Welcome to the
Professional Institute
for
Real Estate Training's
Home Page
The October Salespersons'
Qualifying Course is now closed.
The next sales class is scheduled for February 2009.
Please scroll down to the
2009 schedule for more information.
GENERAL INFORMATION FOR ALL PROSPECTIVE LICENSEES:
YOU CAN'T BECOME A BROKER UNLESS YOU ARE A SALESPERSON FIRST!
What does PRE-QUALIFY mean??
It means that in
order to get a license in NYS, you must
by law,
complete successfully this (or any) prelicensing course.
Then, you
are entitled to sit for the NYS
licensing exam given in varying locations around NY.
You will have to register for this state examination ONLINE. For more
information on this
visit www.dos.state.ny.us
THIS IS IMPORTANT!!!
DECIDE FIRST if you
want to take a course BEFORE you send your fees in to the school. The course
fees are NONREFUNDABLE unless the school cancels the course --that means when you send them in,
and then a few days later you decide that you can't take the course, YOU WILL
NOT GET YOUR FEES REFUNDED TO YOU!!! So clear your schedule, get your days off
from work, do what you have to do BEFORE you decide. Because once you do, you
are committed. Sorry!
How do you get a real estate license?
We've had a lot of questions about how DO you get
into REAL ESTATE? Here's the inside scoop...
Getting your
license in NYS. (continually under construction)
COMING In November
2008!
30 Hour Remedial Course
This course is mandated by the Department of State for Broker's Licensure IF you received your salespersons' license before July 1, 2008. As well, it can be used for Continuing Education if the entire course is completed. This is not a substitution for the 3 hour Fair Housing course that is mandated by the DOS.
There IS an examination with this course.
As always there is a minimum number of students required for this course to be held. If you are interested in taking it, please click here!
LOOKING FOR INFORMATION ON
SALES, BROKERS, THE REMEDIAL COURSE, THE NEW REGULATIONS??
CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST 2008 FAQ FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE!
2009
SCHEDULE OF COURSES!
BROKERS -- January 8,9,10,22,23 and 24, 2009
Click here to download flyer for BROKER'S course
SALES -- February 5,6,7,19,20,21, March 5,6,and 7,2009
Click here to download flyer for SALESPERSON'S course
Click here to view online (you can always print from this page)
There will be other Sales
classes, Fair Housing CE course, and Remedial courses scheduled as well.
For information, revisit this site or call our office - 315-785-9856.
P.I.R.T. is now a partner with
Hondros Learning
and is proud to offer the following continuing education courses for Real
Estate Salespersons and Brokers
- these are approved by New York State:
Real Estate at Auction
Mortgage Fraud: A Dangerous Business
Latest Trends in Mortgage Products
Foreclosures
Environmental Issues
Fair Housing
FHA and VA Appraisal Basics
Risk Reduction Techniques
to learn more click on the Hondros Learning logo
I am proud to announce that
P.I.R.T has partnered with
Career WebSchool to offer online real estate
continuing education
courses.
These are available for both sales, brokers and appraisal.
If you are interested please click on the following sites:
WHO IS PIRT?
The Professional Institute for Real Estate Training (PIRT) is a licensed and accredited real estate proprietary school in New York State, based in Watertown, NY. The main focus of PIRT is to teach real estate pre-licensing courses to those interested in becoming real estate salespersons and brokers in New York. As well, PIRT has in the past designed and taught many continuing education courses for licensees in New York.
PIRT is a sole proprietorship owned and operated by Linda J. Fields. Lin teaches all courses exclusively, but PIRT has a staff guest instructor for construction - Pat Fields (just happens to be related to Lin). Pat is the President of P.S.G. Plumbing, Heating and Air-Conditioning, and has had over 33 years plumbing/HVAC experience. We have also had various guest speakers for finance, land use planning, etc.
Lin's background is extensive. (If you are really interested, click on this link). In 1980, after several occupations and educational degrees (including an A.A.S. in Science, Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, Master of Science degree in Genetics, and a nursing degree), Lin entered the real estate field. Having had some experience in selling, she became a licensed real estate salesperson in Rochester NY. Along with her part time position in sales, she continued to be employed as a private duty nurse -- you can't jump into real estate in the '80's without a back-up job! For 2 years she worked in both fields - successfully we might add - until she entered real estate full time. During this time, she was involved with residential real estate and began to learn the commercial end of the business as well. At the urging of a friend, and a strong belief in Fair Housing, Lin accepted a part time position as an instructor with the Real Estate Training Center in Rochester, teaching Fair Housing. She continued to teach for RETC until 1986, when she moved to Watertown NY. Realizing that Watertown had no hands-on real estate education, she began to teach through the Professional Education Association. In 1990 she married the plumber (shouldn't everyone :O) and in 1991, she and her husband formed PIRT and has been teaching real estate courses in Northern NY ever since.
What can you find here?
It's our attempt to provide to students, past students, and the general public lots of links, information, etc. All information is given strictly as an opinion. As a student of PIRT's, you may find practice examinations, questions, answers, etc. The site is always under construction. We cannot answer individual questions you may have on this site. However, if you e-mail me, I will get back to you as soon as possible.
Under NO circumstances is this a venue for legal Q&A's -- we suggest you contact an attorney for this. Under NO circumstances is this a venue for endorsing any real estate company, office, franchise, etc. -- ditto -- we can't endorse any one without endorsing them all.
If you are someone in the general public who is looking for a Realtor, attorney, etc., we highly suggest you check with either the Jefferson-Lewis Board of Realtors, the St. Lawrence County Board of Realtors, or the New York State Association of Realtors, or if you are not from Jefferson, Lewis or St. Lawrence NY counties, the real estate board in your area or the state real estate association in your state. Some links are provided to you below.
We will provide, if submitted to us, links for past-student's web pages. If you would like to submit yours, please email me at PIRTTeacher@aol.com Please put the word site request in the subject line (we don't want to delete your mail by mistake!)
We will also provide links to various real estate agencies, etc. If you find one you'd like to share with us, please email us.
Want
to see who has taken a course from PIRT?
Click here for our Student's pages
Local, State & National Links
The Jefferson
Lewis Board of Realtors
St. Lawrence County Board of Realtors
The National Association of Realtors
The New York State Association of Realtors
The Department of State, Division of Licensing Services
The National Fair Housing Advocate
Links
for Students
Cram-For-Exam.com
Albany Center for Real Estate Education
& the author of your text offers links, downloadable exams, etc.
New
York State Department of State Sales/Brokers Page
This is YOUR source for information on license law, examination schedules,
disclosure statements, online reservations, renewals, etc.
Other Interesting Links:
Need
a Mortgage Calculator?
The Greater Rochester (NY)
Association of Realtors
Nolo Press
Greater
Syracuse Association of Realtors
Updated: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
