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North Carolina Broker Continuing Education Courses
Active Versus
Inactive Status
Inactive Status
Your NC real estate license must be on active status in order to receive
compensation for brokerage services (this includes referrals for which
you receive payment). You must complete all annual Continuing Education
(CE) courses to remain on active status.
If you do not plan to use your license in the near future, you may renew your license annually on inactive status by paying your annual licensing fee. You may continue to renew on inactive status indefinitely without completing CE courses. However, you will need to attend some CE courses in order to reactivate your license. If you renew your license without satisfying the CE requirement, your license will automatically be placed on inactive status.
NC broker licenses expire each June 30 unless properly renewed. After a license has been expired for 6 months or more, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission
may require you to retake the state exam.
If you do not plan to use your license in the near future, you may renew your license annually on inactive status by paying your annual licensing fee. You may continue to renew on inactive status indefinitely without completing CE courses. However, you will need to attend some CE courses in order to reactivate your license. If you renew your license without satisfying the CE requirement, your license will automatically be placed on inactive status.
NC broker licenses expire each June 30 unless properly renewed. After a license has been expired for 6 months or more, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission
may require you to retake the state exam.
The Outer Banks School of Real Estate is an official sponsor of Continuing Education (CE) courses for Brokers in North Caroilna. The North Carolina Real Estate Commission requires all brokers to complete CE in order to maintain their licenses. North Carolina broker's licenses expire each June 30 unless properly renewed. After a license has been expired for 6 months or more, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission may require you to retake the state exam.
Continuing Education Overview
- North Carolina Real Estate Brokers are required to take 8 hours of Continuing Education classes by June 10 of each year to remain on active status.
- These 8 hours include 4 hours of NCREC's prescribed Mandatory Update4 hours of an Elective of your choice.
- NCREC changes the Mandatory Update course annually.
- Licensees must attend 90% of a CE course and comply with student
participating standards in order to receive credit for the course.
- A person who is issued a broker license (either by examination, reciprocity or reinstatement) does NOT have to take CE courses during the period in which the license is issued. However, they must satisfy the CE requirement prior to the second renewal of the license.
- Realtor Ethics,
You Be The Judge, and the NCREEA award-winning Resort Property
Management course are Electives taught at the Outer Banks School of Real
Estate.
- Up to 4 hours of Elective credits for a course may be carried over to the next license period if no portion of the credit hours for the course were applied toward the CE requirement for the current license period. Thus, carry-over credit may be granted for extra elective courses taken, but not for extra hours in one course.
- $55 for one course or $100 for two courses
BICAR Eligibility
The Outer Banks School of Real Estate also offers a Broker-in-Charge Annual Review course (BICAR). This course is designed for and restricted to currently designated Brokers-in-Charge or for those who wish to remain BIC Eligible.
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A broker is BIC eligible when he or she has been designated
as a BIC and completed the NCREC’s 12-hour BIC course.
- A broker may maintain that eligibility indefinitely, even when not serving as a BIC, by taking the Broker-in-Charge Annual Review (BICAR) course each license period.
- The BICAR satisfies 4 hours of the annual Continuing Education Elective
requirement. A broker who is not a BIC or who is
not BIC eligible will not receive credit for the BICAR course.
- The broker must also take the Mandatory Annual Update
course and renew his or her license.
- $55 for BICAR or $100 with Mandatory Update
Continuing Education Course Descriptions
CE COURSE # 9912: MANDATORY UPDATE
CE COURSE # 2504 : REALTOR ETHICS: FOR THE GOOD OF ALL
CE COURSE # 2247: IF YOU WERE THE JUDGE
CE COURSE #2916: RESORT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (RPM)
CE COURSE # 9912: MANDATORY UPDATE
- A 4-hour course required annually for all active North Carolina real estate licensees that is written by the NCREC to address current issues such as updates to legal forms and legislative changes.
- The course meets as a half-day class of four (4) hours periodically throughout the year; and may also be broken down into two (2) two-hour sessions, or be taught on location, upon request.
- A 4-hour course required annually for all active North Carolina Brokers-in-Charge to ensure the BICs are getting education geared toward their specific responsibilities in regard to such issues as advertising, other licensees, and annual updates of rules, regulations, and money practices including trust accounts.
- The course meets as a half-day class of four (4) hours periodically throughout the year; and may also be broken down into two (2) two-hour sessions, or be taught on location.
CE COURSE # 2504 : REALTOR ETHICS: FOR THE GOOD OF ALL
- A 4-hour course written by George Bell that which is a quadrennial requirement for all licensees (must be taken every four years) as required by the NAR. The course outlines process of complaint filing, discusses responsibilities and ethics for resolving each tenet of the process, and explains how to resolve such issues within the formal setting.
- The course meets as a half-day class of four (4) hours periodically throughout the year; and may also be broken down into two (2) two-hour sessions, or be taught on location.
CE COURSE # 2247: IF YOU WERE THE JUDGE
- A 4-hour course written by George Bell to discuss national case studies and verdicts regarding real estate and legal exposures. Reading of cases on different types of real estate law sparks conversations in class about how students would rule if they were the judge. Topics include oral contracts, agency law and mailbox rules.
- The course meets as a half-day class of four (4) hours periodically throughout the year; and may also be broken down into two (2) two-hour session or be taught on location.
CE COURSE #2916: RESORT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT (RPM)
- A 4-hour NCREEA award-winning course written by Outer Banks School of Real Estate Director and Instructor, Betsy Whitcraft, about short-term rentals that is specifically geared toward the real estate market of the Outer Banks.
- The course covers basic rules, regulations, customs, market trends, laws, and forms; all to do with resort property management, short term rentals and investments; from both a sales and rentals perspective. Topics include HUD, ADA, security deposit laws, habitability, property management agreements, lease agreements, wear and tear, and insurance.
- The course meets as a half-day class of four (4) hour course periodically throughout the year; and may also be broken down into two (2) two-hour sessions, or be taught to non-licensee employees as a primer on the relationship between guests and owner.
"The most comprehensive CE and
post-licensing available in the Outer Banks. Betsy's interactive
teaching style encourages two-way communication style and thought
provoking discussions.
A great experience. Highly recommended!"
A great experience. Highly recommended!"
-Mike Pringle, OBXSoRE Student