Posts in category 'Starting Out In Real Estate'

My Birthday Month!

This month things started off well, good food, good friends, an art museum, and working up a marketing plan for my new business as a real estate agent.

We took a trip to north Florida and checked on the rental home our tenant set on fire (more about this later).  After the first day of yard work, I was rushed to the emergency room for cyst embolization in the left kidney.  

4 DAYS LATER:

OUTFIT: √   This was the easiest part!

As soon as I signed up to take the exam with Pearson View I was contacted by several companies for interviews.  Since I had not gone for an interview in a very long time, I decided it would be good to practice. On the 4th interview, I decided to sign up with Watson Realty Corp. because it felt like I was being hired as a person and not as a number.

TIP #1: KEEP A PASSWORD LIST

Once hired there were many new training courses and new programs to sign in and become proficient at. I was reminded what a 9th grader feels like when they have 7 classes a day and each teacher runs class differently.

MLS

Accessing the multiple listing service comes through your local association.  I decided to join the Osceola Association of Realtors, or OSCAR for short.

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After 23 years of teaching, I decided it was time to move on in December of 2023.  Not ready to retire, I enrolled in an online real estate training course @aceableagent.

Self-discipline is hard. Procrastination is easy. It was July 4th when I realized the 60-hour course I signed up for had become last on my to-do list and school was about to start. I spent useless hours recreating my resume, scrolling Linkedin, and thinking about being a stock person at Amazon. The teacher in me still associated summer ending with time to get busy doing all the things you hoped to do with your "free" time. I knuckled down on the real estate training. It seemed surreal that my friends were getting their classrooms ready and I was taking practice tests for a different career.  I signed up to take the exam on August 10th - and passed on the first tr...

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