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Pikesville, MD, United States, 09/09/2008 - Green Real Estate Education offers course content meeting the demand as emails and inquiries come in daily. These professions will not go back to school for this information but they do need continuing education credits.
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The GCREP-GL Green Certification course is approved in 15 states and 3 more states pending for continuing education credits for those who practice in the real estate arena. Green Real Estate Education was was originated in 2006 establishing the first level of The Real Estate Environmental and Energy Education Certification Series. The title of the Level One certification is the Green Certified Real Estate Professional and Green Leadership. This certification series is exclusively for the real estate industry educating on energy efficiency, sustainability and green building relating to each of the 4 major disciplines, Real Estate Professionals, Appraisers, Inspectors and Mortgage Professionals.
The series is being created and written in cooperation with leading experts and by the president of the company, Kerry Mitchell, a seasoned real estate professional with over 14 years of experience having completed 400 transactions in her career. "Up until this time, no one was educating the real estate profession on these new initiatives," Ms. Mitchell says, "Since these "green" built structures would soon be offered on the market, for sale and lease, someone needed to step forward. Our company met this need and after intensive self study, research and getting to know the actual "green building" leaders in the United States, Mitchell created Green Real Estate Education education standards. Green Real Estate Education is the certifying agent for the certifications. Mitchell proudly states, "when I am asked who we are to be certifying agents?
We established these educational standards. Since we gained ARELLO approval, we continue to lead the arena to establish standards for proper education for the real estate profession and we are proud to do this for the all of professions involved in a real estate transaction." Organizations everyday are recognizing Green Real Estate Education and their course content in their series as the leading educational effort in the United States for those who practice the professions. The Real Estate Agent course is mentioned on the National Association of Realtors website.
Ms. Mitchell has written articles for Hearst Publications. Their Home Inspector course and the certification GCHI-GL Green Certified Home Inspector Green Leadership is approved for 4 hours of CE by ASHI and NAHI and was given at the annual convention for National Association of Home Inspectors on September 7, 2008. Approved in 15 states for continuing education credits, the company will continue its mission of educating the real estate arena." Ms Mitchell announces, "we will launch our mortgage and appraisal courses in 2009. We have a waiting list of interested professionals from across the country." Mitchell is in constant self studies, The company wants to continue to manage growth at a rate where quality control of content is their number one priority. "This continues to be an ever changing industry as new products and systems will be introduced and the real estate industry needs to be updating property owners with current information. Courses must adjust content every few years to offer these updates. We are even hearing from colleges offering real estate continuing education courses." April of 2009 will represent the company's 2 year anniversary and according to Mitchell, "we are on target to exceed educating 5000 by his date."
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