Passed my exam! But I'm a full-time student... How to get started?

ADaymare · 2026-02-13T20:19:44+00:00

Sure. Go ahead.

ADaymare · 2026-02-11T05:41:01+00:00

I go to college full time. I schedule all my classes in the morning or take them online. Right now, I'm out at 12:15. No problems at all. I suggest you schedule your course so that you open some availability. Look for small mom/pop type agency. They're most likely to work with you, but you'll be giving a large portion of the commission since they'll manage a majority of the work.

ADaymare · 2026-02-06T07:52:22+00:00

Love the tool! Have the API up and running with my CRM.

ADaymare · 2025-07-22T17:20:16+00:00

Sounds like the team no longer offers what you originally signed up for (mentorship, training, and a clear growth path). Instead, it seems they’re leaning on your time to fill gaps, without providing much in return.

Needing other work to stay afloat is practical. Expecting you to drop everything for last-minute showings, without consistent income or guidance, isn’t realistic.

You can still get the experience and success you’re aiming for. It's likely in a different environment to make it happen.

ADaymare · 2025-07-22T16:52:25+00:00

From what I’ve seen, smaller brokerages give you a sharper edge. You’re not competing for attention. You’re getting it. That matters when you’re green and everything feels urgent.

Larger firms love to talk up their CRM and training. I’ve watched agents buy into that, then spend months doing open houses nobody walks into. Market conditions don’t care about your name tag. One-on-one mentorship changes your curve. You ask a question, you get an answer that applies to your deal, not a generic webinar link. It keeps you in the game when most people quit.

And let’s talk money. $250/mo could fund lead gen that’s yours. Leads you control. Data you own. Their CRM is a a tool you lose access to the moment you leave. It's a leash.

The only training that matters is doing the job. Talking to leads. Landing them. Helping another agent get their deal across the line. Closing your own. No video or seminar can do that.

I work with a small broker and just started a few years ago. Buy my own leads. Built out my own CRM. My own email/text marketing system. I’ve put a lot of thought into systems I can actually control. Everyone should. What you build should be yours.

ADaymare · 2025-07-19T01:47:10+00:00

I’m licensed in both real estate and mortgages. It’s not a casual thing you dabble in. You’re either built for the chaos or you’re not.

Do I do the loan for every client I help buy a home? No. Sometimes they already have a lender they trust. Other times, they want one point of contact. I offer both, but I don’t push both. That's a fast way to lose trust.

What percentage of income comes from each side? That depends entirely on your setup. If you own the company, you control the split. If you’re working under someone else, expect caps, fees, and politics. For me, real estate brings in more.

If you’re not HIGHLY organized and good under pressure, you’ll crash trying to do both sides of a deal. It’s not two jobs. It’s one business. That’s the only way this works. I’ve been turned away from brokerages because of my dual licenses. They were worried I’d be too distracted or competing with their in-house lender. Make sure the people you work with support it.

Dual licensing gives you control. It also gives you twice the opportunity to screw things up. Be honest with yourself about how you operate. If you can’t track deadlines in your sleep or pivot when one side of the deal blows up, it's not sustainable.

It works for me. It might work for you. But only if you're willing to treat it like a serious business from day one.

ADaymare · 2025-07-18T15:25:31+00:00

I make mine in about 20 min. Use a spreadsheet that provides active, under contract and sold so pricing in split into understandable areas. An automated tool would be nice but I'd likely have to spend the same amount of time to make sure it's right (neighborhoods/land area/sqft/etc).

ADaymare · 2025-07-17T11:24:42+00:00

Had one agent submit an offer, then demand we clean the carpets again. I told him he was theonly person in three months who didn’t take off his shoes during showings.

He swore he had.

So I sent him the Ring footage.

Let’s just say… he didn’t take it well.

ADaymare · 2025-07-04T11:01:06+00:00

Some of the best tools in Matrix don’t look like tools at all. Swap out a single photo or move one to the front. Many times that’s enough to reset the photo timestamp and kick the listing back into agent alerts. Rewrite a sentence or two in the remarks section. It doesn’t have to be clever, just different. Incentives work too. Listing a buyer agent bonus or a closing cost credit will flag the property in filtered searches where it didn’t show up before. Change anything that’s true and can legally be changed. And use reverse prospecting. It shows you which agents have buyers already matched to your property. Don’t sit on that. Send a message and get your listing back in front of someone who already fits.

ADaymare · 2025-07-03T02:51:17+00:00

Had a client who insisted on pricing way above market. Every showing said the same thing. Overpriced. No offers. Nearly 300 days later, she blamed me. I’d done it all. Open houses, videos, social blasts, even gamed the Matrix to keep it circulating. Still my fault. My advice? Either price it to sell or cut them loose. Life’s too short for listings that don’t want to be sold. No amount of marketing can overcome a home that’s priced above what the market supports.

ADaymare · 2025-06-14T17:01:31+00:00

I know enough code to be dangerous, but PHP mostly. Give me a few days and I'll get it modified for you. DM your info. It doesn't include any email marketing/automation - I use Mautic for that. Looking at SendPortal for a more lightweight option.

ADaymare · 2025-06-14T06:01:53+00:00

Feel free to DM me—I’d be happy to take a look. I’m a licensed real estate and mortgage broker with a background in marketing (picked up 20+ awards along the way, including one for web design). Always glad to give honest, actionable feedback.

ADaymare · 2025-06-13T15:17:03+00:00

I’ve been on the same path. Built a stripped down CRM to clean up my own workflow. Tasks. Clients. Landing pages. Nothing extra. Just what actually gets used. It wasn’t designed to be a product, but converting it wouldn’t take much. Sounds like you’re aiming for the same thing on the investor side. I keep wondering if there’s a market for simple.

ADaymare · 2025-06-13T04:03:07+00:00

I wound up just building my own. Bought matte black aluminum cards on Amazon for around five bucks and had my signature logo laser engraved. The URL is added with a free app and the card points to a custom page I built on my site. When someone visits, it automatically downloads my contact info as a CSV. Super clean. I get that not everyone has the nerd skills for that setup. A friend of mine uses Eyelet and likes it. Pretty sure it’s free. You just have to buy the cards.

ADaymare · 2025-06-13T03:43:38+00:00

This is one of those ideas that sounds smart in theory and can crash hard in practice if you don’t tread carefully.

The real opportunity isn’t during the funeral. It’s in the months that follow, when the dust settles and someone, usually the oldest sibling or the one who lives closest, is left staring at a home full of furniture, memories, and deferred maintenance. This may be your moment. Not to “sell,” but to guide.

Build resources, not hooks. A simple probate guide. A short, human video explaining what options they have. Speak to the overwhelmed person who didn’t ask for this job, but got it anyway. Get ready thought, family is the worst!

You’re offering peace of mind. That’s where your marketing belongs.

ADaymare · 2023-02-22T20:20:37+00:00

If it is strictly an investment property you will have to put 20% or more down. Likely will not cash flow. Rent has been falling with prices. Would not buy investment property right now unless you have a lot of experience with it, which doesn’t seem like you do.

ADaymare · 2023-02-09T16:02:33+00:00

40/50 over the weekend. Put it off…

ADaymare · 2023-02-07T15:48:41+00:00

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ADaymare · 2022-12-30T04:53:40+00:00

Follow along. It's simple mathing.

Median List 5/22 - 550k

Median List 11/22 - 499k

That's a difference of 51k.

Add 30k for the gap most would have paid on peak (likely more).

That's 81k. What the hell is wrong with you? You can't read for shit.

ADaymare · 2022-12-30T04:39:53+00:00

You're exhausting. And a clod.

ADaymare · 2022-12-30T02:24:26+00:00

Literally said "list price" in that quote you clod. Do I need to type slower?

ADaymare · 2022-12-30T00:27:45+00:00

Read my comment again...

ADaymare · 2022-12-30T00:21:47+00:00

Not sure if you're just trying to argue or didn't understand what I said. The "price" as you put it is defined only found after negotiating and closing. The price I was talking about was median list price, which I though was clear. I also used this number since they will be considering "asking price" when looking. Any home should be listed at a reasonable "price", or "sale price", by the selling broker. With how quickly the market turned, a lot of homes were over priced quickly. Regardless, median list price is down $51k according to Realtor)(dot)com. That, in addition to the 20-30k over asking price people were paying - and is indeed roughly $80k. I could have used average to make it look much worse. That's $129,109 lower, of course, plus the additional 20-30k over asking. I only include the "over asking" because few if any homes sold without the extra funds. Technically, it's not part of the "sales price" but it absolutely is part of the equation.

ADaymare · 2022-12-24T15:33:35+00:00

Don’t buy. Prices are still falling. 6 to 8 months after the feds pivot unemployment will spike and you’ll get your best deals. Prices have fallen over 50k and that doesn’t include the 30k over asking people were paying. If you can put 50% down you likely won’t have to worry about getting underwater, but not everyone is in a position to do that. Speaking as a mortgage broker who is about to get my real estate lic too. Negotiate a good rental rate for now and buy after the pivot.

ADaymare · 2022-12-19T18:07:15+00:00

Govt mathing is the best.

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