Legal. Fair Housing. Elective.
Taught by the inspectors who find it.
Free of charge with 5 or more attendees. Certified through CE Marketplace.
Michigan requirements
Every licensed Michigan salesperson, associate broker and broker completes 18 clock hours of continuing education in each 3-year licence cycle. Some of those hours are mandated by subject, and the mandate is annual rather than something you can leave to the last year.
Not 6 hours whenever you get to them — 2 in each year of the cycle. Miss a year and you cannot make it up by doubling the next one.
A separate annual requirement in its own right, 3 hours across the cycle. It does not come out of your legal hours and it is not optional.
Whatever is left once the mandated hours are covered — 9 of your 18. Choose subjects you will actually use in a transaction.
Your course has to be certified. Michigan only counts continuing education certified by CE Marketplace, which is also where completed hours are reported and where you can check your own running total using your licence (Permanent ID) number. Every class we teach is certified there.
Check your own expiration date. Michigan licences no longer share one renewal day — a licence issued after August 2020, or renewed with effect from 1 November 2021, expires on a date based on when it was first issued. Your date, and the rules in full, come from LARA and Michigan REALTORS. What is on this page is a summary written to help you plan, not a substitute for either.
Our classes
16 classes certified through CE Marketplace, 25 hours in total — enough to cover an entire 3-year cycle, including every mandated hour, without sitting the same class twice. Open any class to see what it covers.
Michigan asks for 2 legal hours in every year of your cycle. These are the classes that fill them.
Where asbestos still turns up in Michigan housing stock, how it is identified, and what applies once a property is known to contain it.
What Michigan’s seller disclosure obligations ask for in practice, how an inspection report sits alongside them, and the points in a transaction where the two most often collide.
Three contamination problems that change how a property can be sold — what testing can and cannot establish for each one, and what has to be disclosed once it is known.
What Michigan law allows an owner to do when somebody occupies a property without permission, and the steps that have to be followed to resolve it.
A separate annual requirement: 1 fair housing hour each year, 3 across the cycle.
The protected classes, the conduct that creates liability, and the everyday habits in listing, showing and advertising that keep a transaction on the right side of the line.
Michigan’s fair housing requirements and how they apply to the decisions agents make every week — how a listing is written, who is shown what, and how enquiries are answered.
The remaining 9 hours are yours to choose. Ours are about the house itself - what inspectors find, and what it means for your deal.
A full pass through the systems an inspector evaluates — roof, structure, exterior, electrical, plumbing, heating and cooling, interior — and what the findings mean for a deal. The longest class we teach, and the one newer agents get the most out of.
How a roof is assessed from the outside and the attic side, why ventilation and insulation problems show up together, and which findings tend to matter at the negotiating table.
The foundation types common in Michigan, the cracks and movement an inspector looks for, and how to tell a cosmetic finding from one worth a specialist’s opinion.
Siding, trim, windows, doors, porches, decks, grading and drainage — what gets evaluated outside the house and the conditions that most often appear in a report.
Walls, ceilings, floors, stairs, windows, doors and built-in appliances — what an inspector checks inside the house, and the findings clients ask about most.
What mold testing actually measures, how to read an air sampling report and its lab results, and what the numbers do and do not tell you about a property.
The materials, systems and construction methods found in older Michigan homes, and the findings that catch agents out when a period property goes under contract.
Where radon comes from, how it is tested, what Michigan levels look like, and how a result is handled once it is in hand.
Panels, breakers, wiring methods, grounding and GFCI protection — what an inspector evaluates and the conditions that get called out as safety issues.
Personal safety for agents working alone — showings, open houses, meeting new clients, and the routines that reduce risk. An optional self-defense demonstration can follow the class.
With an optional self-defense demonstration afterwards, which is not part of the CE hour.
Looking for something that is not on the list? Tell us what your office needs and we will tell you honestly whether we can get it certified.
On the calendar
There is nothing on the open calendar at the moment. Most of our classes are booked by an office for its own agents rather than scheduled in advance — so the quickest way to get a class on the calendar is to ask for one.
Request a classCall 734-331-3269
Want to hear when we put one on? Ask us to add you to the list and we will email you when a date is set.
Bring it to your team
Pick a class, pick a date, and we will teach it wherever suits you — your brokerage, a sales meeting, lunch at a restaurant, or any venue you would rather book. Free of charge with 5 or more attendees.
Tell us roughly what you are after and we will come back with dates. If you would rather talk it through, call 734-331-3269.
Your office, your conference room, your sales meeting — or a restaurant, a clubhouse, anywhere you would rather hold it. We bring the class, the handouts and the sign-in sheet.
No charge to the office and no charge to the agents attending, as long as 5 or more are there to take it.
Attendees claim their hours after the class and they are reported through CE Marketplace against their licence number. Nobody leaves holding paperwork to chase.
Not a professional trainer reading a deck. The person at the front inspects houses in your market, and answers questions from that.
Who you learn from
All three teach from the same place: thousands of Michigan houses, inspected. More about the team.
Matt Cottenham
General Manager
CE Marketplace Certified Instructor
Jim Guntzviller
Inspector Manager
CE Marketplace Certified Instructor
Justin Frey
Certified Professional Inspector
CE Marketplace Certified Instructor
Common questions
What agents ask us most about their continuing education.
Michigan licensees complete 18 clock hours of continuing education in each 3-year licence cycle. Part of that total is mandated by subject — 2 legal hours and 1 fair housing hour in every year of the cycle — and the remaining 9 hours are elective.
2 hours of legal continuing education in every year of your cycle, which is 6 hours across the 3 years. Because the requirement is annual, hours taken in one year do not cover a year you missed. We teach 4 certified legal classes worth 7 hours.
Yes. Fair housing is its own annual requirement in Michigan — 1 hour each year, 3 across the cycle — and it is separate from your legal hours. We teach Fair Housing in Michigan and Roadmap to Fair Housing, both certified through CE Marketplace.
Any certified course outside the mandated legal and fair housing subjects. That is 9 of your 18 hours. Our 10 elective classes cover what inspectors actually find in houses — roofs, foundations, electrical, mold, radon and older homes — so the hours are useful in a transaction rather than just something to sit through.
Yes, every one of them. Michigan only counts continuing education certified by CE Marketplace, and that is also where your hours are reported and where you can check your own total using your licence (Permanent ID) number.
Nothing. Every class we teach is free of charge to Michigan realtors, provided there are at least 5 attendees. There is no charge to the office either.
That is how most of our classes happen. We bring the class to your office, your sales meeting, a lunch and learn, or any venue you would rather book — on a date that suits you. Request a class and we will come back with dates.
5 or more and the class is free. If you have fewer than that, call us anyway — we can often add you to a class another office is hosting, or put one on the open calendar.
Most run one or two hours, matching the credit they carry. The longest is Home Systems and Inspection Essentials at 5 hours. Every class in the catalogue above shows exactly how many hours it is worth.
Matt Cottenham, Jim Guntzviller and Justin Frey — all working inspectors, two of them Certified Master Inspectors. You are learning the subject from the people who inspect houses in your market every week.
After the class you claim your credit using the link on the closing slide, which asks for your name and licence number. The hours are then reported through CE Marketplace and show against your licence. Keep your own record too — the state asks licensees to retain CE documentation for four years.
It depends on your own licence rather than a single statewide date. Licences issued after August 2020, or renewed with effect from 1 November 2021, carry an individual expiration date based on when the licence was first issued. Check yours through LARA before you plan your hours.
Free of charge with 5 or more attendees. Legal, fair housing and elective.
