chazlac, keep in mind that there constant rumours about changes in real estate licenses in California. It may or may not affect people that have conditional licenses.

Actually, they're not rumors, they take effect later this year. I'm no legal expert, but here's my understanding of it.

CA requires 3 courses for you to have an RE Sales Agent license. BUT, currently, to sit for the state exam, you only need to be enrolled in "Real Estate Principles" course. Pass the state exam and submit proof of completion of the first course and you get a conditional license that's valid for 18 months.

At that point, you have 18 months to complete two more courses, "Real Esate Practice" and once elective. The laws will change in that in order to sit for the exam, you have to show proof of completion of all 3 courses.

In other words, the requirements to even get into the testing room will triple and the conditional licenses will be eliminated. My understanding is that they are doing this because too many folks were getting the conditional licenses and not finishing the 18-month requirements, which creates a lot of paperwork for the DRE.