Full time RN- Part time Real Estate agent?

I have a friend who's a Social Worker who did it but she now does it as her full time job and doesn't work in Social Work anymore.

Presumably you have a weekend requirement and open houses are usually on weekends. How would that work for you as a seller's agent? Do you think clients are going to want to work with a real estate agent who can only show their home every other weekend?

I worked as a staff nurse when I bought my home so had time during the week to house hunt but many people house hunting work 9-5 and want their agents available to them on weekends.

So he left to do it full time? Why did he not go back into nursing?

It is hard to do real estate part-time, it is pretty much a full-time job. You might find you prefer it over nursing, though. Good luck.

Try working full-time days for a while to get a feel of how much free time you will have available.

Real Estate agents need to be available all the time. It's hard to do part time and be successful. Those that do it part time, are usually still available all the time, they just don't take on a lot of clients.

I think it would be very difficult.

LovingLife123 said:

Real Estate agents need to be available all the time. It's hard to do part time and be successful. Those that do it part time, are usually still available all the time, they just don't take on a lot of clients.

I think it would be very difficult.

I agree. Even when you're not actively showing houses, your clients still expect you to respond to their emails essentially immediately. When I was buying my house, I would say my real estate agent responded to my emails within 20-30 minutes. That won't work during a 12 hr shift.

I did really well with a real-estate license - I got licensed during the crash & invested my own money into houses to rent. When values recovered, I used the license (and the knowledge of my market) to sell the rentals for top dollar. I wouldn't rent houses in California due to your eviction laws, and I wouldn't buy anything in this market because the rent vs buy math just doesn't work in this economy - I consider my success in real estate to be a once in a very long time aberration.

What you see as "half-xxxing" is actually rational behavior on the part of commissioned salesmen- buyers ready to buy after seeing 3 houses in one day are profitable clients. Buyers who insist on looking at 95 houses over a six month period are not profitable clients. The industry rewards those with short attention spans & grinds up enthusiastic "hard workers", much like nursing.. ;-)

I know too many unsuccessful agents in CA.

Your time is better spent making money hourly as an RN.

I used to sell real estate. Now I'm an RN. I'll echo others sentiments: even if real estate agents work part time hours, they're available full time to clients.

However, I've heard of agents using their work job connections to secure real estate clients.

I have a hard time, like others have said, with the idea of a part-time real estate agent. It's not so much the part time bit, but the fact that you will not be available to take calls, show homes, complete contracts and addendums, etc. I have bought and sold quite a bit of real estate over the years, and it quite frankly annoys me when my agent makes me wait more than an hour for a call back. Working 3 12s during the week could greatly reduce your ability to be available for your clients.

There are still ways you could use a real estate education. Real estate investing is a fabulous way to make money, for example, and having a good understanding of the laws and contract and such would give you a leg up.