We’ve just rolled out our newest website. The www.realestaterenegade.com website has a fresh new look for those interested in real estate and getting a Kentucky Real Estate License. This new site also allows us to add features like polling that will help us determine what’s important to you. Check it out and make sure to vote on the question of the week.
Did you accomplish all that you wanted in 2007? What are your goals for 2008? Are you ready for a new career in Kentucky real estate? It’s natural at the beginning of every year, everyone tends to reflect back on what they accomplished during the year. The year 2007 was a great year for us (Thornton’s Real Estate Academy and RealEstateRenegade.com/lms16) which in turn allows us the opportunity to make 2008 a great year for you. We could ramble on about how more Kentucky Pre-license Real Estate students are choosing Thornton’s Real Estate Academy and how our online pre-license and continuing education classes delivered at our learning management www.realestaterenegade.com/lms16 website are breaking attendance records, but that doesn’t necessarily help you. (FYI- We may very well be the largest real estate school in Kentucky by the end of 2008)
In fact, the reason we’re the fastest growing real estate education company in Kentucky history is because we focus on “you” the student and not on “us”. We believe we provide more value for your money than any other Kentucky Real Estate School, but our founder Todd (Renegade) Thornton is never one to stick with the status quo. Todd was one of the driving forces behind getting online pre-license classes approved for credit in Kentucky, creating useful and unique online continuing education courses for existing agents, and driving down tuition for everyone who needed Kentucky real estate classes, but Todd has come up with an additional idea that may be his most revolutionary yet.
*We’re going to give you “post license” training for free.
We thought you might find it interesting how much we’ve saved students who have attended our online real estate classes. After all, our tuition is low, we don’t charge for extra stuff like textbooks, and maybe most importantly our online classes don’t require driving to class and with gas close to $4 a gallon, the fuel savings alone is huge. Over the past 11 months we estimate our students saved in total at least:
$105,420
Last updated 05/16/08
I seem to get this question or variations of it quite often so I’d thought I’d create a Top 10 Things to Look for in an Office/Broker checklist for new real estate agents trying to decide where to start their Kentucky real estate career. You can pick out which things are most important to you and please realize this is not an all inclusive list. I’ve intentionally left off certain things (I.E. Do they have a (P & P) policy and procedures manual?) because while every broker should have a manual to guide the entire office the lack of one wouldn’t necessarily keep individual agents from succeeding. Another example would be “Am I required to sign an independent contractor agreement (ICA)”? Well unless you’re an employee (You likely won’t be) the ICA is required by the Internal Revenue Service. These types of questions appear on various lists and I’ve even linked to other lists of questions/resources at the end of this article, but I’d like to focus more on the “big picture” aspect of what might help you make it in the business. FYI- I sent out a request to some of the best real estate educators in the business on what they think you should ask and I’ve included their information when appropriate.
Top Ten Things to Look for in an Office/Broker
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First things first because you’re probably thinking what does the value of a dollar have to do with selling real estate in Kentucky. What is the falling dollar that you keep hearing about on the news? It’s the exchange rate when you take a dollar bill and convert that into a different currency. If you’ve ever traveled abroad, you’ve likely had to exchange “American Dollars” for the local currency. When I was in Australia a few years back, the exchange rate was almost 2 to 1 so for every American dollar, I received two Australian dollars. That made it a very good trip because my money went farther and I could afford more stuff. I even thought about buying a home there because of the favorable exchange rate.
Today, the opposite is true and that’s where you can make money. Read the rest of this entry »
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