Environmental Hazards

This course covers major environmental hazards.  Licensees need to familiarize themselves with environmental issues because they have a responsibility to disclose to buyers any information that might affect their decision to buy.  Environmental hazards can dramatically affect a property’s value, so buyers, sellers, lenders and licensees all can be affected by them. This course includes the following lessons:

• The Indoor Environment
• The External Environment
• Legislation
• Disclosure and Site Assessment
• Real Estate Practice

Students will learn throughout this course to identify internal and external environmental issues.  They will learn about health hazards, environmental legislation, liability and responsibility for cleanup and protection.  They will also learn about actions they should take and how issues affect licensees and lending.  Licensees are not expected to be environmental experts, but in this course students will acquire a competency with environmental issues which will help them to elucidate issues for buyers, sellers and lenders.  Knowledge of environmental issues also will help protect them from charges of nondisclosure.