Don't Mean to Harp, But...

Illinois requires that every prospective agent take and pass a prelicense course (currently 45 hours) and then pass a State exam, the uninformed would believe they were prepared to sell a home. Not true of course, the process is not unlike taking driver’s education and then the driver’s test. The new agent is no more prepared to service a real estate client than the new driver is to handle rush hour in Chicago. Illinois Senate Bill 0571 which proposes increasing the required hours and some other improvements in continuing education, etc. was apparently shelved again (session sine die) on January 13th, but change is coming. It remains true, however, that the real training needed to become a real estate professional will come from the broker with whom you associate: choose carefully. At Prudential Starck Realtors we have a mandatory 60 hours additional classroom training for all new agents.