New real estate licensee

[Jared Mathis]

Hi all,

I just passed my Washington State Real Estate Broker's license exam and am looking to affiliate with a brokerage. I live in Marysville and am not particular which brokerage I hang my license with, since my interest here is primarily as an investor. Actually, as my only interest at this time is in buying out of state, what I'm primarily looking for is access to realtor.com via my local MLS. I had worked a bit preliminarily with Windermere, but was told they're not really looking for part-time agents.

Does anyone have any suggestions how I might move forward?  Or who may know a good brokerage I might contact that might be investor friendly?  

Any suggestions very welcome!

Thanks,

Jessica

[Jonathan Greene]

This might help with finding an investor-friendly brokerage. I wrote it on here a couple of years ago, but it should still all be pretty on-point. https://www.biggerpockets.com/member-blogs/10015/64388-5-steps-to-finding-an-investor-friendly-brokerage

Don't discount what you can do with your license locally. OOS investing isn't going to what you think. You can use your access to find better markets near you. Too many people get licensed and don't learn how to do the job in their market and then when their friend wants to buy a house, they don't know what to do. Even if your goals are to invest, would you really pass on a commission if a friend wanted to buy a 500k house?