Requirements for Arizona Licensees: License, Conduct, and Compliance

What You'll Learn

1. Module 1: Your License: Scope, Exemptions, Renewal, and Continuing Education

   • •What Just Happened?
   • •What Actually Requires a License?
   • •Exempt Does Not Mean “Anything Goes”
   • •Article 26: Authority With Boundaries
   • •The Renewal Math
   • •The Six Mandatory CE Categories
   • •Special Renewal Paths
   • •Read the Rule
   • •Apply It: 27 Hours—and Still Not Done
   • •See What Happens
   • •What to Remember

2. Module 2: Segment 2: License Status: Active, Inactive, Expired, and Unlawful License Activity

   • •Ryan’s Timeline
   • •Reportable Events
   • •When ADRE Asks: 14 Days
   • •Fingerprint & License File
   • •Active vs. Inactive
   • •The 15-Year Line
   • •Expired vs. Terminated
   • •Automatic Severance
   • •Unlawful License Activity
   • •Apply It: Ryan’s Status Timeline
   • •What to Remember

3. Module 3: Segment 3: Standards of Conduct, Compensation, and Property Negotiations

   • •The Payment Maya Didn’t Expect
   • •Who Can Pay You?
   • •Compensation Sharing & Rebates
   • •The Duties You Owe
   • •Conflicts, Consent & Multiple Parties
   • •Competence, Information & Possession
   • •Who Can You Negotiate With?
   • •Offers Don’t Disappear After Acceptance
   • •Broker Review & Electronic Transactions
   • •Apply It: The Extra Payment at Closing
   • •What to Remember

4. Module 4: Segment 4: Advertising, Electronic Media, Teams, and Promotional Activities

   • •The Ad Looks Great
   • •What Counts as Advertising?
   • •The Brokerage Name Has to Be Seen
   • •Owner/Agent, Accuracy & Acreage
   • •Electronic Media & AI
   • •Teams: Your Brokerage Cannot Disappear
   • •Promotions, Premiums & Games of Chance
   • •Fair Housing & Federal Solicitation
   • •Read the Rule
   • •Apply It: Find the Four Violations
   • •What to Remember

5. Module 5: Segment 5: Offices, Business Entities, Broker Supervision, and Unlicensed Assistants

   • •The Brokerage Looks Fine—Until You Look Closer
   • •Your Place of Business Still Matters
   • •Branch Offices & Temporary Authority
   • •Business Entities & Professional Entities
   • •What the Broker Must Supervise
   • •Progressive Discipline & the Small-Office Exemption
   • •Delegation Does Not Eliminate Responsibility
   • •What an Unlicensed Assistant May—and May Not—Do
   • •Pay Structure Matters Too
   • •Apply It: Audit Desert Key Realty
   • •What to Remember

6. Module 6: Segment 6: Recordkeeping, Trust Accounts, Discipline, Hearings, and the Recovery Fund

   • •The Audit Starts With a Missing File
   • •What Must Be Kept—and For How Long?
   • •Electronic Records Still Have to Be Reconstructable
   • •Entrusted Money Has Rules From the Moment It Arrives
   • •The Three-Way Reconciliation
   • •Commingling, Transfers & Outside-Arizona Depositories
   • •Discipline Starts Before a Hearing
   • •Complaints, Hearings & Judicial Review
   • •The Recovery Fund
   • •Apply It: Follow the Problem From File to Fund
   • •What to Remember