The document provides information about becoming a real estate agent, including required qualifications, job duties, skills needed, education and training requirements, salaries, and costs of education programs. To become an agent, one must be at least 18, have a high school diploma or equivalent, complete real estate courses, pass an exam, and undergo a background check. Duties involve helping clients buy, sell, rent residential and commercial properties by promoting listings, preparing documents, and facilitating transactions. Successful agents have good communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills. Average salaries are around $55,000 but hours are long and pay is by commission. Education costs range from $12,000 at Ashford University to $8,000

1. Hong Nguyen

2.  Help potential clients buy, sell, and rent
properties
◦ Residential
◦ Commercial
◦ Industrial
◦ agricultural
 Compare properties
 Promote properties
 Prepare documents

3.  Office  Zoning and tax laws
 At home  Escrow companies,
 Onsite showing lenders, home
properties to clients inspectors, and pest
 Traveling control operators
 Meeting potential
clients

4.  Easy to get along  Independence
with  Communication
 Good judgment  Interpersonal
 Good memory for  Organization
faces and names  Persuasion
 Honesty  Problem solving
 Trustworthiness

5.  18  Accounting
 Real estate courses  Business
 Pass an exam administration
 Background check  Finance
 Classroom training  Law
 Bachelor’s degree  Marketing
 Real estate

6. $12,000
$10,000
$8,000
Ashford
$6,000
Grand View
$4,000
$2,000 University of
Northern Iowa
$0

7.  40+ hours  Commission
 Own time  Starting salary:
 Self employment $40,000
 Average salary:
$55,000

8. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook
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