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Real Estate Licensing in Virginia does not Equate Competence

You know what leads to competence? Practice.

the Principles of Real Estate course doesn’t talk about completing a contract

Because …  how often does a real estate agent write a contract, right? 🙂

Note: Principles of Real Estate is the course that all new real estate licensees in the Commonwealth of Virginia must take in order to get licensed.

 

 

 

From the Virginia Association of Realtors’ Commonwealth Magazine (archived: 2017)

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The only true education (in anything, really) is experience. I’ve talked about this, and sat on committees (for *years* – at both national and state Realtor levels) about “real estate professionalism” –  and have since resigned myself to the ineffectiveness of the political system with respect to this issue.

The only reasonable solution is an apprenticeship program.

More hours won’t solve this.

To consumers: caveat emptor as there is no viable nor valid means by which to ascertain a real estate professional’s competence online without asking another competent professional his opinion of another.


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