I'm looking to purchase a DVD course that teaches the newly licensed real estate agent how to be a real estate agent. I will be not be joining a team and the office I am going to work at does not offer training. So I have to teach myself. Any good suggestions for a training course that I can purchase?

This is not an easy request.

What you can/should/would do can depend on what state you are in.

In fact, even within a state, the practical nuts and bolts of what you do as a real estate agent can change from county to county. These are more issues of custom than anything else.

I would suggest you start at your local Realtor Association office. They usually offer trainings for new agents that will cover much of this kind of information.

If your more interested in some of the more universal things facing agents like marketing, propsecting, etc. just do searches on those issues on this forum, you will get more info than you could imagine.

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I really like the videos made by David Knox. He has a series called Real Estate Live which covers a variety of topics like prospecting, cmas and seller counseling. If you go to his website you can order a free sampler dvd which has a segment from one of his live seminars on commission cutting, it's really good.

Most new agents are led to believe the way to get started is to set up a Farm. Yes, but how do you know how to go about it, when you know nothing about selling real estate.....so my advice is for you to work in a multiple whereby you can visit at least 5 listed homes ever day. Within a month you will have built an eventory of buyers, and sellers, and listing. In that mix of 100 homes you will be amazed to find what goes on behind closed doors. And keep an open mind, attached to nothing. Be not offended at what you see, hear, touch, feel, or smell. ---That kept me in the business for 43 years.