Real Estate Career Starter (Career Starters) [Paperback]

Learning Express Editors (Author)

Book Description

Series: Career Starters | Publication Date: January 1, 1990

The all-inclusive guide to obtaining a job as a real estate agent, broker, or appraiser. All the information you need on educational and licensing requirements, including descriptions of the professional licensure examinations. Details on the areas of specialization and advice on how to find the right area for you. PLUS, inside tips on where the jobs are and how to get them.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Real Estate Career Starter is a thorough look at what it takes to make it in a career in real estate. It's all here from the initial decision to choosing an area of specialization, picking a school, applying for financial aid (the advice and Web sites on this topic alone are worth the price of the book), preparing a resume, interviewing, and acquiring a professional designation. Comments from real estate professionals in many areas of practice appear throughout and add to the real-world emphasis. -- Martha R. Williams, J.D., Co-author, California Real Estate Principles and Fundamentals of Real Estate Appraisal

From the Publisher

This series offers entry-level job seekers the perfect first step to careers in these growing fields. Each book features the hottest jobs in each career area, easy-to-read requirements for each job, leading providers of training programs for the specific career area, financing for training, tips for success, and much more. Ideal for young job hunters who want to know where the opportunities are.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Learningexpress, Llc; 1st edition (January 1, 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576851427
• ISBN-13: 978-1576851425
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,901,287 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not very helpful, July 21, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Real Estate Career Starter (Career Starters) (Paperback)

If you are interested in information about real estate training programs or how to get a job in real estate this is the book for you. 75 pages of at 225 page book are dedicated to listing of different real estate programs, most of which are located at community colleges. The rest of the book is dedicated to finding your first job in real estate. I did not find this book very helpful. I found "Your Successful Real Estate Career" by Kenneth Edwards to be much more useful.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps if this is your first job..., August 6, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Real Estate Career Starter 2e (Paperback)

I ordered this book and "Your Successful Real Estate Career" by Kenneth Edwards. I preferred the Edwards book. Since I am just at the beginning stages of exploring real estate as a career possibility, I thought that a good survey book like this would be helpful. But it seems geared to someone who is new to the working world, and even then there are about 100 pages of padding. Lots of info on training programs at community colleges all across the country, how to pick a college, info on financial aid, how to land your first job (very basic resume and interviewing stuff) etc. It might be helpful to someone who is entering the working world, but otherwise you can find the same training requirements info on the Internet in half an hour. The best chapter is the first one, which provides an overview of the type of jobs available in the field (new territory for me).

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Only contains info on the sales/broker career, August 13, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Real Estate Career Starter 2e (Paperback)

I was disappointed in this book since I was looking for information about the appraiser profession. This book is focused only on the sales and broker careers and only dedicated 3-4 pages out of 207 to the appraisal career. The title of this book should be changed to reflect this.