Are you a provisional broker? Have you completed your Postlicensing courses? If not, don’t let the ads for Continuing Education (CE) courses distract you from also completing your three required Postlicensing (PL) courses by your deadline. To remain eligible for active license status, PL must be completed in a timely manner.
The 18-month PL deadline started ticking as soon as your license was issued. It does not matter if or when you activated your license, you still must complete your PL courses within 18 months of initial licensure. Further, Commission rules do not allow for any extension of the 18-month period. Noncompliance will result in an inactive license status until the education deficiency is remedied and any other activation requirements are met.
CE and PL are not the same and are not interchangeable! Both are important. The primary purpose of PL education is to provide new brokers with practical education to help them transition from provisional status to becoming a “full” broker. In most cases, it only needs to be completed one time. Meanwhile, CE is an annual broker education requirement to keep brokers up to date on current issues and practices and other topics of importance to brokers; It is also a requirement for active license eligibility.