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Home Study Courses Online
Real Estate CE - America's Best
The courses below were created by
America's Best. For more information on any course,
click on the Course Title.
To register for any of the
courses, click on the register button below and you will be
taken to
America's Best website to complete the registration process.
Environmental Basics -
6 Hrs. - $55
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Environmental factors that
may require disclosure in a listing agreement;
environmental hazards with which a licensee should be
aware for residential, commercial and developers. Lead,
radon, asbestos, formaldehyde, Urea Formaldehyde Foam
Insulation, biological pollutants, mold, the importance
of clean water, wetlands.
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Georgia Brokerage & Trust
Accounts -
6 Hrs. - $55
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This excellent course, authored by Greg Dunn, provides
the licensee with an extensive overview of the Georgia
real estate brokerage business, the issues involved in
managing a brokerage firm, and the requirements of
related contracts and agreements. It covers the factors
and responsibilities associated with managing trust
accounts and the Georgia and federal laws regulating
brokerage firms and trust accounts.
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Home Inspection - 6 Hrs. - $55
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This is a basic course. About home inspection; the Home
Inspector; Inspecting the property; Exterior building
inspection; interior inspection- walls, ceilings,
floors, insulation & Vapor barriers, Ventilation; Steps,
Stairs & Railings, Patios & Porches, Heating & Air
Conditioning, Cabinets & counters, Doors & windows,
Fireplaces & Woodstoves, Plumbing & electrical, MOLD.
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Home Inspection - 6 Hrs. - $55 |
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This is a basic course. About home inspection; the Home
Inspector; Inspecting the property; Exterior building
inspection; interior inspection- walls, ceilings,
floors, insulation & Vapor barriers, Ventilation; Steps,
Stairs & Railings, Patios & Porches, Heating & Air
Conditioning, Cabinets & counters, Doors & windows,
Fireplaces & Woodstoves, Plumbing & electrical, MOLD.
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Real Estate Math
- 6 Hrs. - $55 |
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Fractions, decimals and percentages; measurements;
prorations. Designed to provide the licensee with a
check of his /her math knowledge and to help reinforce
what is already known. Interactive problems and an
interesting approach to learning.
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Tax Strategies for the Independent
Contractor - 6 Hrs. - $55 |
A Basic Overview:
- A Basic Tax Return Format;
- Avoiding "Hobby Loss" Or "Not-for-profit"
Classification;
- "Ordinary" And "Necessary" Business Expenses;
- "Cash" Versus "Accrual" Accounting Methods;
- "Employee" Versus "Independent Contractor" Status;
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Ethics of Sustainability -
4 Hrs. - $45 |
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By exploring human ecosystems and the role an ethical,
environmentally responsible real estate professional can
play in their long-term sustainability and well-being,
the Ethics of Sustainability course explains how
and why the real estate profession must change to make
itself relevant to a radically more challenging future.
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Human Land Use -
4 Hrs. - $45 |
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Definitions of land and land use; four powers reserved
by the state; property ownership; court decisions
affecting land use controls and zoning; land
description; site programming; analysis of site context
and surrounding land use; sources of climate and weather
information, microclimate, water resources and watershed
planning; geology, geologic and other natural hazards,
soil survey; concept of highest and best use in the
context of global sustainability; land use conflict with
respect to mining, agriculture and developed land uses;
relationship between human quality of life and land use.
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Pricing Property -
4 Hrs. - $45 |
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The concepts and types and approaches to value - CMA,
Cost approach, Income approach basic economic principles
of value; market value; market price; highest and best
use; substitution; supply and demand; conformity;
anticipation; contribution; competition; change.
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ADA Fair Housing -
3 Hrs. - $35 |
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The goal of this course is to enable participants to
comply with the fair housing laws and ADA by approaching
all consumers in the same manner regardless of race,
color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or
national origin. History of Fair Housing in the USA. The
seven protected classes, exemptions from the fair
housing laws; fair housing violations and application of
fair housing exemptions; the difference between legal
and illegal advertising under the fair housing laws; the
penalties for violations of the fair housing laws; The
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA).
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Community Ethics -
3 Hrs. - $35 |
- This course
is designed to inform practicing and prospective real
estate professionals about the tested and proven ethical
strategies that make communities of any kind
increasingly productive. These principles will be
applied to the real estate professional community.
- This course
helps one understand "productivity" in a human
community, as well as the principal strategies evolved
over billions of years of biological adaptation to
advance and sustain such productivity. These strategies
lead inevitably to a system of ethical principles that
will improve both the productivity of one's professional
practice as well as the quality of one's professional
and personal life.
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always-limited resources and the constant potential for
violent and often lethal conflict, nature evolved
powerful strategies that, over 4.6 billion years,
resulted in a progression of increasingly complex,
increasingly productive communities. Those principles,
applied to the real estate industry in general and to
brokerage offices in particular, mandate a system of
ethics that results in greater and more sustained
professional productivity and significantly improves
quality of life in our work environment, homes and
communities.
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Review of the requirements for a valid contract;
various types of real estate contracts; how contracts
may be discharged; Distinguish among bilateral and
unilateral, executed and executory and valid, void and
voidable contracts.
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Energy Resources - 3 Hrs. - $35 |
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course concerns the concept of energy, what it does, its
principal sources and the evolution of human energy
reliance. It will help the student gain an understanding
of the current use of energy in the U.S. in the
industrial, transportation, residential and commercial
sectors, the fuels used, and some of the technological
advances for conservation. Topics covered include the
challenges of global warming, the nature and sources of
greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol, and the problems
global warming is causing and likely to cause in a
variety of settings in the world. Also discussed are the
nature and effects of global oil depletion, the Hubbert
curve, some possibilities for future energy supplies,
and the ideological standoff between supporters of
growth versus conservation as it relates to any further
reliance on coal and nuclear power. The student will
gain knowledge of the dire predictions of running out of
cheap energy, the nature of Earth's biosphere as a
complex, hierarchic, adaptive, self-organizing system,
the threat of a major phase transition, and the promise
of New Urbanism as one approach to addressing the
transition to a new energy regime in a more urban
setting.
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Georgia License Law - 3 Hrs. - $35
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general purposes of the real estate license law; how
license laws / statutes and administrative rules are
created and their differences. The significant
differences of these licensing terms - real estate
broker, associate broker, salesperson, branch manager
and designated broker. The powers and duties of the
director of the Department of licensing and of the real
estate commission. The major grounds for disciplinary
action against licensees and the procedures outlined in
the license law that address disciplinary actions. The
role of the designated / individual broker regarding
supervision of affiliated licensees; The purpose of a
broker's trust account and depositing requirements;
required procedures when a licensee leaves a brokerage
firm voluntarily, or the broker terminates the licensee.
basic office requirements for operating a real estate
company in Georgia; the licensee's requirements
regarding presenting of written offers, counteroffers
and addenda. Agency relationships; disclosure laws;
landlord tenant law.
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Meth Madness -
3 Hrs. - $35 |
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course was designed to make licensees aware of the
dangers of Methamphetamine labs to the environment, to
real property ownership and to innocent lives of
customers, clients and the real estate practitioner.
What is Meth and what are the health risks; How to
recognize a Meth lab; Meth ingredients; Clean-up.
Resources for more information.
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Real Estate Ethics -
3 Hrs. - $35 |
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General Business Ethics; Brief History of the Code of
Ethics; The Preamble in detail; The Structure of the
Code of Ethics; Code of Ethics (2004) reference copy;
Articles vs. Standards of Practice; Key concepts
associated with Articles: 1, 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 16 and 17,
with detail of specific related Standards of Practice;
Key concepts: mediation, arbitration and procuring
cause. Enforcement of the Code of Ethics; Who May File a
Complaint?; Who May Judge a Complaint? Case
Interpretations and structured questions regarding the
Articles and Standards of Practice.
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Water Resources -
3 Hrs. - $35 |
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Analyze and put current global and U.S. water use in the
context of water supply; evaluate global population
growth in perspective, including U.S. population growth
and policy; Diagram the history of the environmental
movement in the U.S. and the genesis of environmental
legislation; Point and no-point sources of water
pollution; water quality standards; natural wetlands -
distribution, history and ecological value; worlds
oceans and their zonation; costal and marine
environmental problems; floods; water conservation.
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System Requirements
While you may use the minimal requirements shown below, we recommend using a
faster system and faster internet connection. Some courses may take time to
download on 56k modem. If your computer is not up to par, the local library
should have on-site computers available and connected to the internet free of
charge.
- IBM PC Compatible Computer (minimum 200 MHz processor with 32MB RAM)
- Sound Card with speakers or headphones
- SVGA (800x600) video card, driver, and monitor
- Microsoft Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
- Internet connection (minimum 56Kbps recommended)
- Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or greater
- Macromedia Shockwave/Flash Player
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