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 [...]
December 14, 2018 Every time we have a New Jersey real estate licensing class, students go through 75 hours of intense education in real estate law and practice and then they graduate from our real estate school. On the last day of the course, they exchange phone and email contacts and then they tell our [...]
December 5, 2018 The speaker at my Rotary meeting this morning was Cedrick Brown, one-time Eagles player and now an accomplished author and successful pastor of a church with campuses in Lindenwold, Wilmington and Rowan University. As he told his fascinating life story that led him to his current vocation, Pastor Brown summed up his [...]
November 20, 2018 For some reason, students in our real estate school struggle with the subject of townhouses, condominiums, and co-operatives. Let’s take them one by one. What are townhouses? A townhouse (or townhome) is an architectural style of residential property. It is the suburban equivalent of the rowhomes we see in our large cities. Townhouses [...]
November 17, 2018 I was preparing students to get their real estate license at our Cherry Hill real estate school when one of them asked a question: “Is there any point getting our real estate license in November, when houses don’t start selling until the spring?” It was one of those many moments when I [...]
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 [...]
November 2, 2018 On the first day of our real estate licensing class in Cherry Hill, one of the first questions we pose is, “What is the Real Estate Commission?” Its Purpose The Commission is a state agency within the Department of Banking and Insurance. It regulates just about every aspect of a real estate [...]
October 17, 2018 We teach ethics to our real estate pre-licensing students, and Realtors® attending Garden State Real Estate Academy’s broker licensing course must take 30 hours of instruction—just in ethics. When I’m not teaching real estate classes, I am often invited to address audiences around the country. I recently spoke to a class of [...]
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 [...]
