Are you ready for an exciting, rewarding real estate career?
If so, first tuesday is the right choice for your education!

Why first tuesday?

• Reading materials in print, online, and on CD
• first tuesday materials are researched and written by our staff writers
• California-specific content (we know California)
• Concise, dynamic, and easy-to-understand materials
• 24-hour testing, online or by mail with a monitor
• Access to first tuesday’s online Journal
• Friendly, knowledgeable staff (helpful and non-commissioned)
• 100% Money-back Guarantee (no extra fees, ever)
• DRE-approved courses – sponsor ID: 0473
• 30 years providing up-to-date education to R.E. Licensees

We will help you prepare for the exam so that you can get your Real Estate license and be on your way to a rewarding career in Real Estate!.

It’s EASY to become an Agent:

• Study our three courses
• Review the exam preparation questions
• Pass the state exam
• Receive your Real Estate Agent license

You’ll receive all the education and guidance you need every step of the way.

Study a few hours each week and qualify to take the state sales license exam within as little as two months. first tuesday offers the DRE-approved home study courses you need to qualify for a California Real Estate Sales Agent license.

An individual who submits an application for the Real Estate Sales Agent examination and license to the Department of Real Estate (DRE) must complete all of the following courses:.

• Real Estate Principles;
• Real Estate Practice; and
• One additional course (see list below)

Note: first tuesday recommends Real Estate Legal Aspects as your elective since it contains more information relevant to answering questions on the state exam.

Read, Prep, and Pass!

You will most likely pass the state licensing exam on the first try if you:

• Read the entire material for all 3 courses, one course at a time


• Complete the Study Guides for each course, until you are answering at least 80% correctly without looking up the answers in the reading material.


• Take the final exam for each course, trying to score at least 70% correctly, without looking up the answers in the book. If you score less than 70%, we suggest you speed read the material again and redo the Study Guides looking up the questions you don’t understand.

• After completing the courses, and applying for and receiving a date for the state exam,extensively study only the preparation book for at least 7 days before the exam.


• Then take the state exam, and you should pass on the first try.

Agent Licensing Package:                                 Only $179.00!

Includes:

• Real Estate Principles Course (delivered in print, online, and on CD*)
• Real Estate Practice Course (delivered in print, online, and on CD)
• One Elective Course (delivered in print, online, and on CD)
• California Real Estate License Preparation Book
• Study Guides (100’s of quiz questions)
• 24-hour testing, online or by mail with a monitor
• All referenced first tuesday forms on CD
• Application forms for DRE licensing
• 12-month subscription to first tuesday’s online Journal

* Only the first three (3) chapters of the Real Estate Principles course are available online and on CD

Individual course enrollment fees:

One course for only...........$79.50
Two courses for only.........$109.00
Three courses for only.......$149.00
State exam prep book…....$39.00

Reading materials for these courses are provided to you in print, online, and on CD-ROM, except for Principles which is limited to the first three chapters on CD and online.

The exam for each course you are enrolled in may be taken online or on paper. If taken online, your exam results are immediately displayed on your screen. You can then print out your Certificates of Completion whenever you need them. Click here for procedures for taking a printed exam.

The minimum time period for enrollment before you may take your final exam for each course is 18 days. You must wait 36 days from the date of enrollment to take the second exam, and 54 days for the third exam.

Your enrollment includes a 12-month subscription to the first tuesday online Journal, a publication for the real estate industry since 1978. The Journal provides you with updates on course material and recent court cases, legislation, and regulations, both state and federal, which affect real estate related transactions.

As a student, you are encouraged to email our staff instructors with your questions regarding the content of the course reading materials should you need clarification. We will respond promptly.

For information on state requirements and Department of Real Estate fees to qualify for and process an application for a California Real Estate Sales Agent license, click here.

Course descriptions and contents:

Real Estate Principles

Real Estate Principles is a general course which reviews the numerous basic concepts all prospective real estate agents need to know before taking the state licensing exam, including the fundamentals of estates, transfers, forms of ownership, encumbrances, agency obligations, landlord-tenant relationships, listings, purchase agreements, and title insurance.

Also covered are the various financial arrangements used in real estate transactions and escrow instructions for closing, as well as basic appraisal methods.

Real Estate Practice

The use of forms to make disclosures, present an analysis, or enter into an agreement on any aspect of a real estate related transaction is the essence of Real Estate Practice. Each form is presented as a checklist of items and provisions to be considered when using the form, based on guidelines and rules for their use.

Real Estate Legal Aspects

The ownership and conveyancing in California of estates and licenses held in real estate are covered in Legal Aspects, as well as all vestings, including rights of survivorship, living trusts, and the LLC for real estate syndication.

INCLUDES... clouds on title, slander of title, partition by co-owners, adjacent owner disputes, water rights, public trust of water, common driveways, easements, encroachments, nuisances, preliminary title reports, and title insurance.

Real Estate Finance

Discover what every well-informed real estate broker must know about private lending and carryback sales — including types of notes and trust deeds and their provisions, as well as seller financing schemes.
PLUS MORE... the foreclosure process, private and judicial, FHA, VA, and Cal-Vet loans, private mortgage insurance, and related tax aspects. No math involved.

Real Estate Property Management

The detailed and exacting rules of leasing and renting both residential and non-residential income properties are examined and applied in hundreds of vivid landlord/tenant situations encountered daily by owners, managers, and leasing agents.
PLUS . . . all forms and notices required to establish management and leasing agencies, to create, manage, and terminate tenancies, and to preserve rent obligations for enforcement.

Real Estate Appraisal ($10.00 Additional)

The study of the science of evaluating the worth of real estate interests, whether for price, rent, or loan, is a requisite to sales, mortgage, and leasing transactions. Appraisal theory and practice is a review of real estate characteristics establishing or diminishing value, the many approaches to valuation, computer access to online data, and an opinion of value.

Real Estate Economics ($10.00 Additional)

The economics of a parcel of real estate are characterized in light of land use patterns, supply and demand factors, forces driving the housing sector, business cycle influences on non-residential income properties, and local demographics, and are based on principles ranging from national monetary and taxing polices to local use restrictions and cyclical national, regional and local economics.

Mortgage Loan Brokering ($10.00 Additional)

Loan brokerage is the activity of arranging real estate secured loans made by private or institutional lenders to buyers or owners of real estate, as well as the making of real estate loans by brokers. The activities include employment of the broker, disclosures, loan applications, appraisal and credit report analysis, documentation, trust deed sales and syndication, servicing and reporting.

Real Estate License Preparation

If you really want to pass the California State Sales Agent exam, this book will truly help you make the 70% grade on your first try. The extensive multiple choice questions presented for review are weighted between subjects as imposed by the DRE.