Real Estate Education Secrets Revealed in The Asheville Area

     First Real Estate School at 404 S. Main Street in Hendersonville is a great place to take your real estate broker pre license course.  The tuition is $300.

     This is the course you need to take if you want to get your North Carolina real estate license.  After passing this 75 hour class, a real estate license applicant would need to apply to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission at www.ncrec.gov to get approved to take the North Carolina real estate exam.  This test is given in Asheville.  

First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina

     Attending the right real estate school with the right instructor is a step in the right direction to passing your North Carolina real estate license exam the first time.

     All real estate instruction is not the same.  Ron Climer, at First Real Estate School, makes the 75 hour real estate broker pre license course as much fun as a real estate class can be.

     Fun is not our number one concern.  You passing your real estate exam is our number one concern.  This is our number one goal.  It costs you $64 every time you take the North Carolina real estate exam.  Once is certainly enough.

     It is no secret what is on the North Carolina real estate exam. The North Carolina Real Estate Commission tells you right in their forty page booklet, "Real Estate Licensing In North Carolina".  You can download this booklet from their website for FREE.  It tells you exactly what is on the real estate exam.  It tells you how many questions come out of each chapter.  This brochure tells you what you need to be studying if you strive to pass the first time.  At First Real Estate School,www.firstrealestateschool.com  we want our students to pass the first time.  We want our real estate students to pass our test the first time.  We want our students to pass the North Carolina real estate exam the first time.  The free booklet tells you what to study.

     Many real estate instructors never mention this booklet to their students.  Please do not spend $64 to take the North Carolina real estate exam before you have read every word in this forty page book.  This information is too valuable.  If you are too busy to read the entire forty pages, you have to read page 16 through 22.  That is where it tells you the questions on the state exam.  The last thing you want to do is spend half your time studying something that is only one question on the exam.

     Do not underestimate the North Carolina real estate exam.  The pass rate is barely over 50%.  You need to know that what you are studying is the material on the exam.

     One thing I am certain about is that real estate math is ten percent or more of the test.  Watch my North Carolina real estate math videos on You Tube.  I teach you how to do any math that is on the test.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZKyBUHbC5I      I have about twenty posted but here is a link to one.  This will help you a lot if you are soon taking the North Carolina real estate exam.  

Tenancy In Common, Real Estate Investor's Magic

         I teach real estate broker pre license classes at First Real Estate School in Hendersonville ,North Carolina. www.firstrealestateschool.com

     Many people believe that the material we teach in real estate  pre license courses is stuff that you really don't need to know except to pass the North Carolina real estate exam.  The truth is, no matter what your profession, the more you learn, the more you earn.

Invest in Hendersonville, N.C. real estate

     Many years ago, when I had more energy than I had money, I wanted to buy investment houses and rental units.  At the time I was a very active real estate broker in Orlando, Florida.  I was constantly running into super bargain properties for sale.  It was impossible to take advantage of all the bargains that I ran across. 

     I would attend seminars about investing in real estate.  The guru at the front of the room would give us ideas.  I would come home from the real estate seminar and try to make the ideas work. 

     At one seminar that I attended, I learned about tenancy in common.  I went out and found a nice rental house that was for sale at a bargain price,$40,000.  It required an $8000 down payment. I did not have $8000. 

     I approached a friend, a person that knew me and trusted me, I asked him if he would like to buy this house with me fifty fifty.  He would put up the $8000 for his half.  I would agree to make the payments, manage the property, maintain it for my half.  His name was on the deed.  My name was on the deed.  We were tenants in common.  If you are soon taking your North Carolina real estate test, you need to understand this. 

     If, during our ownership, I should die, my half of this property would descend to my heirs.  If. during our ownership, my friend, Arnold should die, his half would descend to his heirs. If you owned a property jointly with a casual friend, isn't that the way you would want it to be?

      In North Carolina, we have another type of ownership called joint tenancy.  In a joint tenancy, if one party dies, that party's half would go to the other party.  With tenancy in common, your half would go to your heirs, not to your partner.

     What an opportunity this house was for me and for Arnold.  I had very little money.  I understood rentals.  I was honest.  I was ambitious.  Arnold knew that about me.

     Arnold had plenty of money.  He had a desire for a safe place to invest that money.  He did not have any inclination to work with working man type rental property.  He was not interested in collecting rent and maintaining rental houses.

     Arnold put up the down payment.  I made the payments.  After closing, I suspect that Arnold never saw that house again.  About five years later, we sold that house for a nice profit.  Arnold got his $8000 back and we split the rest of the proceeds fifty fifty.  That is the deal we had made five years earlier.  Any equity increase, we shared equally.  Equity increased due to the house appreciating and principal reduction of the mortgage.

     If you are young, ambitious, honest and energetic and you want to buy some rental property, find a friend that has money but does not relish the thought of dealing with rental house and  tenants.This will benefit both of you.  Don't take my word for it.  Try it.

     If your friend with money is reluctant to invest, find a better bargain.  One of the concerns that your friend may have is that you may not live up to your end of the agreement.  You make certain that that NEVER happens.  If your kids are hungry and crying, you make the payments on that tenancy in common house.  If you mess this up, you will never get a second chance.  If you make this work, you can do it again and again .  It is a great way to get started with rental houses or flipper houses.

      If First Real Estate School can help you get started with a new real estate career anywhere near Asheville or Hendersonville, North Carolina, please call us at 828 440 1064   

Pass The North Carolina Real Estate Exam in Asheville

     Only about fifty five per cent of the real estate license applicants that take this test pass it the first time.  Every one pays $64 to take it.  Once is enough.  Don't you agree?

     You have to do a lot of things right to pass the North Carolina real estate exam the first time.  A student paid $300 tuition to sit in this real estate class.  Reading the upcoming chapters in the textbook before coming to class has to be an obvious benefit to a real estate student.  If you read the chapters that you know will be coming up in real estate class tomorrow before you come to class, this will give you a chance to look up any strange words in the glossary.  You might write a note in the margin of the book to ask the real estate instructor about this or that.

     Read the textbook.  Do not go and pay to take one of the toughest tests around, the North Carolina real estate exam without having read the textbook.

     Get more out of your classroom experience.  Pay attention.  This is not high school.  The student is paying to be there. The student is paying to take the North Carolina real estate test every time. Pay attention in class.  Ask questions if there is something you do not understand.  Do not be concerned that asking a question might embarrass you.   This is no time to worry about that.  You have a test to pass.

     Another thing you can do to get more out of your classroom experience is to do your homework.  In my class at First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina, I assign the questions at the end of the chapters for homework.  It is startling to students to discover that they can not recall the answer to a question that we covered just a few short hours ago.  I suggest that you, not only do your homework, but seek out other practice tests that you can take.  Practice tests are a great way to study.  http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2015/04/real-estate-practice-exam-for-north.html

     The North Carolina Real Estate Commission, the people that make the rules, tell the licensed real estate schools that a student is allowed to miss up to twenty per cent.  of the classes in a 75 hour real estate course.  If you are attending a real estate class you could miss up to fifteen hours of class and still graduate.  Don't miss any class.  Attend 100% of the class.  We all know that emergencies happen.  Cars break down.  People get sick.  Stuff happens.  Don't let it happen to you.  Show up for class 100% of the time.  You paid for 100% of the class.  You are going to be tested on 100% of the class.  Show up for !00% of the class.   

Hendersonville Real Estate School near Asheville

     As long as I have been teaching real estate classes, I have heard stories about people that "missed passing the test by one point or two points".  If that "almost made it" student had been 100% attendance, certainly he would have picked up one point.

     Fifteen per cent of the North Carolina real estate exam is arithmetic.  We no longer have to balance a HUD closing statement (as of May 2016) but there is still plenty of of math that is strange and new to a student that can barely compute a tip in a restaurant.

     If you are having trouble with the math in your real estate course, watch the math videos that I have posted on You Tube.  Go to You Tube.  Put my name, Ron Climer Notrh Carolina Math, in the search bar.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxc4SZ1CW1w
Any math that you will encounter on the North Carolina real estate exam is on those videos.  Invite a couple of classmates over and watch these videos together.

     Studying together is a wonderful way to make studying more fun.  Get together.  Be careful that this does not more social than learning.  Get together with your classmates that are serious about passing the first time.  You can meet at the library or some one's house.   Most likely, the real estate office that you are going to work for might let you meet in their conference room if it is available.  Ask.

       Please take your real estate class seriously.  You paud for the class. You paid your application fee to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  You paid for your background check.  You have to pay every time you take the North Carolina real estate test.  Pass this test the first time.

     Here is a tip from my wife.  Don't tell anyone that you are taking the real estate test .  When you tell all your family and friends that you are taking the test on  Monday morning, the first thing they ask on Tuesday is,"Did you pass?".   Why not just surprise everyone and walk in one day and say," I passed my North Carolina real estate exam yesterday."?  That sounds good.

     If First Real Estate School can help you pass, contact us at   www.firstrealestateschool.com

The Best Real Estate School Near Asheville, North Carolina

     In Hendersonville, there is First Real Estate School.  The best thing about First Real Estate School is the low tuition.  The broker pre license course price is $300.  That is a bargain. 

     The second best thing about First Real Estate School www.firstrealestateschool.com 
is the instructor, Ron Climer.  That is me.

     The math on the North Carolina real estate exam is not easy.  I have posted several videos on You Tube to help anyone learn how to do the math on the North Carolina real estate exam.  Go to You Tube.  Put in my name, Ron Climer North Carolina math in the search bar.  You will find plenty of free help.  This is for anyone in North Carolina that is trying to get a North Carolina real estate license.  We originally put these video up to help people pass the state exam.  You can watch one just to see how I teach. 

     If you live too far away from Asheville or Hendersonville, to attend First Real Estate School in person, you can still benefit from our math videos.  Share them with your classmates. 

     We are located at 404 South Main street in downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina.  If you are coming from Tryon or Saluda or Lake Lure or Zirconia or Columbus or Mill Spring or Brevard or Highlands or Franklin or Spindale or Ruherfordton or Forest City or  Murphy, Hendersonville may be a little closer than Asheville.  At First Real Estate School, we teach you to pass the North Carolina real estate exam and get your real estate license.  That is our job. 

     Our landlord is Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty.  They are also located at 404 South  Main Street in Hendersonville.  They are constantly looking for new real estate brokers to join the Keller Williams team.  Watch the You Tube video that we have posted describing the tuition reimbursement program that Keller Williams has for people that join their firm after getting their North Carolina real estate license .   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1EpyxI_Gkg

     If you are thinking of starting a career in real estate in Hendersonville, let First Real Estate School help you get started.  If you are not one of the fortunate people that live in western North Carolina, let our free math videos help you pass your North Carolina real estate exam and get your North Carolina real estate license. Call us at 828 440 1064           www.ronclimer.com 

The North Carolina Real Estate Exam Just Got Easier

     If you are a young student and if you have been in a class with an old instructor, you have heard the instructor say," You guys have it easy.  Back when I was a student, it was really tough."

     If you got your North Carolina real estate license before May 3, 2016 , you can say this.

     The North Carolina Real Estate Commission has dropped "balancing" a closing statement from the North Carolina real estate exam.  Is this a big deal?  YES YES YES YES This is a big deal.

The North Carolina real estate exam is easier

      Before May 3, 2016, a student in a North Carolina real estate course had to learn to "balance" a RESPA closing statement.  This is a gigantic mathematical chore.

     If the student missed one pro ration or one calculation out of forty calculations, he would mess up the whole statement.  An average student spent one hour working on the closing statement.  Today it is GONE.   Hallelujah!

     We still have pro ration problems and there are questions about how items appear on the closing statement.  We don't have a frustrating hour long mathematical project that caused many students mega problems.  Let's hear it for the NCREC!!!!!!!

     If you need help with the math that IS on the North Carolina real estate test, watch my videos on You Tube.  Go to You Tube and put in my name, Ron Climer, .  I have any math that you need posted on You Tube for free just to help you pass.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxc4SZ1CW1w

     Also, check out my video review class at www.northcarolinaexamreview.com  

     Also, take my free practice exam.  http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2015/04/real-estate-practice-exam-for-north.html

      Also, If you live near Hendersonville, First Real Estate School is the best and the least expensive school around  www.firstrealestateschool.com 

     If we can do anything to help you get a North Carolina real estate license, call us at 828 44 1064

How Much Money Can You Make Selling Real Estate in Carolina?

     Many lay people do not understand how Realtors make money.  Here is a simple explanation.

     In Hendersonville, North Carolina, an average house costs $200,000.  Many Realtors charge a six percent commission.  Some charge more.  Some charge less.  Let's use 6% for our example.

     Anyone that is selling real estate full time is a member of the Hendersonville Association of Realtors.  Being a member of the Association of Realtors is a requirement to use the Multiple Listing Service.

     If a home seller lists his house with Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty, he will agree to pay a 6% commission.  Keller Williams Realty will submit that $200,000 listing to the M.L.S. By doing this, Keller Williams invites their competitors to bring their potential buyer to see this house.  Keller Williams also offers to share the commission with the real estate company that brings a buyer.  Realtors call this co operating.

     An agent over at XYZ Realty finds a buyer for this house.  The XYZ agent co operates with the Keller Williams agent and shows this house to his potential buyer.  The buyer likes it and and submits the offer through his agent  to the Keller Williams agent.  The owner accepts the offer.

     That six percent commission, $12000 is split fifty fifty between Keller Williams Realty, the listing company and XYZ Realty, the selling company.  That agent at Keller Williams Realty has to split that $6000 with Keller Williams Realty.  At Keller Williams Realty , the agent gets 70% of the $6000 or $4200.  Some companies pay more.  Some companies pay less.  Let's use 70% for our example.

     When you sell an average house in Hendersonville, North Carolina at Keller Williams Realty, you earn a $4200 commission. If you came to work on commission at Keller Williams Realty, could you sell one average house per month?   If you did, you would earn $4200 per month or $50,400 per year.

     Are you making that at your current job?  A real estate agent at Keller Williams Realty is constantly exposed to training.  It is almost axiomatic that a person that sells twelve houses this year will sell eighteen next year.

     You get better.  The job gets easier.  Your past clients call you back.  You don't have past clients the first year.  There is a bunch of stuff that you don't know the first year.  Everything is a struggle when you are new.

     It gets easier every year.  Next year you know things that you did not know last year.  Your salesmanship gets better.  You learn to deal with people that are stressed out because they have a champagne taste and a beer budget.  You learn to use technology to to make your job easier.

     By year five, you can hardly remember that first year when you only sold twelve houses.  The system still works the same.  You understand it better.  Your 70% split has turned into something bigger and better for you.  You are earning passive income from Keller Williams Realty's profit sharing plan.  Past customers call you and buy another investment house.  Your income is larger and your workload is smaller.  At Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty, we call this a career.

    It all started when you enrolled at First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina.  www.firstrealestateschool.com   That $300 tuition for that real estate broker pre license course seemed like a fortune at the time.  Now, it feels good to have a saving account.  Now, you have bought your first rental house and are looking for your second.

Start a new career at First Real Estate School in Hendersonville

     Now, you wonder why you ever put up with a boss that told you when to go on vacation and what time to show up in the morning.  Today, you go on vacation when you want to and start to work when you want to.  You don't work on Sunday ever.

     The hardest part, the scariest part is starting.  Let First Real Estate School help you start.  Call me, Ron Climer, at 828 440 1064.  Ask me about Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty's tuition  reimbursement program or watch this video.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1EpyxI_Gkg  

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Have You Considered A Real Estate Career in Hendersonville, North Carolina?

     Have you considered a new career?  Perhaps a better question would be; "Do you need to make more money?".

     If you continue on your current career path, will it lead you to your economic goals?  If the answer is yes, keep doing what you are doing unless you hate the work.  There are lots of people that do not like their work.  If that is you, consider a career change.

     When considering a career change, ease of entry into a new profession should be a consideration.  Selling real estate is a easy career to get started.  You don't need a college degree.  You don't need a friend in the business.  You don't need a million dollars start up money.

     Ease of entry is not the only consideration.  If you are considering a new career, can you reach your economic goals in your current career choice?  In real estate, the answer is a definite YES.  Many people enter the real estate business with very little money.  Because of the nature of the real state business, you can work as hard and as smart as you are willing to.  If you do work hard and smart, you personal income will go up considerably.

First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina

     Often the major benefits of a profession are what you learn.  If you sell real estate for a living, you learn what property is worth.  You also learn about trends and what is HOT or will be hot next year.

     Many real estate agents get rich by smart investing.  If a Realtor has enough income plus a few more dollars, she might buy that dilapidated four unit building at a bargain price.  She knows a couple of handyman types. She fixes it up.  She enjoys a nice income from that rent for many years to come.  She duplicates that process a few times.   She starts to think,"This selling real estate is a pretty cool gig.".

     Many real estate broker employees open their own office after a few years.  They become employers.  Teaching new real estate agents how to get started is rewarding financially and emotionally.

     If you would like to check out starting a real estate career, Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty at 404 S. Main Street in Hendersonville is is a good place to check it out.  Call me, Ron Climer.  I have been a real estate agent most of my adult life.  Today I operate First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina.  I teach people to get a North Carolina real estate license. Selling real estate is a great way to earn an above average income .  Call me at 828 440 1064   Check First Real Estate School's website at www.firstrealestateschool.com

How is First Real Estate School Affiliated with Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty?

     First, let me say that Keller Williams Mountain Partners at 404 S. Main Street ia a most pleasant place to work.

     Almost universally, real estate is sold on a commission basis.  There are very, very few real estate offices that compensate their sales force any way other than a portion of the real estate commission that the sales person generates for the company.  For example, if Ms. Salesperson sells a house that generates a $10,000 commission, that commission is usually split between the real estate company and Ms. Salesperson.

     How is it split?  At some real estate companies, it is split fifty fifty.  That $10,000 commission that Ms. Salesperson generated turns into $5000 for the salesperson and $5000 for the real estate company.  The company uses that money to pay the office rent, the secretary's salary, advertising, the utility bill, the sales trainer's salary, the office supplies, the janitor's salary and all those things that we call overhead.

     At Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty, we pay 70% of the earned commission to the salesperson.  The company keeps 30%.  That means that that $5000 commission that Ms. Salesperson earned at the other real estate company  would be $7000 at Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty.  Real estate salespeople are rarely employed as employees.  They are independent contractors.  What does that mean?  It means there is no "BOSS" standing next to the punch clock at 8:02 asking you why you are not "clocked in" at 8 o'clock.

     In real estate, your boss does not tell you what you have to do.  Your boss tells you what you should do if you want to make money.  You make money in real estate by getting results.

     The Keller Williams office at 404 S. Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina is a great place to learn how to get results.  Keller Williams offers training more prolifically than any other real estate office in western North Carolina.  We offer sales training.  We offer technology training.  We offer all kinds of training.  Keller Williams Realty knows that the more you learn, the more you earn.
     If you are thinking of a career change, think about selling real estate.  If you work hard and pay attention, you can earn an above average income selling real estate.

     If you want to pursue a real estate career, you need a North Carolina real estate license.   You have to attend real estate school somewhere.  First Real Estate School at 404 S. Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina is your best choice.

Ron Climer at Keller Willliams Realty in Hendersonville,N.C.

     Because Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty gives us a free training facility to teach in, we have lower overhead than other real estate schools.  Our tuition for the broker pre license class that is required by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission is $300.  That includes the textbook.

     I am the instructor .  If you want to know how I teach, check out my real estate videos on You Tube.  I have a hundred of them.  Any math that is on the North Carolina real estate exam is on my You Tube videos.  They are free for anyone that wants to watch them.  If you are taking a real estate course in the flat part of the state, watch my math videos.  Watching them will help you pass your real estate class and the North Carolina real estate test. https://www.youtube.com  /watch?v=fxc4SZ1CW1w

     If a career change is in your thoughts and plans, call me, Ron Climer at 828 440 1064 or check out our website at www.firstrealestateschool.com

     We would love to have you attend First Real Estate School.  I would love to talk with you about starting your real estate career at Keller Williams Mountain Partners Realty at 404 S. Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina.  Please call me at 828 440 1064.   Let's get you started. 

Real Estate Course to Get Your Real Estate License in Western North Carolina

     Wouldn't it be great if there was an online real estate course that you could take to get your North Carolina real estate license?  That would be great.  There is no such course.

     The North Carolina Real Estate Commission believes that you need to sit in a classroom with a licensed real estate instructor.  There is no reason that this classroom experience should cost a fortune.  First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina charges $300 tuition for this 75 hour pre license class.  www.firstrealestateschool.com  This is a good place to take your pre license real estate broker's course that you must take before you get your North Carolina real estate license.

The tuition at First Real Estate School is $300

      First Real Estate School is located at 404 S. Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina.  If you live in western North Carolina, call us or check out our website.

     If you have already enrolled in real estate school elsewhere or if you live in the flat end of the state, First Real Estate School can still help you pass your real estate exam.  Watch Ron Climer's North Carolina math videos on You Tube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueNMrduMZqw  There are several math videos to help anyone pass the North Carolina real estate exam.  They are free.

     The pass rate for the North Carolina real estate exam is dismal.  Attend First Real Estate School in Hendersonville if you can.  Let us help you pass the exam the First time.

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Read "Extreme Ownership" by Willink and Babson

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