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Ohio REAL ESTATE
Salesperson

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Bronze Package

9-Hr. Ohio CE Required Package (with Ethics course)

Bronze Package

  • Complying with the Canon: Ohio Real Estate Licensee Ethics (3 required Ethics hours)*
  • Navigating Ohio Agency (3 required Ohio Law hours)
  • Sex and Real Estate: Sexual
  • Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, and Fair Housing (3 required Civil Rights hours)

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$821

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Silver Package

21-Hr. OH CE Electives Package

Silver Package

  • Property Inspection Issues (3 elective hours)
  • Taxes and Real Estate: What You Need to Know (3 elective hours)
  • Current Issues: Cooperation, Negotiation, iBuyers, and Disaster Preparedness (3 elective hours)
  • First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On (3 elective hours)

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$821

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OH Salesperson Real Estate Licensing Package

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

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THIRTY OHREC APPROVED COURSES

This complete package includes all 30 hours of CE (residential topics) required for Sales active 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 OH Continuing Education

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Taxes and Real Estate: What You Need to Know

You aren't a tax advisor for your clients or customers, but having a solid understanding of property tax-related issues helps you provide a...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Recent tax changes
  • General tax sources and taxable income
  • Taxes as they apply to principal and secondary residences
  • Tax bracket changes and affordability
  • Point and fee deductions, interest deductions, and refinancing deductions
  • SALT caps
  • Transfer taxes and recording fees
  • Capital gains and losses, property repairs and capital improvements, and capital gain taxation rates and rules
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
  • 3 Credit Hours
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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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The Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate

The Fundamentals of Commercial Real Estate covers the need-to-know information on a broad range of commercial topics.   If you're an...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Key terms and concepts of commercial real estate
  • How to identify and meet the needs of commercial real estate clients
  • How commercial and residential sales differ
  • Valuation methods for real estate and businesses
  • Tips on gathering the demographic and location-related details that clients need to make well-informed decisions
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Working With Real Estate Investors: Understanding Investor Strategies

Unlike most owner-occupied homebuyers, real estate investors enter the market to make money. By learning about investor motivators and criteria,...

Topics Covered Include:

  • An overview of residential and commercial investment property types
  • Short- and long-term investment property acquisition strategies
  • Financial factors that influence investor decisions, including depreciation, 1031 tax exchanges, and cash flow
  • estate investors, including conventional loans, commercial loans, and private money lenders
  • Tips for locating and marketing investment properties
  • Pros and cons of working with investor clients
  • Ethical duties when working with investor clients
  • Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Residential Property Management Essentials

For many real estate professionals, property management is a natural extension of their expertise. Whether you’re thinking about taking on your...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Property management contracts
  • Property types and evaluating factors
  • Tips for building a
  • Tips for screening and retaining tenants
  • Informal rental agreements and the risks involved
  • How to deal
  • with delinquent tenants
  • Fair housing guidelines and exemptions
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Document Excellence for Smoother Transactions

Proper document management provides proof that a licensee did what was required, when it was required. It serves to protect the consumer and it...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Common documents used in real estate transactions
  • Common contract clauses, addenda, and contingencies
  • Avoiding the unauthorized practice of law
  • Multiple offer management
  • Document signatures, notarizations, and identification
  • Transaction management methods and best practices
  • Document management and retention methods and best practices
  • Technology and security for document management
  • Legalities of electronic communication
  • Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts
  • 3 Credit Hours
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First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On

Whether you want to develop a niche business working with first-time homebuyers or simply increaseyour overall knowledge so you can better help...

Topics Covered Include:

  • First-time homebuyer market stats
  • Pros and cons unique to working with this market
  • Housing affordability’s impact on new buyers
  • Targeted marketing approaches and conveying homeowner benefits
  • Providing value to first-time homebuyer clients
  • Walking clients through each step of the transaction
  • Financing, loans, offers, negotiations, and closing
  • 3 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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(Civil Rights/Liberties) Assistance Animals And Fair Housing

This course meets the Ohio 4 hour requirement for Civil Rights/Liberties. Must a property manager accept a tenant's emotional support animal,...

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
  • 3 Credit Hours
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Roadmap to Success: Business Planning for Real Estate Professionals

More than 80% of real estate licensees leave the business within the first two years, and this is primarily due to a lack of understanding of what it...

Topics Covered Include:

  • Helpful ideas for defining your real estate business, vision statement and mission statement
  • A Business Plan Worksheet that will help you determine goals and execute your plan Details about identifying strengths and weaknesses, and setting realistic, attainable goals
  • An editable, customizable Business Plan Template
  • How to calculate the action steps needed to achieve success as you define it
  • 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 OH 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 Ohio 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 OH 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 OH Application. Resident applicants with licenses in other jurisdictions who have been residents for more than 6 months cannot qualify to take the OH. 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 Ohio 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 Ohio.

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.