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CE Credits: Are You a Member of the ‘Last Minute' Club?

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Real Estate Agent with LRA Real Estate Group

Are you a busy Real Estate Agent? Have scores of daily appointments, phone calls, client showings? Not to ignore are the dozens of escrow closings you attend with clients each month! Since you are SO busy and can't spread out your continuing education over the year, do you tend to wait to the last minute? Welcome to the ‘Last Minute Club!' Applications are now being accepted.

This is a new club where those Agents and Broker can join together to exult and be proud of cutting our continuing education requirements to as close to the deadline as possible. None of this ‘planning for dummies' will do. No, you are so busy doing the important things necessary that you must wait until the last week or days to cram your hours in. Think of the importance your clients place on the office chat and important meetings you hold with co-agents each day. And, think of the value of your iPhone and Blackberry data subscriptions, able to pull down videos, games, and movie trailers. You are up to date with the latest emails and spam. Not to forget are the critical email notifications that you have been chosen as the last hope by a Nigerian Advocate, who just found out his late father has $50 million in a bank account, needs your personal help to get to it, and only requires your email, phone #, bank account and password (your ‘reward' will be 10%). You are ready to pounce on all this new information.

So, all these things are just too high on the priority list, right? Remind you of college, when you also were a member of the ‘college final exam cram' club? Yes, yes, you have graduated to the next lifetime membership. So, be a proud member, tell your fellow agents how you have been just too busy to spread out the classes until the last minute. Online classes are perfect for the busy Agent Executive.

So, come join with me. Take your time, no hurry. I also belong to the Club...

Posted by

Bryan Watkins
Designated Broker
LRA Real Estate Group
www.LRARealEstate.com
Phoenix-Tempe-Mesa Metro
480.734.7878 text/cell

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Dan Tabit
Keller Williams Bellevue - Sammamish, WA

Bryan, I've often said, "If God didn't want us to wait until the last minute, why did he make it?"  Guilty as charged, but I'm always learning, just not always for CE credit.

Mar 28, 2010 06:12 PM
Mike Jaquish
Realty Arts - Cary, NC
919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate

Bryan,

I take the first available CE class every summer.  They tend to teach the new forms that are introduced in July.

It is odd to me that people will write business on new forms for nearly a year without any guidance as to the changes.

Then at the end of the CE year they pay the same amount to take a class that dwells on the "not so new" forms, just a few weeks prior to the next new forms update.

Mar 28, 2010 11:36 PM