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NOTICE TO PERSONS CONSIDERING SEEKING A NEW JERSEY REAL ESTATE LICENSE
RE: QUALIFICATIONS FOR LICENSURE
Before you make the commitment to enroll in a real estate pre-licensure course, you should be aware of the following information.
The law in New Jersey requires all applicants for licensure as a real estate salesperson or broker to possess good character, trustworthiness, honesty and integrity. N.J.S.A. 45:15-9. To enforce this requirement, all applicants for licensure must submit to a criminal history record check. In addition, presuming you successfully complete the course, at the time you take the state license examination you will be asked to provide responses to certain “screening questions“. The questions relate to the statutory qualifications to receive a real estate license. Among these are the candidate being over the age of 18 and having a high school diploma or its equivalent on the date of the examination. The statutory qualifications also include the absence of any convictions for forgery, burglary, robbery, any theft offense other than shoplifting, criminal conspiracy to defraud, or other like offenses within the five years preceding the application for licensure. See N.J.S.A. 45:15-12.1.
As was noted above, the law also provides that an applicant for a real estate license must establish their general good character, honesty, trustworthiness and integrity. Thus, convictions for shoplifting or other offenses, or convictions for the offenses specified in N.J.S.A. 45:15-12.1 which occurred more than five years ago, or the loss of a real estate or other professional license for cause, may constitute grounds for the denial of a license application under N.J.S.A. 45:15-9. Consequently, the Commission considers the date and nature of ALL convictions and other indicia of the applicant’s character, honesty, trustworthiness and integrity when evaluating an applicant’s qualifications for licensure.
The purpose of this Notice is to urge you to consider whether any such incidents in your background may serve to disqualify you from licensure as a real estate salesperson or broker. If you have any questions or doubts about whether you will qualify for licensure, you can call the Commission for guidance at 609-292-7272 x50383 between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. However, in most cases no conclusion can be reached based upon verbal information supplied in a phone call.
When you pass the exam you will be required to sign a form on which your answers to the screening questions referred to above will appear. By signing that form you will certify to the Commission that those answers are truthful and accurate.
THAT FORM IS PART OF YOUR APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE. Providing false information in response to a screening question is grounds for the denial of your application and for the suspension or revocation of any license issued to you, and the imposition of substantial fines. See N.J.S.A. 45:15-17(n). Therefore, it is always better to err on the side of disclosure than to answer a question in a way that may raise concerns about whether your answers were honest and truthful. In all cases where a passing candidate’s response to a screening question does raise a concern about his or her qualifications for licensure, the candidate is given the opportunity to submit a full written explanation of the response.
The tuition for the Real Estate Salesperson Course ? Your course tuition includes the course e-book. [The textbook can be purchased separately on amazon].To satisfactorily complete the course you must achieve a passing grade of 70% on the course final examination and not miss more than 12 hours of class time.
If you fail the final course examination you will be charged $15 ($17.50 for online test including the first test taken) for each attempt at retaking the exam. Test delivery methods and options may change.
You must pass your final course exam within 3 months of the last class session you registered for. We recognize that your objective in taking our real estate course is to pass the required examination and obtain a real estate license. We will assist you in achieving that goal, and we cannot guarantee results.
We highly recommend that you complete the course you registered for in full.
Making up missed classes may not be possible as future course offerings are not guaranteed.
If you should desire a refund of tuition that was paid in advance of you beginning your class, all monies paid with the exception of a $25 registration fee will be refunded; provided you notify the school in writing at least 2 business days (Monday – Friday) prior to the original beginning date of the first course you registered for.
No refunds will be issued for any reason without such notification.
If you register less than 2 business days prior to the course beginning date, your tuition will not be refundable.
You may, however, apply your payment to the current tuition of any class of the same type beginning
within one year of the date of your original registration, however, future course offerings are not guaranteed and
the School is under no obligation to offer them. You may not transfer or assign your payment to the benefit of anyone else.
We encourage you to complete all course requirements for the course and course schedule you registered for as the School is under no obligation to offer additional courses. Once you have completed ALL course requirements a
Certificate of Course Completion allowing you to take the state licensing exam will be issued.
Every effort will be made to issue the certificate as quickly as possible. No guarantees are made and the school is not responsible for delays that may occur for any reason whatsoever. You will be certified under the same name you used when you registered for the course which must be your legal name provable with legal identification such as a driver’s license.
If the name on your legal identification (drivers license or other) is different from the name you used when you registered for the course you may have difficulty gaining admittance to the state licensing exam.
We reserve the right to limit class size, reschedule classes, or cancel classes when necessary.