Richardson, TX

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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Buyers or Sellers, if you or Someone you know, is Thinking of Buying or Selling a Home in Richardson or surrounding areas, give me a Call. Experienced Out-of-the-Box Thinking Realtor with Guaranteed Results.

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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.

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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.

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In order to become licensed in the State of Texas you must first meet the following criteria:

an individual must be a citizen of the United States or a lawfully admitted alien, eighteen (18) years of age or older and a legal resident of Texas.

You then must complete the following:

Before applying for a real estate Salesperson License, an individual must first furnish the Commission satisfactory evidence of successfully completing the following education:

1. Principles of Real Estate core real estate course [60 classroom hours]
2. Law of Agency core real estate course (30 classroom hours)
3. Law of Contracts core real estate course (30 classroom hours)
4. An additional core real estate course (30 classroom hours)
5. Another four semester (60 classroom) hours in core courses or in related courses acceptable to the Commission.
   

This breaks down to basically 7 classes, 5 core classes and 2 electives.

You may take these classes in two formats, traditional classroom or on-line. Students who have participated in both agree that on-line is faster but the traditional classroom allows for more detail and comprhension.

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