Real Estate College
Have you ever dreamed of owning your own business?
With a very small investment of time and money you can. The only thing standing in your way is you.
A career in real estate provides flexibility and freedom to set your own pace. Income directly reflects your efforts, with no limits on what astute, hard-working men and women can earn. Successful people in real estate are goal-oriented, persevering, self-motivated, ambitious and people-oriented. The rewards of a real estate career are a potential for high earnings, status in the community, autonomy, time freedom, helping people, the intellectual challenge and the satisfaction from those accomplishments.
Working in real estate allows for independence and choices of environment in which to work, such as affiliation with a large or small firm as a listed salesperson. With more experience and upon passing of an additional exam, becoming a real estate broker is the next step.
Real Estate Business
The Dallas real estate business is strong. This is the perfect time to start your new career in the Dallas real estate business. Take a look at these facts and see if you agree:
Dallas has added over 54,000 jobs from September 2007 to September 2008 at a growth rate of 2.33%.
U.S. Department of Labor (3rd Quarter, 2008)
Of the 20 largest U.S. cities, DFW is ranked #1 in Most Affordable Homes with median price of $207,076.
National Association of Homebuyers
The Dallas housing market is the strongest and most stable of any of the U.S. major cities. Dallas Business Journal
Analysts with the PMI Goup estimate that Dallas-Fort Worth has less than a 1% chance of marketing home price drops in the next two years.
Trendswithtricia.blogspot.com
The North Dallas region (Dallas-Plano-Lewisville-Carrollton-Irving) posted a year-over-year employment gain of 44,600 new jobs or a 2.6% increase in employment; the highest employment gain of 32 metropolitan areas surveyed. The broader region of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington also reported the largest year-over-year employment increase of 59,800 out of 310 metropolitan areas surveyed.
Dallas Business Journal (September 30, 2008)
DFW ranks as The Most Affordable Housing Markets of the 20th Largest U.S. cities.
National Association of Home Builders (July, 2007)
Economy.com ranks DFW as the #1 growth market in the U.S. for 2006-2011 with over 630,000 estimated population growth.
Economy.com
The business climate in Texas is the best in the nation, according to a study of Development Counselors International. In the poll of 281 corporate executives across the country, 40.8% of participants say Texas has the most favorable business climate. Executives cited a strong labor market, low operating costs and pro-business climate as factors in the decision.
Dallas Business Journal (July 28, 2008)
Job growth remained a bright spot, with 59,800 net new jobs created in 12-month period ended August 2008. This makes DFW the #1 growth market in the United States for non-farm payroll.
Residential Strategies (October, 2008)
The city of McKinney was rated #14 in the nation for "Best places to live" by CNN.com, "Top 100 best places to raise a family" according to MSNBC and is the 3rd fastest growing city in the United States according to the US Census.
Real Estate Careers
The real estate profession has expanded and offers one of the widest career selections in the business world today. Helping people buy and sell homes, office buildings, industrial property and corporation farmland, property management, land development, mortgage banking, urban planning, real estate counseling, appraisal and research are all aspects of a career in real estate.
Advantages and Rewards of a Career in Real Estate
A career in real estate provides flexibility and freedom to set your own pace. Income directly reflects your efforts, with no limits on what astute, hard-working men and women can earn. Successful people in real estate are goal-oriented, persevering, self-motivated, ambitious and people-oriented. The rewards of a real estate career are a potential for high earnings, status in the community, autonomy, time freedom, helping people, the intellectual challenge and the satisfaction from those accomplishments.
Working in real estate allows for independence and choices of environment in which to work, such as affiliation with a large or small firm as a listed salesperson. With more experience and upon passing of an additional exam, becoming a real estate broker is the next step. Brokers can own their own businesses and employ other salespeople.
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College Credit
You may be able to receive some credit for college courses already completed towards your real estate education requirements!
Request for Evaluation of Education Documents Form
Just fill out the form and send to TREC. They will let you know if your college credit will count against your needed courses.
Real Estate Classes
1. Texas Principles of Real Estate I - Covers property ownership, property transfer, real estate licensing, finance, math, and fair housing.
2. Texas Principles of Real Estate II - Covers property ownership, property transfer, real estate licensing, finance, math, and fair housing.
3. Law of Agency - Covers agency concepts, agreements with buyers and sellers, fiduciary duties, intermediaries, agency termination, and more.
4. Law of Contracts - Covers contract law and reviews in detail how to create a contract, contract forms, breaches, provisions and other topics.
5. Real Estate Appraisal - Covers the principles and practices of appraisal.
6. Real Estate Finance - Covers agency concepts, agreements with buyers and sellers, fiduciary duties, intermediaries, agency termination, and more.
7. Real Estate Investment - Covers real estate investments characteristics, techniques of investment analysis, time-valued money, and more!
Although all of your course work is importannt a substantial portion of the exam come from Principles I & II. If you know these courses well, you should do fine on the exam.
If you are thinking about a career in real estate...We need to talk.
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