Texas Continuing Education COURSE
Broker Responsibility Course (2019-2020)
$69.00
6 Total hours
0 Elective hours
6 Mandatory hours
The Texas Real Estate Commission provides updated course content to cover topics affecting real estate professionals in Texas. TREC protects consumers of real estate services in Texas by ensuring qualified and ethical service providers by providing applicable education.
This six-hour course reviews a range of rules that govern broker responsibility, and meets Texas’s mandatory requirement for CE renewing a license for brokers who sponsor sales agents, designated brokers of a business entity, and license holders who are delegated supervisor of one or more license holders. In addition, any license holder may take this course, which counts for 6 hours of MCE elective credit.
Course highlights include:
- TREC rules, regulations, and standards
- Brokers' responsibility to define and authorize license holder scope of authority, and ensure competency
- New rules regarding team leaders, delegated supervisors, and the Broker Responsibility course
- Advertising rules
- Guidelines for managing trust funds, maintaining records, distributing consumer protection forms, and more
- Property management responsibilities, authority and duties, and laws pertaining to property management
- Teams, team names, and name registration
- Proper training, mentoring, and effective sales meetings
- Required policies and procedures, record keeping
- Broker response time requirements
- TREC application process – methods and tips
- Complaint handling in Texas
- Relevant case studies that illustrate key violations that occur
- Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts