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Resort and Second-Home Markets Course
The Resort and Second-Home Markets Course is the core course you must take in order to obtain the Resort and Second-Home Property Specialist Certification. This one-day course focuses on the knowledge and skill base that real estate professionals need to specialize in buying, selling, or managing second homes in a resort, recreational, and/or vacation destination and for properties for investment, development, or retirement by U.S. and international clients and customers in the United States.
Course material and webinars include the following:
- Skills and knowledge foundation
- Resort and second-home customers, clients, and properties
- Working with affluent or international buyers and sellers
- Building your business
- Overcoming bad publicity and disasters
- Tax and investment
- Regulatory matters
Learn how to:
- Use community resources and tourism bureaus to your advantage
- Be prepared to act when laws, directly affecting your business, are scheduled to change
- Make the best use of your marketing dollars
- How to handle the media—rather than it handling you
This course can be credited towards the following designations or certifications:
ABR; CIPS; CRS; PMN; SRES; AHWD; RSPS
The course can be taken online or in the classroom.
Required Webinars
In addition to the course, we ask that you please take 3 out of 5 webinars listed below.