Begin a Real Estate Career the Smart Way

$250,000 of annual free grant products and services are given away via essay competition to worthy rookie real estate agents every six months by The Real Estate Apprentice Foundation.

(PRWEB) November 15, 2005 -- $250,000 of annual free grant products and services are given away via essay competition to worthy rookie real estate agents every six months by The Real Estate Apprentice Foundation.

“Having a Real Estate Apprentice Grant means the difference between triumph and failure, accomplishment and defeat,” said Dr. Martin Oliver, Deputy Executive Director of the Real Estate Apprentice Foundation (www.RealEstateApprentice.com). “No one enters a real estate career expecting to fail, but most people fail because they haven’t spent the time to discover what tools are mandatory to winning. It reminds me of that 3000 year-old Hebrew saying: 'My people perish for a lack of knowledge.'"

Real estate has long been a make it or break it business in which there are many millionaires and even more hard-luck stories. Some people seem to naturally grab hold of the opportunity, and in a short time they have a backlog of clients pleading for their services. Why is this so? Is it sheer luck, maybe the perfect movie star beauty of the agent, or a silver tongue to match the sleek silver hair of the seasoned agent you would seemingly trust your life to? “Wrong, wrong and wrong,” said Oliver.    

These lion’s share winners, beautiful or unattractive, handsome or unsightly, understand client needs, marketing, advertising, high technology software, sphere of influence development, modern farming, techniques, tips and procedures and are consistently the best, brightest, and richest real estate agents in America.

According to Oliver: “Winning in residential real estate career requires a mix of understanding comprised of business planning, published products, coaching and mentoring, sophisticated education, psychology, theology, systems & procedures consulting and office setup that facilitates organizational mastery and rapid business acceleration.

Gone are the days when agents could survive using a Mom & Pop business model with little or no business savvy and even less real estate business knowledge. “A successful real estate business analogy would be modern agriculture and crop farming,” said Dr. Oliver. “Today’s prosperous farmer studies crop rotation, strains of plant bacteria, plant food and fertilizers, weather patterns, commodity futures, world food trends, modern mechanization, and high finance. The world of farming has become highly sophisticated and so have the most successful real estate agents,” he added.

With the Wall Street bust boom cycles, corporate scandals, off shore manufacturing feeding unemployment and on-going terrorism threats, many investors have moved their assets into real estate not only because of the safety factor but also in high hopes of gaining capital appreciation over their Wall Street counterparts. West and East Coast housing markets have seen the prices of homes double in very short time frames.

Enter the sophisticated investor. Over 70% of potential real estate investors go first to the internet where they scour the supply of homes based on price ranges, satellite photos of neighborhoods, due diligence reports on nearby dumps, water quality, school systems, crime rates, appreciation rates, corporate job strength, and future community building plans. Then and only then do they turn to a real estate professional looking for not only a congenial and forthright personality, but to someone who thoroughly understands market fluctuations, shrewd business negotiations, and who is able to second guess the market before it changes.

Most everyone knows the commonly repeated phrase about a home being the largest investment that anyone will ever make. But aside from the staleness of the quote, it continues to be painfully true. Pain, as in the painful departure of a client's hard earned cash when a buyer turns against an agent. So you better do it right Mr. or Mrs. Agent, if you are going to do it at all. A real estate career is not for amateurs, and the continuous stream of newly released corporate pink card holders and downsizees are swooping in on a great opportunity, and they are taking no prisoners.

To find a list of secret weapons that only the sophisticated and rich minded real estate agent to be should have, search www.RealEstateApprentice.com and for your own self-preservation, apply today. No cost, no fees, no payback, no strings.

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