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    Tips & Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent
    Tips & Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent
    Tips & Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent
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    Tips & Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent

    Written by Robert Irwin

    Narrated by Scott Pollak

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    The practical, real-world guide to succeeding as an agent

    Scared of starting a new career in real estate? Wondering if you have what it takes?

    Don't worry! Robert Irwin's Tips and Traps for Getting Started as a Real Estate Agent answers all your toughest questions. Irwin helps you start your real estate career on the right foot, and presents proven, reliable guidance on every aspect of the profession.

    This handy guide shows you how to get licensed and start making money immediately. It walks you through those first tough days and weeks on the job, helps you find a great mentor, and shares all the basics of the business-from listing and selling properties to conducting open houses and escrow.

    Delivers the skills and tools you need to become a top-performing agent, including how to:

    Manage your time for maximum efficiency

    Work less and earn more by closing bigger deals

    Bring in more referrals so you can stop hunting for clients

    Take home a bigger commission in every deal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw Hill-Ascent Audio
    Release dateSep 15, 2006
    ISBN9781639295999
    Author

    Robert Irwin

    Robert Irwin is a novelist, historian, critic, and scholar and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the author of seven novels, among them The Arabian Nightmare (1988), which Neil Gaiman has called "one of the finest fantasies of the last century." Robert Irwin resides in England.

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