Another Real Estate Instructor Career Killed in Infancy

     Mike McCallister, the current national president of the Real Estate Educator's Association talked to us at the North Carolina Real Estate Educator's spring conference in Cary, North Carolina yesterday.  He told us that we need to bring some young, energetic, new instructors into the industry.

     In North Carolina, when you apply for a real estate instructor license, an instructor license candidate is required by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission to submit a 50 minute digital video recording of his teaching style to be evaluated by the staff of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  If the staff does not like your video, you don't get a instructor license.  Here is link to explain my own lengthy, arduous, expensive, frustrating process as an old, experienced, veteran instructor to get my first real estate instructor license in North Carolina.  http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2016/09/my-process-to-get-my-north-carolina.html  WHAT AN ORDEAL!

     During lunch, just before Mike spoke, I ran into a school director that I had met last year at the NCREEA fall conference last October.  I asked her where was her young protege.  She told me that her young protege had turned in two videos to the staff of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission while she had her six month temporary license was in force.  Both videos were rejected by the staff of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  She gave up.

We need young, new real estate instructors in our industry

     WHAT A SHAME!  What a shame that her ability to get a real estate instructor license, based on whether or not the staff of the N.C.R.E.C. likes her video, stopped a career.  If I had the experience in 1978 in Florida when I got my first real estate instructor permit that I had in 2016 in North Carolina, I would haven given up.  I would have had to give up because I didn't have another $150 to pay for another expert video technician to shoot another video.  I could not even have afforded another sim card in those days.  I certainly could not have afforded an expert trainer to teach me how to teach the way someone else thinks is a good way to teach.

     I am not certain but I think that North Carolina is the only state in America that requires a video evaluation by the regulators to get a real estate instructor's license.  I appeared in person in December of 2016 along with several other instructors to beseech the N.C.R.E.C. to eliminate this unnecessary video evaluation hazing process.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPB0ZIwKWk8

     My hope is that other instructors will let the N.C.R.E.C. know that we do not need the regulators to tell us if an instructor is good or no good.  A school director can do that.  It would make sense for a school director to watch a fifty minute video of a job applicant or better yet sit in a classroom with that job applicant.  If that applicant explains things wrongly or has unacceptable poor grammar or offends several students, that school director would probably not hire that  instructor even if they do have a license.  That makes sense.  It does not make sense for the regulators to tell that poor instructor that he is not worthy to hold a real estate instructor license.

     At the recent instructor conference in Cary, Chris Barnett asked us to post some things on Facebook that other instructors would be interested in.  Please get interested in this.  Send an email to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  www.ncrec.gov   Let them know that you think the video evaluation process is unnecessary at least and a career killer at worst.

     If you can not take time to write a letter to the N.C.R.E.C. ,   please leave a comment here.  If you disagree with me, let us know.  Maybe there is something that I just do not understand.

     Hazing continues because many people have an attitude that I paid my price, the new guy needs to go through the same process.  Please do not take that attitude.  Some young instructor's career may be in jeopardy.  www.firstrealestateschool.com  

The North Carolina Real Estate Commission Has Invited Me To Come Speak At Their Next Meeting

     On November 15, 2016, I received an email from Corean Hamlin, a staff member of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  Do you want to hear some good news?  The NCREC is considering repealing rule 58 C.0605.  

                                                                                              

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     This is the rule that requires a new real estate instructor applicant to submit an hour long video of their teaching style to the staff of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  If you have an instructor license in North Carolina that you received since 2000, you have been through this ritual.  I don't know what your experience was.  Here is a link to my unpleasant experience. http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2016/09/my-process-to-get-my-north-carolina.html    I got my final permanent approval on November 14, 2016.

I have already prepared and practiced my short presentation that I want to make to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPB0ZIwKWk8  

     I want you to join me if you feel, as I do, that the licensing bureau does not need to watch a video of an instructor to determine if that instructor is qualified to hold a instructor's license

     There is this wonderful filter in the free enterprise system in America called "the market". This is the system that is used in most other states.  The market will tell us pretty quickly if an instructor is bad.  If an instructor is dull and ineffective and boring,  that instructor will not be able to get a job.  If  a real estate instructor is bad, they will not have any students.

     The staff of the NCREC does not need to waste their time watching a video of every instructor that applies for a license.  That job should be left to the school director.  Why would a school director hire a dull, boring real estate instructor?  They would not.  If they did by accident, they would get rid of that ineffective instructor quickly.  Need I remind anyone that a real estate school is a business? 

     In today's world of Twitter and Facebook and Google reviews and You Tube videos, students know who is a good instructor and who is a bad instructor.  Why would the licensing bureau want to evaluate instructors?  The market does that for the commission in the other forty nine states.

      

     Please, join me at the December 14, 2016 North Carolina Real Estate Commission meeting.  If you can not attend, you can send in a written opinion. Join me and tell the NCREC that you think the school director can tell a bad instructor from a good instructor.  We do not need the staff of the NCREC to evaluate instructors and withdraw their license if the licensing bureau does not like their style of teaching.

     If you are in the real estate school business in North Carolina, you are not too busy to read that email and the eighteen page attachment that came from Corean Hamlin on November 15th.  Read it.  Join me at the December 14th meeting of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.

     If you disagree with me, if you like the staff of the NCREC having the power to take some one's instructor license because they don't like that instructor's style, come to the meeting or write a letter and let the NCREC know how you feel.   If you agree with me, show up at the meeting.  Talk to the Commission.  Let's get this rule 58 C.0605 repealed and not replaced with 58 H . 0305, an even worse version. 

     I will be staying at the Hyatt Place North Raleigh Midtown at 1105 Navaho Drive right across the street from the Commission's office.  I will be having dinner alone.  If you would like to join me and compare notes, call me at 828 755 6996.  This is the same hotel I stayed at when I attended the Instructor Development Workshop in September.  http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2016/09/instructor-develpoment-workshop-from.html

     Please, join me at the December 14th meeting .  This opportunity will not come again soon.  Read Corean's email and the 18 page attachment.  I look forward to seeing you on the 14th of December.  If you are a real estate instructor, please leave a comment to this article.