Can continuing education courses be used to fulfill the 18-month conditional license requirement?
No. Agents who took only the Real Estate Principles course, then applied for and received their real estate licenses prior to October 1, 2007, were issued a conditional license. These conditional licenses will be suspended if these agents do not take two additional courses within 18 months of licensure. The two courses that a real estate salesperson must take (Real Estate Practice and an elective) must be approved by the DRE as “statutory courses,” not continuing education courses. Statutory courses are courses that the DRE has approved for fulfillment of original licensing requirements and exam qualification. The distinction between statutory courses and continuing education courses can be confusing, because a statutory course may have the same subject matter as a continuing education course. For example, a course in Real Estate Appraisal might be either a statutory course (approved as an elective to fulfill the 18-month conditional license requirement) or a continuing education cours
