College Town Leasing

[Steve Novosel]

I'm currently a student at a growing, yet relatively small university. I plan to enter the Real Estate field in late January with the course being offered sometime earlier in the month. My goal is to gain experience by leasing to students, customers that I am in direct contact with. The student population is roughly around 7,000 that live on campus however the school is projecting to bring in around 23,000 students in 10 years. I am in several organizations throughout campus so networking by word of mouth is how I plan to spread my service around. Anyways, in my college town my landlords use a Realtor to write up leases, list the properties, find tenants, etc. I feel as though because I am a student and also have my license I would be valuable to landlords looking for tenants. I know that all commissions are negotiable, and I would even be willing to take a lower percentage in order to build a clientele. Are there any veteran Realtors in NJ that could shed some light on this? Any advice would be helpful. I don't expect to make large amounts of money, but use this as experience building so that I am able to enter the selling market and work my up. I have a broker and funds have already been sorted out.