None of you address the issue that the majority of full time agents are really part time. Maybe what should be be disclosed is your volume for the last three years.

You go into any very large office and if I counted the full time agents working full time you would find them in the minority. Just showing up at the office to BS and put in some hours is not working. All too many of the full time agents if they didn't have a working spouse, or some other income (e.g. alimony) would be homeless. Available hours does not equate to quality.

The part-time agents I accepted outproduced the average full time Coldwell-Banker agent down the street and most became full time. Not picking on Coldwell-Banker they were just the office down the street, and well established in my market place. As a matter of fact I remember when they had 3 names, do any of you CB agents know the 3rd name?

Also, the instant age concept is really isn't much different then it was, people always wanted it now or yesterday, and then when they got it they were as slow as everybody else. Do you want good or do you want instant? Yes, I know you want both but I'll cater to good and well satisfied clients. And any prospect that can't wait a few hours for something is just generally a pain from beginning to end and I tell them rush jobs have a higher rate just like most businesses.

The real instant age done right with a brainwashed society will put us out of business. Computers will do your thinking and you will conform or pay the consequences dealt out by the mandatory chip attached to your nervous system after birth.

Besides instant age people think they are doing all the work and they should get the dollars while you should only get pennies for any effort you added to their effort. The first thing I expect to hear from a net nerd is how large of discount are you prepared to give me? Answer, none. Response, well I read on the net...

I agree some full time agent act like part timers but the differance between a full time agent and a part timer is that part timers for the most part will be on the employers clock while doing real estate bussiness, (Texting, answering phone calls and trying to talk to co-worker about real estate, so now you have two maybe more on the clock doing something other than working for what the employment calls for. The so call full /part timer is not on any bodies clock except his own without pay.

Most certainly it isn't! And I'm somone who started out part time. That was ONLY because I wasn't working with alot of money outside of costs for taking classes and what I knew it would costs to get started (NAR, MLS, etc). But I knew I wasn't going to stay part time.

If you're starting part time, I highly suggest:

1. Understand if you want to get into RE as a hobby, just buy properties and flip them, this is a PROFESSION where you're among bonafide real estate professionals...you have people who are not just listing and selling homes, they are on committees, meet with people in the legistlative sector, and are going all out to do their part in seeing to it that REALTORS and agents begin to get a great reputation again. You being part-time and doing it as a hobby, are going to get eaten alive by these professionals...

2. have a SOLID plan to go fulltime in 6-12 months

3. make a business plan that is working around your being part time, once you go fulltime, I suggest you do another one

4. understand, although you're part time, you pay the same fees as fulltime agents

5. understand you cannot take on the same volume of business as a FT agent and that you probably only want to be a listing agent until you're fulltime and can REALLY work with buyers...

6. this part time hobby is going to cost you alot of money...expect to spend more than you make for about 12-18 months

7. have more respect for the industry and stop calling/looking at this as a hobby