My E&O policy is based upon risk and my provider assesses risk by the number and type of transactions the brokerage does in a year. 

My father has been in the real estate brokerage business for about 40 years and he has taught me a little bit.  

Roughly $1,500 later I was licensed and hanging it at a flat fee brokerage that only has maybe 5 agents.

Michael is providing some great advice.If you want to spend your days in the bullpen, or driving couples and their kids around to countless viewings, then you need a "traditional Brokerage.If you want to pursue investing and have a license, you need an "investor friendly" Brokerage...We are a HUD Brokerage, all of us are investors,don't pay fees, and work from home.If you are an independent self starter that doesn't need the corporate entity to succeed, traditional "sell what's on OUR truck first" global brokerages.

Hi Lauren HeartRE Law firm brokerage with extensive background with homes and business.Sure, just invite me when you folks meet.Regards,Sam

In Alabama, to have an active license, it must be held with a brokerage.

Real Estate brokerage, Commerical agents... etc.

My father has been in the real estate brokerage business for about 40 years and he has taught me a little bit.  

Long term, I would like to run a brokerage, numerous investment properties, and be engaged in all different types of real estate.Short term, I hope to make enough to pay my way through school and own a few investment properties by the time I graduate in 2019.

What I am wondering is whether I should go through traditional brokerage, or may be opt through a low cost attorney.