April 2025

LOCATION

Greater Chattanooga REALTORS® (2963 Amnicola Highway)

DESCRIPTION

Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing course will be held IN PERSON. 

The National Association of REALTORS® has launched "Bias Override," an extension of their 2020 implicit-bias training video. This program equips real estate professionals with strategies to counter stereotypical thinking, ensuring fair service to all clients. Participants assess their perceptions of diverse groups, uncover unconscious biases, and develop skills for engaging effectively with all clientele. "Bias Override" promotes equitable practices, helping realtors navigate fair housing challenges more adeptly.

Course material will be emailed prior to class. 

This course satisfies the all-REALTOR® fair housing/anti-bias training requirement.

COST

Members: FREE / Non-Members: $30.00

LOCATION

Greater Chattanooga REALTORS® (2963 Amnicola Highway)

DESCRIPTION

At Home with Diversity® certification course will be held IN PERSON. 

The course work for the At Home with Diversity® certification is designed to enable you to work successfully with and within a rapidly changing multicultural market. It will help you to learn diversity sensitivity, how it applies to U.S. fair housing laws in your business, and ways to develop professional guidelines for working with people in the increasingly multicultural real estate market.

Course Objective:

• Heighten awareness of and sensitivity to the social and cultural constituencies of local real estate markets. Participants will learn about the people who make up the local market, along with their values, customs, real estate needs, and expectations of real estate professionals.
• Provide practical skills and tools to increase professionalísm & effectiveness in servicing all social groups. Specifically, the course builds skills in cross-cultural communication and strategic business planning.

What You Gain:

• Knowledge of the subtleties of U.S. fair housing laws
• Business etiquette for specific cultures
• An edge in expanding your business to include international clientele
• Credit towards the ABR®, CIPS, and PMN designations
• Some states also give continuing education (CE) credit and GRI credit for this course

Course Credits:

• This course will give students that At Home with Diversity certification.
• Counts as one elective course to be applied towards the RSPC certification. 
• Counts as one REBAC elective course to be applied towards the ABR® designation. 
• Credit towards the CIPS designation.
• Students who have taken At Home with Diversity after 1/1/05 receive Eight Elective credits towards the CRS designation. 
• Credit towards NAR's Performance Management Network Designation through Women's Council of REALTORS®

To learn more about the At Home with Diversity (AHWD) certification and how to attain it, click here. 

Click here to print and/or download course material. 

LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED!

This course satisfies the all-REALTOR® fair housing/anti-bias training requirement.

COST

Members: FREE / Non-Members: $70.00

LOCATION

Greater Chattanooga REALTORS® (2963 Amnicola Highway)

DESCRIPTION

GRI 403: Working More Effectively with Buyers course will be held IN PERSON.

This one-day course will equip students with the skills they need to serve buyers more productively and effectively in today's market, such as: working with new buyers, counseling them effectively, handling and negotiating offers to purchase, helping buyers secure financing, and getting them through the home inspection, repairs, and settlement procedures.

LUNCH PROVIDED, please email Denise@gcar.net with any food allergies.

How do I obtain the GRI designation? CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS

CLICK HERE to download and/or print course material. 

COST

Members: $55.00 / Non-Members: $70.00