February 13, 2019 As I write this, my Cherry Hill real estate pre-licensing class is taking the final exam in our 75-hour real estate salesperson pre-licensing class. As we went through our final course review this morning, the questions began coming: “How many math questions will there be?” “I confuse the different types of estates, [...]
Looking Back, Looking Forward January 22, 2019 Legend has it that the very moment the announcement is made from Buckingham Palace that the reigning monarch has died, the same announcer immediately—in the same sentence—declares loyalty to his or her successor. Whether they are agents in real estate school trying to earn a New Jersey real [...]
December 18, 2018 As director of the Garden State Real Estate Academy, I often look out at the students studying for their New Jersey real estate license and silently wonder, “Who among you will be future superstars, and who will be out of the business in six months?” I really hope every one of those students [...]
November 8, 2018 A couple of weeks ago, we had a class of new students in our Cherry Hill real estate licensing class. “Why do you want to become real estate agents?” I asked them on the first evening. The answers were as varied as the makeup of the students. Some said they loved TV [...]
November 5, 2018 Many students at our South Jersey real estate licensing school tell us they are becoming a real estate agent because they want to invest in real estate. While Garden State Real Estate Academy's primary focus is on helping our students pass the state licesning exam, our instructors--all very successful Realtors(r) themselves--also include [...]
October 14, 2018 Two years ago, Gary Keller, founder of Keller Williams Realty, predicted that there would be a market shift in real estate sales by the middle of 2018. Many people had signed up in our real estate school precisely because they had heard that becoming a licensed real estate agent was the road to [...]
October 6, 2018 Students attending our real estate licensing course in New Jersey often cite the adage: “The three most important rules in real estate are location, location, location.” That may or may not be true for home buyers, but for real estate agents, I beg to differ. We teach our students, "If you want [...]
September 27, 2018 I was meeting with a client who’s asked my team to sell their Medford home when the lady said, “I know this is a silly question, but . . . “ I chuckled, because not only was it not a “silly question,” it was one I’ve probably been asked 30 times this year—and [...]
