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Virtual Events

  • RAR: Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES)
    Includes a Live In-Person Event on 11/17/2025 at 9:00 AM (EST)

    Instructor: Mark Worrilow  

    Member Cost: $225 through 11/3/2025 and $260 after Non-member Cost: $260  

    This designation course offers a unique opportunity to learn the essential skills to guide adults age 50+ through the sale of a family home or a move to a senior living community. Topics covered include:  Identifying the power of generational demographics Developing and maintaining relationship marketing skills Distinguish the key differences in housing options Understand the implications of tax laws, probate and estate planning This is an approved ABR® elective course.

    CE: 8 hrs Real Estate Related PLE: 2 hrs Current Industry Trends  This is a two day course.  

  • $15.00

    AI, ChatGPT, The Law and COE for Brokers / November 18, 2025 / 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
    Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 11/18/2025 at 9:00 AM (EST)

    Artificial Intelligence or AI is powering a new generation of tools that allow you to do some amazing things compared to tools of the past. With the emergence of generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT (written content) & Dalle (imagery and video), Mid-Journey, Google’s Bard, Microsoft’s Co-Pilot, Canva, & many others incorporating AI into their offerings, it has finally reached the masses. In this session, we will explore what Generative AI is, and how it can be used by your company and its agents to help boost business efficiencies & productivity, communications, & customer service, and more including the many downsides to this amazing technology and how if they are used improperly they can cause many problems for you and your company.

    CE/PL APPROVAL: 1 Hour Broker Management CE; No PL

    Craig Grant

    Craig Grant wears many hats. He is the lead Subject Matter Expert (SME) of NAR’s upcoming rebuild of ePro. He was named 2023 RIS Media Newsmaker as an Industry Futurist and engages in over 150 in-person & virtual speaking engagements around the world each year--including sessions for NAR, several state conventions, and other key industry events. Craig is considered one of the most sought-after technology, marketing, and cybersecurity speakers around. Whether it be at an industry event, in the classroom, or online via Zoom or the RETI.us portal, one thing that fuels Craig is to help today’s real estate professionals embrace and get over their fear of technology so that it can work for them and not against them.

    As his motto, “Advanced Real Estate Technology & Marketing Instructed at a Pre-K Level” states, Craig is able to take extremely complicated topics and present them in a way that the average non-technical person not only understands but is able to apply and improve their business. In addition to being the CEO of the Real Estate Technology Institute and RETI.us, the Real Estate Industry’s Home for Online Technology Education, Craig is an avid sports fan and music lover who can be found watching and/or participating in events and concerts with friends.

  • Locally Hosted Course

    LOCAL EVENT: RI 503: Business Planning / NRVAR In-Person / November 19, 2025, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    Includes a Live In-Person Event on 11/19/2025 at 9:00 AM (EST)

    COURSE IS HOSTED BY LOCAL ASSOCIATION. FEES ARE PROVIDED ON LOCAL ASSOCIATION SITE.

    Do you have a well-laid plan for business success? This course covers the foundational skills of establishing a successful business. Learn how to develop your personal brand, set goals for the future, and identify your market niche. The course also covers how to identify and secure the best administrative support and how to project a professional image in the marketplace.

    CE/PL Approved: 1 Hour Real Estate Agency and 5 Hours Real Estate Related for CE.

    Michael Guthrie

    Michael Guthrie is the CEO and Managing Broker of Roy Wheeler Realty in Charlottesville, VA. He joined the company in November of 2005 after being a REALTOR® in Northern Virginia since 1983. Since taking over Roy Wheeler, the company has expanded from 1 to 6 offices and now has more than 135 REALTORS® running their businesses under the Roy Wheeler corporate structure. Michael was named Charlottesville’s REALTOR® of the year in 2009, the Charlottesville Chamber’s Small Business person of the year in 2010, and was the Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics Award recipient in 2014. Michael currently hosts his weekly radio show, Real Estate Matters on WINA every Saturday morning. He has taught DPOR approved courses in Charlottesville and throughout Virginia.

  • LOCAL EVENT : RI 508 : Virginia Law and Regulations / CAAR Virtual / November 20, 2025, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    Includes a Live In-Person Event on 11/20/2025 at 9:00 AM (EST)

    COURSE IS HOSTED BY LOCAL ASSOCIATION. FEES ARE PROVIDED ON LOCAL ASSOCIATION SITE.

    Laws change. Do you know what new statutes the General Assembly has enacted or the new regulations that affect your business? This course offers the most up-to-date Virginia law changes and board regulations. Using case studies will offer you a better understanding of how the law applies to you and how it protects both your interests and the interests of your clients. 

    CE/PL Approved:6 Hours Legal Updates with Flood Content for CE.

     For further information, please visit the CAAR website or contact the CAAR Education Department.

    Michael Guthrie

    Michael Guthrie is the CEO and Managing Broker of Roy Wheeler Realty in Charlottesville, VA. He joined the company in November of 2005 after being a REALTOR® in Northern Virginia since 1983. Since taking over Roy Wheeler, the company has expanded from 1 to 6 offices and now has more than 135 REALTORS® running their businesses under the Roy Wheeler corporate structure. Michael was named Charlottesville’s REALTOR® of the year in 2009, the Charlottesville Chamber’s Small Business person of the year in 2010, and was the Charlottesville Area Association of REALTORS® Code of Ethics Award recipient in 2014. Michael currently hosts his weekly radio show, Real Estate Matters on WINA every Saturday morning. He has taught DPOR approved courses in Charlottesville and throughout Virginia.

  • PM 107: It's Over When It's Over / 4-Hour Virtual Course / November 20, 2025, 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    Includes Credits Includes a Live Web Event on 11/20/2025 at 9:00 AM (EST)

    What happens when a good relationship experiences turmoil or the parties decide to part ways? This course explores landlord, tenant, and property manager responsibilities when navigating a breach of lease or the process of lease termination. 

    CE/PL Approved: 1 Hour Real Estate Contracts and 3 Hours Real Estate Related OR 4 Hours of Real Estate Related for CE; 2 Hours Current Industry Issues/Trends for PL.

    Ryan Leonard

    Staff Counsel

    Virginia REALTORS®

    Ryan is a graduate of the University of Richmond School of Law and is licensed to practice law in Virginia and Washington, DC. He has a background working as an attorney in private practice, volunteering for legal organizations such as Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Legal Aid Society of San Diego, and Animal Legal Defense Fund, as well as experience in the private sector in a variety of non-legal fields. When he is not working as Staff Counsel for Virginia REALTORS®, Ryan works as an adjunct professor of political science at Brightpoint Community College.