Anyone ever take realtor classes? - GoFuckYourself.com

beemk · 10-05-2003, 08:48 PM

Anyone? I start tomorrow and want to know how hard they are. Its going to suck because it will be 40 hours of class in 1 week.

Sharky · 10-05-2003, 08:50 PM

you are getting in at the downslope of the industry aren't you?

Stud Money · 10-05-2003, 08:51 PM

Nice

My brother is thinking of starting realtor classes in the next few weeks too but because one of his friends in Jersey wants to have a way to bilk money out of the Floridians LOL

From he tells me they can be quite mentally taxing from the amount of time spent on them but the classes themselves are not to difficult.

beemk · 10-05-2003, 08:53 PM

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Originally posted by sharky
you are getting in at the downslope of the industry aren't you?

I'm not doing it for a career really, just for some easy $. I've been searching realtor.com for my dad and he bought some houses because thats what he does. And it kind of pisses me off that I find the houses and some realtor gets the sales $ for it. Not to mention that when you have a realtor license you can use better searching tools and see houses a few days before people searching on the net can do it.

the Shemp · 10-05-2003, 08:57 PM

i was an r/e agent. the course is not hard at all.
i specialized in selling foreclosures, divorce couples homes etc.
i was was the human suffering realtor

Marcus · 10-05-2003, 08:59 PM

i used to sell real estate.
If I can pass the test anyone can.

good luck with it

beemk · 10-05-2003, 09:03 PM

thanks guys, did you like doing it?

Marcus · 10-05-2003, 09:11 PM

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Originally posted by beemk
thanks guys, did you like doing it?

If you DONT need the money it's a lot of fun. you drive around and look at people's houses all day.

if you do need the money it can be real tough to work on deals and have them fall apart and you make nothing for all of your effort. You can make $10k in 1 month, and then make $0 for 5 months after that. and in most offices they make you answer the phone for free.

a lot of people in my office worked night jobs as waiters and shit.

But there are a lof of people who make megabucks doing it.

I hired a teemarketer to make cold calls for me, I did pretty well.

Carrie · 10-05-2003, 09:14 PM

This is too strange. I was just thinking I might need to take courses because I intend to offer services *to* realtors, and I'd like to have access to the things that they do in order to facilitate doing some things *for* them.
Plus it would be really cool to be able to just breeze into vacant homes and take a look around - I love looking at houses

DrewKole · 10-05-2003, 09:15 PM

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Originally posted by sharky
you are getting in at the downslope of the industry aren't you?

umm, no, lol

beemk · 10-05-2003, 09:16 PM

yeah that was the reason i wouldnt do it because you can work and not make shit, but since im basically looking for houses for my dad that i know he wants to buy its guranteed money as long as theres good deals on the market.

beemk · 10-05-2003, 09:17 PM

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Originally posted by DrewKole

umm, no, lol

haha yeah.... the real estate market might be slower than before, but its not like people are stopping buying houses all together. between my family alone we bought 4 houses in the past 3 months.

DrewKole · 10-05-2003, 09:21 PM

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Originally posted by beemk

haha yeah.... the real estate market might be slower than before, but its not like people are stopping buying houses all together. between my family alone we bought 4 houses in the past 3 months.

nice. =) Im consistantly still seeing an unbelievable amount of refi's and purchases... hell, 30year rates are back down to 5.5-5.75 now...

though friday's job and consumer sentiment will knock it down this week, unfortunately

Honeyslut · 10-05-2003, 09:50 PM

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Originally posted by beemk
Anyone? I start tomorrow and want to know how hard they are. Its going to suck because it will be 40 hours of class in 1 week.

I took the college semester course 3 years ago. I really enjoyed it . It is alot to learn.

4Pics · 10-05-2003, 09:52 PM

I'm pretty sure with just your license you have to work for a Broker still and they take a cut. So you may want to take that also so you can keep all the pie.

beemk · 10-05-2003, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by 4Pics
I'm pretty sure with just your license you have to work for a Broker still and they take a cut. So you may want to take that also so you can keep all the pie.

yeah no doubt eventually. i think if you list a house you get 1.5%, if you sell the house you get 1.5%, and the broker gets 3%. the person who has the house has to pay 6% after it sells.

Honeyslut · 10-05-2003, 09:56 PM

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Originally posted by 4Pics
I'm pretty sure with just your license you have to work for a Broker still and they take a cut. So you may want to take that also so you can keep all the pie.

True.

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Stud Money So Fucking Banned Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Somewhere between my monitor and my chair Posts: 3,214	Nice My brother is thinking of starting realtor classes in the next few weeks too but because one of his friends in Jersey wants to have a way to bilk money out of the Floridians LOL From he tells me they can be quite mentally taxing from the amount of time spent on them but the classes themselves are not to difficult.

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Carrie Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Virgin - nee Posts: 3,162	This is too strange. I was just thinking I might need to take courses because I intend to offer services to realtors, and I'd like to have access to the things that they do in order to facilitate doing some things for them. Plus it would be really cool to be able to just breeze into vacant homes and take a look around - I love looking at houses

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4Pics Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 7,952	I'm pretty sure with just your license you have to work for a Broker still and they take a cut. So you may want to take that also so you can keep all the pie.