On Friday, January 26, 2024 I began taking the remaining continuing education courses I need to renew my real estate license. Refer to the earlier post on this topic.

The first course, Fair Housing- DL/Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients- that I began working on Friday morning and continued into the evening. There was a lot of material offered and I checked almost every link.

This was my first time taking a course with The CE Shop, so I am going to admit there was a bit more overhead associated with this course.

The other issue I ran into- dealt with research into gender labels and their exact meanings. Unfortunately one of the questions I missed was because I still do not understand how everything is being defined.

In my defense, I would like to suggest that not all definitions on gender labels appear to be the same.

The following graphic shows my Certificate of Completion for the Fair Housing- DL/Diversity: Your Kaleidoscope of Clients and the score I received on the final exam.

When I began taking the final, I noticed I had 1000 chances to pass the final exam. I passed the first time with the 85 score, however, had no opportunity to up the score with subsequent retries. I was also a little surprised about how long it took me to complete the course and final exam.

The second course taken this weekend (all day Saturday), Ethics-D DL/Maryland Real Estate Code of Ethics was a long course. A lot of emphasis was put on the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice of The National Association of Realtors®. I had the NAR PDF link in one of my browsers all day and probably should credit a correct answer on the final exam to this fact.

The following graphic shows my certificate of completion and the passing score of 95 for the ethics course.

The following illustration shows the remaining courses I will take hopefully this week to satisfy my continuing education requirements.

If you are like me and your first real estate license renewal is approaching, and you also need continuing education course credits, I would not wait until the last minute. Those who have renewed their licenses at least once, probably know this.