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Attention real estate agents and licensed REALTORS®. You can grow your business and make more sales by learning how Renovation Mortgages can help you move your “hard to sell” listings while giving your buyers an opportunity to borrow additional money for repairs, upgrades, and other home improvements…. based on the as-completed value of the property.

The Northeastern Michigan Board of REALTORS®, Firstbank West Michigan Region and AmeriFirst Home Mortgage invite real estate professionals and licensed REALTORS in the Hale, Michigan area to a free 3-hour continuing education course. "Renovation Mortgages 101" focuses on the current housing market and how mortgage loan options like FHA 203k and HomePath Renovation affect selling and buying homes.

Hamilton, Ohio are real estate agents and licensed REALTORS® are cordially invited to attend two 3-hour Continuing Education Courses on March 14th. These seminars are good for CE credit, but they're also practical applications for your real estate business.

As a real estate agent or licensed REALTOR®, you've seen your share of questionable homes for sale. You've probably been to a house with a missing furnace, water damage or windows so thin they make a model look chubby. These properties are a waste of time and effort, and you'd rather avoid them at all costs. 

Fort Wayne, Indiana will light up soon with bright ideas in real estate, thanks to Mortgage Myth Buster Dave Brown and Renovation Expert Joe Daly. Dave welcomes Joe to Allen County to help educate real estate agents and licensed REALTORS® on renovation lending. This mortgage loan option can help agents sell more homes and help buyers find dream homes in progress.

It doesn't matter if you are an experienced real estate professional with many years behind you or you're only just now considering a career in real estate: keeping up with the latest real estate practices is a must. The Dayton Area Board of REALTORS® offers many educational courses that fulfill the state licensing requirements while providing valuable information to agents. One of those opportunities is coming up April 9, 2013 with AmeriFirst Home Mortgage and national renovation lending expert Joe Daly.

Real estate agents and licensed REALTORS® in the greater Cincinnati area expand their education with a licensed Continuing Education (CE) course called "Solutions for a Challenging Housing Market" January 25, 2013. This 3-hour CE course focuses on the need for renovation loans in the current market due to foreclosed homes, vacant housing stock and outdated decor in homes across the southern Ohio area. 

Licensed REALTORS® and real estate agents in Columbus, Ohio have the chance to learn more about one of the most powerful home improvement loans in today's housing market: FHA 203k. This mortgage loan option from FHA focuses on the improvements home buyers can make to their homes, while amortizing the cost over the life of the loan. The FHA 203k turns dog-house-properties into dream homes by financing the repairs right into the mortgage. Homes that fail to pass FHA inspection, fixer-uppers, homes that are too small or too out of date all fall into the FHA 203k category for buyers all across the greater Columbus area.

Real estate agents need continuing education (CE) credits to maintain their license. these courses cover all kinds of housing market and real estate subjects. One of them is the FHA 203k. AmeriFirst Home Mortgage, a leading 203k lender, offers an educational course on one of the top home improvement loans in the market today. Also known as a renovation mortgage, the FHA 203k allows a buyer to roll the cost of renovations, rpeiars or remodeling into the mortgage itself.

As a Realtor® in today’s market you face many challenges. There are so many external factors affecting the housing and mortgage lending industry right now and in order to survive you need to change the way you think, and open new doors.