TREC Legal Update

TREC Legal Update
Course Description:

The purpose of this course is to communicate recent updates, changes, and addendums to laws, regulations, legal definitions, and forms as they apply to real estate practice in the state of Texas. Since judicial interpretation provides the effective enforcement of these changes, a section containing several case studies is included in the course in order to illustrate the law in action in contemporary practice.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the new forms
• Compare new forms to older forms
• Describe a situation in which the form is used
• Recall recent legislative changes
• Explain the impact of the changes on real estate practice
• Assess a situation when applying a change and suggest a cure
• Describe each hot topic
• Interpret situations when a topic should be applied
• Describe a topic to a client
• Recall case studies
• Define property defect
• Explain multiple disclosures
• Demonstrate an understanding of DTPA
• Apply case law to brokerage situations

Passing Information - % Quizzes & % Final Exams
70% for both pretest and final exam