Where else can someone who is working at unskilled things like serving tables, washing dishes, driving a delivery truck, working at an auto assembly plant or other factory, telemarketing at some boring office or who is otherwise working at any minimum wage job due to a lack of education and / or meaningful
real - life experience etc., get to go to
real estate classes (hoping that a few months thereafter to be guiding uneducated consumers through the most expensive and most important financial transactions of their lives in trade for big fat
commissions) often with a minimalist education (
maybe just scraped by at that after multiple attempts to pass grade ten or eleven) and expect to instantly be labelled a professional operative upon passing the
real estate courses» exams via penning memorized responses to forewarned - about - exam - questions by instructors who need to display a suitable passing percentage of students to keep their part - time teaching jobs?
Maybe CREA's next TV ad should be a one minute piece wherein someone like me delivers an apology to the public for trying to convince them that all Realtors are professionals, when in fact far too many licensees on any given day are tryouts who will become desperate for
commissions before they pack it in, and that from here on in only properly pre-screened candidates will be allowed to attend
real estate school and thereafter embark on a three - year apprenticeship program before becoming licensed as a Realtor... on probation... because... the public deserves better that it has been getting from us.
If their free leads supported by ad model works
maybe they can license it to
Real Estate Agents who want to forego their
commissions and replace them with ad revenue.