SALESPERSON 18-MONTH CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENT

If you obtained your sales license before October 1, 2007 you must complete two additional real estate courses within 18 months after receiving your license and send proof of the completion to the DRE.

Real Estate Practice is mandatory for the 18 month requirement, however quite often we find that people have a course from a past college degree that will satisfy the elective course requirement. The most common courses people seem to already have, normally from their lower division college credits, are General Accounting, Micro or Macroeconomics, and Business Law. As long as you can furnish official proof of completion, it does not matter how long ago these courses were taken. If you have questions, please feel free to call our office.

How Online Courses Work

Quizzes:

All of Clare Institute's online education courses include online quizzes for each lesson. Quizzes must be completed to advance within the online course material, however no passing grades are required to proceed to subsequent levels. Immediately after each quiz is submitted you will receive a summary of how you answered the quiz questions and the opportunity to retake the quiz until you are satisfied with your score.

Final Examination - Online:

Passing each course is dependent upon you receiving a score of 60% or better (70% or better as of April 1, 2008) on each final examination. These tests may be taken OPEN BOOK. And by choosing to take our online courses you will be able to take the final examination online, without the need for monitored testing!

Online Completion Certificates/Transcripts:

For all online students, your Certificate of Completion/Transcript is issued by our office, via email, within one business day of completion of the courses. This email will contain a link to your signed certificate, with printing directions. Since we have the capability to send you a signed copy in email, you will NOT receive a hard copy in the U.S. Mail. Please save the link to this email should you need to print additional copies at a later date.

Important: It is your responsibility to send the proper renewal forms to the Department of Real Estate. We do not do this on your behalf. We recommend using the eLicensing feature through the Department of Real Estate's website @ www.dre.ca.gov

TIME TO COMPLETE: The Department of Real Estate requires at least two and one half weeks (18 calendar days) from the date of enrollment. This is a minimum time; Clare Institute allows a student 6 months from the date of enrollment to complete the course. Completion of the course includes taking and passing the final examination.

TIME TO COMPLETE COURSES

Number of courses	Minimum completion time
1 course	2 1/2 weeks
2 courses	5 weeks
3 courses	7 1/2 weeks
4 courses	10 weeks
5 courses	12 1/2 weeks
6 courses	15 weeks
7 courses	17 1/2 weeks
8 courses	20 weeks

The times listed above are minimum completion time periods. Clare Institute allows the student 6 months from the date of enrollment to complete your courses.