This year we made it a goal to start teaching class again in person. Keller Williams Pinnacle Central in Worcester has invited us back to use their office on the weekends to teach in person classes.
The last few weeks we’ve been receiving many phone calls from agents asking us, “How do I renew my license?” , “When do I renew my license?” and “When does the Board send out the renewal paperwork?”. The first question that we ask is “When is your birthday?”. The Board of Real Estate Brokers and Sales Persons will mail out the renewal forms 2 months before your birthday. If they have not yet received the forms, we always ask if they have moved. The Board does not check to see if your mailing address has changed. It is our responsibility as Real Estate agents in Massachusetts to update our mailing address with the board.
1. If you have moved since your last license renewal or passing the Salesperson or Broker test. Click here to download the pdf form that you need to fill out to change your address with the Board.
2. If it’s time for you to renew your license and you have not yet received your renewal paperwork. You’ll need to call the Board (617) 727 – 2373 to check the address they have for you. You will also need to ask them to send out another renewal form.
3. If you plan on paying online. You will need to create an account on the Board’s website. In order to do that you will need the Record ID/license number that is found on the license renewal paperwork. If you do not have the paperwork you will need to call the Board (617) 727 – 2373.
Your real estate license in Massachusetts can fall into 3 categories.
It is very easy to reactive an Inactive real estate license. To reactive your Massachusetts Salesperson or Broker license. You just need to complete 12 hours of continuing education and fill out License Reactivation Form.
To reactive your real estate license it will take about 4 to 6 weeks once the Board of Registration of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons has received all your paperwork.
Your real estate license in Massachusetts can fall into 3 categories.
When your license falls in the Active category you can receive referral fees for the referrals that you pass other Brokerages. You can receive referrals fees even if your real estate license in not associated with a brokerage. However, to receive a commission for helping a Buyer, Seller, Landlord or Tenant. Your real estate license must be associated with a Brokerage.
It is very easy to reactive an In-Active real estate license. To reactive your Massachusetts Salesperson or Broker license. You just need to complete 12 hours of continuing education and fill out License Reactivation Form.
If your Massachusetts Salesperson or Broker license falls in the Expired category. If it expired more than 2 years you will need to fill out the Request for Reinstatement Application. You will also need to complete 12 hours of continuing education.
To reactive or reinstate your real estate license it will take about 4 to 6 weeks once the Board of Registration of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons has received all your paperwork.
We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends. Time is a gift we all wish we could receive. There just never seems to be enough time to do everything we need to do. Especially around the holidays. Even though you may be running around crazy trying to do all your shopping, decorate your home, drive the kids here or there, show buyers properties and sign listing contracts. You still need to find some time to complete your continuing education, so you can renew your license. Taking your continuing education on the go is so much easier. We thought we would spread a little cheer by offering a coupon for our 12 hours of online continuing education. Happy Holiday and best wishes for an amazing 2018.
This video explains all the requirements for taking the 40 hour Salesperson’s Prelicense class and taking the Prelicense Examination. People interested in getting a real estate agents license in Massachusetts should go to http://baystateacademy.net and sign up for our industry updates for more detailed information.
The Real Estate Exam in Massachusetts can be confusing but only because of the volume of real estate terms that need to be learned by the students. When I am teaching, about halfway through the first day, students will ask if they really need to know everything that we are covering for the test. I wish that I could tell them that they only need to know a few terms but that is not the case. The test covers over 1200 terms. Which can seem intimidating at first but once we get familiar with the basics things more along quite nicely.
I am sure that most Real Estate Trainers would agree that the only way you are going to pass the exam is to know the vocabulary. But how should the students go about learning the terms is the question?
I teach a technique that I call pointing the test. The exam is made up of 135 questions. There are 85 questions on the general portion of the test and 50 questions of the state portion of the exam. The students have 4 hours to complete the exam and they only need a 70% on each portion of the test to pass.
It is important to note that all of the questions are not worth the same point value but the student will not be aware of which questions are worth more points on the test. This sounds like we are going in circles until you realize that the test stresses particular subject areas.
If you go to the Pearson Vue Website and download the content outline of the test you will discover that some of the subject areas have substantially more questions than others. In talking with student both before and after their exam I have noticed a pattern.
Students that concentrated their studying on the subject areas that had more questions got higher scores on the test. I know this might sound obvious but you would be surprised how many students start studying for the test with out any focus.
So it should come as no big shock to hear that focused studying is the first part of the process that I call pointing the test. The second part of the process has to do with how the students actually take the exam. Here are the rules of the second part:
The reason that I suggest this Pointing the Test method is that it focuses the student on getting as many points as possible as fast as possible. This is important because often times a students first guess/thought about a question is the correct answer. The other benefit is that the student is reading all of the questions on the test before answering the hardest questions. Many of the description to questions on the test will give answers to other questions. This gives the best chance to get the points from those harder questions. And finally we come to the math questions. Of all the questions on the test the math questions cause more fear and dread than all the others combined. You will be happy to hear that only 10% of the questions on the test will be math questions. So if you leave these question until the end you will not be so flustered by the math that you get easy vocab questions wrong.
That is it for my suggestions try them out and let me know what you think in the comments bellow.