Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Accept That Offer For Your House In Hendersonville, North Carolina

     If the average American will be honest with himself, he will admit that we don't like to negotiate.  It is not in our culture.

     You don't go to the grocery store and offer them less for a pound of steak.  You don't go to the clothing store and offer them less for a suit.

     Many average Americans, when making the biggest purchase of their life, decide to become master negotiators.  In real estate, negotiating is often necessary. This article is about one small portion of negotiating skill, accepting an offer.

     When you receive an offer, please do not assume  that you are expected to counter offer.  Some people make their best offer first.  I know that is true because I am one of those people.  I do it in my personal life.  I encourage my real estate buyers to do the same thing.

     In today's modern real estate, the buyer knows how long a house has been for sale.  That was difficult information to obtain thirty years ago.  In today's modern  real estate, most negotiating is done over the phone or text or email or Skype.
Ron Climer can sell your property in Hendersonville, N.C.

      For a dozen reasons, in today's modern real estate, it is a really good idea to accept a buyer's offer just like it is.

    When a buyer signs a contract and commits himself to buy a property for $200,000 if the seller will leave the refrigerator, why would a seller want to counter offer with,"Yes,we will take $200,000 but we will not leave that used refrigerator."?  Why?

     Is the seller so good at determining value that he can tell that some other buyer will pay the price of a used refrigerator more?  I don't think so.  Is the seller so so skilled at negotiating that he feels that this buyer will forego the refrigerator. I don't think so.

     When you decline an offer or counter offer an offer, you are in effect buying your house back from the guy that just bought it from you.  Are you sure you want to do that?  Why would you buy your $200,000 house back so you can remove the used refrigerator and put it back on the market and sell it later?  This makes no sense to me.

     With later being after you have made a few more payments on an empty house.  With later being after you and your wife have argued several times about whose fault it was that the house in Hendersoville is still for sale.  With later being after you have kicked yourself several times for not just accepting the offer just like it was presented.  Who wants to move a used refrigerator anyway?

     If your house is for sale,when you get an offer, accept it just like it is.  Save yourself a lot of aggravation and $$$$$$.  Accept the offer.  Let's go to closing.   www.firstrealestateschool.com

Sunday, October 16, 2016

The North Carolina Real Estate Exam Pass Fail Statistics for September 2016

          Today, the North Carolina Real Estate Commission released the pass fail statistics for the North Carolina real estate exam for September 2016.  In September, four hundred and ninety nine real estate license applicants paid sixty four dollars to attempt to pass the North Carolina comprehensive real estate exam.  This exam is given in Asheville.  Three hundred of test applicants passed.  One hundred and ninety nine of these applicants will be paying $$$$ to take this real estate test again.

     One hundred and ninety nine of these real estate license applicants will still be studying instead of starting a new career.

     If you are currently enrolled in a real estate school in North Carolina, please over study.  Study too much.  Read the textbook one more time.  Take one more practice exam.  http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2015/04/real-estate-practice-exam-for-north.html   
Here is a link to my free practice exam.

     Watch my free North Carolina real estate math videos.  There are a bunch of them.  Watching these videos is an easy way to pick up two or three points on the North Carolina real estate exam.  If I go too fast, just hit pause.  Don't you wish you could do that with your live instructor?  You don't have to raise your hand and tell everyone in the room that you don't understand.  Just hit rewind. 
First Real Estate School near Asheville, North Carolina

First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina opened in May of 2016.  The worst monthly pass fail ratio, for the entire state, since  then has been 55%.  The BEST pass fail ratio for the entire state for the five months previous to May 2016 was 55%.  That must be a co incidence.

     If you live anywhere near Hendersonville in western North Carolina, we would love to have you as a student.  We will teach you what is on the North Carolina real estate exam

     Many real estate schools express or imply that what is on the North Carolina real estate exam is a big secret. That is not true.  The staff of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission   tells real estate schools and the general public exactly what is on the North Carolina real estate exam.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZFPZGo_DJ4
This information is available to instructors.  It is available to students.  Forty per cent of the real estate students that took the North Carolina real estate exam last month did not find this information.

     Google "How to pass the North Carolina real estate exam".   There is a plethora of information available for the students that want to pass the first time.  It costs $$$$ to take the exam twice.

     Start with where you take your basic class.  If you live anywhere near Hendersonville, North Carolina, join me for your basic real estate class. We are located at 404 S. Main Street.  

     Did I tell you that repeat test takers do worse than first timers?  In September 2016, one hundred and nine people took the real estate exam as a repeater.  Thirty passed.  That is a twenty nine per cent pass rate.  If you are soon taking the North carolina real estate exam, STUDY STUDY STUDY

     www.firstrealestateschool.com        www.climerconsulting.com

Thursday, October 13, 2016

The North Carolina Real Estate Exam, Pass It The First Time.

     If you are soon taking the North Carolina real estate exam, heed this advice.  Last month, I had a man call me from Fayetteville.  That is a long way from Hendersonville.  He had failed the North Carolina portion of the North Carolina real estate exam eleven times.  Compute his expense on that adventure.

     He was calling me looking for advice.  He had watched my free North Carolina real estate math videos on You Tube.  He had read some of my articles.  I could feel the frustration in his voice.  He claimed that he had studied.  Here is the advice that I gave him.  I want to give you the same advice.

Ron Climer, Instructor at First Real Estate School
     If you are paying $64 to take the North Carolina real estate exam, plan on passing.  Be prepared if you do not pass.  Leave a legal pad and a pen on the seat of your car.  If you fail, before you start the car, write down as many questions as you can remember.  This information is gold.  It is never going to be fresher in your mind.

     You do not have to write down the whole question.  Write the concept.  Do you need a license to advertise a auction?  When to deposit escrow check?  What is heated living area?  When do I have to take post license course?  When does license expire?  If you take the test eleven times, you will probably see some of these questions again.  Take you textbook and thumb through it.  Remind yourself of concepts.

     If you saw words on the exam that you did not know what they meant, write them down.  Look them up in the glossary or dictionary.

     Sixty one per cent of the applicants passed the North Carolina real estate exam the first time last month.  Thirty nine per cent need to follow my advice.  Thirty nine per cent will be paying $$$$$$ to take the North Carolina real estate exam again.

     Only 27% of repeat test takers passed last month..  If you are taking the exam for the second time, follow this advice.  Your odds of passing are four to one against you.

     STUDY STUDY STUDY If you are soon taking the North Carolina real estate exam or your real estate school test for the first time soon, watch my free North Carolina real estate math videos.  There are a dozen of them.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdJ-2iHepM     Here is a link to one.  Take my free practice test after your real estate class is almost over.  Take any other practice tests that you can find.

     Get in touch with your classmates.  Study together.  Encourage each other.  Share study aids and tips that you find.  (like this article or my math videos)

     Make flash cards.  Trade them with your classmates.  Make a deal with your classmate.  I will make fifty flashcards.  You make fifty flashcards.  We will trade flashcards Tuesday night.  Next Tuesday, we will trade back.   Make copies and do this with several friends.
First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina

     At my Toastmasters club,http://fourseasonstoastmasters.com/ we always have a "word of the day" that we are expected to use during the weekly meeting.  Last week's word was salient.  Go to each chapter in your textbook and pick out the ten most salient points of the chapter.  Study these points.  That is what test writers do.  They want to test you on the salient ideas.

     Do not underestimate the North Carolina real estate exam. Last month's pass rate was 61%.  This is not an easy test.  Turn off the TV.  Turn off Facebook.  Turn on the study machine.  Pick up your textbook.  Watch my You Tube videos.

     If you live anywhere near Hendersonville, North Carolina, take you basic real estate course from First Real Estate School at 404 S. Main Street.  www.firstrealestateschool.com   If you wonder why our tuition is so low, it is because we are subsidized.  Here is a video to explain that.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1EpyxI_Gkg   Join us.  Call us.  Tell your friends.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Real Estate School in Hendersonville Starts Night Class

     First Real Estate School at 404 South Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina started the last night class of 2016 on October 4th.  Many students were attracted to First Real Estate School by their low tuition.  www.firstrealestateschool.com
First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina



     Many students were attracted to choose First Real Estate School because of the stellar reputation of their instructor, Ron Climer.

     No matter what the reason, Hendersonville now has a real estate school to serve the community.  If you are considering a career in real estate near Hendersonville, join Ron at First Real Estate School.  It is a great place to start a new real estate career.

     If you are already enrolled in a real estate class, watch First Real Estate School's free North Carolina real estate math videos.  Any math that is on the North Carolina real estate exam is on one of these videos.  It will help you pass the North Carolina real estate exam.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdJ-2iHepM   There is a dozen.  Watch them if you are soon taking the test.

     Also, take Ron Climer's North Carolina practice exam.  It is free.  http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2015/04/real-estate-practice-exam-for-north.html Please do not take this exam until your class is almost over.  Maybe a couple of days before the class test would be a good time.  Take this like a test.  Grade yourself.  If you fail, increase your studying.

     If you are looking for a real estate office to start your career, call Ron Climer at Keller Williams Mountain Partners in Hendersonville.  My phone is 828 755 6996.  Watch this video . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1EpyxI_Gkg 

     First Real Estate School is proud to be in Hendersonville, North Carolina


Sunday, October 2, 2016

What Career Can You Earn A Hundred Thousand Per Year With Only A High School Diploma?

     My daughter just called me from Asheville, North Carolina.  She was telling me about a young man she knows that is reasonably smart, reasonably ambitious but has unreasonable ideas about how much money he should be earning. 
Keller Williams in Hendersonville, North Carolina

     He wants to earn $100,000 per year.  Amy asked me if that was reasonable  with a career in real estate .  It is very reasonable.  In Hendersonville, North Carolina, an average real estate commission is $4000.  If a person did that 25 times per year, they would earn $100,000.  At Keller Williams Mountain Partners, that person would not win a prize.  Lots of real estate brokers are doing better than that.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD5T8VhUpxU  Here is a link to explain how commission work.

     Do you need a college degree and a bunch of student loan debt to start a real estate career?  No, all you need is a North Carolina real estate license issued by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  Is that hard to get?  It is not hard to get at all.  Step one is to take a 75 hour real estate pre license broker course at First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina. www.firstrealestateschool.com  This pre license course is required by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  There is a test at the end of this course.  Then you have to take a test on the same material  given by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  www.ncrec.gov   This test is no picnic.  Any money motivated person should be able to pass the N.C.R.E.C. test.  When you pass , you can easily get a job selling real estate.

     Almost all real estate is sold on commission.  There is no salary.  You show up.  You do what you are told.  You get a check on Friday.  That is not how it happens in real estate . 

     In real estate, you select a company like Keller Williams Mountain Partners at 404 South Main Street in Hendersonville.  You go interview with Janice Cox, our team leader, Janice hires you.  That means that Janice has agreed to train you what to do to make money.  Wait a minute.  What did we learn in that 75 hour class at First Real Estate School?   We learned how to get a North Carolina real estate license.  Making money is another class.  It is a class that never ends.  The more you learn, the more you earn in real estate.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1EpyxI_Gkg   Watch this interview with Janice Cox.

     Let's say it takes you four years to figure out how things work.  The first year in real estate, you only earn $30,000.  The second year, you earn $60,000.  The third year, you earn $90,000 in real estate commissions.  It takes you four years to learn how to earn $100,000 plus.  What other job could a high school graduate be earning $100,000 per year in four years?   There are a few.  Even fewer are as flexible as selling real estate.  You are truly your own boss .  Janice does not tell you what time to come to work.  She doesn't tell you how to dress or when to go on vacation. 

     The really good news is that Keller Williams has the best initial training that you can find anywhere.  I won't bore you with the details about that.  You will learn what you need to do to make money immediately when you start your real estate career at Keller Williams in Hendersonville, North Carolina. 

     If you are a young person fresh out of high school looking for an opportunity.  to earn money today and learn career skills that will last a lifetime, call Janice at 828 290 1001.  Tell her you read this article.  Tell Janice that you know how to follow a recipe.  Tell her what your ambitions are.  Ask Janice if a career in real estate has the capacity to take you where you want to go.  Ask Janice if she would recommend a career in real estate to her own adult children. 

     Call First Real Estate School at 828 440 1064 if you don't have a real estate license.  Call Janice at 828 290 1001 if you already have a real estate license.  Explore the possibilities of a real estate career.  You will be glad you did. 

      Who is my daughter?   www.climerconsulting.com     http://www.balloontwisterorlando.com/