The Number One Violation For Sales Associates in Florida is not Self-Reporting Criminal Violations Within 30 Days

The Number One Violation in Florida

For Sales Associates

is not Self-Reporting Criminal Violations Within 30 Days

Never, Never, Never Say That “I Did Not Know”

If you have been convicted of a crime, found guilty, plead guilty, or plead nolo contendere, you must inform the Florida Real Estate Commission and the DBPR within 30 days. You should have learned this in your Real Estate class.

The Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation

During the legal agenda session, of Wednesday, January 17, 2019 Florida Real Estate Commission meeting, the Commission revoked several Real Estate licenses. All these instances involve doing very malicious and stupid actions towards the consumers.

I try to remind my students all the time that the only thing that the people and powers in charge of their industry are concerned about protecting the health safety and welfare of the consumers and the general public. And this definitely includes their money.

The seven members of Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC), the Florida DBPR, the DRE, and every attorney, judge, and court room in Florida do not care about licensees at all. Not one single bit.

Florida Division of Real Estate

They care about the consumers - 100%. Try not to forget that.

When you are applying for your Florida Real Estate license, you should also learn in your Real Estate class, that you must disclose on your background question section in your application if you have ever been convicted of a crime, found guilty, plead guilty, or plead nolo contendere to anything other than a very minor traffic violation.

Apparently, a lot of licensees are not learning in their Real Estate class that this responsibility to self-report does not go away once you have your Florida Real Estate license.

So much so that it is the Number One violation for Sales Associates and Broker Associates in the state of Florida. Then they stand before the Florida Real Estate Commissioners, very contrite and compliant, honestly admitting that they did not know.

This might be the worst thing you can say to the Commissioners on your behalf. It is my opinion that the Commissioners hate hearing this from licensed Real Estate agents in Florida.

"Why?" You might ask.

Because you are supposed to know. You are held to a higher standard. Not knowing something about your F.S. Ch 475 , 455, and 61-J2 Real Estate license law in your industry is not acceptable. Too many licensees are very cavalier and lackadaisical about their responsibilities and their requirement to know their own laws, rules, and regulations.

The other day, one of the best friends to the Florida Real Estate Industry and Community, Commissioner Richard Fryer, asked a licensees in front of him (who had already claimed apologetic ignorance ) some very simple questions:

“How do you do your continuing education?”

“In a classroom or with the book that is mailed to you?”

The licensee on the hot seat squirmed and responded nervously, “I use the book.”

Commissioner Fryer asked, “Do you read the book, or do you just do your 30 questions?”

There was nervous chuckling in the entire room because every single person knew to what Commissioner Fryer was referring.

The licensee responded, “Well honestly Commissioner, I just do what I need to get it done. The questions.”

It was January 17, 2019. Commissioner Fryer simply stated, ”This law has been in place since 2009.”

I am not a big fan of the Continuing Education credits that licensees can obtain by having the book mailed to them, answering the questions in the back, and mailing it back in. To me, this defeats the entire purpose of having Continuing Education.

I will publicly say that I wish the Florida Real Estate Commissioners would abolish this method and pathway of getting your mandatory 14 hours of Continuing Education every two years.

I am not on the Commission. Maybe I will be one day. This will be one of the first things I will bring up.

However, for now, if you come into the Climer School of Real Estate in our classroom Continuing Education, I guarantee you that you will be reminded of this simple legal requirement every single time.

Regardless of how you get your Continuing Education for your pre-or post license education, I wrote this article to remind all of you:

F.S. Ch 455 States very clearly that you absolutely, positively must notify the DBPR of being found guilty, pleading guilty, convicted of a crime, or pleading nolo contendere within 30 days.

If you do not, you are going to be in big trouble. And they are going to find out, I assure you of this.

If you’re interested, we have fantastic Continuing Education classes coming up all the time. And you’ll learn some powerful new and effective techniques to help your Sales and Marketing and build your Business.

Call us anytime at 407-822-3926, check out www.ClimerRealEstateSchool.com, or just online and talk. We love our students whom we love helping new people.

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The Florida Real Estate Exam Pass Fail Results For June 2014

      Florida's Department of Business and Professional Regulation released the pass fail results for the Florida real estate exam for June this week.  Two thousand three hundred and forty one Florida real estate sales associate license applicants paid $31.50 to take the Florida real estate exam in June, 2014.  One thousand one hundred and twenty passed.  That is a 48% pass ratio.  Fifty two per cent of the first time test takers  that took the Florida real estate exam were disappointed. 

Pass fail ratio for Florida real estate exam

     Two thousand four hundred and ninety five test takers took the Florida real estate exam for the second or third or fourth or fifth time.  All of these applicants paid $31.50 for the adventure.  Eight hundred and seven passed.  That is a 32% pass rate for repeat test takers.  This information is from the DBPR.  www.myfloridalicense.com Sixty eight per cent of the repeat test takers failed.

     Is that discouraging?  It doesn't have to be.  At Climer School of Real Estate, we know what you need to know to pass the Florida real estate exam.  This is what we teach in our basic sixty hour real estate course.  We teach our students how to pass the Florida real estate exam.

     We teach this in our basic sixty hour real estate class.  We teach it more intensely in the two day Florida real estate exam review that we teach twice per month.  Some people call this the"cram course".  We teach this class to help our students pass the Florida real estate exam.

     If you are interested in getting a Florida real estate license, you have to take the basic sixty hour class from some real estate school.  Before you enroll in a real estate school, check the school out. Read their Google reviews.  Ask some rookie Realtors where they went to real estate school.  Ask if they would recommend their school. 

     Almost universally, students that took an online real estate course from a real estate school that specializes in all fifty states wish they had taken their real estate course from a Florida real estate school to prepare for the Florida real estate exam.  This makes too much sense.  This Florida real estate exam is no joke.

     At Climer School of Real Estate, we use a textbook written by Linda Crawford, a professor at the University of Florida.  Our instructors sell or have sold real estate in Florida.  We don't teach the laws of the other forty nine states.  It is the Florida real estate exam.  We teach people to pass the Florida real estate exam. Andy Brown not only has a Real Estate license, he has been a licensed mortgage broker, a licensed Loan Originator, and is a licensed Title Agent. He is a wealth of knowledge and experience regarding the real estate industry in central Florida.

     If you are soon taking the Florida real estate exam, get yourself a copy of the "Candidate's Handbook", a booklet issued free by the DBPR to anyone that will read it.  It has a breakdown of what is on the Florida real estate exam.  This will tell you what to study.  If you want a copy of this wonderful booklet, go to www.climerrealestateschool.com The problem that many of the 52% that are failing the Florida real restate exam are having is that they are studying th wrong stuff.  They are studying stuff that is not on the Florida real estate exam.  Even worse, they are studying information that is wrong.

     It is no secret what is on the Florida real estate exam.  Well, maybe it is a secret but the folks at Climer School of Real Estate know the secret.  Our instructors tell you exactly what is on the Florida real estate exam.  We do not teach a bunch of stuff that is not on the Florida exam.

     There are lots of ways to study.  Many real estate sales associate license applicants don't discover that they need to study until they they fail the Florida real estate exam or read an article such as this one.  Once they discover that they need to study, it doesn't take long to find "Climer School" on You Tube.  We have free real estate math videos that explain the real estate math that is on the Florida real estate exam.  When you go to You Tube, our user name is Climerschool .  There is a playlist of twelve real estate math videos.  There is no math that is on the Florida real estate exam that is not on these videos.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZb_k4kq9h0   Here is a link to one of those twelve free videos.  The Florida real estate exam is officially ten per cent math.  There are other questions that the DBPR doesn't call math that is math.  For instance, computing acres or square feet in a legal description is not considered math.  If you can do the math on the Florida real estate exam, you odds of passing increase.

     At Climer School of Real Estate, we teach a two day state exam review.  The only purpose of this intense class is to prepare students to pass the Florida real estate exam.  Half of these students are our students and half of the students come from other real estate schools. Half of these students have already taken the Florida real estate exam once or twice .  If you wonder how we know what is on the Florida real estate exam, these students tell us.  Some of them have gone back to Pearson Vue and paid the $$$ to review their exam after they failed.  This is where Pearson Vue allows you to look at your exam that you failed.  They give you the right answers.  This is red hot intel.

     In this two day state exam review class, we use Linda Crawford's "Exam Manual for Sales Associates and Brokers".  as the textbook.  This is the most wonderful book.  It is an outline of the textbook that we use in the sixty hour real estate class.  It has 4 one hundred question practice tests in the back.  Many people don't take our two day class.  They just buy the "Exam Manual".  You can not find a better study aid than the exam manual.  If you would like to  purchase a copy, call Pam at 407 822 3926 .

     We realize that many people can not attend this two day live class.  We put it on audio and video.  You can access by going to our website at www.climerrealestateschool.com .

     Another great way to study is to create your own flashcards.  Take 3x5 cards and write What law prohibits price fixing?  on the front and Sherman Clayton Anti Trust act on the back.  Make about five hundred of these.  This is a great way to study.

     Do not waste your time and your $31.50 taking the Florida real estate exam without preparing.  If you want to find out if you are ready, go to Climer School of Real Estate 's website and take our free practice exam.  If we can help you pass, contact us.

     Do not underestimate the Florida real estate exam.       www.floridarealestateexam.net