Meet the Instructor
Sheri Wytcherley has been an online instructor for AYPO's Real Estate education classes for over 5 years and is a licensed real estate instructor across the United States. Growing up in a military family, Sheri became very patriotic, developed an adventurous spirit, and grew passionate about helping people.
In 2005, Sheri became a principal broker and opened Oregon Ranch & Home Real Estate in order to better serve her clients. She received the honor of being ranked #5 in Southern Oregon for dollar volume sold for 2008, during one of the most challenging years the market has seen in decades.
Texas 18-Hour Sales Agent & Broker CE Package
Contracts: This approved Texas real estate CE course fulfills 3 out the 18 hours required to renew your license as well as the Contracts requirement. Topics of interest include such items as key terms, governing bodies, contracts used in real estate, buyer agency agreements, and lease agreements.
Legal Updates I: Real estate license holders in Texas must be knowledgeable of recent changes to state and federal real estate regulations presented in this Legal Updates course. This four-hour continuing education course is part one of a two-part set required for license renewal in 2024-2025. Core topics include: Legislative Changes and TREC Rule Updates, Promulgated Contract Forms and Addenda, Fair Housing, Landlord-Tenant Issues and Property Management.
Legal Updates II: Real estate license holders in Texas must be knowledgeable of recent changes to state and federal real estate regulations presented in this Legal Updates course. This four-hour continuing education course is part two of a two-part set required for license renewal in 2024-2025. Core topics include: Agency, Disclosures, Representing Veterans, Enforcement, Case Studies, and Commission Priorities.
Real Estate Business Practices elective: This 7-hour package of educational content is designed to provide Texas real estate professionals with an overview of important topics and concepts related to the management of a real estate business. These topics covered in this package generally fall into three areas: management of real estate business, recordkeeping, and safety when showing a property.
Course ID(s): 47600, 47601, 44860, 47692
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas 18-Hour Designated Broker Package
Contracts: This approved Texas real estate CE course fulfills 3 out the 18 hours required to renew your license as well as the Contracts requirement. Topics of interest include such items as key terms, governing bodies, contracts used in real estate, buyer agency agreements, and lease agreements.
Legal Updates I: Real estate license holders in Texas must be knowledgeable of recent changes to state and federal real estate regulations presented in this Legal Updates course. This four-hour continuing education course is part one of a two-part set required for license renewal in 2024-2025. Core topics include: Legislative Changes and TREC Rule Updates, Promulgated Contract Forms and Addenda, Fair Housing, Landlord-Tenant Issues and Property Management.
Legal Updates II: Real estate license holders in Texas must be knowledgeable of recent changes to state and federal real estate regulations presented in this Legal Updates course. This four-hour continuing education course is part two of a two-part set required for license renewal in 2024-2025. Core topics include: Agency, Disclosures, Representing Veterans, Enforcement, Case Studies, and Commission Priorities.
Broker Responsibility: This 6-hour course will fulfill your continuing education requirements for broker responsibility training, which will cover one third of the 18-hour CE requirement for license holders. This course will address delegated supervisors, ensuring competency, especially in regard to proper use of forms, and licensee training issues among others.
Fair Housing: This class will provide licensees with 1 hour of continuing education to apply to their Texas real estate license. Subjects covered include the history of unfair housing practices that led to fair housing legislation, as well as some of the most recent executive orders regarding fair housing.
Course ID(s): 47600, 47601, 44860, 44547, 47305
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
TX RE Broker Responsibilities (2023-2024)
This 6-hour course will fulfill your continuing education requirements for broker responsibility training, which will cover one-third of the 18-hour CE requirement for license holders. This course will address delegated supervisors, ensuring competency, especially in regard to proper form usage, and licensee training issues among others.
This course covers the duties and responsibilities of a broker in many areas of work, including:
- Delegated supervisors
- Ensuring competence
- Competency with forms
- Training and coaching
- Use of the Consumer Protection Notice (CPN)
- Use of the Information About Brokerage Services (IABS)
- Supervision of teams and team naming
- Advertising regulations
When looking at the subject of competency, students will learn to perform work within their scope of knowledge and be competent in the work they do. Students must also be able to evaluate their associated licensees' competency levels and assist them through proper training and mentoring. A major focus is on competence in the use of the proper forms.
The overall balance of the course will focus on additional broker responsibilities such supervision and proper naming of teams, and advertising guidelines. But we'll spend a good deal of time on succession planning as well as TREC enforcement and discipline, so sign up today and get your renewal under way.
Course ID(s): 44547
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas 7 Hour Real Estate Business Practices
This 7-hour Elective course is designed to provide Texas real estate professionals with an overview of important topics and concepts related to the management of a real estate business. These topics covered in this package generally fall into three areas: management of real estate business, recordkeeping, and safety when showing a property.
Course ID(s): 42433
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas 4 Hour 2024-2025 CE Legal Updates Part 1
All real estate license holders operating in Texas are required by the Texas Real Estate Commission to complete two four-hour courses on legal updates to state and federal rules, laws, and best practices. This course will explore several areas of real estate practice that saw amendments to legal language, rules, and forms.
Chapter One discusses legislative changes and TREC rule updates. It begins by discussing who makes the rules, TREC Advisory Committees, TREC rule changes, and updates from the 88th Texas Legislative Session.
Chapter Two discusses promulgated contract forms and addenda. It begins by discussing the changes made to promulgated forms before moving on to addendum changes, and TREC forms to help licensees avoid practicing law. It also covers questions and answers that TREC has received, mandatory versus voluntary uses of TREC contract forms, and ends with adopted changes to multiple TREC forms.
Chapter Three is all about fair housing, with particular focus on how to ensure diversity and inclusion is present in real estate practice. It begins with a discussion of why fair housing rules exist and the history thereof, moves through fair housing complaint trends, covers investigations into fair housing complaints, looks at the limited exceptions to fair housing rules, and ends with discussion questions and the new fair housing executive order.
Chapter Four goes over land-lord tenant issues and property management. It begins with the Do's and Don'ts of Property Management, covers Best Practices, resources for fair housing information, definitions of disabilities, assistance animal requests, and upcoming applicable legislation.
Forms, articles, and videos referenced throughout the course are reproduced at the end in the Appendices and throughout the course. Licensees should read or watch them thoroughly. After each chapter, students will be asked a single review question about the material. Then at the conclusion of the course there will be a final exam. Part 1 also includes the following videos from TREC, “Unauthorized Practice of Law Group and Special Provisions”, “Get to Know Your Redlines”, and “Form Change Highlights”. Real estate professionals will also review short videos from HUD Secretary Marcia Fudge, as well as the TALCB, on Appraisal Bias.
Please note that the information provided in this course is largely assembled by TREC and Texas A&M University's Real Estate Center with minimal adaptation by AYPO.
Course ID(s): 47600
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas 4 Hour 2024-2025 Legal Updates Part 2
All real estate license holders operating in Texas are required by the Texas Real Estate Commission to complete two four-hour courses on legal updates to state and federal rules, laws, and best practices. This course will explore several areas of real estate practice that saw amendments to legal language, rules, and forms.
Chapter One discusses agency and ethics updates. It begins with an overview of the Canons of Professional Ethics and Conduct, Agency relationships, and ends with practice scenarios for licensees to consider.
Chapter Two discusses TREC Disclosures. The section starts with explaining the Information About Brokerage Services Form, explaining the Consumer Protection Notice, consumer information, the Real Estate Recovery Trust Account, and ends with some frequently asked questions.
Chapter Three is all about representing Veterans and Military Service Members, including VA loans, the benefits thereof, and the Texas Veterans Land Board Lending Program.
Chapter Four covers the 'real world' and looks at enforcement, case studies, and commission priorities. The course will review the top TREC complaints with specific case studies, and then end with commission priorities.
Please note that the information provided in this course is largely assembled by TREC and Texas A&M University's Real Estate Center with minimal adaptation by AYPO.
Course ID(s): 47601
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas 3 Hour Real Estate Contracts Course
The Texas Real Estate Commission adopted rule changes that will require all license holders to complete at least 3 hours of contract related CE courses for license renewal as part of the 18 total hours required. This 3-hour TREC approved course on Texas real estate contracts satisfies that requirement.
We'll begin with an introduction to some key terms and then a review of Texas real estate law and the governing bodies that make and regulate those laws. Then, we'll take a look at contracts that are frequently encountered in the Texas real estate profession, followed by sections taking a closer look at two of the most common real estate contracts: Listing Agreements and Buyer Agency Agreements.
Next, we'll venture into the leasing arena, including Leasing Real Estate, Leasehold Estates, Leasing Agreements, Types of Leases, and the Discharge of Leases. Finally, we'll take some time to study Options, the Contract for Deed (also known by several other names including, land sales contract, installment contract, and real estate contract) and Lease-Purchase Agreements.
Course ID(s): 44860
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission
Texas 1 Hour Fair Housing
This 1-hour class is approved to satisfy part of the continuing education credits that licensees need for renewal. It will focus on the topic of housing discrimination and fair housing legislation.
The course will start with the history of housing issues, including discriminatory tactics employed by people in the past. We'll talk about the classes that are protected by fair housing laws, and what these laws say that affects real estate licensees. Specifically, we'll look at the Fair Housing Act.
Course ID(s): 42170
Approved by: Texas Real Estate Commission