Do you have a passion for real estate? If yes, then maybe you should consider a career as a Real Estate Agent. The profeesion offers you the opportunity to work your own hours, and the option to work in residential or commercial. Once you have become a real estate agent there area an endless number of possibilities where you can expand. You could expand to become a broker, work in propery management, appraisals, and invesment banking.
HOW TO BEGIN
You would first need to acquire your license as a sales person. This is a twenty four hour course that can be broken down into weeks or one weekend. The course can range anywhere from $200 - $300 dollars depending on location. Once you work as a sales person for 1-3 years and gain the experience needed to be successful in the business, you can then go back to school to persue a career in one of the many other options.
The brokerage course, which is the direction many people go in, allows you to open your own rela estate office and have your own set of employees. This course requires an extra 30 hours of course work. The price of a brokerage course can range anywhere from $300 dollars and up, again depending on location.
WHAT IT TAKES
To be a successful real etstae agent one would need ot be able to think outside of the box. Some of the jobs you recieve will require you to be very creative. You will need patience. The average new sales person will need at least six months of expenses saved to get them through their intial hump. It will be a new experience and will take some time to get the swing of things and be able to sell real estate on a consistent basis.
RESOURCES
Career Overview - http://www.careeroverview.com/real-estate-careers.html
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