15-Hr. AL Broker CE Package for REALTORS

While licensees are the lifeblood of any brokerage, they also pose the greatest risk. Inexperienced licensees may lack education and training in key areas, leading them to make innocent mistakes, unintentionally provide misinformation, or fail to make appropriate disclosures. Experienced licensees can sometimes act beyond the scope of their license or expertise. In trying to be helpful, they can put the qualifying broker's license at risk. And unfortunately, some licensees intentionally misrepresent and commit acts of fraud. Appropriate supervision is an Alabama qualifying broker's best risk management strategy, and it's also a requirement of the role. This course will cover the broker's role in supervising licensees and employees, including creating and communicating policies and procedures for approved activities.

This three-hour course reduces risk to consumers by ensuring that Alabama licensees and employees are properly trained and supervised by a qualifying broker.

Course highlights include:

• An overview of the supervisory responsibilities of an Alabama qualifying broker, including licensee and staff training, record keeping duties, and financing requirements.
• A discussion of the proper use of various forms of marketing and advertising.
• An examination of the proper handling of earnest money.
• A review of property management licensing requirements and trust fund management.
• A look at the requirements for licensee-owned properties
• Interactive activities and scenarios to seal in the new information and frame it in everyday context

Alabama license law provides a firm foundation for a successful real estate practice, so this course focuses on the key tenets of that law, including the Real Estate Consumers Agency and Disclosure Act (RECAD). In addition to reviewing RECAD, this course provides a breakdown of issues that consistently confuse licensees and consumers alike, including establishing agency, disclosures, contingencies, and post-closing duties.

This three-hour course provides licensees with a review of areas of risk from the time a real estate offer is accepted to the signing of closing documents and the importance of educating buyers and sellers throughout each step of the transaction.

Course highlights include:

• Real Estate Consumers Agency and Disclosure Act (RECAD) disclosures
• Real Estate Brokerage Services Disclosure form
• Presentation of offers and counteroffers
• Determining acceptance of an offer
• Handling earnest money
• Contingencies and clauses in purchase agreements
• “As Is” properties and caveat emptor exceptions
• Insurance, title issues, and other surprises
• Closing and post-closing issues
• Document retention after closing
• Qualifying broker responsibilities and risk management practices
• Case studies, scenarios and interactions offering realistic problem-solving and decision point opportunities

While conducting real estate business, have you encountered a situation in which you weren’t sure what the proper course of action was? What the right thing to do might be? Or maybe you’ve heard your colleagues’ stories and got that uncomfortable, itchy feeling that an action they took wasn’t quite on the up and up.

Let’s look at an uncomfortable truth: real estate agents have a small tarnished image problem. With every transaction being unique, real estate licensees often face ethical gray areas. Some real estate professionals simply don’t understand how to handle complex issues in the most ethical manner, and others bend the rules if they think it’ll keep a transaction on track or a commission in their bank account and not a competitor’s.

Aligned to the requirements of the current NAR cycle, this three-hour course helps licensees deepen their knowledge—and practice—of ethical rules of conduct according to the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice. The code isn’t applicable to REALTORS® only, who are duty-bound to uphold the code as a privilege of membership. The code’s guidance serves anyone possessing a real estate license, and licensees who heed the code’s various articles and standards of practice can do the greatest good of all: protecting consumers while also bolstering the reputation of all the industry’s professionals.

Course highlights include:

• Laws vs. morals vs. ethics
• Top articles of the code involved in the most complaints (plus a few more)
• A candid look at the industry’s image problem
• Common ethical dilemmas and using the code to solve them
• Foundation and enforcement of the code
• Competency in real estate practice as a matter of ethics
• Steering clear of procuring cause disputes
• Ethics concerns with technology and social media
• Tips and best practices to keep your reputation polished to a high shine

*This course was designed by us to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

In this course, you’ll learn about the history of housing discrimination and its lasting impact in order to better understand why fair housing laws are necessary. You’ll review the federal laws that provide protection against housing discrimination and what actions are prohibited and required by these laws in the business of real estate. This will include reviewing the personal characteristics—race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability--that federal law protects from discrimination in housing. Besides these federal protections, there are state and local government fair housing laws that protect additional personal characteristics from discrimination in housing and you’ll find out where to get more fair housing information for your clients.

You’ll also learn some best practices for fair housing marketing and some strategies to avoid steering and making assumptions based on stereotypes. You’ll role play some scenarios to practice interrupting any implicit biases so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness. By allowing consumers to choose which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in, you can do your part to uphold fair housing laws and end housing discrimination.

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Fair Housing Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Fair Housing training, will accept this course.

From marketing and advertising to client communication and transaction management, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming part of everyday real estate practice. With these tools come new responsibilities for licensees to ensure accuracy, fairness, and consumer protection. This course provides a clear framework for understanding how AI intersects existing laws, professional duties, and brokerage policies.

Learners will explore how AI tools can both support and endanger real estate practice. Topics include applying fair housing and advertising rules to AI-generated content, maintaining confidentiality and trust in client communications, and evaluating the risks of AI-assisted contracts and workflow automation. The course also highlights emerging fraud threats, such as deepfake impersonation and AI-generated phishing, and equips licensees with a five-step checklist to spot scams and protect clients.

By the end of the course, licensees will be able to confidently integrate AI tools into practice while upholding compliance, safeguarding consumers, and supporting brokerage-level risk management.