News and More About Real Estate Licensing in West Virginia

Realtor vs. Real Estate Agent in WV: What’s the Difference?

Article by Billy Zwiener, WVREC-approved instructor and second-generation owner of Spruce School of Real Estate — family-owned and WV’s first online real estate school (WVREC Provider #32-SP). The short answer: Every Realtor® is a real estate agent, but not every…

The WV Real Estate Law Code Bible: What Happened to the Red Book

Written by Billy Zwiener, WVREC-approved instructor and second-generation owner of Spruce School of Real Estate — family-owned and WV’s first online real estate school (WVREC Provider #32-SP). If you took a WV real estate class with us years ago, you…

Taking the WV Real Estate Exam

If you’ve heard stories about driving to Charleston once a month to sit for a paper exam with a $25 cash fee — that’s not how it works anymore. At Spruce School of Real Estate, a West Virginia online real…

What to Do After Your WV Real Estate Course: Full Checklist

Finishing your West Virginia real estate course is a big milestone — but there’s still work between “course complete” and “license in hand.” Students ask us this constantly, so here’s the exact plan we give them, step by step, with…

Spruce School Students Find a Broker in West Virginia

If you’re enrolled in prelicensing classes at Spruce and getting ready to sit for your exam, now is a great time to start looking for a broker in West Virginia to sponsor you. It’s completely natural not to know which…

WV Real Estate License Fees

Written by Billy Zwiener, WVREC-approved instructor and second-generation owner of Spruce School of Real Estate — family-owned and WV’s first online real estate school (WVREC Provider #32-SP). The short answer: a first-time WV real estate salesperson’s license costs about $218…

WV Real Estate License Renewal (2026): Fees, 7 CE Hours & the June 30 Deadline

License renewal ensures that real estate professionals stay up-to-date with the latest industry knowledge, laws, and practices. This is typically achieved through mandatory continuing education courses. But the reasons don’t stop there.

“No Children in Housing” Legally Allowed?

This article is about something we learn in our online real estate class however I thought it wouldn’t hurt to go into more detail. If we would see something like “No children allowed” on a advertisement some might immediately think,…

How to find the ORIGINAL sales price

WARNING, this is NOT a very mathematical approach to finding the original sales price of a property. This is a plug and play equation I compiled after watching a LOT of videos on this subject. Mathematicians would cry at the…

Promissory Note Math for the Real Estate License Exam

In today’s episode of “Spruce Answers”your real estate license prep test questions we have a quick one. It reads “Using the services of a mortgage broker, a buyer borrowed $25,000 from a private lender. After the loan costs were deducted,…

Appraised Value Math for Your Real Estate License Prep

OK in this episode of “Spruce Answers” we have a pretty hard math question that comes from the darkest depths of your real estate license prep. Let’s jump in and make it easy to understand! So the question reads… “If…

Discount Point Math for your WV Real Estate Licensing Exam

Today in “Spruce Answers” I’m going over the real estate math licensing concept of the discount point. This is easier than you might think . The question is… “If a house was sold for $360,000 and the buyer obtained a…