The TREC 3-Day Rule.
Texas real estate students use "the 3-day rule" for two different things: the 3 days to plan for each 30-hour course before its final exam, and the 3-business-day window to cancel your enrollment. Here's how both work.
Plan on 3 days per 30-hour course before its final exam.
TREC limits how much course time counts in a single day, so you can't finish a 30-hour qualifying or SAE course and take its final exam the same day you start. Plan on 3 days per course. You can work on as many 30-hour courses at once as you like, but each final exam needs its own 3 days.
Say you finish all the content for three courses on day 1. Your first final exam can come on day 3, your second on day 6, and your third on day 9. For all six pre-licensing courses, that puts the fastest pace at about 18 days.
Most students aren't racing the clock: the average School Estate student finishes the six courses in about 7 weeks. Your mentor instructor builds a pacing plan around the timeline you want, whether that's 18 days or 10 weeks. Questions? Call 512-697-9111.
The 3-business-day cancellation window.
When you enroll in a Texas real estate course, state consumer-protection rules give you 3 business days from the date you sign your enrollment agreement to cancel in writing for a full refund, no reason required. After that window, our standard Refund Policy applies.
We mention it because most students never need it. If you're calling us before you enroll, that's exactly the point, ask everything first. Call 512-697-9111 and we'll walk you through it.
What happens once the 3-day window closes.
Your enrollment is committed and your course access fully activates. That's not a countdown to rush you, every School Estate course stays open for 6 months from the day you enroll, so there's real runway to finish comfortably around a job, kids, or whatever else is going on in your life.
The best use of this window is never needing it.
Before you enroll, we're happy to pull up your TREC record with you, count any hours you already have, and point you at exactly the course or package that closes the gap, nothing more. Most students who call first never end up needing this cancellation window at all, because they enrolled in the right thing the first time.
Quick answers.
Questions before you enroll?
Call us, a real person answers, seven days a week. We'll walk you through it together.