I'm excited!
We have changes coming to the Texas Real Estate License Act. Texas Association of REALTORS® continually supports reforms that revamps the TREA....and I appreciate it very much.
So what makes me excited, you ask? One simple thing....A salesperson must be licensed four years, up from two, to obtain a broker's license.
I've always thought that a person who can get a Broker's license after only 2 years in the business was a liability waiting to happen! Can you remember what you were like after only two years in real estate? What you knew most likely could have fit on a postage stamp...
Being a Broker means more than another license, more fees and being 'THE BOSS'. You must keep up with the ever changing landscape of the REAL ESTATE profession. You are responsible for knowing more, higher standards, changing stategies, overseeing newbies as well as veterans, reining in KNOW IT ALLs and loosening the rein on quality, rule abiding, producing agents.
And to help you do all that and more, there was one more change that made sense....and it is: A broker who sponsors a salesperson and any broker or salesperson who has management authority over other licensees must take a six-hour broker responsibility course, which counts toward the required 15 hours of MCE.
Now that I'm excited about....maybe those who call themselves Brokers will become more knowledgeable in the next year and I won't add their numbers to my speed dial when I'm working with an agent from their respective brokerage firm.
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