Becoming a real estate is a great way to learn the culture of that side of real estate - what you won't learn at Realtor School is how to invest - creative financing and making money.What you will learn is how to keep from getting sued - how to use their forms and making full disclosures.Learn the business from their prospective - but keep in mind (before you become brained washed) that your real goal is to become a successful investor.So - follow their rules - but start to study real estate investing - get a mentor - go to auctions, tax sales - foreclosures - make offers on expired listings.So to make your broker happy -- list a few properties and sell some also.Apply for a credit line, check protection and set up some joint ventures with friends and relatives.You WON'T make that much as an agent - but you'll become wealthy if you learn how to CONTROL and ROLL real estate - make sure you learn advanced creative real estate formulas and use those principals often.Good luck with your release from incarceration of employment.

I'd love to see a wider variety of guests on the show (i.e. people from a minority culture, people who are investing as a parent/child team, people who are renting specifically to refugees, people investing in Detroit and loving it).  

It also has a TON of culture and great food because of the population, and lots of community and government support to improve the area.  

Even though this is a terrible situation I'm smiling because a BP celebrity saw my post and took time to help me!

Having met my future wife and then moving to the Bronx, from Wilton CT, it was a bit of culture shock for me at first, but that was 20 years ago.  

So you make it sound more like a bonus to  smooth things over and just offer a hundred bucks as a bonus for the seller to get out and celebrate for the weekend.  

I'm in a somewhat similar situation; not that my husband's not interested, he thinks he can't do any of the research/buying since he's not a native English speaker nor familiar with this aspect of the culture (never mind that my whole post-college life has been spent outside the USA, so I'm quite clueless about many things).

Hi all, we celebrated our daughter birthday last month and we had a renovation done.

I have several ideas that will lend well to 'company culture,' based upon actually helping buyers and sellers out of a tough situation, vs. focusing on making say 10- 20 grand gross, vs. doing more 'volume,' in the $5k. - $10k. per deal, range.

Plus, having half the house non AirB helps create consistency in the house with the houses "culture" and norms so when my more transient AirB guests come into the fold they are socialized quickly and welcomed.