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Interested in making more money as a real estate agent, advancing your career, and standing out amongst the competition? The Graduate REALTOR® Institute (GRI) Designation is an excellent option to help you gain more knowledge, impress consumers, and build more confidence in your real estate skills.
Increase your understanding of online real estate marketing! Here is our list of the top Wordpress plugins for real estate website to make your site stand out and generate more leads.
Learn about the best photo editing apps for real estate agents. With these mobile apps you can improve your real estate photos and social media posts to help you connect with more buyers and sellers and improve the quality of your listings.
In this step-by-step guide, learn how to create a 360° Virtual Real Estate Tour with Google Tour Creator and Zillow 3D Home Tour to show to buyers and sellers.
With the recent impact of COVID-19, real estate services are limited. In an effort to help students find the resources they need, we have put together a list of links to help clarify what upcoming timelines look like for various real estate industry services impacted by the coronavirus, where available.
Energy efficiency comes in all sizes and shapes. The choices you make for your home or business can have a big impact on your budget & the environment.
Is it better to take real estate classes online or in person? This visual comparison shows the pros and cons of online and classroom real estate courses including convenience, price, & instructor support.
In our Comprehensive Guide to Local SEO for Real Estate Agents, we answer the qusetions, 'What Is Local SEO', 'What Are Local Business Citations, and how can you optimize your Google My Business profile to reach more people online.
In this post, we discuss what real estate agents should do if the seller asks for a real estate listing exclusion. The answer may surprise you!
Naturally, one of the most important ways that real estate agents can help their clients is by guiding them toward a trustworthy moing company. In order to do this effectively, though, real estate agents must themselves be educated on some of the most common moving company scams, and how to verify that they’re working with a responsible company.
Are you using Instagram to market your real estate business? Follow these 5 tips for real estate agents to attract more buyers and sellers and reach a larger targeted audience.
Your first week in real estate will be very busy and may seem overwhelming. Use these tips to help you succeed during your first week as a new real estate agent.
As a new real estate agent or REALTOR®, it may be difficult to know how to show a property to buyers. Use these essential tips to help show a house to a buyer and show buyers what they are looking for in a property and what they need.
The new 2021-2022 non-elective Legal Update I & Legal Update II courses (4 hours each) became effective January 1, 2020. Complete these courses online today!
Learn about all of the updates coming to Colorado real estate contracts and forms in 2020.
From social media to traditional advertising, these are the 16 of the best marketing channels to help promote and advertise your real estate business in 2019.
Here are the top 5 real estate podcasts for agents and brokers who are on the go. Featuring Kevin Ward's YES Talk, the GaryVee Audio Experience, and more. These recommendations are sure to make your next commute more productive.
Entrepreneurs and real estate agents should use these helpful tips to help manage time, tasks, and energy throughout the workday and workweek.
It is not enough to simply have a website. In order to be effective, and contribute to an easier and quicker home-buying process for the buyer, your website must be thoughtfully designed, intuitive, updated frequently, and user friendly.
With marijuana regulations continuing to develop and expand in numerous states around the country, landlords need to remain in-the-know so that they can make the most-informed decision possible if tenant disputes or fair housing implications arise. Although there are no simple and easy answers, stepping in to handle a situation as soon as possible may be the best course of action for avoiding unwanted legal action.
What is keeping this house from selling?
Objectivity is the key. Whether you are the listing agent or the Seller, it is critical to analyze what will keep or is keeping the house from selling. Once the problem is identified, objectivity is again important when determining the solution.
Here are the 10 most common reasons your house isn't selling.
The real estate industry touches virtually every aspect of life in the United States and most of the free world. Where we choose to live and work is one of the most fundamental choices we make and people make these decisions every day. There are more than 5 million property sales in the United States every year, and VanEd can teach you how to be a successful real estate agent.
One of the most important steps a real estate professional can take for having a successful, lasting real estate career is establishing and maintaining their brand and image. A brand consists of three elements that help make a lasting impression on current and potential customers.
In this post, we aim to provide you with the skills and information to pass the state (Colorado) portion of the real estate exam on your first try.
First impressions are everything, and in the digital age that we live in, you only have a few seconds to capture a viewer’s attention. In this How-To, we'll teach you a few fundamental principles to help you start taking better real estate listing photos.
The CAM licensing program will end at the Division of Real Estate (Division) on June 30, 2019, and the Division will no longer have any jurisdiction over community association managers and related management companies.
VanEd will offer the CAM courses through the month of June for those who are interested. Read more about the veto and the executive order the Governor issued which creates a stakeholder workgroup who is charged with making future licensing recommendations.
On May 10, 2019, the Colorado Real Estate Commission (Commission) adopted a change to the Contract to Buy and Sell Real Estate (CBS) forms, and also adopted a new Closing Instructions form. These forms are effective immediately. VanEd will be including this information into our coursework in the coming few weeks.
Colorado’s community association manager licensure program update, HB 1212, has been passed by the Legislature, and the Governor has 30 days to sign or veto the bill before it becomes law. This bill revives prior licensure legislation until September 1, 2020, and creates a stakeholder process to gather information from owners and managers and make recommendations to the director regarding community management, such as the complaint process and credentialing.
Of note for currently licensed CAMs is the continuiation of licensing which will require the completion of continuing education and renewal with the Division of Real Estate.
Join online Live April 25th as TREC talks about all the recently launched tools which have launched on the TREC website. These tools and resources are now available, making life a little easier for Texas license holders and applicants.