AOR Essentials

The course emphasizes that the standards of ethical conduct in the practice of real estate are based upon the National Association of Realtors® Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice and upon federal and state laws governing conduct applicable to the practice of real estate. The concept of misrepresentation and all of its implications to the daily practice of real estate is discussed in detail. This course is an article-by-article dissection of the Code of Ethics, organized in three major topic areas:

1. The licensee's ethical conduct with respect to clients and customers
2. The licensee's duty to the public
3. The licensee's duties to fellow Realtors®

A detailed discussion of specific ethical conduct under each of these three general categories will give the licensee an excellent basis upon which to conduct an ethical practice of real estate.

NAR members are required to complete 2.5 hours of Ethics training every renewal period. This course qualifies towards NAR membership renewal.

Course Materials

This course is composed of 2.5 hours of reading material, including two appendixes. The course is divided into five segments with review quizzes at the end of each segment.

At the end of the course a final examination is required. The final examination consists of 15 questions. A test score of 75% or greater is required for course completion. 

This course is designed to give a historical overview of the Federal Fair Housing Laws and an in-depth discussion of the individual laws and their application to the practice of real estate. A discussion of the State of California Fair Housing laws is also included.

The course emphasizes anti-discriminatory conduct which all licensees should practice. The course concludes by discussing the voluntary affirmative action marketing program (VAMA) and why promoting fair housing laws is a positive force at work in California and throughout the nation.

Course Materials:

This course is composed of 4 chapters of reading material. Review questions are placed in between reading sections, along with topic discussions and quizzes.

Students must pass a final exam at the end of the course. The final exam consists of 10 questions and requires 75% to pass. 

This Safety Course is designed to help keep you safe when working with sellers and buyers, marketing yourself and your homes online, when doing open houses.  If proper safety measures are taken ahead of time, most unsafe situations can be avoided. Practicing these safety measures is important for keeping our buyers and sellers safe, and most importantly in keeping ourselves safe. 

This course is designed to teach you easy to follow safety guidelines that will help you AVOID unsafe situations.  Many unsafe situations can be avoided by implementing safety measures every day.  

The topics covered in this Safety course are:

• Safety When Working with Sellers

• Safety When Working with Buyers

• Safety When Marketing Homes and Yourself

• How to Safely Hold an Open House

This course will cover the impact of implicit bias, explicit bias, and systemic bias on consumers, the historical and social impacts of those biases, and actionable steps students can take to recognize and address their own implicit biases. Students will learn what is a implicit bias, explicit bias, and systemic bias and the impact those have on a person or group on a conscious and unconscious level. We'll also explore the historical and social impacts of bias and recognize and address implicit bias, including addressing a real estate licensee's own bias.

Course Content

The course is divided into four chapters of reading material. An optional review quiz follows each chapter.

At the end of the course is 10-question final exam in multiple-choice question format. A test score of 75% or greater is required for course completion.  

As you likely know, there is change happening in residential real estate right now concerning the way brokers are compensated. One of the reasons for the impact on the real estate industry is recent legal developments, both active litigation and past and potential regulatory action. Because litigation takes a long time from inception to final conclusions, including the potential for years of appeals, it is unclear exactly how, or whether, the court cases involving real estate commissions will conclusively change the industry.

This course is meant to distinguish fact from rumor, clarify what practices are legally permissible even if not common practice, and identify how the current environment, including legal uncertainty and delay, are prompting changes affecting real estate licensees right now. More specifically, this course is about how to address buyer agent representation agreements in your daily real estate practice.

This course will provide a few different means of getting these representation agreements signed by your buyer, depending on the market you work in and on your level of comfort with negotiating. Even if you are uncomfortable discussing these agreements with clients, this course will provide an easy, straightforward method of doing so.