Education & Products
Don't Wait Until the Last Minute! 2001-2002 CE
Take your 2001-2002 Continuing Education now! Check the calendar on the last page for dates and places.
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Sales Prelicense-Madison
This program is also available through self-study video or a self-study Internet program.
To obtain a real estate license in the state of Wisconsin, you must first complete 72 hours of approved education courses such as our sales and licensing course.
Second, you must pass a state-administered exam. The WRA is offering an eight-day Accelerated 72-Hour Sales program on May 13-16, 20-23, 2002 and July 8-11, 15-18, 2002 at the WRA in Madison. Brokers can purchase a $50 discount coupon for only $10, which entitles your new recruit to a $50 discount on the registration fee.
Your new recruits can be ready to take the exam as soon as they complete the class.
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Looking to Earn Your Broker's License?
Video Course Now Available!
If you are interested in obtaining your broker's license, you must complete 36 hours of education. Areas of study include: contracts, marketing, trust accounts, business ethics, personnel, and more.
A video course is now available or you can attend one of our live courses scheduled for May 14-17, 2002 at the Greater Milwaukee Association of
REALTORSŪ and July 22-25, 2002 in Madison.
Completion of the class, passing the exam and applying for the broker license will fulfill your 2001-2002 Continuing Education requirements.
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JumpStart Your Career -
QuickStart
As you recruit, don't forget to send your new agents to the four-day QuickStart Program (offered in two parts as two-day sessions). Course contents include listing skills, how to work with for sale by owners, presenting the offer, plus much more.
Modules 3 and 4 will be offered May 9-10, 2002 at the WRA in Madison, Modules 1 and 2 will be offered June 26-27, 2002 at the WRA in Madison.
Upon completion of the four modules, participants can take a GRI Course 1 Equivalency Exam and move directly into GRI Course 2 or 3. The fee is only $230; however, the WRA offers a new member discount of $40, making the cost of this course only $190. This is a fantastic price for four days of instruction for new agents.
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Open a Few Doors with Buyer Agency
The WRA will be offering the two-day ABR course August 21-22, 2002 in Madison. As Buyer Agency becomes the way more buyers want to do business, this is becoming one of the WRA's hottest classes. Register today. Fee is $250.
New Requirements for the ABR Designation
Since January 1, 2002, students are required to take the two-day ABR course in addition to one elective course to obtain the ABR designation. Current members who have obtained the ABR designation are grandfathered as to this requirement. Current electives include The e-Buyer, Innovative Marketing Techniques for the Buyer's Representative, Successful Buyer Representation in New Home Sales-REBAC, Successful Relocation Representation-REBAC, CIPS Essentials Course, e-PRO Internet Course, and ABRM Course-REBAC.
Members who joined REBAC between March 15, 2001 and January 1, 2002 are grandfathered IF they complete the requirements within three years of the course completion date. If the three-year timeframe passes from the time the course was completed, the individual must apply as a new member and fulfill all the requirements.
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The Next Elective Course for Your ABR Designation!
Innovative Marketing Techniques for Buyer's Reps-September 26, 2002 in Madison.
This course has been designed to increase your awareness of how significantly the home buying process has changed in the past decade. Learn how to develop useful strategies for marketing your services to any home buyer. This course is for anyone who wants to tie together their knowledge of homebuyer needs, an awareness of marketing principles, and a solution-oriented approach to serving buyer clients. The course explores the buyer counseling session in great detail and looks at marketing opportunities and points of differentiation. Early registration is $125.
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Need Another CRS Course to Earn Your CRS Designation?
Do you need the mandatory CRS 200 course to complete the requirements for the CRS designation? CRS200, "Business Development for the Residential Specialist," will be offered August 14-15, 2002 in Madison. This course will help you learn the business planning fundamentals that lead to increased profit and productivity. Content includes business plan development, budgeting and cost analysis, and prospecting and personal promotion techniques.
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GRI Offerings
To earn your GRI designation, you must complete three 4-day courses (GRI Course 1, 2, and 3) and pass an exam for each course. Courses may be taken in any order. Wisconsin's GRI program also includes CRS courses, which means you are completing education requirements for your CRS designation at the same time as you are earning your GRI designation. GRI Course 2 contains CRS 201 and GRI Course 3 has CRS202. Once you begin the GRI program, you have five years to complete the coursework.
GRI Course 1 - You have options!
option one - You can take the online version of the GRI Course 1 Equivalency Exam. Call to register and you can take the exam on the Internet. The cost is only $85.
The GRI Course 1 Equivalency Exam will also be given at your local Board or at the WRA during the week of August 5-9, 2002. This exam allows you to "test out" of the GRI Course 1 and continue with GRI Course 2 or 3 in February 2003. Exam cost is $85. Call your Board/Association and register.
option two - Attend the 4-day GRI Course 1 class scheduled August 12-15, 2002 at the WRA in Madison.
Home Inspectors CE Now on Video.
Modules can be purchased individually or in multiples.
module 1 Standards, Ethics and Report Writing - 4 hours
module 1a Electrical - 4 hours
module 2 Exteriors - 8 hours
module 3 Plumbing, Heating & Air Conditioning - 8 hours
module 4 Interiors, Insulation, Ventilation, Fireplaces, Basements, Crawl Spaces - 8 hours
module 5 Structural Systems and Components - 8 hours
Included is the home inspector's "HomeBook," a professional reference book with more than 365 pages and more than 600 possible inspection items, detailed drawings and the "what to" and "how to" of repairs.
1999-2000 CE - Still Available!
Real estate licensees can still complete their continuing education by WRA's distance learning Continuing Education program. The required 12 hours of continuing education are available through this program. Contact the WRA to register.
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ZipForm Program Update 5.1.5 Available May 8
by Kristi Mikalsen
The following fixes and enhancements to ZipForm will be released in early May. There are several options for updating your program: the automatic update feature built into ZipForm, the help menu of ZipForm, or through
www.zipform.com or
www.wra.org.
Fixes
1. NT Memory Errors
In certain situations on NT based systems, using the "X" button to close the ZipForm software would cause a program crash resulting from a memory error. The way that ZipForm closes has been altered to correct this problem.
2. Edit Header
Occasionally, changing information in a form, such as the buyer's name, would not immediately update the information in the transaction header and/or transaction index. This has been corrected.
3. Update Transaction Index
The transaction index is now immediately updated when data is imported from Outlook and/or Top Producer.
4. Amortization Export to Excel
ZipForm will no longer close if the user attempts to export an amortization table into Excel, if Excel is not installed on their system.
5. Unlock Transaction
ZipForm will no longer close if the user attempts to unlock a transaction with an incorrect password.
6. Street Names in Index
Street names now appear in the transaction index.
7. Clause Editor Error
The Clause Editor will no longer give a "List Index Out of Bounds" error when attempting to edit and save the title of a clause.
8. Override Date Fields
Date fields may now be overridden and filled with free form text without giving an "invalid date format" message.
9. Library Sharing on Networks
On some network installations, if a user was accessing a library, it became unavailable to other users on the network. This issue has been resolved and the libraries are now fully shareable.
10. Form Selection in the Form Manager
When the Form Manager was closed, either the last form accessed or the first form in the transaction was opened. Now the form that was added or selected in the Form Manager is automatically opened.
Enhanced Features
1. Confirm Password
A confirm password box has been added to the User Manager.
2. Improved Form Page Navigation
Next and Previous "VCR"-type buttons have been added to the Form Viewer. Typing in a page number in the space between the buttons will allow the user to immediately jump to that page.
3. Form Search
A search button has been added to the Form Manager. Users may search for forms by form titles or numbers. By default, a search is done on all the forms in a particular library. By unchecking the "Search through All Forms" checkbox, a search will be restricted to only the forms currently displayed in the Form Manager.
4. Transaction Search
A search button has been added to the Transaction Manager. Users may search for transaction by the address, buyer or seller.
5. Multiple Transaction Delete
Multiple transactions may be deleted at a time by holding the CTRL key while selecting them.
6. Delete Key
Transactions may now be deleted in the transaction manager by selecting them and hitting the keyboard delete key.
7. Auto Update Improvement
Auto Update now presents the user with a choice to continue or cancel before it attempts to connect to the Internet. Users also have an option to change their auto-update preferences whenever auto-update is run.
8. New Template Feature
There is now an option in the file menu to create a new template without first starting a transaction.
9. Strikeouts
Strikeouts will automatically turn off if the user attempts to edit a field. This will solve the problem whereby users would forget to turn off their strikeouts and begin entering data thus causing random strikeouts throughout the form.
10. Temporary Location
Transactions are now created in a temporary location. They do not get moved into their permanent location until the user has saved them. Similarly, when editing a transaction, a copy of the transaction is moved to the temporary location. This copy is what is actually
edited. The copy replaces the original transaction in the permanent location once it is saved. The effect of these changes is that transactions are no longer automatically created. Users can now preview forms and create templates without automatically creating transactions. Also, changes made to transactions will no longer automatically save. Users will now have to manually save a transaction before their changes are made permanent.
11. Enhanced Templates
Templates may now be applied to a transaction at any time by selecting the "Tools -> Apply Template" option or clicking the "Apply Template" button in the toolbar. Multiple templates may also be applied to a transaction.
12. Templates with Outlook/Top Producer
Users may now apply templates to transactions that are created by importing data from Outlook or Top Producer.
13. Browse Transaction
A "Browse for Transaction" button has been added to the Transaction Manager. This button will allow users to search for transactions that have been saved outside of the normal locations
14. File Names
An additional option to choose the name of the transaction file has been added to the header window. Users may now name their transaction files to make them more easily identifiable. If this field is left blank, the standard .zfx format will be used.
15. Auto-add Cover Sheet
When users create a new transaction they will be required to select a library. If they do not add any forms to the transaction then that libraries cover sheet will be automatically added to the transaction.
16. Remove Last Form
The ability to remove the last form in a transaction has been disabled. This has been done to ensure the integrity of the data.
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