Working With Real Estate Investors: Understanding Investor Strategies
Unlike most owner-occupied homebuyers, real estate investors enter the market to make money. By learning about investor motivators and criteria, you’ll be in a better position to help your clients navigate this asset strategy.
Working with Real Estate Investors examines investor goals and strategies, different investment property types, key financial considerations, and your role in locating, negotiating for, and marketing investment properties.
Course Highlights:
- An overview of residential and commercial investment property types
- Short- and long-term investment property acquisition strategies
- Financial factors that influence investor decisions, including depreciation, 1031 tax exchanges, and cash flow
- Financing options available to real estate investors, including conventional loans, commercial loans, and private money lenders
- Tips for locating and marketing investment properties
- Pros and cons of working with investor clients
- Ethical duties when working with investor clients
- Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
State Requirements For Texas
Texas State Requirement Details for Real Estate Continuing Education
Renewal Date: Every two years by the end of the month in which the license was initially issued
Hours Required: 18 hours
- 4 hours – Legal Update I: Laws, Rules and Forms
- 4 hours – Legal Update II: Agency, Ethics, and Hot Topics
- 3 hours - Contracts-related course
- 7 hours – Electives
Note: If you are a supervising agent, have sponsored one or more sales agents, served as the designated broker for a business entity broker that sponsors sales agents, or have been made a supervisor of other license holders, you will need to complete the 6-hour broker responsibility course as part of your required 18 hours of CE.
TEXAS REAL ESTATE REGULATORY AGENCY:
Texas Real Estate Commission
Street Address: Stephen F. Austin Building, 1700 N. Congress Ave., Suite 400, Austin, TX 78701
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 12188 Austin, TX 78711-2188
Telephone: 512-936-3000
Texas Real Estate Commission Website
Salesperson License Renewal Website