Online Course Synopsis
Last week I had the opportunity to take my real estate exams in Falls Church, Virginia. If you would have told me two months ago that I was going to do so last week instead of months down the road, I would have thought you a fool.
Kelly Nesbitt at the office
Not too long ago, I made the decision to change career paths and venture into the world of real estate. Reaching this decision, I was sure that it would take me every bit of six months for my online training and studying to be complete. The online course that I took allowed six months to complete training. When this training is complete, two exams are given. Both of these must be passed in order to be successfully allowed to enroll in the proctored real estate licensing examinations.
A little more than a week after making the decision to change career paths, I began the online course. This course is basically page after page of 'slides' as they call them, of information explaining definitions and other terms to prepare one for the up coming exams. Including practice tests, at the end of chapters, there are 41 sections in this course.
Three weeks later, I reached the end of the training part and was ready for the exams at the end of the course, or so I thought. What I learned quickly was that the course does not prepare one for the exams, it has flaws in its method of preparation. Otherwise, I would have been confident taking the exams at the end of the course.
I decided to do my own homework and began taking practice tests from all over the internet, wherever I could dig up them. When I completed one, I found and took another. Each time I took a different practice test, I saw new questions. In the course I took, I never saw new questions. After a week of practice tests, I successfully passed the end of course exams and was ready for the real estate licensing exams. I signed up, went to the examination sight and passed.
What I learned from the combination of online course and many practice tests is that passing the licensing exams is possible on the first try.
I am not sure how difficult the classroom course would have been, but the freedom of studying at any time of day helped me. Now, finding someone their dream home is just around my corner.
For most people, the prospect of selling their own home can be positively daunting. First of all, there are usually plenty of things to do just to get it ready for the market. Besides the traditional clean-up, paint-up, fix-up chores that invariably wind up costing more than you planned, there are always the overriding concerns about how much the market will bear and how much you will eventually wind up selling it for.
Will you get your asking price, or will you have to drop your price to make the deal? After all, your home is a major investment, no doubt a rather large one, so when it comes to selling it you want to get your highest possible return. Yet in spite of everyone's desire to get the top dollar for their property, most people are extremely unsure as to how to go about getting it.
Talk to a Nesbitt Realty agent and we'll give you a market analysis of your property's value as well as a report on trends in Northern Virginia real estate and real estate in your neighborhood. We're a local family-run business and we appreciate the opportunity to serve you.
