Illinois Academy of Real Estate

    Illinois Real Estate Classes Since 1979 
ILAcademy.com

Illinois real estate school offering real estate licensing classes. Real estate education through real estate classes, home study real estate classes and on line real estate classes.  Whether you are pursuing a career in real estate, looking for a real estate school or simply expanding your understanding of real estate, we are here to help.  

Questions About a Career in Real Estate?  Please Feel Free to Call Us at 630-844-0222

Illinois Real Estate Classes
We offer approved Illinois real estate classes.  Our programs include classroom, correspondence courses, and on line real estate classes.  You are not just another number at the Illinois Academy of Real Estate and receive the personal attention of our staff before and after completing your class.

Illinois Real Estate Continuing Education Classes

Continuing education requirements for 2009 renewal:

Licensed as a salesperson on or before April
12 hours of CE required:
6 Core/Mandatory hrs (3 hours Core A and 3 hours Core B
6 Elective hrs.

Licensed as a salesperson between May 1, 2007 and April 30, 2008
6 hours of CE required:
3 Core/Mandatory hrs (either Core A or B)
3 Elective hrs.

Licensed as a salesperson on or after May 1, 2008
No CE required

Continuing education must be completed during the pre-renewal period of 5/1/2007 through 4/30/2009

Classroom        Correspondence          On line courses

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The Illinois Academy of Real Estate is proudly associated with: the National Association of REALTORS®, the Illinois Association of REALTORS®, the Aurora Tri-County Association of REALTORS®, the REALTOR® Association of West/Southwest Chicago-land, the Real Estate Educators Association, and the Association of Illinois Real Estate Educators

I just received a call from a client that really angered me.  The initial question was "How can you determine if a business is legimate?"  The client had done a web search, checked Dunn and Bradstreet, white pages, yellow pages, internet yellow pages and the Better Business Bureau.

It seems that the client received an unsolicted offer of employment from this company and had sceduled an interview and was doing research to find out more about the company.  She had two different phone numbers and has been calling and leaving messages for several days, but no one is returning her calls.  She had two web site addresses, one of which had been deleted for failure to renew domain name and the other with no physical contact information.

The company was a real estate investment company that specialized in forclosures.  When she told me that, bells started ringing in my head.  It has been my experience to find that many of these investment companies and apprentice programs are at the best deceptive and at the worst ilegal or a scam.

There is little doubt in my mind that my client had done due diligence and there were many warning signs.  Could the company be legimate.  It could, but how can a person know?

The call angered me because the deceptive programs and scams are a blight on the real estate profession.  The get rich gurus become a part of the industry in the eyes of the consumer and it is the very practices of these types of gurus that brought real estate license laws into existence in the first place.

What can we as real estate professionals do to seperate ourselves from those who would use real estate to cheat and con others.  What can we do to help protect the public and the industry.

I apoligize for the rant, but I just needed to get this off my chest.