Working With Real Estate Investors: Understanding Investor Strategies
Unlike most owner-occupied homebuyers, real estate investors enter the market to make money. By learning about investor motivators and criteria, you’ll be in a better position to help your clients navigate this asset strategy.
Working with Real Estate Investors examines investor goals and strategies, different investment property types, key financial considerations, and your role in locating, negotiating for, and marketing investment properties.
Course Highlights:
- An overview of residential and commercial investment property types
- Short- and long-term investment property acquisition strategies
- Financial factors that influence investor decisions, including depreciation, 1031 tax exchanges, and cash flow
- Financing options available to real estate investors, including conventional loans, commercial loans, and private money lenders
- Tips for locating and marketing investment properties
- Pros and cons of working with investor clients
- Ethical duties when working with investor clients
- Activities and scenarios to provide real-world context for course content
State Requirements For Illinois
Illinois State Requirement Details for Real Estate Managing Broker Continuing Education
Renewal Date: April 30th of odd-numbered years
Hours Required by the State: 24 hours
- 12-hour Broker Management CE course
- 6-hour core course
- 6 hours of elective courses including
- 1-hour course in Sexual Harassment Prevention Training
Note: A managing broker renewing their license for the first time may use the 45-hour managing broker pre-license brokerage administration and management course to satisfy the 12-hour broker management CE requirement. If the current term of the managing broker license ends within the 90 days after the initial managing broker license is issued, a licensee is not required to complete CE for that managing broker license term but shall complete all CE requirements before the next managing broker renewal deadline.
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Division of Real Estate
Street Address: 320 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor, Springfield, Illinois 62786
Mailing Address: 320 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor, Springfield, Illinois 62786
Telephone: (800) 560-6420
Email: fpr.realestate@illinois.gov