Colorado Real Estate License Course

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Earn your real estate license with VanEd’s well-known premier real estate licensing courses and support from experienced real estate instructors. Our essentials package includes all six real estate courses (168 hours of instruction) required by the Colorado Real Estate Commission plus VanEd’s well-established exam prep courses to earn your Colorado real estate license.

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Take advantage of the added resources in this package to get more support, complete your required courses, and pass the Colorado real estate exam. We’ve included extras like access to our supplemental electronic workbooks that contain exercises and further review of key topics and concepts to assist with learning retention. We’ve also included an academic advisor available to assist you with plans to complete your education goals and pass the real estate exam.

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This convenient all-in-one package has everything you need to pass your real estate exam at the best value. Students receive immediate access to all electronic course content of all supplemental course material that can be used for flexible offline studying. This package comes with a bonus course for getting started and staying on track taught by a successful national coach, plus you get your first real estate license renewal course for free!

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The main purpose of this course is to inform learners of the License Law, Regulations, and Relationships that are available under the law in Colorado, before presenting the contracts and forms that are required for use in most real estate transactions. 

Topics Covered

1. License Law
2. Colorado Regulations
3. Statutory Requirements
4. Listing Contracts
5. Sales Contracts
6. Addendums
7. Closings
8. Notice
9. Other Considerations
10. Contract Problems

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define the rules and regulations that govern the practice of real estate.
• Examine and explain listing contracts, sales contracts, and associated forms.
• Identify key notice and disclosure forms that may be necessary for use in a real estate transaction.

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This course covers the basic skills necessary to properly close a real estate transaction, including responsibilities from the contract through and after the closing, plus accounting for all funds received and disbursed, as well as a comprehensive review of the legal documents prepared by the broker.

Topics Covered

1. Broker's Responsibility in Closing
2. Settlement Worksheets
3. Preparing the 6-Column Settlement Worksheet
4. VA & FHA
5. Closing Examples
6. Required Closings

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Define the broker's responsibility in a closing
• Prepare a settlement sheet
• List the necessary elements in a 6-column worksheet
• State the differences between VA and FHA allowable borrower expenses
• Complete a closing worksheet

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In this course we present actual cases that were undertaken by the Commission. Each case—be it an audit, complaint, or legal case filed against a broker, buyer, or seller—should be reviewed closely. By examining the information presented, students will be able to gain insights into how the Commission functions and what risks licensees face for failing to follow the law or rules.

We recommend you spend the necessary time to properly answer any questions posed in this course, and to carefully review the results, conclusions, and decisions that are outlined here. We begin by looking at actual cases before discussing issues that licensees face each and every day in the field.

Topics Covered

Lesson 1: Audits by the Commission
Lesson 2: Complaints
Lesson 3: Legal Cases
Lesson 4: Common Disclosures
Lesson 5: Other Colorado Legal Issues

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize the types of fines and punishments that result from the inappropriate and illegal handling of money belonging to others by brokers acting as property managers.
• Describe the types of real-life situations that may arise between a broker and customer/client, which may put the broker and client in jeopardy of breaking commission rules and the law.

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The main course objective is to protect the public by providing an overview for new real estate brokers in the application of laws, rules, and standard of practices. It helps provide some guidance to new brokers by discussing the importance of setting up personal goals and a business plan as well as what equipment is necessary and how to go about getting started on marketing. Other practical information such as working with sellers and buyers, showing property, writing an offer, and the closing process are also addressed.

Throughout this course, learners will be informed about market trends, the proper mechanics of practicing real estate, and the basics that will formulate a successful real estate career.

Topics Covered

Lesson 1: Entering the Field

Lesson 2: Residential Competency

Lesson 3: Property Management Competency

Lesson 4: Commercial Competency

Lesson 5: Other Competency

Lesson 6: Offer to Closing

Lesson 7: Current Trends & Issues

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Identify the steps to entering the field of real estate
• List and recall the core requirements for competency in residential and commercial real estate
• Describe laws and rules related to property management
• Review and explain other core business areas in real estate brokerage
• Review and recite the process and steps involved in a real estate transaction

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This course covers the proper record keeping procedures required by the Real Estate Commission to maintain and account for funds belonging to others.

The standards a real estate broker must follow for the handling of the funds which belong to others are rigid. All brokers must follow the same procedures and methodology. Most brokers handling large funds will want to consider proper accounting software or the advice and counsel of a competent accountant.

For those brokers considering becoming employing brokers and/or property managers, the strict adherence to the rules is critical. We open this course with a review of both the Commission Position on Competency and their posting on recordkeeping.

Topics Covered

Lesson 1: REC Rules

Lesson 2: Special Areas of Concern

Lesson 3: Accounting Problems

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss the importance of REC Rules
• Identify the special areas of concerns
• Follow accounting procedures in real estate transaction

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This course covers the topics required by the Real Estate Commission for the introductory course covering the Principles, Law and Practice of Real Estate. This includes information covering the national or general portion of the pre-licensing coursework. Topics included cover those areas which are common to all states, as well as general math concepts.

You will learn basic real estate principles and begin your introduction to real estate law, the important aspects of real estate licensing requirements, distinctions between personal and real property, titles to, and conveyance of real estate, federal, state, and local fair housing laws. The course will also review key licensing laws and obligations as well as legal descriptions, important elements of real estate contracts, how various interests in real estate are defined, including deeds, encumbrances and liens, how titles to real estate are held and conveyed, and the ethical standards you are expected to meet as a license holder.

All students are emailed a link to a digital version of the Modern Real Estate Practice book from Vitalsource. Please check your spam/ junk folder for the email and log in instructions. You are required to complete the reading assignments, see the attached document of chapters to read below, as well as quizzes, exams and exercises. This will be the only reference of reading assignments, so it is advised to save this pdf to your computer and use as you progress through the course.

Please reference the Supplemental Reading Assignment for this course.

Topics Covered

This course focuses on the following topics:

• Lesson 1: Real Property and Ownership 
• Lesson 2: Land Use Controls 
• Lesson 3: Taxation and Title 
• Lesson 4: Valuation and Appraisal 
• Lesson 5: Contracts, Agency, Fair Housing 
• Lesson 6: Financing and Settlement 
• Lesson 7: Property Management & Other Topics 
• Lesson 8: Real Estate Math Review

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course you will be able to:

• Define "real estate"/"real" property 
• Summarize the types of land descriptions used in the United States 
• Define the various types of agency relationships 
• Define "zoning" and government controls on real estate 
• Communicate Federal Fair Housing laws 
• List various types of taxation in real estate 
• Define types of financing used in real estate transactions 
• List the key terminology of real estate 
• Identify the different types and basic principles of value 
• Explain basic environmental hazards 

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This trusted textbook, presented as a downloadable PDF, is filled with essential concepts, including topics not covered in the online lessons, that top educators use to create licensing exam questions. Mastering the material in this book gives you a clear advantage, with students who study it performing far better on the exam. Read it, learn the concepts, and greatly increase your chances of passing the licensing exam on your first attempt.

Topics Covered

• Introduction to the Real Estate Business
• Real Property and the Law
• Interests in Real Estate
• Forms of Real Estate Ownership
• Land Description
• Transfer of Title
• Title Records
• Real Estate Brokerage
• Real Estate Agency
• Claim Representation Agreements
• Real Estate Contracts
• Real Estate Financing
• Government Involvement in Real Estate Financing
• Closing the Real Estate Transaction
• Real Estate Taxes and Other Liens
• Real Estate Appraisal
• Leases
• Fair Housing
• Property Management
• Land-Use Controls and Property Development
• Environmental Issues and the Real Estate Transaction

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

• Feel prepared to take their real estate licensing test
• Understand current legislation and market information
• Explain how topics covered relate to real estate law, regulations, and principles to the practice of real estate

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Welcome to Exam Prep for the Colorado Real Estate License! 

Our goal is to provide you with the skills and information to pass the state part of the exam on the first try. To do so, you should follow the course as it is presented and don’t skip any topics. 

Keep in mind that this course is an abridged version of the Commission’s required courses in Colorado Contracts, Closings and Record Keeping & Trust Accounts. Students who take this course have either been licensed in another state, have taken a different school’s package and have not passed the state exam, have completed the required coursework. 

Topics Covered

Lesson 1: Preparing for the State Exam

Lesson 2: Rule & Law

Lesson 3: Practice & Forms

Lesson 4: In Cloding

Lesson 5: Additional Topics

Lesson 6: Practice Exams

Lesson 7: Summary Exams

Lesson 8: Schedule Your Exam

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

• Understand how to prepare for the State Exam with helpful tips and tricks
• Define the Colorado Real Estate Commission rules, the commission position statements, and the rules and regulations the licensee must abide by
• Familiarize themselves with the activities governing licensees
• Learn about closing and settlement procedures in real estate.
• Define key terms like promissory note, foreclosure, deed of trust, aspects of land, real estate and property
• Practice for the Colorado State Exam Prep and gain an understanding of how to schedule your state exam

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