It’s one of the very first questions we ask when students convene for the very first real estate licensing class at Garden State Real Estate Academy: Why do you want a career in real estate? One of the advantages our students say they find about our real estate licensing courses is that we give them [...]
August 19, 2020 “Is this a terrible time to get my New Jersey real estate license?” a student asked in our real estate licensing class yesterday. I asked her why she would say that. “Because the news is so grim—and ever more-so with each passing day,” she replied. I noticed several other nodding heads—all of [...]
July 24, 2019 Students tell us that one thing that makes Garden State Real Estate Academy New Jersey’s best real estate school is that we don’t just teach from a book. Our instructors are all very successful, experienced real estate brokers, so we include hundreds of lessons throughout the course to help them once they [...]
June 19, 2019 Of all the thousands of questions we get from our real estate licensing students, no matter which of our New Jersey real estate classes they are in, we know one question will come up repeatedly: “How do I choose a broker once I have my real estate license? Garden State Real Estate [...]
June 4, 2019 Our school holds both South Jersey real estate license courses AND real estate seminars for existing Realtors®. And while the focus on the former is how to pass the NJ real estate licensing exam, once they get their license, they are faced with a challenge: How can I offer my clients the [...]
May 8, 2019 It happens every course. We have amazing, intelligent students in our South Jersey real estate school; people who are normally confident, positive-thinking people. Yet when it comes to the chapters on math, or the course review as we prepare for the final exam, they say things like, “I’m terrible at math” “I [...]
March 13, 2019 It may be a cliché, but when we have three real estate licensing classes every month, we get to see many different personality types. Imagine everybody from a person who just graduated high school to a teacher nearing retirement, and from police officers and firefighters to moms who want to sell [...]
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 20, 2018 This message has nothing to do with getting one’s NJ real estate license or our real estate school or buying and selling houses. Then again, maybe it has something to do with everything we do, both as individuals and as real estate professionals. As a child, growing up in a Salvation Army [...]
