Dynasty School - How bad is it?

[Yehosha]

Just a quick inquiry as to the quality of the continuing education classes Dunasty offers vs McKissock or others. I live and appraise in CA and need to get my 56 hour CE started ASAP.

Financial times are pretty rough for my family, so cost is a very important factor for me. To take all but the 7 hour USPAP from Dynasty only costs $295, then another $144 to take USPAP from McKissock, for a $439 total. Taking it all from McKissock would be $602.10 after a %10 discount.

Another big factor obviously is content.

With Dynasty here is what you get:
"CE ELECTIVE COURSE - Real Estate Appraisal - Principles & Procedures
This course plus the National USPAP Update will satisfy for the full renewal (56 hours)
No final exam for this course." That is the entire course description and neither person I talked to on the phone had a clue to what any of the specific course content was.

With McKissock I get to hand pick my classes and I would pick these classes based on what I thought I would benefit from the most:
2010-2011 National USPAP Update Equivalent 7.0 hrs
California Laws & Regs 4.0 hrs
The Nuts and Bolts of Green Building for Appraisers 3.0 hrs
The Cost Approach 7.0 hrs
Risky Business: Ways to Minimize Your Liability 7.0 hrs
Sales Verification: Principles, Procedures, & Case Studies 7.0 hrs
Land and Site Valuation 7.0 hrs
Relocation Appraisal is Different! 7.0 hrs

So the question remains. How bad/good is the quality of the Dynasty class I'd be taking? Is it just doing the time to fufill the CE requirements, or do you actually learn something along the way.

I think in typing this all out I decided what I'm going to do, but would still appreciate the input on Dynasty. Thanks for your time.

 

[panappr]

I'm a big fan of McKissock for years, great support, superior on-line.... 56 hours is a real *all buster when your busy... Good Luck :new_all_coholic:

 

[Mike Boyd]

I used Dynasty for the past 3 times I renewed. They are on-line courses and use standard AI or other accepted text books. As is all CE, you get out of it what you put in. Of course, it is open book and you could look up each question of their exams and get the correct answer thereby learning very little. Or, you can follow their study guide for some real learning.

 

[VegasWayne]

I took the cost approach class online from McKissick and would recommend it..

 

[OCApp]

Check out Allied Real Estate School -- google it to get their website.

Haven't had any problems with their continuing ed courses (appraiser and broker). They'll also compete on price and beat another school's best price by 10%. They're located in Laguna Hills in southern Cal