Is Metropolitan School of Real Estate an accredited real estate school?
Yes! We have been a licensed school (license #1214) since 2008. You can find our school name listed on the Massachusetts Board of Professional Licensure website.
 
When am I eligible to start taking my continuing education hours?
Massachusetts agents and brokers are eligible to complete their required 12 hours of continuing education online at any time. If you are an agent or broker, you need 12 hours each 2-year cycle before renewing your license on your birthday. You don’t need to wait till the week before your license expires to get started! You can begin the renewal process online with the state of MA 90 days prior to your license expiration date.Â
How often do Massachusetts real estate agents need to take continuing ed?
Every 2 years, Massachusetts agents and brokers need to complete 12 hours of certified Continuing Education courses from a school that is licensed, like ours.
On our site, once a student completes 12 credit hours — six courses — they can be issued the certificate. This certificate will have the information you need to renew your license with the state so keep it handy.Â
What if I don’t need to complete all of the 12 hours?
Our 12-credit-hour course allows you to take six 2-credit modules for a 12-credit certificate.Â
If you need just 2 credit hours, (say, for example, you need only an ETHICS course to meet your tri-annual Realtor® requirement), you can sign up for and watch our video classes separately. See the Continuing Education page on our site and click on the button for Individual Classes to see the options for purchasing videos separately.
Alternatively, if you just need 8 or 10 credit hours, because you completed a few classes elsewhere, you have a few options. You could buy our 12-credit-hour suite and complete all six courses anyway. Or, you can stop after a couple of courses and reach out to us for a certificate to be  generated manually. Note, you need to complete all the segments within a course to get the full 2 credits for the course module. And, should you have a certificate generated mid-course your access will end at that time.Â
How quickly can I complete the course?
The State of MA requires 12 hours of continuing education. In theory you could complete the course in just 12 hours – if you did a marathon session watching our online video courses back to back. But it’s not likely you have a free 12-hour block to do that, plus you wouldn’t retain very much of what you learn.
How quickly you complete your mandatory 12 hours is really up to you. Note we have divided the courses into bite-sized chunks of approximately 20 minutes each to make it easy to work them into your schedule and watch at your convenience.
Do I have to watch the entire 12-hours of video in one session?
Absolutely not (and we recommend against it!). Each 2-hour course module is split up into segments of approximately 20 minutes each. Each segment must be viewed in its entirety for you to receive credit. You will see the checkmarks as you move through the segments.Â
Can I fast forward the videos?
You can only fast forward a video to the furthest point that you have already seen. And if you try to drag the slider ahead it will just bounce back. It’s set up this way to ensure you actually watch the video material and are not allowed to merely fast-forward through it. Please note that the state requires you to watch a full 12 hours to complete your Continuing Education requirement, and also requires us to set up our online video courses in such a way that we can provide reasonable assurance that you’ve watched your required credit hours.
When/how do I receive my certificate of completion?
Once you complete the last segment of the entire course and have reached 100% of your class -- you should see a checkmark for each completed segment -- you will see a blue box pop up above your course library that says GET YOUR CERTIFICATE. Simply proof the name you registered with to confirm it is your legal name and then fill in your real estate license number. Then you will email yourself your certificate. Occasionally the email containing the certificate is filtered to your spam folder so be sure to check there if it doesn’t show up in your inbox in a few minutes. Be sure to save the email and/or print out a copy for your files. You will need the course codes and information on the certificate to renew your license, which you will do online at mass.gov.
What if my name was misspelled on my certificate?
That’s unlikely to happen as the name on your certificate will be the name as you enter it yourself when you finish the course. If you have any issues with the certificate, just email us at [email protected] and we will make the correction for you. Â
How do I know it’s safe to give you my credit card info?
We take the same steps of the major online retailers to ensure the security of your credit card information. You’ll notice when you’re on our registration page that the URL is https and not just http. The “s” at the end indicates that the page is secure and the data you enter will be encrypted. For a further explanation, google: “what is the difference between http and https?”
What if I have a question that wasn’t answered on this page?
Please send an email to [email protected]. We will respond to you as soon as we possibly can!
