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Silver Package
18-Hr. Texas CE Package #1 (with Ethics course)
Silver Package
- Texas Legal Update I (4 mandatory hours)
- Texas Legal Update II (4 mandatory hours)
- Contract Competence in Texas (3 mandatory hours)
- Fair Share: Protecting Consumers and Your Business (3 elective hours)
- Ethical Excellence: Raising the Bar (4 elective hours)*
$145
Gold Package
18-Hr. Texas CE Package #2
Gold Package
- Texas Legal Update I (4 mandatory hours)
- Texas Legal Update II (4 mandatory hours)
- Contract Competence in Texas (3 core hours)
- Assistance Animals and Fair Housing (4 elective hours)
- Current Issues: Cooperation, Negotiation,
- iBuyers, and Disasters (3 elective hours)
$145
TX Real Estate Agent Real Estate Licensing Package
Here’s a glimpse of what you get with our Real Estate Agent License Package
EIGHTEEN TXREC APPROVED COURSES
This full 18-hour package includes 11 mandatory hours and 7 elective hours required for the renewal of active licenses.
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.
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.
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 TX Continuing Education
Holders of a Texas real estate licence should be aware of the most recent changes to legislation and industry standards that affect the state's...
Topics Covered Include:
- Major TREC regulation changes
- How to participate in the rulemaking process as a licence holder
- Legislation pertaining to licencing that was approved during the 87th Texas legislative session
- Provisions concerning accessories, leases, earnest money and options, and escrow are just a few of the significant modifications to issued forms that licence holders need to be aware of.
- Both new contract addenda and significant amendments to existing addenda
- Best practises for escalation clauses, appraisal addendum problems, and backup offers inquiries into fair housing, discrimination, and fair housing
- difficulties with property management, particularly those relating to legislation changes, modifications, and reasonable accommodations
- 4 Credit Hours
You have a duty of competence as a holder of a Texas real estate licence, whether it be regional competence, property type competence, or specialised...
Topics Covered Include:
- How contracts are impacted by the Texas License Act
- duties of the licence holder with regard to published forms
- How to stay away from practising law without a licence
- requisites for a legally valid contract
- When and how to use oral negotiations
- How to manage faulty documents
- How to steer clear of frequent contract blunders
- Deadlines and the distinction between "acceptable time" and "time is of the essence"
- The relevance of common contract conditions in real estate transactions
- 3 Credit Hours
"No one has failed in this profession because of the paperwork," a seasoned broker once claimed. It is true that the real estate industry...
Topics Covered Include:
- Documents used in most transactions
- Addenda, standard clauses, and contingencies
- How to exercise your license's restrictions in practise (but avoid unauthorised practise of law)
- How to handle and field numerous offers
- Managing identification, notarizations, and signatures
- Top transaction management techniques
- best techniques for keeping documents
- Keeping both hard copy and digital information secure
- preventing wire fraud
- 4 Credit Hours
What requirements must a property manager meet in order to accept a tenant's service animal? What documentation may a property manager or...
Topics Covered Include:
- The fair housing law is evolving
- Types of assistance animals and how they differ from each other in relation to the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act
- How to respond to reasonable accommodation requests
- Legal developments and case studies
- Examples and scenarios to aid in relating the course material to real-world situations
- 4 Credit Hours
The dynamic nature of the real estate market is one of the things that makes it such a fun, exciting, and demanding career. Staying on top of these...
Topics Covered Include:
- The latest NAR regulation, MLS Statement 8.0, often known as the Clear Cooperation regulation
- The benefits of open communication for licensees updated MLS guidelines for the Clear Cooperation policy
- Limited exposure marketing practises: Problems
- How licensees can use the iBuying transaction system to benefit their clients: the fundamentals
- How to organise and get ready for a successful negotiation
- Techniques for carrying out win-win negotiations
- Best practises for purchasing and selling in areas at risk of natural catastrophe
- Disaster preparation to safeguard the operations of licensees
- 3 Credit Hours
Real estate agents can offer a useful service to a large clientele by putting themselves in the eligible shoes of the more than 20 million veterans...
Topics Covered Include:
- A look at what life is like in the military, what it means to serve, and the best ways to interact with veterans
- Techniques and tools for educating veterans about the advantages that are available to them
- Benefits, requirements, and procedure for the VA home loan programme
- Methods for helping veterans find the right housing options
- VA loan myths and misperceptions
- situations and exercises to reinforce important ideas
- 3 Credit Hours
The diversity of the population in our country is reflected in the real estate market, and a successful real estate agent is able to recognise and...
Topics Covered Include:
- The most recent fair housing regulations regarding hoarding, adequate accommodations for service animals, and background checks
- An examination of the macroeconomic effects of housing discrimination
- A test you may take online to determine your own bias
- The legal lawsuit that resulted in federal fair housing protections for sexual orientation and gender identity
- Resources that will enable you to recognise and more effectively serve the various people in your market
- The National Association of REALTORS® has statistics and demographic information on house ownership.
- United States Census Bureau
- Association for
- National Fair Housing
- To the seven nationally protected classifications, there are two suggested additions.
- 3 Credit Hours
Real estate transactions require financing, therefore the more you understand how purchasers qualify, the better you can assist both buyers and...
Topics Covered Include:
- FNMA, GNMA, FHLMC, FHA, and VA Affordability Worksheet: Roles and Requirements, to Help
- Clients Calculate Their Maximum Affordable Purchase Price
- Dos and Don'ts for Home Buyer
- LTV, front- and back-end ratios, and monthly mortgage payments calculation
- Information and eligibility criteria for a number of popular financing options
- 6 Credit Hours
It's likely that you will work on a transaction involving a property that is included in a tax-deferred exchange one day, if it hasn't...
Topics Covered Include:
- Definitions for Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges
- Background and application of Starker's Exchange
- provisions of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code
- IRS Safe Harbor Recommendations advantages of investor taxes
- Setting up a transaction
- In a Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange, choosing a Qualified Intermediary Licensee function
- A Section 1031 transaction's non-responsibility exchanger's "Delaware" Statutory Trusts
- Reverse transactions
- very rare deadline exceptions for exchanges
- 3 Credit Hours
This package includes the 2 Legal Update courses required for the renewal of active licenses and/or to fulfill the SAE...
Topics Covered Include:
- Texas Legal Update I 2022-2023 (4 mandatory hours)
- Texas Legal Update II 2022-2023 (4 mandatory hours)
- 8 Credit Hours
This full 18-hour package includes 10 elective hours and 8 mandatory hours required for the renewal of active...
Topics Covered Include:
- Texas Legal Update I (4 mandatory hours)
- Texas Legal Update II (4 mandatory hours)
- Contract Competence in Texas (3 mandatory hours)
- Fair Share: Protecting Consumers and Your Business (3 elective hours)
- Ethical Excellence: Raising the Bar (4 elective hours)*
- 18 Credit Hours
18-Hr. TX CE Package #2
This full 18-hour package includes 10 elective hours and 8 mandatory hours required for the renewal of active...
Topics Covered Include:
- Texas Legal Update I (4 mandatory hours)Texas Legal Update II (4 mandatory hours)
- Contract Competence in Texas (3 core hours)Assistance Animals and Fair Housing (4 elective hours)
- Current Issues: Cooperation, Negotiation, iBuyers, and Disasters (3 elective hours)
- 18 Credit Hours
18-Hr. TX CE Package #3
This full 18-hour package includes 7 elective hours and 11 mandatory hours required for the renewal of active licenses. This package also...
Topics Covered Include:
- Texas Legal Update I (4 mandatory hours)
- Texas Legal Update II (4 mandatory hours)
- Document Diligence: Safeguarding Your Transactions (3 mandatory hours and 1 elective hour)
- Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients (3 elective hours)
- Fair Share: Protecting Consumers and Your Business (3 elective hours)
- 18 Credit Hours
This package includes the Contracts course and 2 Legal Update courses required for the renewal of active...
Topics Covered Include:
- Texas Legal Update I 2022-2023 (4 mandatory hours)
- Texas Legal Update II 2022-2023 (4 mandatory hours)
- Contract Competence in Texas (3 mandatory hours)
- 11 Credit Hours
This 30-hr course covers real estate law of contracts in Texas. The course helps prepare you for the Texas licensing exam, as well as provides the...
Topics Covered Include:
- This 30-hr course covers real estate law of contracts in Texas. The course helps prepare you for the Texas licensing exam, as well as provides the foundation knowledge necessary to be a successful real estate Sales Agent.
- 30 Credit Hours
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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Learn Real Estate at a comfortable pace, in an online environment where you can access learning materials and examinations.
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Complete quizzes, submit assignments and learn from tenured Real Estate experts in an integrative online classroom experience.
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View on-demand video lessons from virtual Real Estate instructors and receive 24/7 email support for help completing assignments.
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Our Instructors
MARK DAVIS-COTE
INSTRUCTOR
Mark moved to SC from St Louis in 2006. He has a BA from URI, an MBA from Webster University, and an accounting certificate from TCL. He has been a licensed salesperson since 2011, a broker since 2016, and is SFR certified.
AMANDA FARNUM
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Amanda is a licensed Real Estate Broker and has 17 years experience in the real estate field. She also holds a BA in Graphic Communications, an AA in Business Administration, and has also taught on the private university level. She has won several awards for sales transactions and has extensive experience in residential, commercial, foreclosures and investments. When she
DALE CLIFT
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Dale took his first real estate course in Florida at age 20. He has been interested in real estate ever since. It just took a while to find the right time and place. Shortly after starting real estate in South Carolina, Dale realized his goal was to teach, train and coach real estate professionals. Dale’s background in training and management brings a wealth of experie
JOHN HASSELL
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – John Hassell, a native of Charleston, brings 21years of Real Estate experience and a love of the low country to his teaching. He graduated from the College of Charleston and became a Realtor in 1985 specializing in commercial real estate. He has held committee positions at Charleston Trident Area Realtors. John is the Broker-In-Charge of J. Hassell & Associates.
JOHN KOLESSAR
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – John earned his Masters Degree in Education Administration from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He also attended the Masters program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, in Newark, NJ. John has been active in Real Estate for eleven and is currently teaching for Fortune Academy in the Beaufort/Bluffton area.
JOSEPH F. GOBBETT, JR.
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Joe started his real estate career in Maryland in 1971. He was a training director and branch sales manager for a multi-office real estate company. As training director, he was responsible for teaching the pre and post real estate license course.
In 1989 Joe opened his own real estate company – Rescom Realtors- as broker in charge and holds G.R.I designation. He has se
LANDON BRENT
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – “Landon is the son of Otis Brent, founder of Fortune School of Real Estate. He has successfully instructed over 1,000 Pre-Licensing Real Estate Student/Agents as well as well over 3,000 Continuing Education Student/Agents. He was the first Accredited Buyers Representative, ABR instructor in South Carolina. Has been a Broker In Charge of two successful Real Estate firms
MARYANNE DORIO
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – MaryAnne Dorio has been in the real estate industry locally here in Myrtle Beach since 2012. She is a broker/owner of a local real estate company since 2010. Before that she ran the 2nd largest real estate company in Myrtle Beach. There she was tasked with education and training of the Realtors. She has taken her love of real estate and teaching to our students. MaryAnne
RANDY PONTON
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Randy started in Real Estate in 1996, in 1999 became Broker in Charge of my own RE Co. CRP Realty & Builders. He has a General Contractors License and builds many homes. Randy has been with Fortune since 2004 teaching first years sales and post licensing at Florence / Darlington Technical College and North Eastern Technical College in Cheraw.
RAY JAMES
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Ray is a licensed Broker-in-Charge in South Carolina as well as Michigan. He brings more than three decades of commercial, residential and property management experience and with more than15 years in the classroom teaching, students enjoy the learning experience. Ray holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Western Michigan University, Bachelors Degree in Pol
SANDY CHILDS
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Sandy grew up in the Greer area of Spartanburg/Greenville County and currently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in education and taught early childhood education. She has been active in all aspects of the local real estate market for the past 20 years and has vast experience and also holds a Real Estate Broker’s license. She sits on
SHELBY APPLEBY
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Shelby has been a realtor since 1995, Broker-in-Charge. She retained her seniority when her husband transferred to Beaufort, SC and went to work in the Housing Division for the Marine Corps Air Station. Shelby lived in Washington for 5 years. She retired to Beaufort, SC to be with her family. Shelby took the real estate course and started to pursue her career. She teache
STEVE RANZER
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Steve Ranzer is Fortune Academy’s real estate instructor in the Aiken, SC area. Steve was licensed as a Realtor in 1998, achieved his Broker’s license in 2001, and has been a Broker-In-Charge of 3 different real estate companies. He currently has a Broker license in both South Carolina and Georgia and is actively working with buyers and sellers in both states. Steve
SUSAN EARLY
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Susan loves teaching! She spent seventeen years teaching middle and high school students in Orangeburg County schools before moving to the Charleston area in 2002. She began her Real Estate career in Greenville, SC. Susan is applying her love of teaching and her Real Estate experience to teaching adults now at Fortune Academy. When she’s not preparing our students for
TERRI ANDERSON BIC, GRI, CRS
INSTRUCTOR
Staff/Real Estate Instructor – Terri Anderson is owner/BIC of Terri’s Team Real Estate – Anderson’s largest independent real estate company. She has over 16 years of real estate experience and as well as 15 years in Advertising and Marketing. One of Anderson’s top producers! 17 Years in real estate. Certified Real Estate Instructor. Owns Fortune Academy of Real Estate in Anderson. Design
VAN HARDEN BROKER, CDEI
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – First licensed in 1981, Van earned his broker’s license in 1985. He served several years as the Broker-in-Charge of a large general real estate organization. Most of his assignments, however, have been as Broker/Manager of planned residential communities in the Myrtle Beach and Charleston markets. He holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Business Administration.
KIMBER SMITH BROKER-IN-CHARGE
INSTRUCTOR
Kimber received his B.A. in Business Economics from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. Having earned his real estate license in 1972, Kimber has been in the real estate field, whether as a sales associate, broker, or instructor, for over forty years. He joined Akers Ellis in 2009. Kimber is a member and past president of the Kiawah-Seabrook Island Exchange Club, serves on the Seabrook Island Pr
SUSAN A. LUCAS
INSTRUCTOR
Married to Joseph for 43 years in April 2016, 2 children. Relocated to Myrtle Beach in 2001. Susan has been licensed as a Real Estate Sales Person since 1979 – Susan was first licensed in New Jersey, then in NY where she worked as a sales agent for Weichert, Realtors in Monroe, NY. Susan relocated to Myrtle Beach in 2001 and has experience as an Agent, Manager, Broker in charge, Trainer, Coach a
ELLEN TOAY
INSTRUCTOR
I have a very unique perspective of the real estate industry as I have been in new home and general brokerage sales and in management. I have also worked as a loan originator, conducted real estate closings and taught for Fortune Academy previously.
LENNY GAINES
INSTRUCTOR
Lenny Gaines has been a real estate professional since 2003. He is a broker and has experience in working with residential and commercial transactions. In free time, Lenny enjoys traveling, good music, and catching up on popular television series.
APRYL HADEN
INSTRUCTOR
Apryl Haden has a B.A. from Auburn University, and a M.Ed. from University of Virginia, J.D. Charleston School of Law. She has been a licensed Realtor since 1993; and a broker since 2006. CRS, e-Pro, GRI. Apryl moved to Charleston from TN 2012 and is the Owner/Broker of Apryl Haden Real Estate Group, LLC.
HEATHER LEE BEGLEY
INSTRUCTOR
Heather Lee Begley is a Broker/Realtor currently working with Buyers, Sellers, and Investors in the Grand Strand area of South Carolina. She holds the Short Sales & Foreclosure Resource Certification and Seniors Real Estate Specialist Designation from the National Association of Realtors, and completed the Paralegal Certificate program through USC Aiken & The Center for Legal Studies. A lover of
JON HINES
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Jon started in real estate in the early 1990s as a real estate investor. He also mentored students across the country teaching them how to be full-time investors. He got his North Carolina and South Carolina Real Estate Licenses in 2006 and ascended to Broker-in-Charge in 2008. Since then, he has been a Top-Producing Agent for many National Franchise Companies. Currently
The tenured and experienced instructors at Fortune Academy are committed to providing students with the best possible education and are dedicated to helping them succeed. They go above and beyond in their efforts to ensure that every student is well-prepared for a successful career after graduation from our school.
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