Becoming a real estate agent

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by monstermagnet

Considering the proliferation of these courses offered at deep discount on Groupon, I'd imagine the market for agents may be over saturated. lol

As a matter of fact, between Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, there are currently approx. 28,000 licensed real estate individuals.
Of course a lot of them have either part time or full time jobs, but still - it is a lot of competition. And it most certainly isn't as easy as it looks to actually come home with $$ in your pocket--eventually

[Elke Mariotti]

Originally Posted by BBCjunkie

By the way, I don't know whether the licensing course/exam has changed in the past two decades but when I took it, it was embarassingly easy. Seriously, I think it's more of a cash generator than anything else; I'm sure any 14-year-old with decent reading comprehension skills could pass the multiple-guess "test" at the end.

It's gotten more comprehensive (now 75 hours, instead of 45 hours) and therefore more expensive, but if you study and have common sense (not common anymore it seems), you can pass the school's and then the State tests.