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All Forum Posts by: Ron Martin

Ron Martin has started 1 posts and replied 26 times.

Post: Best online education program

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

I had decided on Aceable Agent but did Moseley online instead. It has an online text, glossary, and the course is several modules with quizzes which must be passed in order. I breezed through those which opened up practice tests which opened up the final. I passed that first time which opened practice tests for the state and national exam.

Somebody on another site recommended buying the PSI test prep package which I did. I found the Moseley test prep materials helped more than the PSI stuff even though the licensing exam was from PSI. I passed state and national first time and my application is among the probably much smaller stack of agent applications at DPOR Virginia.

Moseley has no bells or whistles and I didn't discover the charts and diagrams until I was finished. The cost of the course also includes post licensing materials which meets those requirements.

Post: **Which Online Pre-License Course Do You Prefer?**

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

I had decided on Aceable Agent but did Moseley online instead. It has an online text, glossary, and the course is several modules with quizzes which must be passed in order. I breezed through those which opened up practice tests which opened up the final. I passed that first time which opened practice tests for the state and national exam.

Somebody on another site recommended buying the PSI test prep package which I did. I found the Moseley test prep materials helped more than the PSI stuff even though the licensing exam was from PSI. I passed state and national first time and my application is among the probably much smaller stack of agent applications at DPOR Virginia.

Moseley has no bells or whistles and I didn't discover the charts and diagrams until I was finished. The cost of the course also includes post licensing materials which meets those requirements. 

Post: Any Active Duty Military Real Estate Agents

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14
Quote from @Hamp Lee III:

What were you looking for in a brokerage?

How important was the commission split when you already had full-time employment?

 Hello @Hamp Lee III I've wanted to get my real estate license most of my adult life. I'm retired navy and checked into it once on shore duty but it was the wrong time. I'm in my 16th year teaching high school and take the Virginia salesperson exam 1 Oct. My plan is to start part time and leave teaching in a year or two. I get so much time off that part time for me still leaves lots of time to learn and develop my business. I have a retired navy commander/broker who says he'll bring me aboard once I get licensed. He's at a cloud based company which seems like it will be a better fit for me. I first though, need to pass the test.

Post: Do you carry a gun when visiting your C-F class properties?

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

All my guns were lost in a tragic boating accident. 

Post: New to me 4unit with German roaches bad tenants...

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14
Originally posted by @Jay Hinrichs:

never heard of roach's with a nationality.. been in houses though with those things scouring about.. its not by accident its the occupants way of living.

 Blattella germanica, the German cockroach. 

Post: Wholesaling in Tuscaloosa, Al

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

Roll Tide

Post: WHO ARE YOU? What do you do besides real estate?

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

I'm retired Navy and currently get lots of money for barely teaching nine months of high school. My son and I were about to start our investing career when he got home from his third deployment in two and a half years. But, he got orders to another operational billet in California. 

Post: New Member, Northern Virginia

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

Hello from Virginia's oldest town.

Post: Newbie from Brockton, Massachusetts

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

Welcome aboard Jeff. I'm also a medicine man. 

Post: Avoiding Section 8

Ron MartinPosted
  • Homeowner
  • Dumfries, VA
  • Posts 26
  • Votes 14

My next door neighbor is section eight. The local housing authority never inspects, they never cut the grass or do other maintenance, have numerous unauthorized occupants, and all have phones, smokes and no jobs.