Our experienced staff of
licensed Realtors does millions of dollars in residential and commercial property sales each year including first time and experienced buyers, sellers and investors.
Just because you are a licensed Realtor doesn't mean you are prevented from running a private listing company that is Non-MLS.
Not exact matches
Of course as with all purchases, when buying a leasehold property, you should always
do your due diligence with your
realtor to ensure the property is suitable for your needs and to have the property inspected by a
licensed home inspector.
Showhomes
does not represent buyers or sellers in the real estate transaction; that is the service your
Realtor is trained and
licensed to provide.
One of the first things you will want to
do is get in contact with a
licensed real estate agent, or
REALTORS ®, who can help determine the best housing options for you.
Neither the trade association, the Florida Association of
Realtors / Florida
Realtors, nor the state
licensing agency, the Florida Real Estate Commission, is responsible for making sure that damages
done to someone by a rogue real estate agent or broker here in Florida are recovered from the bad actor.
However, Florida
Realtors is not a legal agency (it
does have a Code of Ethics which its members are required to follow even though failure to follow the code will not result in the loss of
license or the award of damages to someone who has been wronged in a real estate deal — also, you can not file a lawsuit based upon a member of the trade association failing to follow one of the organization's ethics rules — although you can file a complaint with the group about any wrongdoing that may have happened).
The Consent Agreement prevented me from publishing these stats and The
REALTOR CODE prevented me from suggesting «I could
do something better than my
licensed competitior.»
By your own account you
do not have a PHD in Psychology and we also know that you have not conducted a formal survey to determine to what extent your following claim has any basis in fact — which actually wouldn't be possible anyway in the absence of a professional assessment:» the mercenary commissioned sales culture embeds itself into the minds of most newbie
Realtors right from the time they acquire their sales
licenses,..»
This kind of turnover makes the odds high that many members of the public will meet a
Realtor who, though
licensed, is still not qualified to assist a family investing their life savings in what is likely to be the most important financial decision they'll ever make; and that doesn't include the exponential complexities of commercial real estate.
I suppose I wasn't clear on this point but I
did allude to it by saying that
Realtors should only have to post their listings once, regardless of the number of MLS systems
licensed.
«A broker from outside Québec who is not an OACIQ licence holder and who markets a property located in Québec, particularly by posting it on a website such as
Realtor.ca, commits in principle an illegal practice offence under the Real Estate Brokerage Act.Therefore, this is not a new guideline since CREA was first informed back in April 2011 that the marketing of a property in Québec
done through an intermediary constitutes a real estate brokerage transaction that requires a person to be holder of a
realtor's
license issued by the OACIQ.»
The last time I checked with the Ministry of Consumer Service, the Ontario Real Estate Association and any other
Realtor related society has had NOTHING to
do with the
licensing of Home Inspectors.
(a) Every
REALTOR ® of the Board who is a
REALTOR ® principal, every
REALTOR ® principal who participates in a Board's MLS where they
do not hold Board membership and every nonmember broker or
licensed or certified appraiser who is a Participant in the Board's MLS shall have the right to invoke the Board's arbitration facilities in any dispute arising out of the real estate business with a
REALTOR ® principal in another real estate firm or with that firm (or both), or nonmember broker / appraiser or their firm (or both) who is a Participant in the Board's MLS.
I
did not seek out to become a
licensed agent to fulfill a life long dream of becoming a
Realtor.
Because of the overwhelming costs to continue to be a
licensed Realtor on a month to month basis, I have to assume that these part timers are being supported by other sources of income, either from spouses, pensions or are independently weathy and are simpley
doing this job just to have something to
do, (the business card looks good).
But if you charged a monthly fee of $ 150.00 + just to hold your
licenses how many
Realtors would be left.Hit the realtors in the pocket book that not doing a
Realtors would be left.Hit the
realtors in the pocket book that not doing a
realtors in the pocket book that not
doing anything.
Any
REALTOR who acts as you claim should be charged, stripped of their
license and disbarred (if we could
do so).
The manual should outline social media
do's and don'ts, how to stay in compliance with
license law and, if they are a
REALTOR ®, the Code of Ethics.»
Well stated Larry, if I was running CREA I would
do the unthinkable, give the Competition Bureau 2 weeks to restore
Realtor.ca to
licensed Realtor use only or we will shut it down and let the Competition Bureau deal with the enraged Canadian public.
It may also mean that anyone that's non-realtor, the public can sell / buy real estate (or who set up their website business and get lead / traffic from your detailed MLS datas) by
doing real estate transaction directly with / for the buyer / seller lead, illegal transactions, or extracting referral fees from all parties, all without being
licensed and paying all those hefty fees as
realtors do....
I love what I
do and I can't imagine working in any other industry, but I'm questioning if I want to work in this industry as a
licensed Realtor.
Fettes says in an email to REM that organized real estate needs «one strong dynamic provincial office, with all board offices rolled into one, that manages all the
Realtors in the province where they are
licensed and gives them the support they need, along with hiring one CEO that lives and breathes real estate 24/7 to improve the image of the
Realtors, and insure every
Realtor is in control of their own individual business, and
does everything possible to see that the public understands that
Realtors truly are professional salespeople.»
There is still such a gap between getting your first
license and actually
doing work in the field, new
Realtors need all the help they can get!!
If we all
did it then we would all share in the 20 - 30 % who only want MLS and not the services of a
REALTOR, and if we were given a platform to provide sellers with all the MLS information then we'd take away the competitive advantage that other non
licensed companies so badly want.
Agents who had the co-operating broker
do the listing agent's running around from sheer unapologetic laziness; who obviously saved themselves another trip across town by copying their client's initials or time of signature into a document; who clearly lied about having multiple offers or being related to the seller; and sellers who covered up the fact that they themselves were
licensed Realtors.
It is hard for me to feel vindicated in my approach as a
licensed, tenured, experienced
Realtor, when I am inundated with neighbourhood advice on how best to
do my job.
Also some
Realtors have, to the detrement of our industry, listed properties on websites that mimic and compete with realtor.ca but are owned by companies that
do not provide realty services or
do not have real estate
licenses.
I am a
realtor licensed in Alberta and Saskatchewan and as a «
realtor» I have a job to
do.
The only problem with letting «willy nillies» have access to the MLS is we, as
licensed Realtors, can
do little to police their ethics and when they err we could be tarred with the same brush.
You have
realtors who feel like you are
doing their job and they want you to
do this while having a
license.
«After continually being told by
Realtors that it's impossible to
do certain investments, and then proving them wrong, we decided to
license and
do it ourselves.»
Who
do you think a terrorist or drug dealer is going to buy from, a
licensed Realtor or a private seller?
«We actually created a studio complete with cameras where any of our
REALTORS ® can go in and
do as much visual content as they care to
do,» says Kalinski, of the company's 110
REALTORS ® and 30 — 40
licensed assistants who work to support the firm's teams.
Upon earning my Journeyman papers I had nowhere near the opportunity to financially affect the lives of the public (actually, no opportunity) as
does a newly minted, usually know - nothing,
REALTOR, whose first words post
licensing, and for months to come are «what
do I
do now?».
It's a shame that only two - thousand or so
Realtors across Canada will benefit from your expertise and wisdom as regularly shared by you herein due to the fact that the rest of the mostly - lazy bunch of non-professional
licensed commission - chasers are blissfully unaware of this free education vehicle, because... they don't effing read REM and its commenters, or any other educational material for that matter... unless specifically directed to
do so or are otherwise prompted to
do so.
What
do you feel the impact of 75 % of
licensed REALTORS ® representing clients poorly has on our industry?
I also
do quite a few buys from owners directly, so having the skills and
license in these cases would only save me the 1.5 % I currently pay for this service from an area
Realtor.
An Iowa court has considered a lawsuit brought by the Iowa Association of
REALTORS ® («Association») against a company that
did not hold a real estate
license and operated a website that allowed property owners to advertise the availability of their properties.
Check with you state
licensing commission, your company's attorney, or local
REALTORS ® association to see what the limitations on explaining contracts are in your state — they
do vary.
«There is no basis under the Competition Act to require them to now change the nature of their product by
licensing and posting listings that
do not have even the minimal level of
Realtor involvement contemplated by the MLS Rules & Regulations and the proposed amendments, and thereby risk serious deterioration in the value, quality and acceptance of the MLS system.
The Broker
did have a limited
license to use the
REALTOR marks as described in NAR's Membership Marks Manual, but the marks can only be used with the member's name or the legal name of the member's firm and can not include other nonidentifying terms.
Wholeselling isnt easy and
realtors like myself definitely take offense to anyone trying to
do realtor activities without the proper
licenses.
As for the name, although I don't think NAR has a lock down on «Realty», however, one of your customers may assume you are a «
Realtor», which is a subset of
licensed salespersons.
Also I'm a
realtor and don't want to risk my
license.
A
REALTOR ® is an individual
licensed to list and sell real estate and is also a member of a local board of
REALTORS ®, the state association of
REALTORS ® and the National Association of
REALTORS ® — unlike real estate agents who are simply
licensed by their state to
do business.
«The international market will gain knowledge on what it takes to buy, own property, how they go about
doing this, and finding a
licensed realtor.
This has nothing to
do with retaining your real estate
license, but it is a requirement by NAR in order to maintain membership in a
REALTOR ® Association.
All brokers want to
do things right, whether it is following the
license law or abiding by the National Association of
REALTORS ® Code of Ethics.
A resolution recently passed by Philadelphia City Council called for an audit of real estate activity in the city, and a determination of whether business privilege taxes were being paid, and appropriate commercial
licenses obtained, by suburban
Realtors doing business in the city.