5,112,471
The process of getting a license is easy peasy. It's what comes afterward that is less easy.... learning your market, learning contracts, developing a client base. I've always said that you feel like fraud until you have at least a dozen transactions under your belt.
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
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Richard Weeks
Dallas, TX
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Susan Haughton
Alexandria, VA
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Tony and Suzanne Marri...
Scottsdale, AZ
1,056,272
Getting familiar with the paperwork and the market. I had already been in business for myself so I could manage time properly and I knew how to keep people from wasting it although I didn't always enforce that. I was already great on the computer so learning MLS was not hard at all. Some agents have been out here for decades and they'll never learn it. When I was new I did a lot of tours at the encouragement of my broker. They woefully underprepare us for contract writing in this industry.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Kathleen Daniels, Prob...
San Jose, CA
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
2,071,156
The hardest part, for me, was making the decision to actually do it. I came from another business that was still producing income... and it was hard to walk away from that income.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Anita Clark
Warner Robins, GA
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
3,416,038
I think it is easy to become an agent, it is hard to succeed. In a workd where trends call for cheaper costs, less services and bigger offices, the agents doing really well are offering more service, using experience and know how to take care of their cleints as well as sell homes.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
1,027,602
Learning that it was okay to take time for myself and call them appointments. LOL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Candice A. Donofrio
Fort Mohave, AZ
3,167,614
for me it was the mental part of stepping away from a regularly scheduled paycheck. 25 years in it doesn't bother me anymore, but as a 20 something single mom it was hard sometimes.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,582,184
It was that moment when the letter arrived from the State of California informing me I had passed the examination....now, what? The licensing process did not prepare me for becoming an agent --- each day brought new questions and experiences.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
2,245,675
Shutting off the brain to catch some ZZZzzz's when you can't wait to be up and at 'em to slay more real estate dragons.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
2,191,798
Learning how to allocate your time to income producing activities !
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
5,583,328
learning how to market in search of listings in an ever changing real estate business.... initially offline and networking....now online and with SEO....
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
5,239,023
Facing the reality of your lack of knowledge after passing the state test!
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
2,684,569
Piece of cake.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
4,900,966
Getting that pipeline of business full and keeping it full.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
1,466,257
Nathan Gesner I would say getting started with prospecting and learning the paperwork. I had a good Broker who had a good mentoring and training program which helped a lot.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
1,553,319
Waking up unemployed everyday until you get hired by a client that closes; keeping their needs in front of your own in doing so.
We have to be playing like the money is in our pocket, even though our pocket is empty. (Lee Trevino's Story).
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Roy Kelley
Gaithersburg, MD
2,221,377
I will have to think about this one and get back to you.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Anthony Acosta - ALLAT...
Atlanta, GA
1,574,666
The decision to do it.... licensed but comfortable in the corporate health care world where income was not uncertain.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Allie Angeloni
Oro Valley, AZ
1,728,156
Accepting that buyers and sellers both think we just fell off the turnip truck and will believe anything they say
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
637,484
Getting sucked into how other agents ran their business model. I had my own vision.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
3,071,489
Nina Hollander nailed this one!
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Charlotte, NC
3,349,404
Putting up with the bull crap after becoming one.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
290,969
In a classroom atmosphere, it was the Math Nathan Gesner. I've loved many subjects, and Math was never easy for me, and never a subject that I was comfortable with. Once I found out the percentage (yes, that is 'math'!) of questions on the two Exams that would involve Math, I stopped sweating it. Plus I knew that working as part of a Team, where the other person loved numbers and had worked on taxes and as a Controller at a past company, eased all of my 'number concerns'. Seriously. Another hard part for me was watching and learning others do transactions and paperwork, and not doing my own, since I was part of a Team, meaning I did not do 'all' of the tasks from A to Z myself.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
991,252
At first it was passing the darn test LOL
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
3,988,013
Getting used to the routine and the irregular pay. It takes discipline.
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Charlotte, NC
117,135
Keeping up with past clients is my hardest part.
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Nathan Gesner
Cody, WY
4,800,132
7,863,184
826,944
Trying to determine whether people who are trying to help are serious home buyers or browsers. Or trying to determine whether your seller clients are either SERIOUS or STUPID.
5,877,335
4,434,177
632,925
I have seen many agents come & go and I would say being able to deal with someone telling you NO and handling rejection and also realizing the real estate business is not a piece of cake.
5,060,544
There were a number of things - the paperwork for one. And getting used to not having a steady paycheck.
4,319,773
Nathan Gesner - Not when I became the agent. It was after that - CE and mandatory requirement of COE.
6,417,434
5,254,035
Learning the Contracts initially .
However, down the road (recession years), having to learn how to build a website was not something that I thought I had signed up for!
4,960,508
I pass the the text first time around but know lots that it took 3 times.
902,038
544,014
3,986,308
1,712,776
For most agents it is making money for themselves instead of everyone else.