20-Hour HI 2025-2026 CE Package for REALTORS

This three-hour course, Advertising, Agency, and Accountability – It’s Your Kuleana!, is Part A of the Hawaii Real Estate Commission’s required six-hour core curriculum for the 2025–2026 licensing period. In addition to reviewing recent legislation, the course addresses essential compliance topics tied to advertising, agency relationships, and professional responsibility. Licensees will explore current rules and challenges in marketing real estate, including emerging technologies such as AI and social media, and review their fiduciary duties and ethical obligations under state law.

The purpose of this course is to provide licensees with a practical understanding of how to apply Hawaii’s real estate laws and rules in day-to-day practice, helping them stay compliant, informed, and accountable.

Course highlights include:

• 2025 real estate-related legislation passed by the Hawaii State Legislature
• Hawaii Administrative Rules (HAR 16-99-11) and advertising compliance
• Fiduciary duties and agency responsibilities in real estate transactions
• Unlicensed assistants and legal limits of support roles
• Ethical considerations and codes of conduct in Hawaii real estate practice
• Risks and responsibilities when using AI and social media in advertising

This three-hour course, Property Management – GET REAL: Manage/Mismanage, is Part B of the Hawaii Real Estate Commission’s required six-hour core curriculum for the 2025–2026 licensing period. In addition to reviewing recent legislation, the course addresses essential compliance topics related to property management practices across residential, commercial, and association settings. Licensees will examine current laws, rules, and risk areas impacting property management in Hawaii, including evolving requirements tied to landlord-tenant relationships, trust fund handling, fair housing, and short-term rental regulation.

The purpose of this course is to provide licensees with a practical understanding of how to apply Hawaii’s real estate laws and rules to property management activities, helping them recognize compliance risks, navigate overlapping legal frameworks, and manage responsibly in day-to-day practice.

Course highlights include:

• 2026 real estate-related legislation affecting property management practices
• Residential Landlord–Tenant Code updates, including security deposits and eviction processes
• Trust account handling and fiduciary responsibilities in property management
• Fair housing compliance, including assistance animal considerations
• Short-term rental regulations and tax considerations (TAT)
• Key differences between the roles of leasing agents and residential (property) managers
• Roles and responsibilities in association and commercial property management
• Risk management strategies and navigating state, county, and governing document requirements

While conducting real estate business, have you encountered a situation in which you weren’t sure what the proper course of action was? What the right thing to do might be? Or maybe you’ve heard your colleagues’ stories and got that uncomfortable, itchy feeling that an action they took wasn’t quite on the up and up.

Let’s look at an uncomfortable truth: real estate agents have a small tarnished image problem. With every transaction being unique, real estate licensees often face ethical gray areas. Some real estate professionals simply don’t understand how to handle complex issues in the most ethical manner, and others bend the rules if they think it’ll keep a transaction on track or a commission in their bank account and not a competitor’s.

Aligned to the requirements of the current NAR cycle, this three-hour course helps licensees deepen their knowledge—and practice—of ethical rules of conduct according to the National Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice. The code isn’t applicable to REALTORS® only, who are duty-bound to uphold the code as a privilege of membership. The code’s guidance serves anyone possessing a real estate license, and licensees who heed the code’s various articles and standards of practice can do the greatest good of all: protecting consumers while also bolstering the reputation of all the industry’s professionals.

Course highlights include:

• Laws vs. morals vs. ethics
• Top articles of the code involved in the most complaints (plus a few more)
• A candid look at the industry’s image problem
• Common ethical dilemmas and using the code to solve them
• Foundation and enforcement of the code
• Competency in real estate practice as a matter of ethics
• Steering clear of procuring cause disputes
• Ethics concerns with technology and social media
• Tips and best practices to keep your reputation polished to a high shine

*This course was designed by us to meet the REALTOR® Code of Ethics Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Code of Ethics training, will accept this course.

In this course, you’ll learn about the history of housing discrimination and its lasting impact in order to better understand why fair housing laws are necessary. You’ll review the federal laws that provide protection against housing discrimination and what actions are prohibited and required by these laws in the business of real estate. This will include reviewing the personal characteristics—race, color, religion, national origin, sex, familial status, and disability--that federal law protects from discrimination in housing. Besides these federal protections, there are state and local government fair housing laws that protect additional personal characteristics from discrimination in housing and you’ll find out where to get more fair housing information for your clients.

You’ll also learn some best practices for fair housing marketing and some strategies to avoid steering and making assumptions based on stereotypes. You’ll role play some scenarios to practice interrupting any implicit biases so that consumers are treated with equal concern, respect, and fairness. By allowing consumers to choose which communities/neighborhoods they want to live in, you can do your part to uphold fair housing laws and end housing discrimination.

This course was designed to meet the REALTOR® Fair Housing Training Requirement. Please confirm that your local association, who administers the Fair Housing training, will accept this course.

A veteran broker once said, "No one ever failed in this business because of the paperwork." It's true: Real estate is a relationship-based business. However, to protect consumers and yourself, knowing how to manage the paperwork--whether it's cotton bond and ink or bits and bytes--is integral to your role. Maintaining detailed and organized records, even for transactions that don't close, not only satisfies regulatory requirements, it also protects your license. It proves you did what you were supposed to do when you were supposed to do it.  

We can't do anything about paper cuts, but if you're ready to become more comfortable selecting and using documents to ensure on-time, accurate, and litigation-free real estate transactions, let's do this.

Course highlights include:

• Typical transaction documents
• Standard clauses, addenda, and contingencies
• How to practice within the scope of your license (but avoid unauthorized practice of law)
• How to field and manage multiple offers
• Managing signatures, notarizations, and identification
• Best practices in transaction management 
• Best practices in document retention
• Keeping documents secure, both hard copy and digital
• Wire fraud prevention

Real estate wholesaling is not a new concept, but its practice, regulation, and public perception have changed significantly in recent years. For real estate professionals navigating a market where wholesaling is becoming more popular and increasingly problematic, understanding its legal, ethical, and professional implications is more important than ever.

This four-hour course provides a straightforward examination of wholesaling: how it operates, when it crosses legal and ethical boundaries, and why it faces greater scrutiny from lawmakers and the public. You’ll examine how some investors use wholesaling as a legitimate and transparent strategy to build wealth, while others exploit it to bypass licensing requirements, mislead sellers and buyers, and disrupt housing stability, particularly in vulnerable communities.

Whether you are new to wholesaling, advising clients involved, or simply looking to avoid legal issues, this course is designed for you.

Course highlights include:

• Differences between wholesaling and traditional real estate transactions
• Pros and cons of wholesaling
• State laws and licensing implications for wholesaling
• Identifying red flags with wholesaling
• Ethical pitfalls in wholesaling
• Recognizing predatory patterns
• When wholesaling becomes illegal
• Collateral damage, legal fallout, and civil penalties
• Wholesaling's impact on housing markets and housing inequity
• Wholesaling and technology
• Interactive activities, case studies, and scenarios to frame the content in everyday context