I really don't like KW, but I think they can be good for someone who is starting out. Just remember to leave after you learn how to do business. Others you might look at are Century 21, Weichert, Coldwell Banker, Prudential. Or just look in the newspaper or on craiglist to see who is hiring.

KW has a lot of training, but it sounds like you got into a bad office. Interview a few different brokers to see who you think has a program that will work for you.

Thanks for your advice. I'm actually going tomorrow to another KW office for an interview. Let's see how is their training program.

Thanks again! :)

Anyelina

My gut feeling when I read your post was it's time to take a hike and now your last post confirms you believe it too. Don't change your mind. I guess KW is OK but their agents don't impress me any more than any other company's and I have been a broker as long as you have been alive.

Formal training is nice but I have had to retrain many agents that if they wanted to make a living had to dump the training these supposed training programs offered by the big companies gave. You can do as well or better with self training and being active.

Bay Area Brian,

Really? Oh Brian! I would be so grateful if you can give suggestions where to get that self-training. What books do you suggest? or seminars, programs, internet websites, etc etc?
Because that's what I really need, suggestions and advices from people like you, that has been in this business for so long!

I honestly prefer self-training and have a great successful mentor on my side. I found that great mentor, she has been successfully in this business since 1979, (her father had been a realtor too, with many offices and she with her daughter continue to manage them, a family business!); but I am trying to know where to get that great self-training. I have bought books, searching on the internet but that's it.

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! :)

Anyelina

Self training is available everyday, everywhere. You just have to tune in and listen and make notes (yes, actually make notes)

Actually my training started the day I went into the real estate board to quit. It was the day of the weekly lunch and so I thought I'll eat before I quit. The only open seat was next to a guy called Old Henry that every one avoided so they didn't have to listen to his stories. Old Henry had started in the real estate business in 1909, the real ground floor.

I asked him what he would do today if he were me. He told me 3 stories and I took one of them to heart and focused on it. Plus I made a date to sit next to him at the next lunch. This guys stories were pure gold and these fools that avoided him weekly were struggling and the answers they sought were right in front of them waiting to be mined.

As the market would change Old Henry would tell me stories about a similar market. When 1982 hit and real estate came to a stand still I sailed right on through thanks to his stories. The answers are in front of us if we look and ask.

I remember having one new agent that I took over to the real estate board library with a big binder full of blank paper and telling her not to bother me until she had gone through every tape, book, magazine there, and I meant every single one. She found her foundation in the California Real Estate magazines issued during the 1920's and 1930's and this was the 1990's.

Just a side note, I stopped to have lunch with two old broker friends and we decided to meet at the board library and to go eat from there. The new library committee had discarded everything prior to 1990. God, if they had only knew what they had discarded, they had no idea what it contained, to them it was just old. I could start a very very successful career today with the knowledge they tossed in the garbage.

I would say that if you are going to get the same quality training from your broker/manager, I would go with that. There is no reason to pay out 40% to get bad leads. Also, never discount your self because you are a "new" agent. Both clients and coworkers will pick up on that right away.