2026 NMREC Core Course
Instructor: Bob Arguelles
Price: $45
CE Credit Hours: 4
Date: February 19, 2026
Time: 9:00AM -1:00PM
Location:
Zoom - Distance Learning
Course Description:
The 2026 NMREC Core Course reviews key issues related to water and real estate, including how to handle a transaction with water rights. Brokers will also learn about solar rights and how solar access and easements affect a property. The course addresses current frauds and scams, emphasizing prevention, consumer protection red flags and next steps. It also explains important insurance types such as E&O, public liability, broker, and brokerage coverage. It ends with a finale of hot topics and legal updates which highlights the latest legislative and regulatory changes, litigations and hot button issues impacting real estate practice in New Mexico.
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About the Instructor: Bob Arguelles
For over 38 years Bob Arguelles has been an active member in the Albuquerque real estate community having started his career as a commercial broker and registered appraiser in 1984. Bob spent three years with the Resolution Trust Corporation as a Regional Asset Manager, resolving over $300 million in real property assets.
Subsequently involved in the executive level management of some of the most successful new home builders/developers, Bob has been responsible for over 3,500 new home sales transactions in New Mexico and Colorado and received numerous national, regional, and local Sales & Marketing awards.
As a former principal in a media and marketing agency, Bob gained expertise in marketing, media/public relations and print/electronic media. His company received awards as one of New Mexico’s Top 25 Hispanic companies.
Bob is an Associate Broker with Metro Commercial Realty, Inc. and is the Owner/Qualifying Broker of Metro Residential Realty, Inc.
Since 2017, Bob has been an active real estate continuing-education instructor and is a Gold Standard Instructor (GSI) through the Real Estate Educators Association.
- Member, National Association of Realtors®
- Member, New Mexico Association of Realtors®
- Member, Greater Albuquerque Association of Realtors®
- Member, Commercial Association of Realtors® New Mexico (CARNM)
- Member, New Mexico Real Estate Commission – Education Advisory Committee
- Member, Real Estate Educators Association
- Trustee, SPX Real Estate Corporation
Past
- Member, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
- Member, Home Builders Association of NM (HBACNM)
- Member, NAHB National Sales and Marketing Council
- Member, Greater Albuquerque Habitat for Humanity Board