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Growing Green: Environmental Awareness and Your Real Estate Practice

$39
This product includes:
License Renewal Period: 3 years (2 Legal hours per year, 1 Fair Housing hour per year) Elective: 3 Mandatory: 0 Total Hours: 3
Description
State Requirements

Whether you're representing a seller who's listing a high-efficiency home or working with a buyer to find one, it's important to be able to recognize a home's green features and the value they bring to the property. This means understanding the benefit of big-ticket green items such as solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating and cooling systems, solar water heaters, or even energy-efficient windows, as well as knowing the value in quick-and-easy updates like low-flow faucets, LED lighting, and smart thermostats. It also means knowing the difference between HERS and HES and SEER and LEED. Of course, greening up a home isn't cheap. Letting your clients know about available federal and state programs and incentives is another way you can ensure your clients are getting the best service around.

Course highlights include:

  • An overview of the green home movement
  • Green terminology, certifications, and ratings
  • A review of energy-efficient upgrades, including solar panels, wind turbines, geothermal heating and cooling systems, solar water heaters, and more
  • Tips for assisting green homebuyers and sellers
  • A review of the FHA's Energy Efficient Mortgage and the 203(k) Rehabilitation Mortgage programs
  • Qualifications for the DOE's Weatherization Assistance Program
  • Interactive activities and scenarios to seal in the new information and frame it in everyday context
Package Content:

State Requirements For Michigan

Michigan State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education

Renewal Date: Every three years from date of issuance

Hours Required: 18 hours

  • 6 hours – Legal Update (2 hours per year of the license cycle)
  • 3 hours – Fair Housing (1 hour per year of the license cycle)
  • 9 hours – Elective (can be completed at any time during the license cycle)

The CE Shop’s Offering: 18 hours

  • 6 hours – Legal Update (2 hours per year of the license cycle)
  • 3 hours – Fair Housing (1 hour per year of the license cycle)
  • 9 hours – Elective (can be completed at any time during the license cycle)

The CE Shop is an approved provider in Michigan.

Reporting: The CE Shop reports CE hours to CE Marketplace. You can access your course records with CE Marketplace here.

Expiration Date of Course: Course expiration dates vary by course. Each individual course will have an expiration date listed in your account. See Terms & Conditions for more details.

Certificates: Immediately upon course completions, The CE Shop will provide students with an electronic copy of the course certificate of completion. Certificates will remain in your account for a minimum of five years, should you need additional copies at a later time. Please refer to your application to determine if you need to submit your certificate(s) of completion. Course completion dates are recorded using Central Standard Time. Please note that the date on your certificate of completion will reflect this.

Final Exam: Final exams must be passed with at least a 75% and may be taken as many times as necessary in order to pass.

License Renewal Process: The process to renew in this state is to log in to the licensing system online and follow the prompts to renew.

Seat Time: It is required that all students spend a minimum amount of seat time engaged in the course content. Our online course delivery system manages this requirement for you.

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Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) - Board of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons

Street Address: 611 W. Ottawa, Lansing MI 48933

Mailing Address: PO Box 30004, Lansing MI 48909

Telephone: 517.241.0199

Fax: 517.241.9416

 

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Street Address: 720 N. Washington Ave., Lansing, MI 48906

Telephone: 844.642.6633

 

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