http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2006/11/08/over-50-of-realtors-have-less-than-4-years-experience/ Real Estate Blog, Mortgage, and Development News Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2006/11/08/over-50-of-realtors-have-less-than-4-years-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-36621 Dave Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:30:11 +0000 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2006/11/08/over-50-of-realtors-have-less-than-4-years-experience/#comment-36621 Maybe that's why the seller (and realtor) of my home blatantly deceived us on his property disclosure form; mere lack of experience and stupidity. Our tough luck I gues$. Maybe that’s why the seller (and realtor) of my home blatantly deceived us on his property disclosure form; mere lack of experience and stupidity. Our tough luck I gues$.

]]> http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2006/11/08/over-50-of-realtors-have-less-than-4-years-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-9843 Run faster: There’s a new minimum wage in Arizona . . . | BloodhoundBlog | The weblog of BloodhoundRealty.com in Phoenix, Arizona Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:13:26 +0000 http://www.therealestatebloggers.com/2006/11/08/over-50-of-realtors-have-less-than-4-years-experience/#comment-9843 [...] The Real Estate Bloggers have a report that more than 50% of NAR members have fewer than four years’ experience. These numbers always astound me. I’ve been told forever that 93 out of 100 brand new licensees do not renew their licenses at the two-year renewal point. This would tend to argue that the accretion of new bodies is very slow, where this article argues to the contrary. The conjecture most ready to hand would be that, of those licensees who do renew the first time, a substantial number must last through a number of renewal cycles. But this must not be true — the turnover rate must be huge among all “generations” of Realtors, with only a few surviving out of each cohort. This would explain why, when I see a real estate sign, I’m always saying, “Now who the hell is that…?” [...] [...] The Real Estate Bloggers have a report that more than 50% of NAR members have fewer than four years’ experience. These numbers always astound me. I’ve been told forever that 93 out of 100 brand new licensees do not renew their licenses at the two-year renewal point. This would tend to argue that the accretion of new bodies is very slow, where this article argues to the contrary. The conjecture most ready to hand would be that, of those licensees who do renew the first time, a substantial number must last through a number of renewal cycles. But this must not be true — the turnover rate must be huge among all “generations” of Realtors, with only a few surviving out of each cohort. This would explain why, when I see a real estate sign, I’m always saying, “Now who the hell is that…?” [...]

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