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Board of Realty Regulation CE Topic List
All real estate licensees, including property managers, are required to complete 12 hours of continuing education every year. Four of those hours must be from the Mandatory Topics list with the remaining eight hours coming from either the Mandatory or Elective Topics list. All continuing education must be completed by October 31, 2009.MANDATORY TOPICS | |
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* Real Estate Technology
In order for a technology course to be approved for real estate continuing education in Montana, the course must (1) be taught by a Montana approved instructor, (2) be beneficial to, and in some aspect, protective of consumers - buyers or sellers - and, (3) address one of the topics approved by the Board for continuing education rather than just demonstrate the mechanics of how the technology functions.
Clearly, there are some basic technology skills that are necessary in today's world in order to practice real estate in the way that consumers expect and require. In recognition of this need, the Board may choose to approve technology courses that provide the attendee with those necessary skills. Most courses will not be approved for hour-for-hour credit. Examples of such courses:
- Basic and advanced E-mail
- Creating and sending pdf files
- Creating and sending photo images
- Electronic signatures
- Website requirements
- Sending documents on-line
- Technology advances
In no case, however, will the Board approve a course whose primary function is to teach the licensee how to enhance or expand their real estate business through client contact, prospecting, self-promotion, etc. Courses which require the use of a particular brand of software in order for the instruction to be effective, or use software that must be purchased by the licnesee will not be approved.
