Court-ordered real estate education · All 50 states
Don’t just work probate.
Resolve it.
The Probate Lab is probate real estate training for agents and investors: how to identify, navigate, and resolve court-ordered property sales — probate, partition, and beyond. Every course serves that one purpose.
Learn online with Deric Rangell · Available nationwide
Why The Probate Lab exists — and where you fit
When a court decides how a property gets sold, the people involved usually disagree, are grieving, or don’t trust each other. Most courses teach the legal steps. We teach how to work with those people so the sale actually happens.
If you’re a real estate agent
You’ve met an heir who won’t return your call or an executor who doesn’t trust you — and lost the listing. EPCAS™ teaches you how to win that conversation.
If you’re an investor
You’ve watched a deal die because co-owners couldn’t agree. Elite Partition System teaches how court-ordered sales of jointly owned property work. Coming Q4 2026.
If you’re a loan consultant
You’re quoting rates instead of diagnosing the borrower. EMCAS™ — Elite Mortgage Client Acquisition System — fixes that. Coming Q1 2027.
If you’re an heir or executor
You’re facing the sale of a family home with no idea where to start. Our $29 guide walks you through it in plain language.
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Start the free quizHow our probate real estate training fits together
One standard runs through everything we teach: Identify → Diagnose → Navigate → Structure → Resolve → Execute. Each course applies it to a different kind of court-ordered situation.
STEP 1
Learn the foundation: probate
Most court-ordered sales start with an estate. EPCAS™ builds the core skills every other course depends on.
STEP 2
Go deeper: partition
When co-owners can’t agree, the court can order a sale. Elite Partition System builds on probate for those cases.
STEP 3
Earn the credential
Complete both EPCAS™ and Elite Partition System to earn the partition certificate and the CCTX™ designation.
STEP 4
Sharpen and support the work
Coaching, The Cheat Code™, our client-management tools, and EMCAS™ for mortgage consultants extend the same approach.
Our courses — open now
Available today, online, in all 50 states.
Open now · $297
EPCAS™
Elite Probate Client Acquisition System
For: agents and investors working inherited and estate property. The foundation course — 20 lessons, workbook, 210-task reference list, Referral Engine, and the Personal Probate Objection Handbook.
Paid coaching · Gauging interest
Group Coaching
For: agents and investors who want weekly live help on their real files from Deric. We will open paid coaching if enough people want it — tell us if you do.
Open now · $29
Journey Into Selling Probate Property
For families
For: families and heirs facing the sale of an inherited home who want a plain-language guide.
Coming soon
More courses are on the way.
Coming Q4 2026
Elite Partition System
For: professionals handling co-ownership disputes and court-ordered partition sales. Builds on EPCAS™; together they lead to the CCTX™ designation.
Coming Q1 2027
The Cheat Code™
For: professionals who want Deric Rangell’s method for preparing for difficult conversations, with an AI practice tool.
Coming Q1 2027
Client Relationship Management
For: organizing the contacts, follow-up, and referral relationships your training creates.
Coming Q1 2027
EMCAS™
Elite Mortgage Client Acquisition System
For: mortgage consultants and loan consultants. The mortgage version of our training. Don’t just quote the loan — diagnose it.
The CCTX™ designation
CCTX™ — Certified Court-Ordered Transaction Expert — is the credential that ties the courses together. Either course may be studied on its own; the partition certificate and the CCTX™ designation require successful completion of both EPCAS™ and Elite Partition System.
CCTX™ is a proprietary certification of Probate Lab™ and is not a state-issued license, NAR designation, continuing education credit, or government-accredited credential.
Why learn from Deric Rangell?
35+ years in real estate. 700+ probate and trust transactions. $250M+ in closed court-ordered sales. Deric learned this business the hard way — first as a son settling his father’s out-of-state trust, then as a professional — and built The Probate Lab so agents in all 50 states don’t have to.
35+ Years
in real estate
700+
probate & trust transactions
$250M+
court-ordered volume closed
14 Years
broker-owner of a multi-office RE/MAX