{"id":17857,"date":"2021-02-18T07:23:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17857"},"modified":"2021-02-18T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T14:26:10","slug":"overnight-news-without-in-person-real-estate-training-academies-who-will-milk-the-new-licensees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17857\/overnight-news-without-in-person-real-estate-training-academies-who-will-milk-the-new-licensees\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Without in-person real estate training academies, who will milk the new\u00a0licensees?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_16586\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16586\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ya think it's easy?\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/BHBNewTopImage.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe new Zoom Dog Park is really not working\u00a0out&#8230;\u201d<\/p><\/div>Here&#8217;s a thought that occurred to me this morning: Who&#8217;s going to milk the new licensees?<\/p>\n<p>Eighty-five percent of all new licensees in Arizona fail within the first two years: They fail to renew their licenses and drift back into the shadows. Cynical brokers opine that everyone has at least three transactions in him, and those brokers will milk non-salesmaniacal non-entrepreneurs for whatever deals they can cough up, before kicking them to the curb.<\/p>\n<p>The funniest thing about iBuying is that the iBuyers don&#8217;t know what business the brokers are in. They think the real estate business is about real estate, when for most brokers the business is milking new licensees into bankruptcy. For a new agent to hit the glide path \u2013 more money coming in than going out, consistently \u2013 is the rarest of outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>There is much to hate in the agent-milking racket \u2013 but quite a bit less at the moment. Without in-person real estate schools, I wonder if there <em>are<\/em> any new licensees&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In other news:<\/p>\n<p><strong>KOMO News:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/news\/local\/amid-protests-and-unrest-demand-for-security-jobs-in-washington-has-jumped\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amid protests and unrest, demand for security jobs in Washington has jumped.<\/a> Irony is the hardest of mettles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CNBC:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/02\/17\/homebuilder-confidence-improves-despite-record-high-lumber-prices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Homebuilder confidence improves, despite record high lumber prices.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Housing Wire:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housingwire.com\/articles\/americans-mortgage-debt-increased-to-10t-in-q4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New mortgage originations totaled $1.2T in the fourth quarter, New York Fed says.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>John Daniel Davidson:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/18\/the-failure-of-the-texas-power-grid-is-worse-than-you-think\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Failure Of The Texas Power Grid Is Worse Than You Think.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>City Journal:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/reining-in-the-chicago-teachers-union\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chicago\u2019s Big Education, Inc: The teachers\u2019 union\u2019s outsize power comes at the expense of students, parents, and taxpayers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Don Feder:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/2021\/02\/our-enemy-boardroom-don-feder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Our Enemy: The Boardroom.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark Steyn:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/11078\/the-indispensable-man\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Indispensable Man: Rush Limbaugh, 1951-2021.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe new Zoom Dog Park is really not working\u00a0out&#8230;\u201dHere&#8217;s a thought that occurred to me this morning: Who&#8217;s going to milk the new licensees? Eighty-five percent of all new licensees in Arizona fail within the first two years: They fail to renew their licenses and drift back into the shadows. Cynical brokers opine that everyone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":651,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/651\/the-headline-buried-in-the-news-real-estate-agents-are-as-safe-as-houses\/","url_meta":{"origin":17857,"position":0},"title":"The headline buried in the &#8220;news&#8221;: Real estate agents are as safe as houses!","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 18, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"It's Saturday, and you know what that means. 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