First American Residential Group is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations that provide varied education and training services to the residential real estate brokerage industry.

First American believes that education is a cornerstone of progress and that learning is an ongoing evolution. It has been said that:

Success is when…
You do more than you need to
Before you are asked to do it,
Not because you are asked to do it –
But because you want to do it.

Real Estate Schools RealtyU® consists of a network of affiliated educational organizations serving 40 states through 200 campuses across North America.

Collectively, RealtyU® has over 500 qualified and licensed educators teaching more than 6,000 different courses and programs every year. Although each Affiliate is independently owned and operated, they closely cooperate on various levels, especially with regard to creating and approving new courses, technology, national contracts, marketing and educational research and development. In 2004 RealtyU® educated over 305,000 real estate professionals, making it the largest educational network in the real estate industry.

For more information visit www.RealtyU.com.

CourseDates And Class Schedules CourseDates is a joint initiative involving hundreds of real estate educators and instructors that teach for some of the largest and most prestigious real estate schools and colleges in the country.

The goal of CourseDates is to provide, through one convenient portal, accurate and current information pertaining to the hundreds and hundreds of real estate classes being held across the country. CourseDates is a FREE service to all users (real estate agents and REALTORS®). There are no hidden charges or transaction fees and all costs are covered by participating real estate schools.

To use this agent-centric search engine, go to www.CourseDates.com.

Online Real Estate Courses If you wish to study at your own pace, on your own time and without the hassle of a commute and a structured class schedule, then online learning might be ideal for you.

When you take a course online, commuting or waiting for the rest of the class to catch up are not problems. Studies have proven that there is no significant difference between the learning outcome of studying from an online course and the amount of knowledge acquired in a traditional classroom. RealtyU® has made online learning easy by aggregating most of the nation’s largest providers (Dearborn, Thomson-CompuTaught, REALTOR® University, School of Mortgage Lending, OnlineEd and The Real Estate Professionals Society) into one convenient portal located at www.RealtyUonline.com.

Real Estate Tips, Tools, Shortcuts And Secrets iSucceed is an online real estate mentoring service available to all real estate agents desiring to learn from the industry’s most successful real estate agents.

iSucceed consists of the largest online library of systems, productivity strategies and real estate education and training materials in the industry. The weekly iSucceed Counseling Call is an opportunity for real estate brokers and agents to gain access to valuable market information and/or top producing real estate agents revealing the business and marketing strategies, tools and systems that they developed to become successful. This unique service is neither brand nor region specific and is available at the low cost of $29.95 per month.

For more information visit the iSucceed website at www.iSucceed.com.

Different Real Estate Designations The Real Estate Professionals Society (REPS) is dedicated to increasing professionalism in the real estate industry by recognizing the varying business expertise required of real estate professionals in the changing home buying and selling industry.

The Society awards various real estate designations in a number of different real estate related disciplines such as Residential Real Estate, Commercial Real Estate, Mortgage, Appraisal and Home Inspection upon successful completion of the related real estate course meeting the standards established for each designation.

For more information visit the REPS website at www.RealEstateProfessionalsSociety.com.

Real Estate Grants The Real Estate Apprentice Grant was formed in 2004 by The Real Estate Apprentice Foundation as a non-profit public benefits corporation to assist newly licensed agents entering the real estate industry.

The purpose is to help them in overcoming their fears and the obstacles that so often confront the new agent. The Real Estate Apprentice is a facilitator, helping them to become top producing real estate agents by providing quality guidance, education, products and services - guiding them on a successful fast track to profitability. Every year 20 bi-annual grants, totaling over $250,000, are awarded with no strings attached. Grants are sponsored by various leading real estate companies, service providers, real estate schools and of course First American Title.

For information visit www.RealEstateApprentice.com.

Real Estate Business Planning Create A Plan, Inc.is the largest real estate business planning software provider in the real estate industry.

Seller's Agent Training Traditionally, agents have represented the home seller. In the early 90's a new wave was pioneered and the industry started placing an emphasis on buyer agency.

Real Estate Books Selecting the right real estate book to read is often a difficult decision. The new RealtyU® Bookstore makes this much easier and provides quality and hard