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2-Day ABR Designation Course (Includes a one-year membership in REBAC)	August 26-27 Cancelled	$295
Instructor: Patricia Caballero 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. both days Oklahoma REALTOR® Building: 9807 Broadway Ext (west side between Britton & Hefner) Oklahoma City, OK 73114-6312 Click here for map. Cost: $295 Includes REBAC® (Real Estate Buyer’s Agent Council) Membership Fees for a whole year!!! The path towards becoming an ABR® begins by taking the Accredited Buyer's Representative (ABR®) Designation Course. To earn your ABR® designation you need this class plus one ABR® elective such as the Short Sales and Foreclosures class (which OAR will be offering again in December.) Keep in mind that part of the requirements for the ABR® designation is experience (click here for more info). You may have already had an ABR® elective to satisfy this requirement — to find out, feel free to call us at 405.848.9944. After you complete this course, you will automatically become a member of REBAC for one year—free! You’ll then be able to access many member benefits such as a referral network and marketing materials to build your business. The ABR® Designation Course will: · Prepare you to thoroughly represent buyer-clients in real estate transactions and provide the quality of service and degree of fidelity to buyers that sellers have customarily enjoyed. · Offer ideas and methods for building a buyer representation business. · Develop a self-customized tool for conducting a buyer counseling session.
Successful Buyer Representation in New-Home Sales (ABR® Elective Course)	TBA	$115
To keep pace with a changing real estate market, buyers representatives need to find new buyers to serve and new services to bring them. One important, if difficult, growth area is home buyers who are searching for a newly constructed or yet-to-be-constructed home. Unlike conventional home buyers, these buyers are generally less knowledgeable about real estate than the home sellers are, since the sellers of new homes are developers. Because of the special complexities of a new-home purchase, these buyers are in need of representation and counseling. Unfortunately, their situation is also more complicated than that of a conventional buyer. To serve a new-home buyer, a buyer's representative needs to know how the development and new-home sales processes work, as well as what kinds of services a buyer needs. Then, of course, one needs to know where and how to find new-home sales business. This course consists of five modules to address what a buyer's representative needs to know in order to succeed at representing buyers in the new-home sales market.

OAR is the only ABR® provider in Oklahoma. This is your best opportunity to add this prestigious designation to your credentials.

FAQs about the ABR® Designation

Two-Day Designation Course Outline
A new and revised designation course will debut in Oklahoma this August. NAR worked with a team of subject matter experts, including REBAC instructors, to combine the best of the existing course with updated content, the latest statistics about buyers and sellers and a revised format. New graphics and PowerPoint presentation slides will enhance your classroom experience too.

ABR® Candidacy (REBAC Membership Benefits)
The first step in becoming an ABR® designee is to become an ABR® candidate by taking the ABR® designation course. By successfully completing this two-day course and passing the exam, you will have reached the status of ABR® candidate and are well on your way to achieving the ABR® designation..

      ABR® Candidacy Requirements 

• Complete the two-day ABR® designation course and pass the exam with an 80% passing grade.
• Maintain membership in REBAC. (A free one-year membership in REBAC is included with registration for the ABR® designation course.)
• Maintain membership in NAR.

As an ABR® candidate, you receive a free one-year membership in REBAC, effective upon completion of the ABR® designation course. Thereafter, dues are $110 per year.

As an ABR® candidate, you have three years (from completion of ABR® designation course) to complete the designation requirements.

Designation Requirements (ABR® Benefits)

• Successful completion of the two-day ABR® designation course, including an 80% passing grade on the written exam.
• Successful completion of one elective course, including a passing grade on the written exam.
  

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• Submitted documentation verifying five completed transactions in which the ABR® candidate acted as a Single-Party Broker. Any transactions closed prior to taking the ABR® designation course or closed within three years after completing the course are eligible for credit toward the ABR® experiential requirement.
• Membership in good standing with the National Association of REALTORS®.
• Membership in good standing with REBAC.

• A listing in REBAC's Online Membership Directory at www.rebac.net.
• A subscription to Today's Buyer's Rep, REBAC's award-winning monthly newsletter, containing news of events, legislation and education pertinent to real estate professionals working in buyer representation.
• A subscription to The Real Estate Professional, a bi-monthly trade magazine covering the entire spectrum of the real estate industry.
• Bi-annual CD-ROMs containing fresh, relevant topics.
• REBAC's weekly Hotsheet, delivered by e-mail and containing concise summaries and links to current articles of interest to buyer representatives.
• Marketing tools such as REBAC logos for print media, marketing brochures and REBAC's consumer-aimed, -friendly and -desired Home Buyer's Kit.
• REBAC Day, a full schedule of seminars and networking at the annual NAR National Conference and Expo.
• A national, consumer-aimed marketing campaign that raises consumer and REALTOR® awareness of the ABR® designation, and also generates consumer calls to REBAC for referrals to buyer representatives.
• Plus new benefits and membership enhancements added each year.

ABR® Membership Benefits

• Consumer and industry respect for and recognition of the ABR® designation.
• Tools to help you promote your business to consumers.
• Tools to help you promote your business to other real estate professionals.
• Discounts on products and services for your buyer representative business.
• Materials to educate you on the trends and factors influencing buyer representation.
• Opportunities to help your clients find the properties they are looking for.