Oregon Construction Contractor pre-license Course

For the lowest prices and most complete Oregon Construction Contractor pre-license course click HERE to check out Superior Schools website for more information.

Free Real Estate CE

FREE Real Estate Continuing Education


For a free real estate continuing education course, follow the directions below.

Follow the directions to the course titled "Have you heard?". This one hour session provides Oregon licensees with some of the recent law changes made during the latest legislative session pertaining to continuing education and licensing.


Click HERE for access to the course.

Superior Schools (Pro-Studies) is moving

After many (many, many) years on South highway 97, Superior Schools is moving to a new location in the Old Mill District. The address on June 1st. will be 231 Scalehouse Loop, Suite 205. (The Millside Building) Same phone number, 541-388-1021, and same superior service. Come on by, we always have chocolate for our friends.

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All day live instruction Exam Prep (cram) course

Are you currently studying for your real estate broker's license? Will you be taking the state exam in the first part of September? Begining at 8:00am and ending at 5:00pm on September 10th. this all day live instruction workshop will prepare you for the state exam. The class is conducted by a practicing principal broker/trainer who has been helping students prepare for their real estate license for over 17 years. Contact Lane Community College and ask for Summer class # 14841. Enrollment begins June 2nd.

Be ready for your Real Estate exam in just 12 weeks

I have just contracted with Lane Community College in Eugene to teach an "accelerated" real estate broker pre-license course. The classes will begin June 9th. and conclude Spetember 10th. with an all day review. For those wanting to be ready for the state real estate broker exam in the shortest possible time, this is the course to take. Contact Lane Community College and ask for Summer class #14710.

Certified Residential Investment Specialist

Certified Residential Investment Specialist

Help your clients invest wisely in smaller real estate properties and Increase your business volume by bringing added value to your existing client base The CRIS designation consists of four seven hour courses, and a final exam.

Course 100 introduces key investment concepts like cap rates, NOI, cash on cash returns. Each student receives an HP 10BII calculator with step by step instructions on how to use it! You will create APOD’s for single family houses and small ‘plexes.

Course 200 covers general leasing terms and concepts. Students will create APOD’s for small office and small retail investments.

Course 300 covers the long-range aspect of real estate investments. Students will create five year cash flows for investments, allowing calculation of IRR (internal rate of return). You will learn how to structure an offer, or counter-offer, to meet the investor’s desired return. No more guessing!

Course 400 covers getting into investments (including using IRA funds), getting out of investments (including sale, exchange and estate planning) as well as some tips on how to share your new knowledge with your clients.

Go to pro-studies.com to check it out!

This designation is not recognized by NAR at this time.

Carbon Monoxide Alarms

Starting April 1.2011 Oregon law requires carbon monoxide alarms to be installed in all homes and multi unit residences prior to the close or transfer of possession.

What is carbon monoxide?
A dangerous invisible, odorless, colorless gas created when fuels burn incompletely.

Where does carbon monoxide come from?
From the following fuel sources; heaters, fireplaces, furnaces, appliances and cooking sources using coal, wood, gasoline ,natural gas, propane, oil, or kerosene.

Who is required to install carbon monoxide alarms?
All home sellers of one and two family dwellings, manufactured dwellings, or multifamily units must install an alarm(s) prior to closing the sale.
All new construction and any reconstruction and/or repairs requiring a building permit must install alarms.

Why should homes have alarms?Approximately 2,100 people die from carbon monoxide poisoning every year in the United States
There are more than 10,000 injuries annually for carbon monoxide.
Car exhaust in an attached garage may leak carbon monoxide into a house even with the main garage door open.

Why is carbon monoxide harmful?It displaces oxygen in the blood and deprives the heart, brain and vital organs of oxygen.

Where to install carbon monoxide alarms.
Install an alarm(s) on each level of a home with sleeping areas.
Install an alarm in each bedroom or within 15 feet of each sleeping area.

What types of carbon monoxide alarms are available? Carbon monoxide only alarm which only activate by carbon monoxide.
May be battery-operated, plug-in or hard-wired.
Battery back-up is recommended for plug-in and hardwired alarms.
 Combination smoke/carbon monoxide alarms; activated by either smoke or carbon monoxide.
 Ionization smoke/carbon monoxide alarm.
 Photoelectric smoke/carbon monoxide alarm
 Photoelectric smoke/carbon monoxide voice alarm
 Explosive gas & carbon monoxide alarm

For more information visit http://www.oregon.gov/OSP/SFM/CommEd Co Program.shtml