Are Real Estate Agents Today Getting Enough On Going Training?

Becoming a real estate agent is an exciting career choice. It can also be a challenging one as well.


Depending on what type of housing market one is in when they become a real estate agent, it can either be a relative breeze or it can become a nightmare very fast.

There is great debate on whether or not the real estate classes one attends before becoming a real estate agent are effective enough. It appears that most real estate schools focus on the basics.

The real estate schools mainly tend to focus on everything but to most agents, the most important things, including but not limited to; how to gain clients, market a home, prepare a CMA (comparative market analysis), take a listing and write a contract.
As well as, how to negotiate and facilitate.

That's a little scary isn't it? Real estate agents for the most part get their license without even having any general understanding of how to get their client from point A to point B. It is normally up to the brokerage firm that the real estate agent signs on with that will have to teach them the basics.

Perhaps a better way to go about training an agent is having the agent not only go to school learning all the laws and rules and regulations that are already being focused on, but also have them take classes at their local Multiple Listing Service, if their MLS holds classes, while they are in school.

In many states, the agent goes to school, has to pass a series of tests to graduate, then once they graduate they must then take their state test. If they pass that state test they are awarded their license and are free to practice real estate. The problem is many of them do not have the first clue as to what to do next other than walk into their new brokers office and look at them with this lost look on their face thinking to themselves, "Now what?"

There are plenty of great post license training courses for real estate agents out there and thank goodness there are for an agent can get some wonderful tips on how to land the listing every time as well as how to keep their buyer loyal.