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Silver Package
21-Hr. ME CE Package (for renewals on or after 4/1/23)
Silver Package
- Core Course for Brokers and Associate Brokers - 4 (3 core hours)
- Section 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchanges (3 elective hours)
- Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (3 elective hours)**
- First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On (3 elective hours)
- Sex and Real Estate: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, and Fair Housing (3 elective hours)
- Current Issues: Cooperation, Negotiation, iBuyers, and Disaster
- Preparedness (3 elective hours)
- Property Inspection Issues (3 elective hours)
- This package does not contain the core course for a Designated Broker.
$219
Bronze Package
21-Hr. ME Broker & Associate Broker CE Package with Ethics course (on or after 4/1/23)
Bronze Package
- Maine Buyer Relationships Core Course (3 core hours)
- Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (3 elective hours)*
- Preparing a Market Analysis (3 elective hours)
- First-Time Homebuyers: A
- Niche to Grow On (3 elective hours)
- Property Inspection Issues (3 elective hours)
- Second Home Ownership:
- Trends, Options, and Opportunities (3 elective hours)
- Sex and Real Estate: Sexual Harassment, Sexual
- Discrimination, and Fair Housing (3 elective hours)
$219
ME Real Estate Agent Real Estate Licensing Package
Here’s a glimpse of what you get with our Real Estate Agent License Package
TWENTYONE MEREC APPROVED COURSES
This package includes all 21 hours required for your broker and associate broker active license renewal on or after 4/1/2023.
MULTIPLE TRAINING DELIVERY METHODS
We understand the need for convenience, ease and flexibility. You can choose from any of the delivery method; In-person Classes, Virtual Classroom, Online Self-paced, and Online Interactive to fit your learning style.
PASSING EXAM IN THE FIRST ATTEMPT
Fortune Academy has the highest pass rates in the state for last several decades. We assure passing your class and state exam in the first attempt or you get your money back - guaranteed.
24/7 EXPERT CONNECT
You can connect with a Real Estate guru at any time to ask any question or seek help with your training program. We are available 24/7 via phone, email and chat to provide support for your career success.
Individual Real Estate Courses for ME Continuing Education
GREAT VALUE! This package includes all 21 hours required for your broker and associate broker active license renewal on or after...
Topics Covered Include:
- Core Course for Brokers and Associate Brokers - 4 (3 core hours)
- Section 1031 Tax-Deferred Exchanges (3 elective hours)
- Using the Code to Solve Ethical Dilemmas (3 elective hours)**
- First-Time Homebuyers: A Niche to Grow On (3 elective hours)
- Sex and Real Estate: Sexual Harassment, Sexual Discrimination, and Fair Housing (3 elective hours)
- Current Issues: Cooperation, Negotiation, iBuyers, and Disaster
- Preparedness (3 elective hours)
- Property Inspection Issues (3 elective hours)
- This package does not contain the core course for a Designated Broker.
- 21 Credit Hours
Would it surprise you to learn that the Maine Real Estate Commission can trace the source of most complaints to communication...
Topics Covered Include:
- Elements of effective communication
- Analysis of text messaging and how to do it better
- Agency, communication, and liability
- Records requirements for electronic communication and brokerage documents
- Working together in groups, with mentors, and in competitive cooperation
- Interactive activities and scenarios to help you apply what you learn to your real estate practice
- 3 Credit Hours
If a buyer who's not paying cash can't obtain financing, the transaction will fail. To provide the best service to consumers,it helps to have...
Topics Covered Include:
- Key players in financing
- The loan application package and process
- Consumer options for loan packages and types
- The government’s role in real estate financing
- Loan terminology
- Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts
- Elements of effective communication
- Analysis of text messaging and how to do it better
- Agency, communication, and liability
- Records requirements for electronic communication and brokerage documents
- Working together in groups, with mentors, and in competitive cooperation
- Interactive activities and scenarios to help you apply what you learn to your real estate practice
- 2 Credit Hours
Must a property manager accept a tenant's emotional support animal, and under what conditions? What proof can a property manager or landlord...
Topics Covered Include:
- The evolving fair housing law
- How the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Fair Housing Act intersect--and don't
- Types of assistance animals
- How to handle reasonable requests for accommodation
- Case studies and legal trends
- Examples and scenarios to help apply course content to real life
- 4 Credit Hours
Real estate is a dynamic industry, and that’s one of the reasons it’s an enjoyable, challenging, and interesting career. The industry is...
Topics Covered Include:
- The new NAR policy, MLS Statement 8.0, more commonly known as the Clear Cooperation policy
- Transparent cooperation and what that means for licensees
- New MLS requirements related to the Clear Cooperation policy
- Issues with limited exposure marketing practices
- Basic methods of the iBuying transaction system
- How licensees can make iBuying work for their clients
- Methods to plan and prepare for successful negotiations
- Strategies for conducting win-win negotiations
- Best practices for buying and selling in natural disaster risk zones
- Disaster planning to protect licensees’ businesses
- 2 Credit Hours
With more than 20 million veterans living in the U.S. today, real estate professionals can provide a valuable service to a strong client base by...
Topics Covered Include:
- A glimpse into the military lifestyle, what it means to serve, and how best to communicate with those who served
- Tools and techniques for informing veterans on the benefits available to them
- VA home loan program benefits, qualifications, and process
- Strategies for identifying appropriate home options for Veterans
- Myths and misconceptions about VA loans
- Activities and scenarios to reinforce key concepts
- 3 Credit Hours
A veteran broker once said, "No one ever failed in this business because of the paperwork." It's true: Real estate is a...
Topics Covered Include:
- Typical transaction documents
- Standard clauses, addenda, and contingencies
- How to practice within the scope of your license (but avoid unauthorized practice of law)
- How to field and manage multiple offers
- Managing signatures, notarizations, and identification
- Best practices in transaction management
- Best practices in document retention
- Keeping documents secure, both hard copy and digital Wire fraud prevention
- 4 Credit Hours
Whether you want to develop a niche business working with first-time homebuyers or simply increaseyour overall knowledge so you can better help...
Topics Covered Include:
- First-time homebuyer market stats
- Pros and cons unique to working with this market
- Housing affordability’s impact on new buyers
- Targeted marketing approaches and conveying homeowner benefits
- Providing value to first-time homebuyer clients
- Walking clients through each step of the transaction
- Financing, loans, offers, negotiations, and closing
- 3 Credit Hours
Personal Safety
Attacks on real estate professionals have made headlines at an alarmingly more frequent rate in recent years. After an incident where a licensee is...
Topics Covered Include:
- Crime statistics and studies that challenge preconceived notions
- Risk factors and vulnerabilities that unique to real estate professionals
- Case studies to illustrate how criminals target their victims
- How to develop a personal warning system and trust your instincts when something feels “off”
- Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
- 2 Credit Hours
Chances are good that, if it hasn't happened yet, you will one day work on a transaction involves a property that’s part of a tax-deferred...
Topics Covered Include:
- Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange definitions
- Starker’s Exchange background and application
- U.S. Internal Revenue Code requirements
- IRS Safe Harbor Guidelines
- Investor taxes advantages
- Setting up an exchange
- Selecting a Qualified Intermediary
- Licensee role in a Section 1031 tax-deferred exchange
- The non-exchanger's role in a Section 1031 transaction
- Delaware” Statutory Trusts
- Reverse exchanges
- Rare exemptions to exchange deadlines
- 3 Credit Hours
State-of-the-art Delivery Methods
Our instructor-led classes provide complete support and equip you with the right information for your license acquisition.
In-Person Learning
The best education option for students who prefer a traditional, in-person learning format where instructors and students share a learning environment.
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Learn Real Estate at a comfortable pace, in an online environment where you can access learning materials and examinations.
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Complete quizzes, submit assignments and learn from tenured Real Estate experts in an integrative online classroom experience.
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View on-demand video lessons from virtual Real Estate instructors and receive 24/7 email support for help completing assignments.
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Our Instructors
MARK DAVIS-COTE
INSTRUCTOR
Mark moved to SC from St Louis in 2006. He has a BA from URI, an MBA from Webster University, and an accounting certificate from TCL. He has been a licensed salesperson since 2011, a broker since 2016, and is SFR certified.
AMANDA FARNUM
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Amanda is a licensed Real Estate Broker and has 17 years experience in the real estate field. She also holds a BA in Graphic Communications, an AA in Business Administration, and has also taught on the private university level. She has won several awards for sales transactions and has extensive experience in residential, commercial, foreclosures and investments. When she
DALE CLIFT
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Dale took his first real estate course in Florida at age 20. He has been interested in real estate ever since. It just took a while to find the right time and place. Shortly after starting real estate in South Carolina, Dale realized his goal was to teach, train and coach real estate professionals. Dale’s background in training and management brings a wealth of experie
JOHN HASSELL
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – John Hassell, a native of Charleston, brings 21years of Real Estate experience and a love of the low country to his teaching. He graduated from the College of Charleston and became a Realtor in 1985 specializing in commercial real estate. He has held committee positions at Charleston Trident Area Realtors. John is the Broker-In-Charge of J. Hassell & Associates.
JOHN KOLESSAR
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – John earned his Masters Degree in Education Administration from Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. He also attended the Masters program in Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, in Newark, NJ. John has been active in Real Estate for eleven and is currently teaching for Fortune Academy in the Beaufort/Bluffton area.
JOSEPH F. GOBBETT, JR.
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Joe started his real estate career in Maryland in 1971. He was a training director and branch sales manager for a multi-office real estate company. As training director, he was responsible for teaching the pre and post real estate license course.
In 1989 Joe opened his own real estate company – Rescom Realtors- as broker in charge and holds G.R.I designation. He has se
LANDON BRENT
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – “Landon is the son of Otis Brent, founder of Fortune School of Real Estate. He has successfully instructed over 1,000 Pre-Licensing Real Estate Student/Agents as well as well over 3,000 Continuing Education Student/Agents. He was the first Accredited Buyers Representative, ABR instructor in South Carolina. Has been a Broker In Charge of two successful Real Estate firms
MARYANNE DORIO
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – MaryAnne Dorio has been in the real estate industry locally here in Myrtle Beach since 2012. She is a broker/owner of a local real estate company since 2010. Before that she ran the 2nd largest real estate company in Myrtle Beach. There she was tasked with education and training of the Realtors. She has taken her love of real estate and teaching to our students. MaryAnne
RANDY PONTON
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Randy started in Real Estate in 1996, in 1999 became Broker in Charge of my own RE Co. CRP Realty & Builders. He has a General Contractors License and builds many homes. Randy has been with Fortune since 2004 teaching first years sales and post licensing at Florence / Darlington Technical College and North Eastern Technical College in Cheraw.
RAY JAMES
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Ray is a licensed Broker-in-Charge in South Carolina as well as Michigan. He brings more than three decades of commercial, residential and property management experience and with more than15 years in the classroom teaching, students enjoy the learning experience. Ray holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Western Michigan University, Bachelors Degree in Pol
SANDY CHILDS
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Sandy grew up in the Greer area of Spartanburg/Greenville County and currently lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in education and taught early childhood education. She has been active in all aspects of the local real estate market for the past 20 years and has vast experience and also holds a Real Estate Broker’s license. She sits on
SHELBY APPLEBY
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Shelby has been a realtor since 1995, Broker-in-Charge. She retained her seniority when her husband transferred to Beaufort, SC and went to work in the Housing Division for the Marine Corps Air Station. Shelby lived in Washington for 5 years. She retired to Beaufort, SC to be with her family. Shelby took the real estate course and started to pursue her career. She teache
STEVE RANZER
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Steve Ranzer is Fortune Academy’s real estate instructor in the Aiken, SC area. Steve was licensed as a Realtor in 1998, achieved his Broker’s license in 2001, and has been a Broker-In-Charge of 3 different real estate companies. He currently has a Broker license in both South Carolina and Georgia and is actively working with buyers and sellers in both states. Steve
SUSAN EARLY
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Susan loves teaching! She spent seventeen years teaching middle and high school students in Orangeburg County schools before moving to the Charleston area in 2002. She began her Real Estate career in Greenville, SC. Susan is applying her love of teaching and her Real Estate experience to teaching adults now at Fortune Academy. When she’s not preparing our students for
TERRI ANDERSON BIC, GRI, CRS
INSTRUCTOR
Staff/Real Estate Instructor – Terri Anderson is owner/BIC of Terri’s Team Real Estate – Anderson’s largest independent real estate company. She has over 16 years of real estate experience and as well as 15 years in Advertising and Marketing. One of Anderson’s top producers! 17 Years in real estate. Certified Real Estate Instructor. Owns Fortune Academy of Real Estate in Anderson. Design
VAN HARDEN BROKER, CDEI
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – First licensed in 1981, Van earned his broker’s license in 1985. He served several years as the Broker-in-Charge of a large general real estate organization. Most of his assignments, however, have been as Broker/Manager of planned residential communities in the Myrtle Beach and Charleston markets. He holds both Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Business Administration.
KIMBER SMITH BROKER-IN-CHARGE
INSTRUCTOR
Kimber received his B.A. in Business Economics from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT. Having earned his real estate license in 1972, Kimber has been in the real estate field, whether as a sales associate, broker, or instructor, for over forty years. He joined Akers Ellis in 2009. Kimber is a member and past president of the Kiawah-Seabrook Island Exchange Club, serves on the Seabrook Island Pr
SUSAN A. LUCAS
INSTRUCTOR
Married to Joseph for 43 years in April 2016, 2 children. Relocated to Myrtle Beach in 2001. Susan has been licensed as a Real Estate Sales Person since 1979 – Susan was first licensed in New Jersey, then in NY where she worked as a sales agent for Weichert, Realtors in Monroe, NY. Susan relocated to Myrtle Beach in 2001 and has experience as an Agent, Manager, Broker in charge, Trainer, Coach a
ELLEN TOAY
INSTRUCTOR
I have a very unique perspective of the real estate industry as I have been in new home and general brokerage sales and in management. I have also worked as a loan originator, conducted real estate closings and taught for Fortune Academy previously.
LENNY GAINES
INSTRUCTOR
Lenny Gaines has been a real estate professional since 2003. He is a broker and has experience in working with residential and commercial transactions. In free time, Lenny enjoys traveling, good music, and catching up on popular television series.
APRYL HADEN
INSTRUCTOR
Apryl Haden has a B.A. from Auburn University, and a M.Ed. from University of Virginia, J.D. Charleston School of Law. She has been a licensed Realtor since 1993; and a broker since 2006. CRS, e-Pro, GRI. Apryl moved to Charleston from TN 2012 and is the Owner/Broker of Apryl Haden Real Estate Group, LLC.
HEATHER LEE BEGLEY
INSTRUCTOR
Heather Lee Begley is a Broker/Realtor currently working with Buyers, Sellers, and Investors in the Grand Strand area of South Carolina. She holds the Short Sales & Foreclosure Resource Certification and Seniors Real Estate Specialist Designation from the National Association of Realtors, and completed the Paralegal Certificate program through USC Aiken & The Center for Legal Studies. A lover of
JON HINES
INSTRUCTOR
Real Estate Instructor – Jon started in real estate in the early 1990s as a real estate investor. He also mentored students across the country teaching them how to be full-time investors. He got his North Carolina and South Carolina Real Estate Licenses in 2006 and ascended to Broker-in-Charge in 2008. Since then, he has been a Top-Producing Agent for many National Franchise Companies. Currently
The tenured and experienced instructors at Fortune Academy are committed to providing students with the best possible education and are dedicated to helping them succeed. They go above and beyond in their efforts to ensure that every student is well-prepared for a successful career after graduation from our school.
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