Without the special
training to get sellers above
average results, lawyers with
real estate licenses will still only do
average brokerage work and discount - minded lawyers with
real estate licenses will still bring their sellers discount - minded buyers with low - ball offers.
There's a good reason: the
average homeowner doesn't have the rigorous
training and
real estate knowledge that a licensed agent does.
We manage and mentor and
train people who are new to
real estate — some young, most not — entering into a second, third or fourth career, sometimes going from a minimum or no - wage environment to earning — on
average last year — more than $ 100,000 per year.
Things to consider: If buying and selling
real estate, being the multifaceted situation that it is, finds itself sometimes even too complex for
trained professionals in some situations, requiring the addition of other
trained professionals such as lawyers, inspectors, insurance pro's, appraisers, land surveyors, tax specialists, financial planning and
estate management people or companies, divorce specialists, grief counsellors, expert witnesses, construction people, builder issues, mortgage fraud professionals, banking backup people, ex pat and non-resident specialists, immigration rules and regs, investment counsellors, to help unravel oddities and eventualities, just imagine the Rubik's cube the journey represents to the
average, unrepresented buyer or seller, perhaps even ones in the midst of it while trying to digest a purchase or sale, going through a divorce or dealing with a grieving relative, due to a death in the family, even more especially where English is not that individual's first language.