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‹ Return Military Applicants In accordance with Act 820 of 2019, which requires occupational licensing agencies to provide for automatic licensure for active duty service members, returning military veterans and their spouses to engage in their chosen professions, the Arkansas Real Estate Commission has promulgated new Rule 4.5, which will be effective November 1, 2020.

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‹ Return AREC Warns Licensees of Phishing Attempt Tuesday, June 23, 2020 AREC was notified this afternoon that several licensees have received a suspicious-looking email from an account posing as “Arkansas real estate commission”. The email states “New Profile Validation Required” and may bear the subject line “Arkansas real estate license validation”. The email goes

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‹ Return COVID-19 UPDATES FROM AREC Is the AREC still open? Yes, the Commission remains operational; however, our building is not currently open to the public. We are following the directive of the Governor and the Secretary of Health to limit onsite work to employees who are critical to our necessary functions while enabling certain

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‹ Return AREC Advertising Guidelines Advertising, including all forms of identification, representation, promotion and solicitation (signage, business cards, websites, television/radio advertising, and social media), disseminated in any manner and by any means of communication to the public for any purpose related to brokerage activities listed in A.C.A. §17-42-103(10) must be under the supervision of the

‹ Return WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE SELLERS TOOK IT WITH THEM? By Andrea S. Alford, Deputy Executive Director, Arkansas Real Estate Commission The day has finally come. You’ve signed every last closing document and you’re standing in the living room of your new house. You get a little misty-eyed as you picture a brightly-lit

‹ Return O BROKER, WHERE ART THOU? by Andrea S. Alford, Deputy Executive Director, Arkansas Real Estate Commission Webster defines the term “bona fide” as “genuine; authentic; neither specious nor counterfeit”. In one of my favorite scenes from “O Brother Where Art Thou”, Ulysses Everett McGill has escaped from prison and returned to his wife,