For many real estate professionals, short sales and foreclosures represent the new “traditional” real estate transaction. This course helps students evaluate all available options for distressed homeowners and identify the components of an effective short-sale package. Students will learn how to effectively counsel buyer-clients in the purchase of foreclosure properties, and how consumers can avoid foreclosure in the future.

All new Realtor® members are required to attend our New Member Orientation program and Code of Ethics training course.

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All Realtors® are required by the National Association of Realtors® to complete two and a half hours of ethics training every four years.

Gain diversity awareness and cross-cultural skills and begin your diversity marketing plan today!

Become a HOWNW.com Certified Specialist!

Realtors® get in free to the Street of Dreams!

A community event to benefit the Oregon Association of Realtors® HOME Foundation

Stop guessing! Learn what to look for when buying a computer; and discover the fundamentals for becoming your own computer guru. We’ll learn how to organize files and folders, manipulate windows, and work with desktop icons; how to get what you want faster by using the tools on your web browser and what’s available on some handy websites; and how to reply, attach, and cc with the best of them.

Some people are calling it the Too Much Information Age - which is all the more reason to be able to handle all this fast-paced data. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 is the personal administration program that helps you manage your time and information more effectively. In our Outlook 2003 class you will learn how to create and organize your e-mail messages, contacts and appointment calendar, all in one program. Prerequisite: some prior experience with an e-mail program.

Looking to learn how to create great-looking documents? Look no further. Our MS Word class will start you off with creating a basic document and then kick it up a notch by teaching you to format text and paragraphs, add tables and insert graphic elements. We’ll even teach you how to share your documents by creating labels or mastering mail merge.

Tired of doing all the dirty work yourself? Make MS Excel do it for you. From crunching numbers to organizing information, we’ll give you the skills to make Excel work for you. We’ll teach you how to navigate your way through the program so that you can select and enter data, modify worksheets and workbooks, and perform calculations.

Make flyers, postcards and labels. Learn to create promotional materials from scratch or use Publisher’s templates for quick, professional marketing flyers.