Earn 8 hours of CE Credit for the Core Course and
8 hours CE Credit for the Residential Elective!

In order to earn NAR's Green Designation, the student must successfully complete the 2-day Core Course being held on August 17-18 and one of three elective courses. Elective courses are Green Residential Real Estate, Green Commercial Real Estate, and Green Property Management. Louisiana REALTORS® will offer the Residential elective on August 19, 2010.

The only green designation recognized by the National Association of Realtors is being offered on August 17-18, 2009! This new course comes as a result of the growing demand for REALTORS® to understand green concerns and implement sustainable practices in their day-to-day business. Be one of the firsts to become the real estate resource on sustainability for your community. Take advantage of the opportunity to earn NAR's Green Designation in just three days in Lafayette, LA.

NAR's Green Designation Core Course provides real estate professionals with knowledge and awareness of green building principles applied in residences, commercial properties, developments, and communities so that they can help consumers in purchasing, retrofitting, and operating green properties. The course encourages the real estate professional to be an advocate for green principles in the design and use of homes and commercial buildings and a positive force for creating sustainable communities.

The overall goals of NAR's Green Designation Core Course are to:

• Integrate green concepts and benefits into a personal viewpoint that informs choices in real estate business practice.
• Acquire the concepts and vocabulary of the green paradigm as applied in real estate and use this terminology correctly in interactions with customers and clients.
• Recognize, validate, and respond to concerns and priorities of the green-generation consumer, seller, buyer, tenant, builder, developer.
• Make the appropriate disclosures consistent with NAR Code of Ethics and state regulations.
• Describe the interrelationships of sustainable communities, smart growth, natural habitat conservation, New Urbanism, and land planning with green homes and buildings.
• Acquire awareness of trends in public and consumer sentiment on quality of life issues and community economic development.
• Identify how the green philosophy can be employed in housing of all types.
• Recognize the features that make a home or building green and resource efficient in construction or remodeling use and operation
• Recognize and respond to obstacles—regulatory, zoning, building codes, costs, perceptions, lack of knowledge that can impede green development and construction
• Inform customers and clients of the significance of LEED, Energy Star, and other rating systems
• Discuss the cost–benefit of resource–efficient building and home systems, materials, land usage, and maintenance
• Adapt listing presentations and buyer–counseling sessions to address concerns and priorities of the green consumer.
• Price and market resource–efficient properties.
• Guide buyers in finding and making an offer on a resource–efficient property.
• Guide consumers in finding qualified professionals who are familiar with and practice green home/building principles.
• Inform customers and clients of green mortgage options and state/local incentives that encourage and enable resource efficiency.
• Use the course material and green designation as marketing tools.
• Implement resource–efficient and green practices in the real estate office environment.
• Form coalitions with community planners and groups to foster resource–efficient communities and lifestyles.

Green Designation Core Course August 17-18
$395– Member, Early Bird (21 days prior to course)
$420– Member, Regular
$450– Member, Onsite
$450– Non-Member, Regular
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Residential Elective August 19 (required to obtain Green Designation)
$150– Member, Early Bird (21 days prior to course)
$175– Member, Regular
$200– Member, Onsite
$200– Non-Member, Regular
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For more information contact, Vice President of Professional Development, Amy Phuphanich or Professional Development Assistant Lindsey Landry or call 1-800-266-8538. You can also view NAR's Green Resource Council website for more information.