Start Here | Academia Toolkit
Start here to choose your course and organize a useful property decision. Follow a shared routine: learn the decision, study an example, complete a tool, inspect the visuals and explain your answer. Build a practice pack containing a project brief, evidence register and assigned next actions. For owners, property professionals and project teams.
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Home Improvement | Kitchens
Plan a kitchen renovation around users, layout, selections and trade coordination. Work through practical examples, a planning worksheet, scope and document reviews, visual exercises and self-checks. Leave with a kitchen brief, a proposal comparison and a clear coordination request. For owner planning and professional coordination.
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Home Improvement | Bathrooms
Connect bathroom layout, water management, product selections and finish work. Use practical examples, a planning worksheet, document reviews, a visual field lab and self-checks. Leave with a coordinated scope and a record of the evidence needed before work is concealed. For owner planning and professional coordination.
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Home Improvement | Flooring
Compare flooring as a complete system: surface, substrate, preparation, installation method and transitions. Use worked examples, planning tools, a visual field lab and self-checks. Leave with a scope comparison and a list of conditions and product requirements to verify. For owner planning and professional coordination.
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Home Improvement | Painting
Plan a finish by surface condition, preparation, selected coating system and physical sample approval. Use practical examples, a finish schedule, scope reviews, a visual field lab and self-checks. Leave with a room-by-room brief and an acceptance record. For owner planning and professional coordination.
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Home Performance | Roofing
Compare roof proposals by assembly, flashing, interfaces, repair assumptions and closeout records. Work through planning tools, sample document reviews, visual exercises and self-checks. Leave with a scope comparison and a concealed-condition decision log. For owner planning and professional coordination; field work requires qualified professionals.
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Home Performance | HVAC
Understand the decisions behind comfort: building load, equipment selection, air distribution and installation verification. Use practical examples, a comfort worksheet, visual exercises and self-checks. Leave with a comfort brief and an evidence request. This course supports owner planning and coordination, not qualification to design or install systems.
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Home Performance | Electrical
Prepare an equipment brief and recognize the evidence needed for electrical scope and capacity decisions. Use practical examples, planning tools, document reviews, visual exercises and self-checks. Leave with a coordination list and professional-review questions. This course supports owner planning, not electrical qualification or live-work instruction.
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Home Performance | Plumbing
Coordinate fixture locations, supply and drainage scope, access, restoration and concealed-work records. Use practical examples, planning tools, document reviews, a rough-in field lab and self-checks. Leave with a fixture coordination list and evidence request. This course supports owner planning and coordination, not plumbing qualification.
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Home Performance | Solar
Evaluate solar proposals by separating modeled production, financial assumptions, roof coordination and backup expectations. Use worked examples, planning tools, sample document reviews, visual exercises and self-checks. Leave with a comparison sheet and open-question register. Estimates are not guaranteed savings or performance.
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Home Performance | Windows
Connect each opening to the selected window, project requirements, installation scope and owner use. Use practical examples, an opening schedule, sample document reviews, visual exercises and self-checks. Leave with a complete-scope comparison and closeout request. For owner planning and professional coordination.
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Real Estate | Sales and Leasing
Build a complete buyer, seller and leasing decision file. Work through contract clauses, financing clocks, deposits, closing cash, inspections, handover and aftercare. Includes nine fictional cases, a branded casebook, six calculation tools, 13 worksheet registers and a linked public-gallery lab. Complete the existing knowledge quiz and instructor-reviewed practical. Educational practice; real transactions require the responsible licensed professionals.
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Private Course
Construction | Property Additions
Prepare an addition brief before design and construction commitments. Connect intended use with existing-building records, site questions, trade interfaces and comparable proposal scope. Complete planning labs, reusable worksheets, an 80% knowledge quiz and an instructor-reviewed practical. Earn a branded educational completion certificate after both assessments pass. Feasibility requires property-specific professional review.
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Private Course
Construction | Single-Family New Construction
Follow a single-family home from land selection through occupancy. Study an active Academia build through drawings, permits, engineering records, inspections and trade coordination. Complete eight missions, a 10-question knowledge check (8/10) and an instructor-scored final brief (8/10) to earn an Academia completion record. Photos and videos are being added. Begin with Session 00.
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Site Systems | Septic: Permit to Handover
Follow the Oldenburg septic case in Davie: survey and site feasibility, design and permits, elevations, contractor scope, installation hold points, inspections and owner care. Build a practical coordination file using real source evidence and reusable tools. Project photos and videos are being added. Begin with Session 00.
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Private Course
Sales | Final Capstone
Sales section created by Gustavo Perez Acosta. Co-taught by Gustavo Perez Acosta and Jose Urdaneta. Take this final capstone after the technical courses and practical work. Combine Gustavo’s sales curriculum with Jose’s construction, real-estate and business perspective: understand client needs, clarify scope, explain options, present proposals, handle objections responsibly and make a clear handoff to the delivery team.
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Private Course
Building Safety | Recertification Masterclass
Organize a building-safety process through six modules: applicability, records, procurement, findings, corrective work and funding. Use written lessons, reusable registers and fictional exercises. Complete an 80% knowledge quiz and instructor-reviewed practical to earn a branded educational completion certificate. This teaches management coordination, not authority to inspect, practice engineering or certify building safety. Includes a redacted sample permit package for practice.
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Private Course
Internal | Recertification Operations
Internal training for the Academia operations team. Build an evidence-based intake and service handoff for building-safety inquiries: separate research signals from verified needs, assign next actions and measure outcomes. Access is granted to team members only.
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Real Estate | FHA & 203(k) Value-Add
Study FHA financing and 203(k) rehabilitation for owner-occupied one-to-four-unit properties. Learn role independence, borrower and property screening, three/four-unit self-sufficiency, scopes, permits, draws and closeout. Build a sourced practice deal file and test your decisions. Educational research, not HUD certification or loan approval. Begin with Session 00. Cover image is illustrative.
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Construction | Leslie House Owner-Builder
Follow Leslie House from owner vision through design, engineering, permits, procurement, field coordination and closeout. Leslie Gratz and Terry Matias lead as owner-builders; Hyejin Yang/SOOP, Carlos A. Nodal/Nodal Structures, specialty professionals and Academia Development show how owner control works with disciplined professional support. Build your own decision-ready Miami project file. Educational case study; project-specific professional review is required.
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