SAE? MCE? Rules For Last Minute or ... A Late Renewal Due to Educational Requirements Not "YET" Completed! We Can Help!
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First, remember a real estate license is a privilege. Privileges come with responsibilities. It is each licensee's professional responsibility to complete educational requirements prior to deadlines and to insure the completion information is forwarded to TREC in a timely manner 'along with properly completed forms, procedures and corresponding fees for renewal.' Failure of any of these renewal components may cause a failure in renewal.
Second, it is a common error for many licencees to lump together different educational requirements into a "Continuing Ed" mindset, which leads to incorrect or late completion, even loss of licensure. So, let's separate SAE educational requirements from MCE educational requirements and quit calling everything "Continuing Education Requirements."
- SAE - Salesperson Annual Educational requirements - Sec. 1101.454.
- (Direct Excerpt From The Texas Real Estate License Act - TRELA) Sec 1101.454. SALESPERSON LICENSE RENEWAL. (a) An applicant applying for the first renewal of a salesperson license must provide to the commission satisfactory evidence of completion of at least 18 semester hours, or equivalent classroom hours, of postsecondary education, including 14 hours of core real estate courses. (b) The commission may not waive the requirements for renewal under this section.
- MCE - Mandatory Continuing Educational requirements - Sec. 1101.455. CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS (TRELA) ... and also from ... §535.91 & §535.92 (The Rules).
- (Direct Excerpt From The Texas Real Estate License Act - TRELA) Sec 1101.45. CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS. (b) A license holder who is not subject to the annual education requirements of Section 1101.454 must attend during the term of the current license at least 15 classroom hours of continuing education courses approved by the commission.
- (Direct Excerpt From The Rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission - The Rules) §535.91. Renewal Notices. (b) On or after January 1, 2005 and except as authorized by §535.92 of this chapter, for the next and all subsequent renewals of a license on active status that is not subject to the annual education requirements of §1101.454 of the Act, the license holder must attend during the term of the current license, at least two Commission developed legal courses consisting of a three-hour legal update course and a three-hour legal ethics course to comply with the six legal hours of mandatory continuing education required by §1101.455 of the Act. The remaining nine hours required by §1101.455 of the Act may consist of elective credit courses registered with the commission under subchapter G of this chapter.
- (Direct Excerpt From The Rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission - The Rules) §535.92. Renewal: Time for Filing; Satisfaction of Mandatory Continuing Education Requirements.
- (A) SAE Continuing Education Requirements are simply professional career planning steps when your educational provider is TARREC™ because we speak "Regular English" not "Regulation English". What all the above rules are about is planning. The vast majority of our first-year license renewal clientele took our pre-licensure educational advice and completed either 7 or 9 courses "before" sitting for the licensure exam. Candidates who have a semester or more in college are normally given credit for 2 30-Hour CORE courses, (60 hours total credit) which requires them to only have to complete a specific 4 CORE courses plus 1 more CORE elective (5 total 30-hour CORE course completions) for pre-licensure education requirements; Candidates who "do not have a semester or more in college or perhaps have not even completed a high school education are required to complete a specific 4 CORE courses plus 3 more CORE electives (7 total 30-hour CORE course completions) for pre-licensure education requirements. There are 13 CORE Topics as defined by the TREC from which elective CORE courses may be selected. We advise and receive excellent response, without known exceptions, to the recommendation that "ALL PRE-LICENSURE CANDIDATES COMPLETE THE REQUIRED PRE-LICENSURE CORE COURSES PLUS THE FIRST YEAR RENEWAL, SELECTED CORE ELECTIVES." This recommendation means that a higher level of glossarial knowledge precedes sitting for the licensure exam lending to a higher likelihood of first-time passage. In addition, at first-year license renewal time, education is already completed by the licensee! Think about it - better preparation for a higher likelihood of first-time licensure examination passage & a stress free renewal in the educational requirement area!
- (B) SAE. But what do you do if you did not attend TARREC™ for pre-licensure or are one of the few who ignored the recommended 7 or 9 pre-licensure CORE completions... & now you need SAE? First, just call us. We speak "Regular English" not "Regulation English". Let us quickly assist you in the required completion of 2 additional CORE course completions. Remember not to wait to the last minute... you'll end up on the carpet! And, to keep your business of listings and buyer-representation clientele, if you are going to be late, you'll have to properly pay the current administrative fee in place (hundreds of additional dollars) to process an approved late educational process. Why do that? Additional administratiave fees alone can often pay for the cost of additional education! Avoid the 10-day in advance rule for receipt by TREC of CORE courses for licensure renewal! Call now, click here, ask us how! With the new mandatory Brokerage Course required in the 900 total hours to qualify your education for a broker license, you might want to discuss your career plans with one of our Career Counselors and get more bang out of your buck by killing two requirements with one course! Don't just take courses, have a plan and get ahead!
- (A) MCE - Continuing Education Requirements are simply professional career planning steps where your can complete educational courses designed to make you money byincreasing your skills sets! And, because as your educational provider we translate "Regulation English" into "Regular English", we can help you select from a sea of designation / certification courses that satisfy MCE requirments all the while you can focus on this goal: "EARN WHILE YOU LEARN!"©™ Be sure to ask about an exclusive at TARREC™, "The 6-Pack Attack"©™ of Certs that is designed to lend a fresh breath to anyone's career, new or experieced, stale or otherwise. Admit it, we all need to freshen it up, from time to time. So, for MCE, call us but first check out "The 6-Pack Attack!"©™ of Certs so that you can ask which ones will help you in your career plans.
- (B) MCE - Continuing Education Requirements also require for subsequent renewals after the first-year renewal, that you attend *during the term of the current license, (*translation - "not before") at least two Commission developed legal courses consisting of a three-hour legal update course and a three-hour legal ethics course to comply with the six legal hours of mandatory continuing education required by §1101.455 of the Act. The remaining nine hours required by §1101.455 of the Act may consist of elective credit courses registered and that is where TARREC™ leads the way with the "EARN WHILE YOU LEARN!"©™ approach to MCE by delivering the awesome career builders, "The 6-Pack Attack!"©™. If you take our courses, TARREC™ insures that the six legal hours of mandatory continuing education required by §1101.455 of the Act are incorporated into your payment plans so that you know you will have a smooth renewal. Always ask your Career Counselor for a TARREC™ Token or A "West Texas Coupon" in order to save on the six legal hours of mandatory continuing education required by §1101.455 of the Act.
Third and finally, there are more rules than we shared above but basically it is two-fold that (A) it is your responsibility to obtain approved course completions to keep educational requirements "CURRENT" so that you can (B) maintain an a "ACTIVE" license by processing renewals forms along with any other requirements and associated fees required at that the time of your license renewal. So, take our final advice ...
Avoid the need and cost for the following deferral of educational requirements during renewal!
Sec. 1101.457. DEFERRAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS.
(a) The commission by rule may establish procedures under which an applicant may have the applicant's license issued, renewed, or returned to active status before the applicant completes continuing education requirements.
(b) The commission may require an applicant under this section to:
- (1) pay a fee, not to exceed $200, in addition to any fee for late renewal of a license under this chapter; and
- (2) complete the required continuing education not later than the 60th day after the date the license is issued, renewed, or returned to active status.
(V.A.C.S. Art. 6573a, Sec. 7A(g).)
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