NY Prelicensing Education Courses: Tips

[Melonee Rembert]

Hello,

I am writing because I just started taking my real estate prelicensing education courses to eventually obtain my license in the state of New York. I do not have a real estate background, but have been reading and learning about it for the past 6-8 months and decided this could be a future career for me. I worked with a wholesaler and  thought he was pretty shady, and have worked with an agent with whom I hand-wrote hundreds of letters of interest to persons on his buyer lists for cash every week. I live in Pennsylvania, but talked to a prestigious broker over LinkedIn and enrolled in his school to be licensed under his firm afterwards.  I am from PA originally, but plan on moving to New York within the next 3 years as I am also a writer and model. I am only in the beginning parts of the courses, learning about licensing types, requirements and regulations, and wanted to know if anyone had any general studying tips or extra reading material they think would be helpful for me. Feel free to even offer an anecdote of wisdom as I embark on this real estate journey. I am enjoying it so far and absorbing everything, but since I don't work in real estate regularly, I keep wondering how I can apply  this information in a hands on scenario in real life in order to retain it all more efficiently. Any tips?