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Build your resume and boost your reputation with an IREM Skill Badge

IREM Skill Badges are resumé building courses that equip you with the specialized skills needed to be an effective property manager, without the commitment or experience and portfolio requirements of a certification program. With a Skill Badge, you can:

  • Learn the core competencies that real estate managers need most to help you in your day-to-day work
  • Establish your credibility with a digital badge that can be added to your social media, email signatures, and anywhere you have a digital footprint
  • Remain current with market trends and new development by expanding your knowledge beyond your IREM training to keep you at the forefront of your field

Check out available skill badges below.

  • New! IREM® Skill Badge: Building Technology

    New! IREM® Skill Badge: Building Technology

    Buildings run better with technology. Introducing IREM’s new Skill Badge: Building Technology. You’ll learn how technology can increase your team's productivity and elevate the resident and tenant experience. Building technology solves problems. Before they become problems. Learn how technology can scale from a single building to the entire asset portfolio. You don’t have to be a cybersecurity expert. But you’ll understand how to avoid data vulnerabilities. After all, data drives the property. Get in the driver’s seat.

    Earn IREM’s Skill Badge: Building Technology and advance your skills to:

    1. Streamline operations with technology
    2. Enhance the resident-tenant experience
    3. Test and secure tech solutions
    4. Achieve single building & portfolio objectives
    5. Ensure cybersecurity and reduce risk

    Register

    Learn more about this skill badge with our printable info sheet

  • Fair Housing Skill Badge

    Fair Housing Skill Badge

    Fair Housing is for everyone. With fair housing touching all aspects of property operations, today’s property managers need consistent, clear policies related to Fair Housing. IREM’s newest Skill Badge in Fair Housing will provide real-life scenarios to enhance property operations and reduce risk to ownership and management. You’ll gain the skills necessary to grow your career, safeguard your property, and serve your residents. All for $29.

    With the Fair Housing Skill Badge you’ll learn how to:

    • Adhere to Fair Housing laws
    • State federal & local protected classes
    • Enhance property operations and the resident life cycle
    • Analyze real-life scenarios and potential Fair Housing issues
    • Determine the best course of action to remain in compliance
    Register
    Learn more about this skill badge with our printable info sheet
  • IREM Skill Badge: Building DEI

    IREM Skill Badge: Building DEI

    DEI opens doors. Elevate your property and empower your career with best practices in diversity, equity, and inclusion by earning the new IREM® Skill Badge: Building DEI. For $29, you can invite the entire team. At IREM we believe that our differences unite us. Learn how internal systems, processes, and procedures contribute to an environment where DEI initiatives succeed, and your property thrives.

    Building DEI will help you and your team:

    • Learn the five critical components of diversity
    • Apply best practices for building equity
    • Identify strategies to achieve greater inclusion
    • Incorporate DEI into policies and procedures
    • Build DEI into advancing your property

    Register

    Learn more about this skill badge with our printable info sheet

  • IREM Skill Badge: Budgeting and Accounting

    IREM Skill Badge: Budgeting and Accounting

    Own your numbers. If you want to maximize net rent revenue, reduce operating expenses, and raise net operating income (NOI), then Budgeting and Accounting is your skill badge. Sharpen your skills and learn how to create budgets, identify opportunities to increase cash flow, and report on the health of the asset.

    Budgeting and Accounting Skill Badge advances your property and your team:

    • Achieve ownership goals in your market
    • Learn fundamental accounting principles
    • Acquire financial reporting skills
    • Understand budget and cash flow elements
    • Leverage best practices in forecasting and analysis

    Register

    Learn more about this skill badge with our printable info sheet

  • Marketing Skill Badge

    Marketing Skill Badge

    Marketing is a real estate management tool that helps you position your property to succeed in your marketplace by effectively attracting and retaining residents and tenants. Learn marketing strategies for all property type – commercial and residential – and build your competencies to help your property flourish.

    With the Marketing Skill Badge you’ll learn:

    • Economics of marketing and leasing
    • Analyzing the market
    • Setting rents
    • Marketing strategies, trends, and social media
    Register
  • Leasing Skill Badge

    Leasing Skill Badge

    With more and more offices vacating their spaces and residents in major cities relocating to the suburbs, property management professionals need skills to enhance leasing efforts to attract residents and tenants. IREM’s Skill Badge in Leasing will teach you key leasing strategies for all property types – commercial and residential – so that you can gain verified expertise in this important area.

    With the Leasing Skill Badge you’ll learn:

    • Leasing strategies and procedures
    • Understanding and negotiating the lease
    • Managing resident and tenant relations
    Register
  • Maintenance and Risk Management Skill Badge

    Maintenance and Risk Management Skill Badge

    Real estate managers know that a good maintenance team is invaluable and that skilled maintenance professionals can be hard to find.

    IREM offers a Maintenance and Risk Management Skill Badge to help real estate managers:

    • ensure that their maintenance staff has the skills needed for effective building management
    • gain the knowledge and training needed to help reduce loss and preserve the owner’s investment.
    Register
  • Managing Distressed Properties Skill Badge

    Managing Distressed Properties Skill Badge

    The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many real estate management professionals to deal with distressed properties that are a financial burden and potentially unattractive to prospective renters and buyers.

    IREM’s Managing Distressed Properties (CRTMDP) course provides solutions and guidance for common situations encountered and best practices to employ when dealing with distressed properties.

    It will also help you and your team:

    • Analyze and identify elements of distressed properties, their potential owners, and the manager’s role
    • Prioritize issues, and develop and implement an effective management plan
    • Determine strategies to reposition distressed properties
    • Develop an exit strategy
    Register

Webinars and Skills On-demand

Keep your property management team prepared for the day-to-day and the one-of-a-kind.

These webinars and on-demand courses on trending and skill-building topics are how leading real estate management teams stay on the cutting edge – in as little as an hour. We’ve also made some courses free for members and non-members – take a look at what we’re offering.

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