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Since others have mentioned the classes, I should mention that it takes 210 classroom hours to become a salesperson in Texas and 900 classroom hours to become a broker. It's definitely more than 1 or 2 classes like others have mentioned.
Colorado is a Broker only state. 168 hours for pre-licensing.
Three license levels: Broker Associate, Independent Broker (no supervisory capacity) and Employing Broker. You can hold an employing broker's license and work under another employing broker, as I do. We need 24 hours of CE credits every renewal cycle. There is a class and a test to go from Broker Associate to Employing Broker, it's a 24 hours class.
We see a lot of Broker/Owner on cards and contracts, and Managing Broker. People don't care so much.
We used to independent brokers called sole brokers, but they merged them into principal brokers. We do have more than one principal broker at a brokerage too.
In Florida if you are deemed too attractive you may not become a broker. If granted a broker's license, one is expected (not required) to give up open-toed footwear for most real estate business activities.
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In Florida if you are deemed too attractive you may not become a broker. If granted a broker's license, one is expected (not required) to give up open-toed footwear for most real estate business activities.
I will NEVER bother to get a license in FL. Sandals are part of my work attire. I hate when winter comes and I'm forced into shoes.
Georgia still has Salesperson licenses and Broker licenses -- you can sit for your Broker exam after three years active as a Salesperson. You have a 75 hr. Salesperson class and then an exam, plus a 25-hour post licensing classwork to complete your license (it has to be completed within a year of passing your salesperson exam), for a total of 100 hours. The Broker license is a 60 hour class; you can then sit for the exam when you have had your salesperson license for three years.
In Illinois, there's no salespeson license anymore; you have to take a 75 hour course to sit for your Broker license, plus two post-license courses of 15 hours each. If you are the broker in charge of an office, you are the Managing Broker, which requires at least two out of three years of active work as a Broker, plus a 120 hour class prelicense class and 60 hours of post-license to complete your license. Everyone in Illinois is a broker.
I find that most of the public has no idea the difference between a salesperson, a broker or a REALTOR.
I am in NV and taking pre-licensing classes. They don't use the term agent here. It is "salesperson." If you have enough college credits you can take the broker/salesperson exam immediately right out of school. You would still need to work under a broker. You would need to take an additional class before you can use the title broker/salesperson but you can do that at any time. So you can be called a broker a few weeks out of school. It does take several years to be a lead broker though and have people work under you.
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