NAR has extended the no application fee for the SFR Certification until March 31, 2010! Don't miss this discounted rate courtesy of NAR's Right Tools, Right Now Initiative!

As many agents can attest, your ability to close short sales and foreclosures depends in part on your confidence in seeing these transactions through.

For many real estate professionals, short sales and foreclosures represent the new “traditional” real estate transaction. Knowing how to maneuver the complexities of short sales as well as how to identify the distinct real estate opportunities in foreclosure are not merely good skills to have in today’s market—they are critical. This course helps students evaluate all available options for distressed homeowners and identify the components of an effective short-sale package. This course looks at how real estate professionals can counsel buyer-clients in the purchase of foreclosure properties. And as a practical resource, this course shows students how consumers can avoid foreclosure in the future.

The Short Sales and Foreclosure course counts towards earning NAR's Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification as well as one REBAC elective course to be applied towards the ABR® designation.

Don’t Go It Alone — Choose SFR

Designed for real estate professionals at all experience levels, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Short Sales and Foreclosure Resource certification, or SFR for short, gives you a road map for understanding how to:

• Counsel sellers facing foreclosure
• Qualify sellers for short sales
• Develop a short-sale package
• Negotiate with lenders
• Tap into buyer demand
• Safeguard your commission
• Limit risk
• Protect buyers

How This Certification Benefits You

• Education in classroom and online formats that fit your schedule and wallet
• Electronic toolkit with practical forms and worksheets
• Free Webinars that you can download anytime, anywhere
• Access to SFR logo and marketing materials
• Differentiation as an SFR at www.realtorsfr.org
• Online networking with you peers
• Qualifies for the elective requirement for the Accredited Buyer Representative Designation (ABR)

Becoming SFR Certified

The path to pursuing the SFR certification is straightforward. Follow these four steps:

• Be a member in good standing of the National Association of REALTORS®
• Complete REBAC’s Short Sales and Foreclosure Course
• Complete three 1-hour Webinars (Webinars available free of charge at www.realtorSFR.org
• Submit application ($175 application fee waived through March 31, 2010.)
• Download application form ...click here.

Part of NAR’s Right Tools, Right Now

In the spirit of NAR’s Right Tools, Right Now initiative to support members, the application fee to become SFR certified is waived through March 31, 2010. Act now to become SFR certified and be the short sales and foreclosure resource in your market!

Tuition

$79.00

REFUND POLICY: If the program is cancelled by Hogan School, a full refund will be given. Any cancellations received less than 48 hours from class start date will be subject to a $50 cancellation fee.

Renewal Credit

Receive 7 hours of RE Legal Issues credit

Instructors

Curtis Hall, ABR, CRP, CRS
The “Frozen Faced” & The Country’s First ABR®
When taking the ABR® course, why not take it from the very person who wrote the book? Curtis Hall co-authored the ABR® course in 1993 and is a full-time real estate practitioner in Phoenix, Arizona. This ABR® course is a real-world learning experience in which Curtis demonstrates his unique methodologies used in his own active real estate practice to differentiate his services from the competition. Curtis has sat on more than twelve local REALTOR Association and NAR committees and was awarded REALTOR of the Year by his local Association. As a participant on several Professional Standards committees and with his expertise in all aspects of risk management, Curtis is called upon frequently by the legal community as an expert witness.

Singin' Jim Hogan, ABR, DREI
A REALTOR® since 1971 and member of the REBAC National Hall of Fame, Jim Hogan is known nationally for his innovative teaching style and is often referred to as one the country’s leading educational visionaries. As a Tucson educator and founder of Hogan School of Real Estate in 1973 and one of the founding members of RealtyU, a national consortium of more than 40 real estate schools, Jim has helped thousands begin and sustain successful real estate careers. Jim Hogan and Curtis Hall developed the acclaimed “Innovative Marketing for Buyers Representatives”, course which is currently offered nationally alongside the ABR® core course presentation. Jim is also a mortgage broker and investor and was one of the first educators to be awarded the Real Estate Educators Association’s Distinguished Real Estate Instructor (DREI) designation. Jim is a singer and songwriter and has released two CDs.

Important Reminders

• There is a 5 minute late rule. If you are more than 5 minutes late to class, you will not receive credit for attending the course. No exceptions.
• You must check in with the front desk prior to entering the classroom.
• You must sign in on the Class Attendance roster prior to the beginning of the course.

Flagstaff, AZ

July 9, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Northern Arizona Association of REALTORS

Training room, 1515 E Cedar #4

Flagstaff, AZ

Course Price - $79.00

Honolulu, HI

March 11, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Old Republic Title/OREXCO

Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii

2454 S. Beretania St., Honolulu, HI

Course Price - $115.00

Main Campus

March 19, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Hogan School of Real Estate, Inc.

4023 E. Grant Rd.

Tucson AZ 85712

Course is Full

May 14, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Hogan School of Real Estate, Inc.

4023 E Grant Rd.

Tucson AZ 85712

Course Price - $79.00

Northwest Campus

March 22, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Hogan School of Real Estate, Inc.

3912 W. Ina Rd., Ste. 208

Tucson, AZ 85741

Course Price - $79.00

Peoria, AZ

March 23, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Service One Warranties & Equity Title Agency

Rio Vista Recreation Center

8866-A West Thunderbird Rd

Course Price - $79.00

Phoenix, AZ

March 22, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Stewart Title & Trust of Phoenix

3131 E Camelback Rd #125 (Homesmart)

Phoenix, AZ

Course Price - $79.00

March 25, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

American Title Service Agency

Holiday Inn Express Ahwatukee

15221 S 50th St, Phoenix, AZ 85044

Course Price - $79.00

Scottsdale, AZ

March 19, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Stewart Title & Trust of Phoenix

W.J. Bradley Mortgage

9237 E Via de Ventura #100, Scottsdale

Course Price - $79.00

March 24, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS

4221 N Scottsdale Rd.

Scottsdale AZ 85251

Course Price - $79.00

May 19, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS

4221 N. Scottsdale Rd.

Scottsdale AZ 85251

Course Price - $79.00

Sierra Vista, AZ

March 18, 2010

8:30am - 4:30pm

Southeast Arizona Association of REALTORS

125 S. 2nd St.

Sierra Vista, AZ 85635

Course Price - $89.00