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Course overview

The public faces significant challenges in today's real estate environment, from navigating complex transactions to protecting themselves against fraud, scams, and misinformation. This course is designed to ensure that real estate practitioners possess the knowledge, awareness, and commitment necessary to meet these challenges head-on and protect every consumer they serve. Practioners will learn to distinguish between effective and efficient service, with emphasis on why effective service is essential to public protection. The course addresses critical consumer safety topics including how to protect the public from data security threats and cybercrime, how to identify and prevent real estate scams that target vulnerable consumers, how to separate reliable market intelligence from misleading information that can lead the public to make harmful decisions, and how to navigate the emotional dynamics of transactions to prevent consumer decisions driven by fear or pressure rather than informed judgement. This course directly supports the mission of state real estate commisions to protect the public by preparing practitioners to serve as the first line of defense against consumer harm in real estate transactions.