Haunted Histories: Understanding and Managing Properties with Dark Pasts
Presented By:
Dustin Orlando

1st Rate Inspections
October 8, 2026
10:00 AM Central Time
Stewart Title Tomball
14080 FM 2920, Suite E
Tomball, TX 77377
3.00 Real Estate Continuing Education Credit Hours
Approved State(s): TX  Category: Elective
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This course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how to handle properties with a haunted past. The goal is to enable real estate professionals to understand, manage, and market such properties effectively while ensuring legal and ethical compliance. It seeks to equip learners with practical tools and strategies, thereby adding a unique feather to their real estate cap.

Course Details
Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Articulate the legal and ethical responsibilities involved in listing, marketing, and selling properties with a haunted or dark past.
  • Describe how a property's haunted history impacts its market value and be able to effectively communicate these nuances to potential buyers.
  • Utilize unique marketing and sales strategies tailored for haunted properties, learning how to convert a property's dark past into a unique selling proposition.
  • Engage and network with other professionals in this unique field and understand the implications for their professional reputation.
About The Instructor
Quality driven and highly motivated self-starter with 14 years of mechanical manufacturing and service experience. A proactive leader with a background in troubleshooting, planning, initiating and completing job tasks. Extremely safety conscious and attentive to all surrounding environmental conditions. Thrive in group and individual tasks assigned. Began TREC approved, Professional Real Estate Inspector Training through ATI in August 2020. Completed ATI training in November 2020. While training, I was undergoing training through a sponsorship in the I-Go community to become the companies General Manager. I facilitate monthly employee meetings, Employee Reviews, Inspector Field Training and ancillary services. I tested and passed both the National and Texas portions of the Real Estate Inspector exam for my TREC Professional Real Estate Inspector license in December of 2020 and filed my application in January of 2021.
Education Credits
Real Estate Continuing Education (Texas) 
3.00 Real Estate Continuing Education Credit Hours
Category: Elective
Price: FREE (No Fee)

Having fully met the requirements of Texas Real Estate Commission, the following course has been approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours. Provider Approval: 9980. Course Approval: 51580.
Contact Us
Education Provider

Preferred Systems, Inc.
1001 State Street, Suite 1400
Erie, PA 16501
Phone: 888.455.7437
info@preferrededucation.com
www.preferrededucation.com
Instructor

Dustin Orlando
1st Rate Inspections
9630 Cannock Chase Dr.
Houston, TX 77065
Phone: 832.567.5791
Dustin@1stRateInspections.com
www.1stRateInspections.com
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