Where to do (online) real estate training?
May 25, 2014 1:00 PM Subscribe
I'm going to get my real estate broker license and want to take the required class hours online (90 for WA state). There are a number of sites that offer the classes, however none have impressed me in the least. Is there something out there I just haven't found?
I can't imagine as online education/delivery is finally improving (ala skillshare, coursera, etc) that there isn't a well-designed, solid option out there. Maybe there isn't and I'll just go with kapre.com, which is one of the only ones that at least doesn't look sketchy.
I can't imagine as online education/delivery is finally improving (ala skillshare, coursera, etc) that there isn't a well-designed, solid option out there. Maybe there isn't and I'll just go with kapre.com, which is one of the only ones that at least doesn't look sketchy.
Response by poster: I ended up going with the Kaplan real estate course upon the recommendation of a few people who had used it. One thing that I hadn't seen addressed on any of the sites was what to expect. That being the case, I was assuming it was a series of videos I was going to have to watch. Instead it's all text/reading.
The Kaplan interface is pretty well done, the design modern and attractive (much better than their sales site). I started the course on my computer and noticed that the quizzes use Flash (could easily be done with html/css/javascript), so out of curiosity, I switched to my iPad to see if they have a fall-back for that and they do - everything seems to look and work fine.
@polymath - thanks for your input. The ProSchools site definitely looked better than the Kaplan one and I almost went that route, but two great personal recommendations for Kaplan, as well as a ~$50 cheaper price, swayed me. I haven't yet figured out where I'm going to hang my license. I know several of the managing brokerages have their own schools, but for some reason I wanted to keep my education separate from that. I have several contacts (brokers from the area) who I'm going to have coffee with in the next week to get their feedback and thoughts on who to go with/what to consider.
posted by shawnmk at 5:56 PM on May 27, 2014
The Kaplan interface is pretty well done, the design modern and attractive (much better than their sales site). I started the course on my computer and noticed that the quizzes use Flash (could easily be done with html/css/javascript), so out of curiosity, I switched to my iPad to see if they have a fall-back for that and they do - everything seems to look and work fine.
@polymath - thanks for your input. The ProSchools site definitely looked better than the Kaplan one and I almost went that route, but two great personal recommendations for Kaplan, as well as a ~$50 cheaper price, swayed me. I haven't yet figured out where I'm going to hang my license. I know several of the managing brokerages have their own schools, but for some reason I wanted to keep my education separate from that. I have several contacts (brokers from the area) who I'm going to have coffee with in the next week to get their feedback and thoughts on who to go with/what to consider.
posted by shawnmk at 5:56 PM on May 27, 2014
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Have you figured out where you'll be hanging your license? If you have an idea of the company/office you'd like to join, it might be good to ask the managing broker(s) if they have any schools they think are particularly great.
posted by polymath at 11:31 PM on May 25, 2014