Certified Waterfront Specialist
Buy or Sell Waterfront With Confidence
With over 70 Sarasota and Manatee waterways, REALTORS® with waterfront background and experience are in high demand. There are specific considerations and criteria that a REALTOR® must know, and knowledge they must have when dealing with buying and selling waterfront property.
Dive deep into topics that are specific to this specialty and become a RASM Certified Waterfront Specialist (CWS).
About the Course
The 6-hour Certified Waterfront Specialist course will cover many of the aspects, legalities, pitfalls, and advantages of working with waterfront property.
In this class, students will learn:
- Different types of waterfront properties.
- Knowledge of bridge heights, tides, and water depths.
- Docks and seawalls: What you can do, can’t do, need to look into, permitting process, ability to rebuild, etc.
- Riparian Rights and Water Use Rights: As an upland owner, what do you have the right to do? What does an upland owner mean?
- Waterfront and Bathymetric Surveys: What you need included on your survey request (riparian lines, dune system, mean high water line, water depths, the existence of seagrasses, etc.)
- Coastal Construction/Remodels and Variances: Adding on to existing waterfront property, tearing down and building from scratch, and building on vacant land.
- Environmental Considerations
- FARBAR Contract considerations for buyers and sellers (due diligence periods, disclosures, CCCL disclosure, etc.)
- 50% Rule: We’d bring in an appraiser to get into the nitty-gritty of these appraisals and how the process works.
- Flood Insurance: What’s covered, what’s not. How much coverage should one have?
- FEMA Letter of Map Revision and FEMA Letters of Map Amendments: When does a property meet the criteria to apply for flood map revision and potentially bring the structure out of a flood zone or have it reduced?
Get Certified as a RASM CWS
GETTING CERTIFIED
To obtain the certification you must:
- Complete RASM’s 6-Hour Class and earn a score of 70 or more on the written exam.
- Complete the CWS Application and submit the application fee ($20).
- To qualify for the certification, an applicant must have 2 qualifying waterfront transactions.
CERTIFICATION BENEFITS
Upon completion, CWS agents will receive the following benefits:
- Use of the CWS (Certified Waterfront Specialist) acronym, name, and logo.
- Access to RASM’s waterfront resources.
- Name listed in the RASM’s CWS database.
CWS Classes at RASM
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Andrew Azzarello
Andrew Doucett
Angelica Ramos
Anita Darvai
Anita Lambert
Anna Allen
Antoinette Lyon
April Green
Arlene Buckmaster
Ashley Battle
Ashley Goldstein
Ashley Nevadomski
Barbara Williams
Benjamin Nathan
Beth Beckert
Beverly Perez
Bozena Suponic
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Brian Ward
Bridgette Dougherty
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Carol Lynn Burdelik
Carole Muscat
Caroline Sirard
Cassidy Calman
Catherine Palmer
Celestine Kerina
Celinda Moore Scollo
Celine Charleson
Christa Spalding
Christina McKee
Christina Minnick
Christina Weger
Christine Walters
Christopher Kernan
Cindy Greco
Cindy Furtado
Colleen Finnegan
Cynthia Fischer
Danielle Gladding
David Crawford
David P Clapp
David Stasney
David Swenson
Debra Tocco
Denise Conrad
Denise Coryell
Derek Patti
Diana Kryszak
Diane Fogo Harter
Dianne Altieri
Douglas Figgins
Edward Taaffe
Eileen Saunders
Elena Krivtsova
Elena Stefanoski
Elizabeth Anzellini
Elizabeth DeArmond
Elizabeth Williams
Erin Leathem
Esther Farber
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Fred Sassen
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Jeanine Wood
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