21 NCAC 58C .0603. APPLICATION AND CRITERIA FOR ORIGINAL APPROVAL

(a)  An individual seeking original approval as a prelicensing and postlicensing course instructor shall make application on a form provided by the Commission.  An applicant who is not a resident of North Carolina shall also file with the application a consent to service of process and pleadings.  No application fee is required.  All required information regarding the applicant's qualifications shall be submitted.

(b)  An instructor applicant shall demonstrate that he or she possesses good moral character as set out in G.S. 93A-4(b) and the following qualifications or other qualifications found by the Commission to be equivalent to the following qualifications:.

(1)           a current North Carolina real estate broker license that is not on provisional status;

(2)           a current continuing education record;

(3)           three years active full-time experience in general real estate brokerage, including substantial experience in real estate sales and at least one year of general brokerage experience in North Carolina, within the previous seven years; and

(4)           60 semester hours of college-level education at an institution accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools or any other college accrediting body recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

For purposes of this Rule, substantial experience is experience which is material, valuable, and worthwhile and not nominal, occasional, or intermittent.  The Commission shall consider teaching experience at the secondary or post-secondary level in lieu of a portion of the brokerage experience requirement.

(c)  In addition to the qualification requirements stated in Paragraph (b) of this Rule, an applicant shall also demonstrate completion of the Commission's new instructor seminar within three years prior to the date of application and shall submit a one-hour video recording which depicts the applicant teaching a real estate prelicensing or postlicensing course topic and which demonstrates that the applicant possesses the basic teaching skills described in Rule .0604 of this Section.  The new instructor seminar requirement shall be waived upon a finding by the Commission that the applicant possesses comparable instructor training, three years full-time experience teaching real estate pre-licensing courses in another state within the previous five years, or other equivalent qualifications. The video recording shall comply with the requirements specified in Rule .0605(c) of this Section. An applicant who is a Commission-approved continuing education update course instructor under Subchapter E, Section .0200 of this Chapter or who holds the Distinguished Real Estate Instructor (DREI) designation granted by the Real Estate Educators Association or an equivalent real estate instructor certification is exempt from the requirement to demonstrate satisfactory teaching skills by submission of a digital video disc (DVD) or videotape.  An applicant who is qualified under Paragraph (b) of this Rule but who has not satisfied these additional requirements at the time of application shall be approved and granted a six-month grace period to complete these requirements.  The approval of any instructor who is granted such six-month period to complete the requirements shall automatically expire on the last day of the period if the instructor has failed to satisfy his or her qualification deficiencies and the period has not been extended by the Commission.  The Commission shall extend the six-month period for up to three additional months when the Commission requires more than 30 days to review and act on a submitted video recording, when the expiration date of the period occurs during a course being taught by the instructor, or when the Commission determines that such extension is otherwise warranted by exceptional circumstances which are outside the instructor's control or when failure to extend the grace period could result in harm or inconvenience to students, licensees, or other innocent persons.  An individual applying for instructor approval who was previously allowed the six-month grace period to satisfy the requirements stated in this Paragraph, but did not satisfy such requirements within the allowed grace period, shall not be allowed the grace period.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 93A‑4; 93A-33; 93A-34;

Eff. October 1, 2000;

Amended Eff. January 1, 2012; January 1, 2008; April 1, 2006; July 1, 2005; April 1, 2004; September 1, 2002.