Classes & Events

Business Planning 102: Marketing You

April, 3rd, 2024

This is the second course in our 2024 Business Planning Series. Focused on personal marketing, you will leave with a solid plan for getting the word out regarding the value YOU bring to the real estate transaction. Click here to register.

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**FREE**: ABR Designation Class

April, 8th, 2024

The overall goals of the Accredited Buyer’s Representative(ABR®) Designation course are to: Prepare real estate professionals to represent buyer-clients in real estate transactions and provide the quality of service and degree of fidelity to buyers that sellers have customarily enjoyed. Offer ideas and methods for building a buyer representation business. Develop a self-customized tool for conducting a buyer counseling session. Upon completion of the two-day course and successfully passing the exam, you will have achieved ABR® candidate status, a three-year period during which you must fulfill the educational and experiential requirements to earn the Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR®) Designation awarded...

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Pricing Strategies: Mastering the CMA

April, 10th, 2024

The key to competitive home pricing is becoming proficient at comparative market analyses (CMAs). In the Pricing Strategies: Mastering the CMA course, you will learn how to evaluate the existing real estate market to take the guesswork out of pricing homes. As the core requirement for the Pricing Strategy Advisor (PSA) certification, this course will enable you to: Determine the market-based value range of a home Choose the most appropriate comparables for a property Compile a CMA report for proper presentation Collaborate with appraisers The goal of Pricing Strategies: Mastering the CMA is to help real estate professionals improve their...

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Broker-In-Charge Update

April, 11th, 2024

Description Join us on April 11th beginning at 10:00 AM as we discuss the NAR proposed settlement and what changes will take place before July 1st and how this will impact the Western Upstate Association and MLS. ***This session is available for Brokers-in-Charge Only*** Click here to register.  

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When in Doubt: Disclose, Disclose Disclose (Virtual Course)

April, 17th, 2024

Course Description: This is the mandatory course that, with minor exceptions, is required prior to 2023 or 2024 renewals. It focuses on disclosure requirements for real estate licensees, whether relating to property or transaction issues, personal interest, disclosure of fees from more than one party, disclosures to multiple buyer clients, etc. The attendee will also review SC Code of Laws 27-50, the Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act, to identify the role licensees have under this law. This is the mandatory core course and there is no substitution. Click here to register.

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Code of Ethics 2.5 (Virtual Course)

April, 17th, 2024

Course Description: This course is designed to meet NAR’s requirement of 2.5 hours of ethics training as well as the need for a 2-hour continuing education course. This course give an update to changes to the Code as well as a discussion of several “sticky situations” that are currently being seen in the marketplace.

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Disclosure of Brokerage Relationships

April, 24th, 2024

Class Description: Have you ever thought to yourself: I just wish I had a standardized presentation to be able to explain brokerage relationships to consumers in language they can understand? Well this is your time to shine! This new course covers the basics of disclosure required by the law and focuses on gaining informed consent for the type of service the consumer chooses. A huge section of the class is on the new non-agency relationships option of transaction brokerage and how to explain that to consumers as well. Finally, the class ends with the creation of scripts and language that...

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When In Doubt: Disclose, Disclose, Disclose

April, 25th, 2024

This is the mandatory course that, with minor exceptions, is required prior to 2023 or 2024 renewals. It focuses on disclosure requirements for real estate licensees, whether relating to property or transaction issues, personal interest, disclosure of fees from more than one party, disclosures to multiple buyer clients, etc. The attendee will also review SC Code of Laws 27-50, the Residential Property Condition Disclosure Act, to identify the role licensees have under this law. This is the mandatory core course and there is no substitution.

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