All Forum Posts by: JOAN DICKIE

For Facebook, you will create a business page from your personal page.  A business page will allow you to run ads that you can't from your personal.  I created new handles for the rest of social media.  Check with your broker how you need to word your handles.  In Minn. it has to have your broker's name in all advertising which includes social media.  Wisconsin is a little more lax.  So to cover my bases, my handle in Facebook and Instagram is Joan Dickie-Keller Williams Premier Realty.

Congrats on starting your new career!

Also, don't bother if you don't have the money to pay for connection fees and repairs.  It can be from 30 days to whenever to get repaid by certain asset managers.  It's not a cheap  niche to work.

I'm just curious.  What would you do with the information?  As a real estate agent, you are not allowed to contact the sellers before expiration in most locales.

@Flo Schn, we can't advise you much from the U.S.  Here you have to have a real estate license to be a buyers agent.  does Germany have any laws regulating how you can advertise as a lender?  I would say you could market the same way as you do a lender.  If there are no buyers agents, other agents might not welcome you so you might be alienating them and possibly losing business.  You may have to do a lot of educating so other agents don't think you are taking money from them.

if you are doing multiple deals a year, ask her to ask her broker to waive the fee.  I've worked for brokerages that have investor friendly policies.

Every broker charges some kind of fee.  The less the broker charges, the more you have to pay out of your pocket.  Call around and interview brokers.  Decide how much training you want from the broker and find out what they provide.  Tell them what you want to do with your license, because there are are a few brokers who may not want an investor or a person who isn't going to be a high producer.  

Good luck!  Let us know who you picked and why.

Every broker charges some kind of fee.  The less the broker charges, the more you have to pay out of your pocket.  Call around and interview brokers.  Decide how much training you want from the broker and find out what they provide.  Tell them what you want to do with your license, because there are are a few brokers who may not want an investor or a person who isn't going to be a high producer.  

Good luck!  Let us know who you picked and why.

Not knowing your fees from your current broker, it is hard to say what your expenses will be. You can look up on the web what fees the state charges to take the exam and fees to apply for your license. From there, you pay for everything you want yourself. A website, CRM, Errors and omissions if the state requires, state fees to create an business entity, MLS start up fee and dues, business cards, signs are just the beginning.

I am with a large franchise.  It does no advertising and I do my own marketing and pay all my own expenses.  The only thing the office does for me is review paperwork and cut checks.  I'm thinking of going out on my own.

Hi Tim!  I'm your neighbor down to the south, in La Crosse!  There are many members in the Eau Claire area.  You can use the member search to find them.  There are also active meet ups in the Twin Cities that aren't too far away.