Getting into real estate can begin a long life of lucrative business and the freedom to eventually work independently. If you’re just beginning the process, you have to take a prelicense course, pass the state exam and apply for a license. Your success in the last two areas is determined largely by the quality of your prelicensure course, so this is the most important step.
Most proper courses take about 120 hours to complete. You can either find a class taught in person that is within a comfortable driving distance, or you can find one of several great online real estate programs.
There are many perks to taking an online class. Many allow you to work at your own pace, so you can push through quickly if you’re in a rush to get the license, or you can gradually work through it if you’re busy with a different full-time job or responsibility.
Finding online real estate programs that supplies you with the proper textbook and guidelines, has audio and video material and has a readily available teacher via at least email isn’t that different from physically being in a classroom filled with other people. In many cases, the online material is more carefully researched and prepared, whereas in physical classes you can often risk the teacher being unprepared or you being exhausted from not having the ability to work at your own pace.
Aside from those key qualities, look for things like regular review quizzes, sometimes dedicated to exam preparation, real world scenarios and not just hypotheticals, help with job placement and no hidden fees in any online real estate programs. Investing in a class that provides you with so much content is generally a sound guarantee that you will pass the final exam and have no problem starting off in the real estate world.
With all of this in mind, get out and go begin your new, lucrative career.
