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7 best real estate schools in Massachusetts for 2024

Housing Wire

Features Commercial Lease Clauses of Tenant Concerns: Part III and other residential courses C Gold Package 12 Hrs: Includes 12 hrs of CE for MA commercial real estate. Features Commercial Real Estate Basics and 5 other landlord and tenant courses Broker Prelicensing $420 Online Broker Supervised Video Course: Webinar. out of 5.

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Should You Get a Real Estate License to Flip Homes in Texas?

Listing Spark

Some prospective house flippers look at the numbers and all the steps of buying, repairing, and selling a flip, and they consider what certifications or licenses they can get to streamline the process. Instead, house purchases are conducted on the standard contract forms developed by TREC.

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Empowering Investors With an Investor-Friendly Brokerage

Listing Spark

The primary objective of a brokerage is to help clients with strategic decision-making, managing paperwork and contracts, and ensuring transactions comply with legal and industry-specific parameters. This can be a costly barrier when you want to promote your properties to agents, buyers, and prospective tenants.

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When Investors Should Use a Flat Fee Listing Service

Listing Spark

This means listing and marketing the property on free, non-MLS pages, marketing and holding your own open houses and handling every aspect of negotiations. Working with a realtor: As a buyer, your agent can create a customized home search for you, schedule showings, put together your offer contracts, and manage the negotiation process.

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Top Ten Reasons Why It Is Great to be an Appraiser!

Appraisal Today

Could a seller credit damage the chance of appraising at the purchase contract? These questions weren’t asked a year ago, but welcome to the 2023 housing market. In other words, if the comps suggest a value at $500,000, it doesn’t matter if the subject is in contract at $500,000 with the seller giving 3% back for closing costs.