What to know before your first Brooklyn Real Estate Class

Look, I went to Brown—and aced it. Real estate classes didn’t scare me. Brooklyn scares me but not school. Some of my habits I learned at Brown really paid off for me however.

First, and I recommend this, I found out everything there was about my first class. I found out it was a New York requirement that you attend all 75 hours of the 75-hour course. Even if you choose to take your Brooklyn Real Estate Class in Chelsea at home on your computer, you literally have to sit in front of your computer for the full 75 hours.

In class or online?

The first thing I had to decide consequently, was; do I attend class or go online somewhere like www.brooklynrei.com? I know, a brainiac like me might as well take the course online. However, at Brown I learned the value of networking. I knew that learning from people and colleagues often had advantages over online courses. You do have to be gregarious and outgoing to take advantage of that learning channel. Some people I know took the online course and they did fine.

Do you have time for a Brooklyn real estate class?

If you decide to take your class online, you actually have one year to complete the 75 hours. This would be a bad idea in my opinion. By the time you completed the course you would have forgotten everything and need to take a refresher course to be able to pass the real estate exam.

Since I decided to take the class, I needed to make sure I could fit the class into my schedule while I was still working at the hospital to pay the bills. I needed to figure in driving time, class time, and time to talk to anyone I could find who could give me a heads up on the real estate business.

I then wanted to schedule time after class to study. I was taking my pursuit of real estate as serious as any career. I inherently knew that knowledge was one of the key factors of success and I was cramming any information I could get for success.

What’s your career path and timeline?

Even though my life and schedule were such that I just had to plug myself into schedules and curriculums that were already set, I recognized that now I needed to do that for myself. How fast did I want to get my license? What was my career path after that? What are the opportunities and what are the drawbacks?

Based on schedule at work, I created a reasonably aggressive timeline to get my license. I then had to seek out a mentor who could show me the career paths available to me and what kind of time commitment should I plan on. Without these objectives firmly in my mind, I could see how time could be my enemy. I had to follow a timeline that would allow me to quit my hospital job as soon as possible. My quality of life there was sucking the life out of me.

Having all of these things in mind before I began my first class made my real estate career happen much quicker for me than if I had waited to be told what I should do next in my Brooklyn real estate class.