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Find an instructor-led class that fits your professional development needs. Select any course title below to review its description, learning objectives, and Arizona continuing-education credit category.
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Arizona 1-Hour CE Classes
AZ: 1- Hour: Maximizing Credit Scores with Legal Strategies
Help buyers feel more confident and better prepared for the mortgage-financing process.
This focused one-hour course gives real estate professionals a practical understanding of consumer credit and its role in mortgage qualification. Attendees will examine the key components of a credit report, the factors that influence credit scores, and common credit misconceptions that can create confusion for buyers. The course provides useful knowledge agents can use to establish realistic expectations, encourage better questions, and help clients take meaningful steps toward stronger mortgage readiness.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Identify the primary components of a consumer credit report.
- Understand the factors that may influence a buyer’s credit score.
- Recognize common credit misconceptions that can create confusion during the financing process.
- Explain how credit history can affect mortgage qualification and available financing options.
- Help buyers establish realistic expectations before beginning the mortgage process.
- Discuss practical, compliance-conscious steps that may support stronger mortgage readiness.
AZ: 1-Hour: Divorce & Real Estate
Navigate divorce-related real estate transactions with greater clarity, care, and professional confidence.
This focused one-hour course helps real estate professionals understand how divorce proceedings, court orders, settlement agreements, liens, and other legal documents may affect title, financing, disclosures, communication, and closing timelines. Attendees will explore common warning signs, confidentiality concerns, documentation practices, and the importance of coordinating effectively with attorneys, lenders, escrow officers, and other professionals while remaining within the proper scope of the agent’s role.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Recognize how divorce-related documents and decisions may affect a real estate transaction.
- Identify potential title, financing, disclosure, and closing concerns.
- Protect client confidentiality and document important conversations appropriately.
- Communicate with clients professionally during emotionally sensitive circumstances.
- Coordinate effectively with attorneys, lenders, escrow officers, and other transaction professionals.
- Establish realistic expectations and apply practical strategies that may help reduce transactional risk.
AZ: 1- Hour: Government Loan Essentials
Help buyers explore government-backed financing with clearer expectations and fewer surprises.
This practical one-hour course gives real estate professionals an approachable overview of FHA, VA, and USDA financing. Attendees will examine how these programs differ, which buyers may benefit from each option, and how credit, income, debt ratios, occupancy requirements, and other qualification factors can influence eligibility. The course also reviews property standards, appraisal considerations, repair expectations, and common issues that may delay or disrupt a government-financed transaction.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Identify the primary differences among FHA, VA, and USDA financing programs.
- Recognize the buyer profiles that may benefit from each government-backed loan option.
- Understand how credit, income, debt ratios, and occupancy requirements may affect eligibility.
- Recognize property standards, appraisal considerations, and possible repair requirements.
- Identify common concerns that may delay, suspend, or disrupt a government-financed transaction.
- Communicate clearer expectations to buyers, sellers, lenders, and cooperating agents.
AZ: 1-Hour: A Lender's Guide to Appraisal Protocols
Understand the appraisal-review process and help clients navigate valuation concerns with greater confidence.
This practical one-hour course takes real estate professionals behind the scenes of the lending process, from the initial appraisal order through lender and underwriting review. Attendees will examine how lenders evaluate comparable sales, property characteristics, condition and quality ratings, contract concessions, and other factors that support the reported value. The course also addresses common appraisal conditions, revision requests, repair requirements, property deficiencies, and reconsiderations of value.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Understand how an appraisal moves from the initial order through lender and underwriting review.
- Recognize how comparable sales, property characteristics, and market adjustments may support the reported value.
- Understand condition and quality ratings, contract concessions, and other appraisal considerations.
- Identify common revision requests, repair requirements, and property deficiencies.
- Recognize situations in which a reconsideration of value may be appropriate.
- Set realistic client expectations and respond more efficiently when appraisal concerns could affect closing.
AZ: 1-Hour: Summary of Reverse Mortgage Guidelines
Gain a clearer understanding of Reverse Mortgages and better support older homeowners as they explore their financing options.
This practical one-hour course introduces real estate professionals to Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) and how they may be used in purchase and refinance transactions. Attendees will explore general eligibility requirements, appropriate client profiles, property and occupancy standards, financial-assessment considerations, and required counseling. The course also addresses common misconceptions and explains how agents can communicate accurate, compliance-conscious information while remaining within the proper scope of their professional role.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Explain the basic purpose of a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage.
- Recognize how a HECM may be used in purchase and refinance transactions.
- Identify general borrower, property, and occupancy eligibility requirements.
- Understand required counseling and financial-assessment considerations.
- Recognize and address common reverse mortgage misconceptions.
- Communicate accurate information while remaining within the boundaries of the agent’s role.
- Coordinate more effectively with lenders, counselors, and other professional advisors.
AZ: 1- Hour: Vital Financial Literacy for REALTORS®
Build the financial knowledge needed to guide clients toward more informed and realistic housing decisions.
This practical one-hour course helps real estate professionals understand the financial factors that can influence a client’s ability to purchase, sell, and sustain homeownership. Participants will explore budgeting, savings, debt management, credit behavior, affordability, payment planning, and long-term financial preparedness. The course connects these concepts to mortgage readiness, homeownership stability, and successful real estate transactions.
Attendees will learn how to:
- Recognize the financial factors that can affect mortgage readiness and sustainable homeownership.
- Explain budgeting, savings, debt, credit, affordability, and payment planning in clear, client-friendly language.
- Identify common financial challenges that may affect a client’s housing decisions.
- Set realistic expectations and reduce financial misunderstandings during a transaction.
- Share practical, compliance-conscious information without crossing into regulated financial advice.
- Help clients approach important housing decisions with greater knowledge and confidence.