Help Passing The North Carolina Real Estate Exam In Asheville

     Is the North Carolina real estate exam hard?  The North Carolina real estate exam is 140 multiple choice questions.  One hundred of the questions are what the test makers call "general " questions.  Forty of the questions are "North Carolina" questions.  To pass, a real estate test applicant has to get 71 of the 100 "general" questions correct and 29 of the 40 "North Carolina"   questions correct.

     Last month, the pass rate for the exam was fifty nine per cent.  That means if 100 people took the exam, fifty nine passed.  Forty one exam applicants will be paying $164 to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission to try again.  I think it is important to pass the first time.

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     Does it matter what real estate school you attend?  It is the instructor that matters.  Some are good.  Some are not so good.  How can you know if an instructor does a good job?  Read the real estate instructor's reviews on Facebook and Google.  Watch the videos that the instructor has posted on You Tube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HbEwoiVBMY&t=70s

     How long is the real estate broker's course in North Carolina?  The North Carolina Real Estate Commission requires the real estate broker's class to be seventy five hours long.  There is a lot of material to be learned.  You need to read the textbook.  You need to study outside the classroom.   You need to expose yourself to practice exams through out the course.  You need to get together with your class mates and study together. Here is a short example of why. http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2017/12/what-about-those-trick-questions-on.html   Creating study groups is a wonderful helpful way to increase your learning effort.

     After you pass your real estate school exam at First Real Estate School www.firstrealestateschool.com , you have to pass a 140 question exam given by AMP, a testing service contracted by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  This is the exam with the 59% pass rate. http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2017/12/pass-fail-statistics-for-north-carolina.html .

     Can I take the North Carolina real estate broker course online?  The North Carolina Real Estate Commission believes that real estate can not be learned on line.  You need to attend a brick and mortar real estate school with a live instructor licensed by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.  If you disagree with that opinion, feel free to contact them at www.ncrec.gov .  I am certain they would love to hear from you.

     There are lots of study aids available online to help real estate students  pass their real estate course. Here is a word of caution.  If the "practice test" or "cram course" online is NOT from a North Carolina real estate school, be suspicious.   It likely has wrong information or useless information.  First Real Estate School in Hendersonville has a couple of practice exams that will help anyone that is soon taking the North Carolina real estate exam.  The free one is at http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2015/04/real-estate-practice-exam-for-north.html   and the ten dollar one is at www.ncreexam.com   Check those out if you are soon taking the test.

     Is the math on the North Carolina real estate exam difficult?  Also posted online is my free You Tube real estate math videos to help anyone that is planning on passing the real estate test the first time.  The test is fifteen per cent math.  Many real estate instructors teach the math rather rapidly.  I have posted any math that you need to know on You Tube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMdJ-2iHepM&t=80s   It is hard to pass the North Carolina real estate exam if you cannot do the math.  The cool thing about having it on You Tube is you don't have to raise your hand in class and ask questions.  Just hit rewind.  Any math that is on the exam, I have posted on You Tube.

     Can I earn an extraordinary income selling real estate?  The answer to that is a very loud YES!   The real estate industry is full of people that spent twenty years earning a mediocre income.  Then they went to real estate school, got their real estate license , doubled their income and never looked back. 

     Almost all real estate is sold on commission.  If you want to earn $50,000 per year, you can do that in real estate.  If you want to earn $250,000 per year, you can do that as well.  How hard you work depends on how hard you want to work.  It is not the same answer for everyone.  The opportunity is there for anyone.

     If First Real Estate School in Hendersonville can help you start a new career, contact us at 828 440 1064. 

Where Do You Go For Advice?

     Our modern technology is such a wonderful invention.  If you have a Facebook account, you can go to Facebook and ask advice from your peers.  This was not possible thirty years ago.  Ann Landers and Heloise were probably the closest thing we had back then.

     How do you decide from whom to seek advice?  If you want advice on how to be rich, you should ask a rich person.  If you want to be slim, you should ask a slim person. If you want to be debt free, you should ask a debt free person for advice.  If you want to earn $500,000 per year income, ask someone that is already earning that for advice.  That seems right to me.  Does that seem right to you?

I've got lots of good advice from old men with grey beards

     I saw a post on Facebook yesterday.  Someone asks,"Should I get GAP insurance?"  I would not know what GAP insurance was had I not learned from my students in a real estate post license class.  www.firstrealestateschool.com  I looked at the responses to this solicitation for advice.  Three people said,"yes" " absolutely"   "for sure" .

     I wonder if I posted a question on Facebook like, "Should I wear a mask while robbing a bank?", would my friends respond with yes absolutely and for sure?  Would one of my friends point out that I don't need a mask because robbing a bank is such a bad idea?

     As I saw this post, I felt the urge to to post a reply that you don't need GAP insurance.  You need a free and clear car.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAP_insurance

     This article is about advice.  It is not about insurance.  Ask advice from people that have already arrived where you want to go.

     One way to get good advice is from books.  Many people that are successful in sales or losing weight or family relationships or getting rich will write a book.  They will tell you exactly how they did it.  If you need advice, read.

     Today, with modern technology, we have podcasts and Vblogs and countless articles like this one.  We have a plethora of mediums where people give free advice on how to do almost anything that you might want to do.

     Avail yourself to good advice.  Learn from those that have already traveled the path.  Experience is a great teacher.  The tuition is dreadfully high.  Reading what worked for others is such a better way to learn.  Watching a podcast is so much cheaper than experience.

     Most importantly, when you ask advice, determine if it is good advice or bad advice.  If it is good advice, take it.  Implement it.  Consider this.  If a 25 year old man sat down with a 65 year old and asked the 65 year old man, "How can I be financially secure when I am your age?" and the old man said, "Save 10% of your income, would that be good advice?  That may not be all the advice that the young man needs.  It is a good start.  Seek advice.  Evaluate advice.  Implement the good stuff. 

     Get some advice from someone that knows.  If you have any advice for me, leave a comment.

In Real Estate School, Which is Better? Overconfidence or Under Confidence

     Just before the end of my last real estate pre license class of 2017,  one of the students suggested that we have a pool.  All the students put ten dollars in a jar.  The high grade on the test for the class gets all the money.  Sounds like fun to me.

     Of the twenty six students in the class, only two other students wanted to participate.  The rest of the students did not want to put ten bucks in the jar.  None of the other students were planning on making 100% on their real estate class exam.  They are studying to BARELY pass.

     If you are soon taking the North Carolina real estate exam, pleeeeeesae study like you want to make 100% on the exam.  Study like you put ten dollars in the jar and there is six hundred dollars in the jar.  Study all the time.  Avail yourself to any and all study material that you can find.  Please please please do not underestimate this exam.  Last month the pass ratio was 59% .  That means that 41% of the real estate license applicants that took the test paid $164 to take it http://rondclimer.blogspot.com/2017/12/pass-fail-statistics-for-north-carolina.html   That is the usual pass rate.  This test is hard.  Study for this test like the minimum passing grade is 95%.  Study like your new career depends on your grade.  Study like it costs $164 to take it again.  It does!

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     It tells you in the North Carolina Real Estate Commission publication, "Real Estate Licensing in North Carolina" what is on the test.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZFPZGo_DJ4  Study what is on the test.  Here is a link to my video describing this free booklet.  Read this booklet.  Read page 16 through 22 twice.  That is what is on the North Carolina real estate exam.

     It is no mystery what is on the test.  It tells you right in the booklet.  What is a mystery is why don't students study more.  Over study.  Study morning noon and night.

     Read appendix C in your textbook.  More students fail the North Carolina portion of the exam than the national portion.  That is because they don;t read "The Comments" .   Lots of questions come directly from "The Comments".  This is also a free download from the North Carolina Real Estate Commission's website www.ncrec.gov

     If you need help with any of the math that is on the North Carolina real estate exam, I have it all posted on You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HbEwoiVBMY&t=538s  It is free.  It is easy.  You do not have to raise your hand and tell all your classmates that you don't understand.  Just watch it again.  Click "like" after you watch it.  Share it with your classmates.

     Share any information and help that you find on the internet with your classmates.  Get a contact list of your fellow students.  After you take the exam, let your students know how it was.  Remind them to bring I.D. to the exam site or they won't let you in.  Remind them NOT to bring a phone to the exam or they won't let you in.  Remind your classmates that it is cold in the exam room even in July.  Hang around with your classmates that are planning on making a 100%.  Get together and study.  Tell your classmates if you think the test in easier in Asheville.

     This test is not easy.  If you study, you will pass.  Have confidence in yourself.  If First Real Estate School in Hendersonville, North Carolina can do anything to help you pass, contact us at www.firstrealestateschool.com or 828 440 1064.  Watch our You Tube videos.  Read some of our other articles.  Leave a comment here.  Help your classmates pass the North Carolina real estate exam.  If you live near Hendersonville and you are looking for a great place to start your career, call me at 828 755 6996.

   

   

Real Estate Exam Prep Course

     If you have passed your North Carolina real estate school exam, congratulations!  You still have to pass the North Carolina real estate exam given by AMP.  It costs $164 to take the North Carolina real estate exam the second time.  Pass it the first time.

     Last month, fifty nine per cent of the real estate license applicants that attempted this test, passed it the first time.  Forty one per cent of the applicants will be paying $164 to try again.

     One way for you to find out if you are ready for the North Carolina real estate exam is to take my practice exam at www.ncreexam.com .  This is not only a great practice exam.  It is a learning experience.

     After you take the test, I come on video and explain the answers.  I have a practice test for the national portion of the North Carolina real estate exam.  I have a practice exam for the "North Carolina" only portion.  You have to pass both portions to get your North Carolina real estate license.  You can share the above link with your classmates.  Take my practice test BEFORE you go take the $164 AMP test in Asheville.

Paass your real estate exam the First time

    Here is a suggestion.  Make passing the North Carolina real estate exam a group effort.  Share the above link with your classmates.  Share any helpful information that you find with your classmates.  If you bought the "Guide to Passing the AMP Real Estate Exam" from our website at www.firstrealestateschool.com ,  share that link with your classmates.  If you wasted your money on some bad stuff on the internet, let your classmates know that too.

     With my practice test, you can invite several of your classmates over and take the practice exam together.  Watch the videos together.  You can take the practice exam as many times as you like.

     Here is another suggestion.  Invite a few of your classmates over and watch my free You Tube videos to help you with the real estate math.  There is no math on the North Carolina real estate exam that I don't have on You Tube.  Here is an example.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4b78lDQtfE&t=411s   Many real estate instructors teach the real estate math waaaaaaay too fast. I teach it slow.  You don't have to raise your hand in front of twenty friends if you don't understand.  Just hit rewind. 

     I have received thank you letters from students from all over North Carolina thanking me for providing the free You Tube real estate math videos.  The North Carolina real estate exam is 15% arithmetic.  It is very difficult to pass if you can not amortize a mortgage or compute the seller's net check at closing  or tell the buyer how much cash to bring to closing or compute per cent of profit or compute interest or determine value when given capitalization rate and NOI or determine square feet of a house with a bay window.    I have a video posted for anything that is on the exam.

     Tell your classmates about the free math videos.  Make passing the real estate exam a team sport.  Before your real estate class is over, get the contact information for your classmates.  Share information that you find online.  The North Carolina Real Estate Commission  has a website that is full of information to help you pass the exam.  www.ncrec.gov   Who would not appreciate information to help them pass? 

     After your classmates pass the North Carolina real estate exam, call and congratulate them.  Working together, studying together is a good thing.  Watching my You Tube videos together can be fun.  Please leave a comment at the end of this article.  Tell us some study methods that work for you.

     If you are anywhere near downtown Hendersonville, First Real Estate School at 404 S. Main St.   would love to help you get your North Carolina real estate license.  828 440 1064

Post License Real Estate Course in North Carolina Near Asheville in Hendersonville (2018)

First Real Estate School at 404 S, Main Street in Hendersonville, North Carolina will be teaching a post license class (302) on January 12, 2018.  This is a Friday.  The class will meet every Friday for four Fridays.  This is the 12th, 19th, 26th and Feb 2nd.

This is one the post license real estate class that every provisional broker has to take before the anniversary of passing the North Carolina real estate exam.  There is a choice of three courses.  This course is Contracts and Closings.  The tuition is $180.

First Real Estate School will loan you the textbook

The North Carolina Real Estate Commission publishes the text book for this course.  It s called the "North Carolina Real Estate Manual"   This textbook costs $44.  That is because they charge by the pound.  It is 850 pages.  At First Real Estate School, we supply the textbook for you.  We loan it to you like high school.  Unlike high school, we do not care if you write in the textbook.  They will be obsolete in a year.  You do not have to buy a textbook.  We don't sell them. We loan them to our real estate post license students.  The cover is blue.

There is an exam for this class.  We teach you what you need to know to pass that test.

Many students tell me that this class is dull at some real estate schools.  It is not dull at First Real Estate School.  Read our Google reviews on our website at www.firstrealestateschool.com

If you received your North Carolina real estate license in 2017, join us for your first, second or third post license class.   Please send an email to your old classmates from pre license class and tell them about this class.  If you have already attended one of First Real Estate School's post license classes, please leave a comment about your experience.

Call us at 828 440 1064 to enroll in this post license course.  You must take this class at some North Carolina real estate school before the anniversary of your getting your first North Carolina real estate license.  Check with the North Carolina Real Estate Commission  www.ncrec.gov for details.

To Be Terrific , Be Prolific

     In Gary Keller's book, "The Millionaire Real Estate Agent", he quotes another book, "Art and Fear"  by Bayles and Orland .  In "Art and Fear"  the author describes a college course in pottery where the professor gave the class a choice about how to be graded.  They could be graded on quantity or quality.

     One choice was to turn in one piece of pottery.  Your entire grade depended on the quality of that piece.

     Your other choice was to to be graded on how many pieces of pottery you could create  during the course.  Fifty pounds of clay equals an A.

     At the end of the course, the quantity people made the best pottery.  Of course!   They had the most practice.  Can we apply that to what we do?  If you start off 2018 with fifty houses listed in your inventory, I will bet that you have a good year.

     If you start the year with one really good, red hot, clean, well priced, motivated seller, good terms, staged, listing, I will bet on the guy with fifty ho hum listings.  He will make the most money in 2018.

     What if only half his listings sell?   That is still 25 closings.  QUANTITY !

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     You are reading this blog post.  What if you don't like it?  I have 100 more.  Try another one.  If  I write a lot of blog posts, I am bound to write one that will attract a seller or buyer to contact me.

     If I only write one blog post, it better be goooooooood.

     If you call ten prospects per day, maybe one of them will list with you.  If you only call one prospect per day, you better be really smoooooth on the phone.

     Be prolific in your prospecting.  Be prolific in your blog writing.  Be prolific in everything you do if you want terrific results.

     Quantity will prevail.  As quantity increases, quality will follow.  There is an old time tested cliche : "Practice makes perfect." .  It is true.  Lots of practice makes perfect.

     Practice your listing presentation every day.  Practice it on a forsalebyowner or maybe some poor soul that has had the misfortune to have his listing expire in the MLS recently.

     Practice your skills prolifically .  You will love the results,

     If you live near Hendersonville, call us at Keller Williams if you want a new career.  828 755 6996 or www.firstrealestateschool.com

Can Real Estate Agents Learn To Be Creative?

     I love having my grown daughter live forty miles ( instead of 500 miles) away from me.  She moved to Asheville last year. 

     I talk to her more.  I see her more.  We learn from each other more. 

     One of the biggest advances in my business occurred last year when I created my Teachable course about passing the North Carolina real estate exam at Amy's behest.  To say the least, this was a big chore for me.  My daughter, Dr. Amy Climer aka Ms. Creative, suggested that I create this course. 

     "Dad, It will be easy.  It is practically done for you."  she told me.  By the time I was through getting my first course up on Teachables, I felt like I had become a computer expert.  I learned about Hand Brake  and several other programs that I did not even know existed .  I must admit that the second course was much, much, much easier to create. 

     Now, it is done.  Once you learn something, you have it.  It is yours.  You own it. 

     Knowledge truly is power.   

We are all creative.  Create a new career in Hendersonville.  

     

     Having this course available gives me a place to send strangers when they call me and ask me for help to pass their North Carolina real estate exam.  www.ncreexam.com  Here is a link if you need inexpensive help. 

     I received a call yesterday from a stranger in the flat end of the state.  He told me that he passed the national portion of the North Carolina real estate exam but he failed the North Carolina portion.  He had taken the state only portion four times ( at $164 per opportunity).  I suggested that he  take my ten dollar test at www.ncreexam.com   He thanked me.  He only needed a couple of more points to pass this forty question test.   It felt good to be able to help someone that needed help with something that I had created.

     If I had not taken the effort to create this course six months ago, I would not have it available to help him today.  Creativity lasts forever. 

     Put some creativity in your life .  Put some creativity in your sales team's life.  Teach them to be more creative.  Teach them to solve problems. 

     My daughter has taught me a lot about creativity.  That is what she does.  She teaches teams to solve problems.  If your team needs more creativity, contact her at www.climerconsulting.com  . 

     If you need to get a real estate license in western North Carolina, contact me at www.firstrealestateschool.com  

     Make 2018 a wonderful milestone year in your life.