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Agent Machine is something I previewed. I joined and am already getting leads. My goal is to respond quickly with a phone call and leave a voice mail if they don't answer. I then send an email providing all of my contact information and letting then know I am calling from Top Agent.
I am getting clients ! Awesome preview and great that I joined.
BVO Luxury Group is a member of Top Agent Network and does receive great leads from being a member. ...
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BVO Luxury Group is a member of Top Agent Network and does receive great leads from being a member. "To become a member of Top Agent Network, your past 24-month closed home sales volume must be in the top 10% within your chapter area." A great benchmark to ensure that the high production agents are featured. If you are not a member already perhaps you should consider submitting an application?
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I took the plunge and committed to get my Hawaii Brokers License during 2014. When I looked at the s...
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I took the plunge and committed to get my Hawaii Brokers License during 2014. When I looked at the schedules for live classes offered where I live (Kauai) I realized they really weren't convenient for me. I would lose a lot of work time. I could fly to another island for a class that fit my schedule better but that meant adding several hundred dollars to the cost. Brokers licensing classes here cost over a thousand dollars and I wasn't ready to spend much more for the convenience. So I looked online for licensing courses.
It was nice to discover the price at most online schools was a few hundred less than the cheapest live class. I chose ProSchools because I've used them for several CE classes and was satisfied with their system and quality. I signed up online and thought I'd have a good chance to cover all of the material over the next few months. Unfortunately I had a couple of family emergencies that took me away for several weeks, work piled up and i was glad ProSchools gave me 12 months to finish my class. It only took me a week or so to get through all of it (there's a LOT of material) but it was good to be able to break up my study time and also review things again before I took the exam.
After I had already signed up with ProSchools several brokers told me that very few peole who took an online brokers training class passed their brokers exam the first time. without needing to repeat it. This was echoed by the guy who monitors all of our license testing here. If I knew that before I had signed up and paid ProSchools I think I would have opted for a live class, and found out what teachers had the best "pass" rate among their graduates. The exam is 4 and 1/2 hours of testing, the full basis licensing exam (which had changed a lot since I took it years ago) plus our brokers exam. That's a lot of questions. :-(
Since I knew the exam was considered very tough and over the past few years much had been added to make it even harder, I did do some extra studying. I used all the ProSchols tests but skipped the review sessions and spend more time on things particular to Hawaii and remembering some rarely-used real estate terms that might be questions on the exam.
Got up early on the test day, made sure I had plenty of time to allow for traffic surprises and still be on time for my test. I almost didn't go because it was a month since I'd been able to do much studying but I figured I'd take it as a pratice test. Like most people I would learn from the process and hopefully pass the next time. Well, to my surprise I PASSED! Really, even though I usually test well I did NOT expect to pass. The questions included many that were not familiar but apparently I learned enough to figure out the right answers. Obviously ProSchools training served me very well.
I recommend anybody using any traing for this exam do extra study in areas they think they need. For Hawaii, no surprise to any agents here, it's the state material that trips most people so emphasize that when you review. If you do well withonline study you won't go wrong with Proschools for your Broker Training.
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AgentMachine began in 2004 and possibly the nation's #1 real estate agent referral network with over...
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AgentMachine began in 2004 and possibly the nation's #1 real estate agent referral network with over $1 Billion in property sold each year. They command a fifteen thousand agent network. That's powerful, and impressive, considering it's an invitation-only network. Spend some time getting to know what they're about and visit their fine webpages.
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