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I would hope that a felon is disqualified from being a real estate agent. A REA is a career that requires a great deal of trust from clients and there is a lot of room for a REA to take advantage of clients. Sorry if this seems unfair but people shoud consider the lifelong consequences of their actions before committing crimes. I wouldn't want a felon to represent me when I am buying or selling my home.
I would hope that a felon is disqualified from being a real estate agent. A REA is a career that requires a great deal of trust from clients and there is a lot of room for a REA to take advantage of clients. Sorry if this seems unfair but people shoud consider the lifelong consequences of their actions before committing crimes. I wouldn't want a felon to represent me when I am buying or selling my home.
LOL yea you're right.... maybe we should just ship all felons to some remote island away from the rest of society like lepers.
Afterall, all felons are just such terrible people who deserve nothing more than a minimum wage job, if they're even lucky enough to get that.
The best option for the OP is to make inquiry to his state Realor Board. While I think it would be very difficult to get a Realtor license as a felon, I don't think anybody on this forum can offer an authoritative answer.
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Not sure what the % is, but many drug related (Read BullSht) crimes are felonies. In CA I think there is a certain type of felony (Money related) that prevents a person from getting a license.
Agree with others who posted that the OP's idea of cost for the schools seems inflated.
LOL yea you're right.... maybe we should just ship all felons to some remote island away from the rest of society like lepers.
Afterall, all felons are just such terrible people who deserve nothing more than a minimum wage job, if they're even lucky enough to get that.
you're right felons are all angels. If I'm a felon I'm gonna have a had time getting hired at Mc Donalds but yeah let's let them become real estate agents. I'm sorry but if you break the law there are consequences and some of those consequences might haunt you for life you should have made better choices. If we want to deter people from committing crimes then don't give them a slap on the wrist.
I would hope that a felon is disqualified from being a real estate agent. A REA is a career that requires a great deal of trust from clients and there is a lot of room for a REA to take advantage of clients. Sorry if this seems unfair but people shoud consider the lifelong consequences of their actions before committing crimes. I wouldn't want a felon to represent me when I am buying or selling my home.
A lot of teens/young adults do really stupid things while drunk, stoned, etc. I'm not sure that those things should necessarily haunt someone for the rest of their life, if they have otherwise cleaned up their act and moved on to making better choices in life. I mean Bill Gates has mug shots, one of which was for drunk driving. I think he has made better choices since his youth, no?
LOL yea you're right.... maybe we should just ship all felons to some remote island away from the rest of society like lepers.
Afterall, all felons are just such terrible people who deserve nothing more than a minimum wage job, if they're even lucky enough to get that.
No, but maybe they shouldn't be just handed a tool that allows them instant access to every listed property in town, as well as a database with photos showing which houses might be the most fruitful to rob.
Isn't that sort of like handing a cupcake to a hungry child and expecting them not to eat it? Maybe not the smartest idea in the world.
But I agree with those who said it should depend on what the felony was and how long ago. If you are 40 and have a felony for marijuana possession in college and got off on time served and probation and never got in trouble for anything else again, that is a little different than a hardened criminal who just finished serving 20 years in prison.
Aren't most of them.....if not legally, then certainly ethically?
No more so than for the rest of humanity. You could say the same about dozens of other professions and be no more or less correct. Agents are just people, with the same general proportions of good people and bad people, and honest people and dishonest people as most other professions.
Note: I am not an agent, but I have worked in a real estate office for 15 years. Not one of our agents was ever anyone I consider to be dishonest. A few have been fairly incompetent, but no one I ever felt wouldn't be honest with their clients.
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