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 September 2017 Florida DBPR Real Estate State Exam Pass Fail Rates, License and Application Numbers

The Climer School of Real Estate teaches you how to be on the “right” side of these numbers

The September 2017 Florida real estate State exam Pass fail Numbers are out and are as dismal as usual. 

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The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), the Division of Real Estate) DRE, and the Florida Real Estate Commission (FREC) release the statistics from Pearson Vue’s monthly exam performance numbers. 

The numbers are little bit lower because of Hurricane Irma however the percentiles are exactly the same as usual. I still believe that the state wants the numbers in these ranges. This is why they work so hard at tricking you into a wrong answer rather than testing your knowledge. 

From September 1 through September 30 of 2017, only 1864 people took the Florida real estate sales associate state exam for the very first time. Of this number, only 900 passed while 964 failed. This is a passing rate of 40% and a failing rate of 52%. Once again same as usual. 

 2041 people took the Florida real estate sales associate state exam for second or for a repeated time. Of this number only 661 passed while 1380 of them failed. This is a passing rate of 32% and a failing rate of 68%. Unfortunately, once again, same as usual. 

 This is why it is so important to come The Climer School of Real Estate, the best real estate school in Florida. We are the best in Florida it teaching our students to pass the state exam. We don’t teach our students to be experts in the book, we teach them to be experts of passing the state exam on the first try. Because once you pass your state exam, 90% of the book goes away and this is when your real education begins. 

By the way, this is a 48% reduction in the number of first time test takers from August 2017 to September 2017. Additionally this represents a 44% reduction in the number of second and repeated test takers.

In September 2017 179 people took the Florida real estate broker state exam for the first time. Of this number 109 passed and 70 of them failed this represents a 61% passing rate and a 39% failing rate same as usual. 

 Only 131 people took the Florida real estate broker state exam for a second offer repeated time. Of this number 50 of them passed and 81% of them fail. This represents a 38% passing rate and a 62% failing rate. Again same as usual. 

 This is a 33% reduction in the number of first time broker state exam test takers and a 35% reduction in the number of second and repeated broker state exam test takers. While the reductions are due to hurricane Irma is fascinating at the passing in failing rates are exactly the same. 

I thought you might also want to know that there were 635 no-shows and 635 cancellations a Pearson view in the state of Florida September. It’s interesting because in August there were 911 no-shows with only 178 cancellations. This is the reason why usually you can call a Pearson view testing center and get a testing appointment the next day even though it doesn’t show up on the computer. 

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It remains difficult to pass your Florida real estate instructors license state exam also. Four people took the Florida real estate instructor state exam for the first time in September 2017. None of them passed. Two people took the Florida real is instructor state exam for a second a repeated time. And one of them passed. Those are not good numbers. It is a difficult exam. 

I blog about the upcoming problems we are going to have regarding the number of certified residential appraisers in the state of Florida. I will give you those numbers as well according to the Florida Real Estate Appraisal Board (FREAB). 

In September 2017, one person took the certified residential appraisers state exam for the very first time. They did not pass. Two people took the certified residential appraiser state exam for second or for repeated time. Both of them passed. So the state of Florida put and to new certified residential appraisers into the state of Florida in September 2017. They may now begin their two year apprenticeship. 

I thought I would give you an update of the number of licenses in the state of Florida.

As of the end of September 2017, there were 183,385 current and active sales associate licenses. There were 79,017 current in active real estate sales associate licenses and 16,690 and voluntary inactive sales associate licenses. Additionally 38 sales Associates are on probation and 90 have suspended licenses. There are also 220 with military exemptions. 

 As of the end of September 2017 there were another 20,294 broker associate current inactive licenses. There were 5479 currents in active broker associate licenses. There are five 1510 involuntary in active broker associate licenses. And five broker associate licensees are on probation and two of them are suspended. 

There are currently 40,576 current inactive broker licenses in Florida. There are 3517 current and inactive broker licenses. There are 2396 involuntarily inactive broker licenses. 33 broker licensees are on probation and 12 of them are in suspension. If you’re interested there are 26,551 real estate brokers corporations and 64 real estate brokerage partnerships. There are also 417 active schools.

Don't be alarmed at the number of licensees. The 80 - 20 rule is always in effect. Be a part of the 20%

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