Courses · 3 hours · Florida law
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CSI: Florida Real Estate Cracking the 2026 Legal Updates
Badge up. We've got cases to crack and laws to not accidentally break. Three hours of Florida real estate law, taught through evidence files, role-play and a scored review round.
- Format
- In a classroom · Online · At sea, optional
- Length
- 3 hours
- Status
- Opening soon
- Instructor
- Cara Savell Keelin
Who it's for
- Licensed Florida agents who want this year's law in plain English
- Brokers and team leads who want their agents to know where a rule actually comes from
- Anyone tired of hearing "that's the law" about things that are really MLS or brokerage policy
What you'll leave with
- How to tell statute and rule apart from contract, brokerage policy and MLS practice
- The escrow and brokerage-relationship rules that protect your license
- The buyer representation and compensation conversation, practiced
- Your own transaction compliance checklist
What you'll learn
Module by module, lesson by lesson.
Hour one · Authority and license law
Where a rule actually comes from, and the parts of Florida license law that decide whether you keep your license.
- Sources of authority: statute, Commission rule, contract, brokerage policy, MLS or association rule
- Chapter 475 and the Commission: who must be licensed, unlicensed activity and unlicensed assistants, verifying license status, discipline
- Advertising and brokerage identification, team advertising, compensation through the employing broker, supervision, and the unauthorized practice of law
Hour two · Escrow and brokerage relationships
The money that is never yours, and the relationships that decide what you owe.
- Escrow: who holds the deposit, delivery and deposit deadlines, commingling and conversion, records and monthly reconciliation, good-faith doubt and conflicting demands
- Authorized brokerage relationships: the dual agency prohibition, the transaction broker presumption, duties under each relationship, disclosure timing, transition and designated sales associates
Hour three · Buyers, disclosures and this year’s changes
The conversations the law actually governs, and what changed this year.
- Buyer representation and compensation, sorting each requirement into statute, contract, brokerage policy or MLS rule
- Florida residential disclosure duties, including flood, property tax, HOA, condominium and cooperative documents
- The legislative update: what was enacted, what was on the ballot, and what did not pass
- Federal and Florida fair housing: steering, advertising, accommodation, and the loaded neighborhood question
- Close the file: build your own transaction compliance checklist
How it's taught
In the room, it’s a game.
Every activity is tied to what you are learning, and every answer comes with its source.
Law & Disorder
A buzzer-style survey game: what are the violations agents commit without realizing it? Real host, real scoreboard, real legal answers.
Wheel of Compliance
Spin, land on a category, and solve the legal puzzle before the other team does. Every answer comes with its source.
Buyer agreement role-play
Practice the buyer representation and compensation conversation with real scripts and honest peer feedback.
Protect Your Brokerage
Build a compliance checklist for your own transactions and leave with it as a desk reference.
Format
Three ways to take it.
In a classroom
St. Petersburg, with your team at the next table.
Online
The same course, from wherever your day happens.
At sea, optional
When there's a sailing. Never required.
Your instructor
Cara Savell Keelin
Founder, and broker-owner of Inspired Nooks Realty
Cara is a third-generation St. Petersburg native and the broker-owner of Inspired Nooks Realty. She built the Academy to teach the way she runs her own brokerage: short pieces, real practice, and someone who notices when you go quiet.
First in line
Opening soon. Be first in line.
No deposit, no obligation, no drip sequence. One email from Cara when this course opens, and nothing else.