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Bronze Package

Louisiana Real Estate Continuing Education Course: 12-Hr. LA Sales 2023 CE Package

Bronze Package

  • LREC 2023 Mandatory Course (4 mandatory hours)
  • Assistance Animals and Fair Housing (4 elective hours)
  • Residential Property Management Essentials (4 elective hours)

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$821

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Silver Package

Louisiana Real Estate Continuing Education Course: 12-Hr. LA Sales 2023 CE Package (With Ethics Course)

Silver Package

  • LREC 2023 Mandatory Course (4 mandatory hours)
  • Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (3 elective hours)*
  • Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients (2 elective hours)
  • Growing Green: Environmental Awareness and Your Real Estate Practice (3 elective hours)

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$821

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LA Salesperson Real Estate Licensing Package

Here’s a glimpse of what you get with our Salesperson License Package

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TWELVE LREC APPROVED COURSES

This complete package includes 4 mandatory and 8 elective CE hours for the total 12 hours required for active sales license renewals.

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MULTIPLE TRAINING DELIVERY METHODS

We understand the need for convenience, ease and flexibility. You can choose from any of the delivery method; In-person Classes, Virtual Classroom, Online Self-paced, and Online Interactive to fit your learning style.

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PASSING EXAM IN THE FIRST ATTEMPT

Fortune Academy has the highest pass rates in the state for last several decades. We assure passing your class and state exam in the first attempt or you get your money back - guaranteed.

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24/7 EXPERT CONNECT

You can connect with a Real Estate guru at any time to ask any question or seek help with your training program. We are available 24/7 via phone, email and chat to provide support for your career success.

Individual Real Estate Courses for LA Continuing Education

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Technology Tools, Trends, and Risk Management

Technology is a tool. Used wisely, it can free up time usually spent on mundane tasks to allow licensees to work at a higher (and higher touch) level...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Technology tools to enhance service to sellers, including drones, live streaming, single-property sites, and speaking photos; ways to minimize risks involved in their use
  • How to use technology to secure buyer representation agreements, assist buyers with financing qualifications, and pre-showing data to help them make informed purchasing and financing decisions
  • Technological advances in transaction management, including document sharing, electronic signatures, cloud storage, and photo, document, and email organization software, and identify risk management safeguards for online data storage and transaction
  • management
  • Technology tools you can use now to provide enhanced client service, and emerging trends to watch for
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Foundations of Real Estate Finance

Financing is integral to real estate transactions, and the more you know about how buyers qualify, the better you'll be able to help both buyers...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Roles and regulations of FNMA, GNMA, FHLMC, FHA, and VA
  • Affordability Worksheet, to assist clients in calculating their maximum affordable purchase price
  • Homebuyer Do's and Don'ts
  • Calculating LTV, front-end and back-end ratios, and monthly mortgage payments
  • Details and qualification requirements for several popular
  • financing options
  • 6 Credit Hours
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Keeping it Honest: Understanding Real Estate and Mortgage Fraud

Fraud has become a major issue in the industry. Lawbreakers use real estate as a vehicle to steal the life savings of unsuspecting homeowners and...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Fraud and its impact on the real estate industry
  • The newest and most prevalent types of fraudulent schemes
  • Red flag behaviors that suggest someone is engaging in fraud R
  • How to report fraudulent or suspected fraudulent activities to the proper authorities\Key government initiatives aimed at stopping fraud and protecting consumers
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Personal Safety

Attacks on real estate professionals have made headlines at an alarmingly more frequent rate in recent years. After an incident where a licensee is...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Crime statistics and studies that challenge preconceived notions
  • Risk factors and vulnerabilities that unique to real estate professionals
  • Case studies to illustrate how criminals target their victims
  • How to develop a personal warning system and trust your instincts when something feels “off”
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Did You Serve? Identifying Homebuying Advantages for Veterans

With more than 20 million veterans living in the U.S. today, real estate professionals can provide a valuable service to a strong client base by...

Topics Covered Include:

  • A glimpse into the military lifestyle, what it means to serve, and how best to communicate with those who served
  • Tools and techniques for informing veterans on the benefits available to them
  • VA home loan program benefits, qualifications, and process
  • Strategies for identifying appropriate home options for Veterans
  • Myths and misconceptions about VA loans
  • Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients

The real estate market reflects our nation's diverse population, and the successful real estate professional understands and adapts to each...

Topics Covered Include:

  • The newest fair housing guidelines relating to criminal background screening, reasonable accommodation for assistance animals, and hoarding
  • A look at the socioeconomic impact of discriminatory practices in housing
  • An online test to check your own inherent bias
  • The court case that led to sexual orientation and gender identity being afforded federal fair housing protection
  • Resources that will help you identify and better serve the diverse populations within your market
  • Statistics and demographics on homeownership from:
  • The National Association of REALTORS®
  • The U.S. Census Bureau
  • The National Fair Housing Alliance
  • Two proposed additions to the seven federally protected classes
  • 2 Credit Hours
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Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions

A veteran broker once said, "No one ever failed in this business because of the paperwork." It's true: Real estate is a...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Typical transaction documents
  • Standard clauses, addenda, and contingencies
  • How to practice within the scope of your license (but avoid unauthorized practice of law)
  • How to field and manage multiple offers
  • Managing signatures, notarizations, and identification
  • Best practices in transaction management
  • Best practices in document retention
  • Keeping documents secure, both hard copy and digital
  • Wire fraud prevention
  • 4 Credit Hours
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Advocating for Short Sale Clients

Tactics that work with motivated, excited sellers don't always translate well when working with short sale sellers and short sale buyers. Add...

Topics Covered Include:

  • In a short sale transaction, the motivation for each party is different than the standard transaction, and as the professional in the scene, you need to adjust accordingly. This course speaks to your interaction with short sale sellers, and how you can help them through a tough process while diligently advocating on their behalf. We cover how to figure out an appropriate listing price, negotiate with the lender's representative, sort through debt settlement terminology, and carry the deal through to closing. We also look at the process from a buyer's agent perspective. Additional cautions, considerations, and fraud prevention tactics are required when advocating on behalf of these deal-seeking buyers.
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Assistance Animals And Fair Housing

Must a property manager accept a tenant's emotional support animal, and under what conditions? What proof can a property manager or landlord...

Topics Covered Include:

  • The evolving fair housing law
  • How the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act intersect--and don't
  • Types of assistance animals
  • How to handle reasonable requests for accommodation
  • Case studies and legal trends
  • Examples and scenarios to help apply course content to real life
  • 4 Credit Hours
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Breaking Barriers: Fair Housing

On the heels of the 50-year anniversary of the Fair Housing Act, we review the evolution of fair housing law and look at new and proposed fair...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Recent case studies in fair housing violations
  • Regulatory changes relating to fair housing
  • How to ensure fair housing compliance in advertising
  • How sexual orientation and criminal record screening apply to fair housing
  • Two proposed additions to the list of seven federally protected classes
  • A deep look at the protected class most often named in fair housing complaints: disability, including how service animals, emotional support animals, hoarding, drug addiction, obesity, smoking, and alcoholism relate
  • A glimpse into the future of fair housing law
  • 3 Credit Hours
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State-of-the-art Delivery Methods

Our instructor-led classes provide complete support and equip you with the right information for your license acquisition.

In-Person Learning

The best education option for students who prefer a traditional, in-person learning format where instructors and students share a learning environment.

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Virtual Learning

Learn Real Estate at a comfortable pace, in an online environment where you can access learning materials and examinations.

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NEW: Online Interactive Learning

Complete quizzes, submit assignments and learn from tenured Real Estate experts in an integrative online classroom experience.

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Online Self-Paced Learning

View on-demand video lessons from virtual Real Estate instructors and receive 24/7 email support for help completing assignments.

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Yes, one needs to be 18-year-old or above as per the requirements of the SCREC

Ten (10) hours biennially if a LA resident licensee. 4 hours must be the core mandatory course and 6 hours must be electives. Brokers in Charge will have to take a mandatory BIC Responsibility 4-hour course in addition to the core course, and will only have to take 2 hours of electives. If you are a non-resident and licensed in your resident jurisdiction, you have to meet the CE requirements of your resident state. If you have 25 years of active licensed experience you may submit a request for Partial Continuing Education Exemption. If you meet the experience requirements based upon licensure in another jurisdiction, we will need you to obtain and submit certifications of licensure history. If you are active-duty military, you are exempt from CE while on active service

Our current courses are 100% self-paced and online. All course content is presented in a series of online screens with quizzes to determine mastery before moving to the next series.

If you are considering taking the state licensing exam, you can apply online by going to the PSI website and following the online prompts after registering for an account. Once your eligibility has been forwarded to PSI, you have received approval to schedule the state exam.

The Louisiana Real Estate Commission has contracted with PSI. PSI will provide examinations for real estate licensure through a network of computer exam centers. Registering online is recommended for the fastest and convenient exam-scheduling process. If you have any difficulties scheduling your exam, call the PSI help line at 855-340-3701.

A high school diploma (or certificate of equivalency) is necessary as per the requirements of the SCREC

SCREC recognizes the qualifications of non-resident licensees of other jurisdiction, however one must still must apply for and take the LA portion of the real estate examination (and if applying to become a broker, meet the 3 years actively licensed sales experience requirements). With your examination application, you will need to submit certification(s) of licensure from any jurisdiction(s) in which you have held licensure in the last 5 years. You must also have been licensed within 6 months prior to LA Application. Resident applicants with licenses in other jurisdictions who have been residents for more than 6 months cannot qualify to take the LA. examination with just a certification of licensure from another jurisdiction. The resident applicant will also need to take the following pre-licensing education:
For a Salesperson exam applicant
A SC resident (for more than 6 months) with a license in another jurisdiction who will have to take Unit II: Advanced Real Estate Principles class (30 hours)
For a Broker exam applicant
a SC resident (for more than 6 months) with a broker license in another jurisdiction will have to take Broker Unit IIIA and Broker Unit IIIB classes (60 hours) PDF Exam Application Link: https://llr.sc.gov/re/recpdf/doc231.pdf Online Applications Link: https://llr.sc.gov/re/Instructions.aspx

Courses are designed to help you pass your Louisiana licensing exam and prepare you for a career in real estate. Topics include local government regulations and agency relationships. Courses are inspired by real-life scenarios you'll face as a Salesperson in Louisiana.

All courses include an exam, which consists of 100 multiple-choice questions each. You must achieve a passing grade of 70% or more to receive your certificate of completion.

Yes, our agency requires that we receive and verify social security numbers through a copy of the social security card prior to issuing any license for any licensing Board.