Frequently Asked Questions
We have incorporated classroom teaching techniques with the ease of online education to give our internet courses that human touch. They are comprised of reading material that we’ve uploaded straight from our books, video & PowerPoint presentations from our instructor, and quizzes throughout to help you retain what you’ve learned. At the end, you will take a final exam. Once passed, we will issue you a certificate and you will have access to our state/national review simulations.
Our courses are user-friendly and go-at-your-own-pace. Each course has a subscription period and you will be able to begin immediately after purchase. You may login/logout at any time and your progress will be recorded.
Louisiana Real Estate
Visit the link provided on your certificate of completion to download and print the application forms.
Mail or deliver your pre-licensing certificate, the completed forms, and the appropriate fees to the Louisiana Real Estate Commission.
You will be contacted by the LREC with information on how to schedule your licensing exam.
Exams are taken at a Pearson Vue testing facility.
Mississippi real estate
Contact the Mississippi Real Estate Commission
at 601.321.6970 to schedule your licensing exam.
Exams are taken on a computer at a PSI Exams facility. Click here for a list of the testing locations.
Louisiana Insurance
Once you have printed out your certificate, you may schedule your licensing exam at www.psiexams.com/LaIns.
Exams are taken on a computer at a PSI Exams facility. Click here for a list of the testing locations.
Our various courses are approved by the following organizations:
- ARELLO (Association of Real Estate License Law Officials)
- Louisiana Real Estate Commission
- Mississippi Real Estate Commission
- Louisiana Department of Insurance
- Mississippi Department of Insurance
- Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors
- Louisiana State Board of Home Inspectors
- Greater Baton Rouge Association of REALTORS®
- Louisiana Bar Association
No, we do not. Bob Brooks School specializes in online education.
All of the information from our books are included in our online courses and can be printed out in PDF format. However, some students prefer to have a hard-copy of the reading material. We do keep prints of the following books:
-Louisiana Real Estate Salesperson & Broker Pre-Licensing
-Louisiana Life & Health Insurance Pre-Licensing
-Louisiana Property & Casualty Insurance Pre-Licensing
-Mississippi Real Estate Salesperson & Broker Pre-Licensing
Prices start at $20.00 for pick-up and $25.99 for mail-out. Give us a call and we’ll be happy to take care of you.
We will report real estate CE hours to the Real Estate Commission and insurance CE hours to the Department of Insurance.
Contractors and home inspectors are responsible for sending in their own CE hours.
Real estate: A real estate prelicensing certificate is good for five (5) years from its certification date.
Insurance: There is no time limit on Insurance Pre-licensing certificates.
Your subscription has most likely expired. Each course comes with a certain subscription period (listed within the course description) included in the initial price. We can renew your subscription and re-enroll you into your course where you can pick back up right where you left off. The re-activation fee is based on how long it has been since you last accessed your course; if it has been less than a year it will be $25.00. If it has been over a year, it will be half (50%) of the original purchase price. No matter how long it has been, please call our office at 225-292-7277 to get your course reactivated.
While our reading material and quizzes are compatible with mobile devices, our presentations sometimes aren’t. We use Adobe products to create these presentations. If you are taking our course on a mobile device, we recommend that you download the free app Presenter Mobile by Adobe. You will be able to view everything else on your web browser, but for the presentations, you will need to copy and paste the link into the Presenter Mobile app in order to view it.
Real Estate Prelicensing and Contractor Continuing Education:
These videos are .mp4 files, which means they are high in quality, but very large. Sometimes these can take a few minutes to “buffer”, or load. You may have to pause the video for 5-10 minutes and come back to it when it is fully loaded. Here are some tips for faster buffering:
- Use a desktop computer that is plugged directly into the ethernet (internet cable).
- If using a laptop, tablet, or other mobile device, make sure you are connected to a strong Wi-Fi (wireless internet connection).
(If you are using an office Wi-Fi or other public Wi-Fi that several other people are connected to, this is an example of a weak connection.) - If using a mobile device, always connect to a Wi-Fi. Do not use a 3G, 4G, or LTE connection, as these will be the slowest and
should only be used as a last resort. - We have had the best results with our presentations when using the web browsers Google Chrome.
All other courses (insurance, continuing education, etc.):
We use Adobe products to create our presentations. Sometimes your computer may require you to download an audio add-in from the Adobe website. It is called Adobe Connect 9 Meeting Add-In. This will work for all courses except for Real Estate Prelicensing.
After the download is complete, restart your computer and log back in to your course. You may have to click on a presentation two or three times to activate the add-in.
If you still encounter issues, download this .pdf with step-by-step instructions on troubleshooting the audio.