Learn how to use all types of financial tools to create real estate wealth.
-Learn how to reduce investment risks.
-Learn the latest income tax/estate tax strategies for Real Estate Investors.
-Learn ways to help clients make good real estate decisions
-Learn secrets of exchange counseling.
For over 13 years, this has been one of the most sought after CE courses. In
fact, many brokers want to repeat this course every three years. In eight
information packed hours, broker/investors receive an overview of underlying
principles on how to create real estate wealth. The applications of the financial
tools and latest Real Estate tax strategies enhance the real estate professional's
ability to advise their clients on investment strategies. This year, more in-depth
information on EXCHANGE COUNSELING and how brokers can use this powerful
technique to help their clients in tough markets has been added.

As part of the tuition, students receive a 160-page study book, plus options for
up to $750 of free consultation with Financial Advisor, CPA and Attorney
instructors.

Dynamic Instructors for this Class Include David L. Keller, CLU ChFC, EMS, Certified
Teacher; William Holben, CPA; and William Schmidt, LLB, Estate Planning Attorney
Cost is $125. (Spouses are encouraged to attend at no extra cost.)

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MARKETING AND BUSINESS PLANNING

No transactions in the pipeline?
This quick, fun and hands on class will position you for success in the New Year.
In this class you will define your goals and decide the niches you would like to work.

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GRI: AT HOME WITH DIVERSITY

(6 HOURS). This course is an educational experience designed to present a picture of the changing face of the real estate industry, and, more importantly, how a real estate professional can increase sensitivity and adaptability to future market trends in order to thrive as an effective service provider and community leader. Students will heighten their awareness of and sensitivity to the social and cultural constituencies of local real estate markets: who is there; what their values, customs, norms and real estate needs are; and what they expect from their broker. Also the class will provide practical skills and tools to increase the professional's effectiveness in servicing all social groups, taking into account their cultural differences; specifically skills in cross-cultural communication and strategic business planning that together embrace the diversity of local real estate markets and bring real estate professionals and local communities into productive contact.

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AGENCY AND DISCLOSING BROKERAGE RELATIONSHIPS (6 HOURS)


This Real Estate Agency class is part one of the three part sequence which includes the Listing Contracts class and the Selling Contracts class. All three classes should be taken to ensure that all duties and obligations are understood. In the industry, the practice of agency cannot be separated from the contracts and forms that are used in the practice of real estate in Colorado. Students will demonstrate their competency by the correct use of the forms and contracts, in addition to their other duties under the law. Failure to act in accordance with the agency law will expose the REALTOR to serious legal consequences, and possible loss of license.


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GRI: AT HOME WITH DIVERSITY (6 HOURS)


This course is an educational experience designed to present a picture of the changing face of the real estate industry, and, more importantly, how a real estate professional can increase sensitivity and adaptability to future market trends in order to thrive as an effective service provider and community leader. Students will heighten their awareness of and sensitivity to the social and cultural constituencies of local real estate markets: who is there; what their values, customs, norms and real estate needs are; and what they expect from their broker. Also the class will provide practical skills and tools to increase the professional?s effectiveness in servicing all social groups, taking into account their cultural differences; specifically skills in cross-cultural communication and strategic business planning that together embrace the diversity of local real estate markets and bring real estate professionals and local communities into productive contact. Note: this course qualifies for the NAR certification course: At Home With Diversity.

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Water & Property: What every Colorado REALTOR needs to know (8 Hours)


This course is designed to assist brokers working with the water section of the Real Estate contract. It is a preventative class to help avoid pitfalls, red flags and other risks. The class covers contract water verbiage, getting value for your buyer or seller, use of the phrase "all water rights," and transfer of wells and water rights. If you have any intention of selling property with a well, water rights or septic tank as they appear in the property disclosure, then this class is for you.


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MARKETING AND SELLING NEW HOMES (6 HOURS)


Students will be introduced to the tools needed to work effectively with builders and competently with buyers looking for new homes. New marketing strategies will introduce new customer and client niches, construction and design techniques, and business practices to ensure successful new home transactions.

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How to Increase Your Sales: Working with Buyers Who have had a Bankruptcy or have Other Credit Issues

Learn all the facts about credit reports and how they work, how to repair someone's report, what the buyer needs to qualify for a mortgage, how to become a credit expert, and how bexst to market to these buyers. Bankruptcies, foreclosures and people with credit problems are everywhere. There are more and more buyers with credit issues. Some have collections, some have late payments, and they don't know how to deal with them. Learn how to become the expert and turn these prospective buyers into valuable, referring clients!

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My Commission or Yours? Procuring Cause Guidelines

 

My Commission or Yours? : Procuring Cause Guidelines has been recently added to the MRE Program as a 4 hour class. This course will give REALTORS who serve on Professional Standards Hearing Panels additional training on those considerations which commonly occur in arbitration cases. In addition, any REALTOR will benefit by learning what procedures and policies can be implemented to insure that the REALTOR who is responsible for the sale receives the commission promised.

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Selling and Living Through A Foreclosure Property

Will cover:
Pre-Filing or default period
Rule 120 Procedure
Public Trustee foreclosure process
Possession, receivers and rents
Judicial action to stop a sale
Bankruptcy
Deed in lieu of foreclosure
Short payoff
Tax implications IRS Critical Information
Deficiency judgment
Insurance
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HUD's Programs

Presented by Douglas E. Neff, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). 1) Learn about the Streamline K Program and HUD Energy Efficiency Programs! 2) Gain knowledge of a program that will solve more buyers' property objections and assist them with basic repair costs of $5,000 to $15,000. 3) Understanding how homeowners can save money on utility bills by enabling them to finance the cost of adding energy-efficiency features to new or existing housing as part of their FHA-insured home pruchase or refinancing mortgage.

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ABR Designation course

The overall goals of the ABR Designation course are to educated and prepare buyer's reps to provide the kind of service and fidelity to buyers that sellers have always enjoyed, and to offer methods for building your buyer representation business. In each course module, you will examine a different topic, and together they create a comprehensive guide to help you become an effective, efficient--and profitable--buyers representative. After completing this two-day course and successfully passing the exam, you will have achiever ABR Candidate status, athree-year period during which you must fulfill the ABR Designation requirements to earn your ABR Designation.

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Upcoming Classes:
Ed Calendar

Mar 9
10am-12pm
Foreclosures
$15.00
Gary Kujawski
2

Mar 9
1pm-3pm
Short Sales
$15.00
Gary Kujawski
2

Mar 10
9am-12pm
Contracts: Sales Contract Issues
$35.00
Oliver Frascona
3

Mar 10
1pm-5pm
Working with Sellers
$50.00
Oliver Frascona
4

Mar 11
1pm-4pm
REALTOR Watch
Free
Jeffco Sheriffs
3

Mar 12
8am-12pm
NAR Ethics Update
$35.00
Wally Armistead
4

Mar 17
1pm-3pm
HUD Home Buying & FHA Down Payment Assistance
$15.00
Ashley Hickmon
2

Mar 22
10am-12pm
Contracts & Consequences
$20.00
Bruce Jordan
2

Mar 23
9am-11pm
Title Concerns
$15.00
Gary Kujawski
2

Mar 23
1pm-3pm
Estates, Probate & Title
$15.00
Gary Kujawski
2

Safety Tip #34

Shred your personal papers.
Thoroughly shred all papers with personal information before you throw them away. Shred unwanted credit card applications and "convenience checks" that come in the mail, credit card receipts with your account number, outdated financial papers and papers containing your clients’ personal information.

For more information on the important topic of REALTOR® safety, check out NAR's safety site at www.REALTOR.org/Safety
or view all 52 tips.


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