Continuing Education 3 Hrs Commissioner’s Standards, 3 Hrs Disclosure
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Bring Your Laptop Hands- on-Training 

Sponsored By:  Stewart Title & Trust

Held At: 3939 E. Broadway, Tucson, Arizona

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Real Estate CE 3 hrs. General Real Estate By Course Creators 520.360.0280

Linkedin is the ultimate professional social networking venue. We can show you how to create a powerful presence in Linkedin, how to build your online resume, how to take deliberate action using Linkedin’s search mechanisms. Don’t get left behind.  Showcase your specialties and educate your clients on how you can help them best!  Grow your professional reputation starting NOW and be found by the clients who are looking for you and need you! 

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Sponsored By: Stewart Title & Trust

Held At:  3939 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ

1:00 PM to 4:00 PM – Thursday, January 10, 2013

Bring Your Laptop – Hands On Training!

Instructor Development Workshop – From the OVATION Series

As the national authors of the book Ovation – How to Present Like a Pro, Course Creators will be leading a full day Instructor Development Workshop (IDW) for the Utah Real Estate Commission in Park City, Utah on Monday, October 29th, 2012 to empower Utah instructors to get standing ovations and elevate the level of their teaching and presentations. This full day six hour session will enable instructors to employ the use of videos and other technology in the classroom, create themed courses which engage their students and provide tips and techniques that will increase the effectiveness of presentations. Course Creators customizes these presentations to fit the needs of education directors and instructors. We will have you excited about teaching and accomplishing more in a day than than you ever thought possible.

What other Education Directors say about these IDW courses:

“Powerful, passionate and persuasive speakers with a remarkable ability to ignite any audience into action. They do their homework. The presentation was diverse and encompassed many techniques to hold the audience’s attention, but most of all they connect on an emotional level. The participants were very impressed and the feedback was extremely positive overall. I would personally recommend this for anyone wanting a brilliant and inspiring presentation.”

Sponsored By: The Utah Real Estate Commission

Held At: Park City, Utah

9:00 AM to 4:00 PM – Monday, October 29th, 2012

8:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

Coming to You in 2013!

Watch for our upcoming Investors Summit!

Creating a More Stable & Secure Future For You and Your Family! A one day special event that will help you create a more stable and secure future for you and your family!  If you are thinking about investing in real estate, now is the time.  Here’s why!

• The Wall Street Journal Market Watch: Tucson #1  “10 Best Cities for Real Estate Investors”!
• Forbes: Tucson, the best city to buy a home right now!
• REALTOR.com®: Tucson, “Top Real Estate Investment Market”!
• Inman News: Tucson #4 “10 Best Markets for Real Estate Investors”!

6 dynamic real estate professionals eager to show you how to:

• Build an investment team that will save you time and money
• Know the local market and the current trends
• ‘Leverage’ and truly understand how it can work for you
• Understand ‘creative financing’ and use it effectively
• Decide if buying foreclosures is right for you
• Pick the right property to purchase and begin your financial journey
• Protect your investments and reduce your liabilities

Click here for Sponsorship opportunities at The Summit!!

The Real Estate Settlement and Procedures Act (RESPA) is the federal law which governs the relationships between settlement service providers in real estate transactions. The Act makes it illegal for settlement service providers to give or receive anything of value in exchange for the referral of business in a real estate transaction. The Act also makes it illegal for settlement service providers to require that a borrower use a particular provider in a real estate transaction and sets forth disclosure guidelines when there is a co-ownership of more than one settlement service provider in a real estate transaction.

The Tucson Association of REALTORS annually hosts a RESPA Roundtable organized by the RESPA Committee where licensees can explore these issues and get answers to the most commonly asked questions. In order to obtain a copy of the frequently asked questions all you need to do is click here or click on the stack of RESPA files to the right.

The questions are divided into categories based on settlement service providers. In order to obtain more information about RESPA and its enforcement you can visit the official RESPA pages at HUD.gov.

Real Estate CE 3 hrs. Commissioner’s Standards By Course Creators 520.360.0280

Take a look back on past business practices, determine what has worked, establish an effective plan to move forward and understand why the business of real estate is important to you and your clients. Make commitments to your business that will take you to the next level, personally and professionally, and will help you serve more clients more effectively.

The Business of Real Estate

Sponsored By:  Keller Williams Southern, AZ

Held At:  The Tucson Association of REALTORS®    2445 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Thursday, October 18, 2012

Your Registration Fee is Paid by Sponsor, Keller Williams Southern Arizona.

Please register via email to Course Creators, Kris@CourseCreators.com

On my recent tour of North Carolina I had the opportunity to finish a great book given to me by my dear friend, Marcie Roggow. Marcie, Thank YOU! Charles Duhigg’s book, The Power of Habit, Why We Do What We Do In Life and Business, will change the way you look at your business, your clients and most importantly yourself.

The book explains and explores the nature of habits and habit creation. Whether we realize it or not, habits are powerful things. They control most of what we do and why we do it. Learning how they operate and what can be done to change them is a worthwhile endeavor. The sections on how major businesses from Starbucks, to Alcoa to Target are full of well documented and practical approaches that allowed these businesses to succeed based on the habits of people that they either leveraged or changed.

Charles Duhigg is an investigative reporter for the New York Times. He is a winner of the National Academies of Sciences, National Journalism, and George Polk Awards, and was part of a team of finalists for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize. he is a frequent contributor to This American Life, NPR, PBS Newshour, and Frontline. A graduate of Harvard Business School and Yale College, he lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two kids.

If you are into education you will find some fascinating reading in the section which deals with the habit of Success at Starbucks and what companies such as that have done to create training that actually teaches people greater skills in areas such as willpower, discipline and other life skills that are hard to come by but absolutely hard to come by in the world of education. It will make you wonder what types of education we are missing that are key ingredients for success in any industry such as relationship building, time management and how to cope with stress and distractions. Fascinating I tell you, simply fascinating.

One of the great assets of the book is the Appendix entitled A Reader’s Guide to Using These Ideas. It is a framework for understanding how habits work and a guide to experimenting with how they might change. It is laid out in an easy to follow and implement step by step approach.

You can find the book in all of the major bookstores, on Amazon and just about anywhere else. We should all read it. If you would like more information you can find out more with a simple Google search, or better yet, just visit Mr. Duhigg’s website.

On September 27th and 28th Course Creators will be presenting at the North Carolina Real Estate Educators Association (NCREEA) Conference in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The theme for this year’s conference is “Roll With the Changes.” Len Elder, JD, DREI will be delivering the opening keynote on Thursday morning for the conference entitled, “Winds of Change.” The presentation will explore 10 trends and forces that are affecting the world of education. They are all topics and trends that will change the way in which real estate education is delivered and taught over the next 24-36 months.

To Register for the NCREEA Conference and to find out more about the program, Click Here!

Topics that will be covered and discussed in Len’s opening keynote include:

• The Advent of Skill Based Education
• Classrooms Without Walls
• Technology in the Classroom
• The Multi-Media Classroom
• The Virtual Instructor
• Brokerage Centric Education
• The World of Bites
• And More

Real Estate CE 3 Hrs Fair Housing By Course Creators 520.360.0280

This class is designed to help you broaden your horizons of this world and therefore, better understand your next client. It is in the learning of what we don’t know about fair housing issues that makes us stronger, more professional, more aware and more fair. Come play and have fun and learn more about the diversity of the world that affects us everyday in our business. Guaranteed you will be glad you came to this class!

Understanding Diversity

Sponsored By: Tucson Association of REALTORS®

Held At: 2445 N. Tucson Blvd., Tucson, AZ

9:00 AM to 12:00 PM – Tuesday September 25, 2012

This week Course Creators heads off to the national Real Estate Educators Association (REEA) Conference in Morehead, Kentucky. REEA is the national organization that trains and supports the real estate education industry. Many members of REEA have taken the time and dedication to attain the Distinguished Real Estate Instructor (DREI) designation which represents a commitment to excellence in the delivery of adult education.

At the conference, Course Creators will be leading sessions that focus on developing and training instructors including some of the content from their Instructor Development Workshops (IDW’s) which are taught nationally.