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About This Course
Real estate professionals are responsible for protecting their clients' physical and financial well-being at every stage of a transaction. Designed for active real estate licensees in Georgia, this 4-hour course walks through the full scope of consumer protection in real estate transactions, from securing property access and preventing wire fraud to identifying environmental hazards and understanding climate-related risks.
Through multimedia resources, downloadable toolkits, and practical checklists, you'll examine real-world case studies — including landmark events that reshaped how the industry thinks about disaster preparedness and environmental justice — and leave with a clearer understanding of your obligations to the communities you serve.
This course fulfills 4 hours of the continuing education requirements for Georgia real estate license renewal.
Topics Covered
Lesson 1: The duty to safeguard the interests of the public in real estate transactions
- Safeguarding the interests of the public
- Addressing seller safety, home security and listing security concerns
- Lockbox security concerns for sellers and their property
- Guidelines for property access
- Duties owed to the owner of every home you access
- Data security and wire fraud
- Real property safety disclosures
- Environmental hazards affecting residential homes
Lesson 2: Hazards in buildings
- Indoor air quality in residential homes
- Radon
- Mold
- Smoke
- Proximity to polluting activities
- Hazardous building materials
Lesson 3: Best Practices for Safety and Accountability
- Broker safety advisory
- Best practices for licensees
- Understanding risks in real estate practice
- Brokerage structure considerations
- Discrimination and antidiscrimination measures
Lesson 4: Weather and climate risks
- Weather and climate risks
- Homeowners insurance and environmental perils
- Environmental Justice
- Hurricane Katrina
- The Flint Water Crisis
What You’ll Learn
Upon completion of this course, licensees will be able to:
- Safeguard Consumer Interests: Apply security protocols throughout transactions—lockbox management, property-access guidelines, and home-security measures—to minimize liability and protect clients.
- Mitigate Indoor & Outdoor Air Hazards: Identify common pollutants (radon, mold, combustion by-products), understand their health impacts, and employ testing, ventilation, filtration, moisture control, remediation, and wildfire-related protections.
- Uphold Professional Competence & Accountability: Define safety as the foundation of competence; take personal and collective responsibility to uphold ethical practices, confront harmful norms, and address industry vulnerabilities.
- Assess Weather & Climate Risks: Recognize hazards (flooding, hurricanes, heat waves, drought, sea-level rise), evaluate their effects on property values, homeowners insurance coverage and limitations, and community resilience.
- Champion Environmental Justice & Climate Resilience: Explain how systemic inequalities exacerbate disaster impacts, and analyze the economic and social implications of climate change on real estate markets (moral hazard, disaster capitalism, climate gentrification).
| Name: | Georgia Real Estate Commission and Appraisers Board |
| Phone: | 404-656-3916 |
| Fax: | 404-656-6650 |
| Website URL: | https://www.grec.state.ga.us/ |
| Email Address: | grecmail@grec.state.ga.us |
| Address: | 229 Peachtree Street, N.E.International Tower, Suite 1000 |
| City: | Atlanta |
| State: | GA |
| Zip: | 30303-1605 |
