THE PROBLEM
Sound familiar?
“My seller said the house was in a trust. At the title search, we found out the deed was never changed. Now we’re in probate. The buyer walked.”
“The seller’s mother passed away. Her brother showed up with a Power of Attorney and wanted to sign everything. I didn’t know what to do.”
“We listed a property that’s been in the family since the 1970s. Title search came back and there are 14 potential heirs. Nobody has clear title. We can’t close.”
Every one of these was preventable.
If the agent had known what to look for, they would have caught the issue at the listing stage — not at closing. That’s what this course teaches you.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
6 Modules. 30 Lessons. Real Skills.
MODULE 1: Trust & Property Fundamentals
What a trust is, who the key players are, revocable vs. irrevocable, and how trusts change your listing, contract, and closing process.
MODULE 2: Title, Deeds & Trust Funding
How to read a deed for trust ownership, the #1 estate planning failure (unfunded trusts), and Georgia forms of property ownership compared.
MODULE 3: Document Deep Dive
Hands-on walkthroughs of Certificates of Trust, Letters Testamentary, Letters of Administration, and Powers of Attorney. Element by element. What to verify, what to flag.
MODULE 4: Probate, Estates & Heir Property
The probate process for real estate, selling from an estate, heir property (Georgia’s UPHPA), and 5 issue-spotting scenarios.
MODULE 5: POA, Life Estates & Fiduciary Transactions
Powers of attorney rules, life estate deeds, remainderman complications, and fiduciary duties when your client is a trustee or executor.
MODULE 6: Georgia Law, Issue Spotting & Professional Practice
5 Georgia-specific laws, 6 common mistakes that kill closings, a 10-scenario issue-spotting workshop, and building your professional referral network.
WHY THIS COURSE IS DIFFERENT
This is NOT a checkbox CE course.
Most CE courses:
- Generic content you forget by next week
- Slides you zone out on
- Nothing you can actually use in your practice
This course:
- Taught by an attorney who works on these transactions every day
- Hands-on document reviews — you learn to READ the actual documents
- 15 real-world issue-spotting scenarios you’ll practice with
- Georgia-specific law, not generic national content
- Downloadable checklists and reference cards you’ll use at your next listing
- Skills that save closings and earn referrals
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Amber Saunders, Esq.
Principal Attorney & CEO, The Saunders Firm, P.C.
Amber is an estate planning attorney and CEO of The Saunders Firm, an Atlanta-based firm serving clients across nine Georgia counties. She’s been practicing since 2013 and is a member of a nationwide network of 700+ Personal Family Lawyer attorneys.
She’s a TEDx speaker, published author, and creator of community programs like Wine and Wills and Legacy at Lunch that have introduced thousands of families to estate planning.
Amber created this course because she was tired of watching closings fall apart from trust and title issues that could have been caught at the listing stage. She teaches from real cases, real documents, and real Georgia law.
“I don’t want to make you an estate planning lawyer. I want to make you the agent who never loses a closing to something you didn’t see coming.”
WHAT’S INCLUDED
Everything you get:
WHAT AGENTS ARE SAYING
— Agent
“I caught an unfunded trust at my very next listing. That one check saved me a $9,000 commission.”
— Agent
“The document review lessons were a game-changer. I’ve never had anyone show me what a Certificate of Trust actually looks like.”
— Managing Broker
“I tell every new agent on my team to take this course. It’s the education that actually matters.”
