Board Certification for Continuing Education Credits
Here’s my question to you:
What would you want to hear about in a two hour class about owner financing?
I called the New Mexico Real Estate Commission last week to find out about how to get a course certified for Continuing Education Credits for real estate agents and brokers. I had looked up all the forms I need to fill out, and I knew that I have to make a presentation before the board. What surprised me was when I asked when the next board meeting is.
“Thursday, January 15 at 1:00″
Whoa. I had hoped to have a few weeks to get my curriculum together, but now I have a real short time period. Nothing like a deadline to increase your focus!
What I am finding is not that I don’t know what to say for a two hour class, but what do I leave out? My original concept for this owner finance course was that I would have around 10 hours of classes, and I have been building my content with that in mind. I have a fifty minute lesson on the Time Value of Money alone. (At the time of this post, there is a form in the upper right corner of the page where you can get access to this lesson for free. This free lesson may not be there forever.)
But every time I talk to a real estate broker, I get the same advice. “You won’t be able to sell this class if you don’t offer Continuing Education credits.” My first impulse was to resist. I want to teach brokers who want to learn how to make more money, not just the ones who want credits. Since I hear the same advice over and over, I figured I should provide what the market wants, not what I want to sell them.
As a result, I am trimming down my curriculum so that I can give a two hour class for CE credit. The clients who really want to dig into all of the details I want to share about owner financing will be able to take the longer course after the two hour class is over.
Please let me know how what you would like included in a two hour class.
Reply to this post or send me an e-mail to JayKoch@OwnerFinanceGuru.com.
Thanks,
jay
