Realtor

You dont just take a course then become a realtor. You would have to work under another realtor in an office first to build up experience. But in general, like this guy saidRE is a meme, especially the housing market.

>No license needed

Where are you OP?

You do realize that Realtor® is a trademarked term for a US trade association/lobbying group, the National Association of Realtors? It's become a somewhat genericized term, but unless your are a member of NAR or a foreign affiliate (like AMPI in Mexico) then I wouldn't call myself one. Also read some books and talk to brokers in your area, you might find an opportunity to take their training for free or at least learn the ropes.

most realtors are attractive people
most male realtors are above 6ft

those are the people who you are competing against

You wont make much if you do it part time. The ones that make big money work everyday and long hours.

How smart are you? How presentable are you? How good with people are you?

I've bought 3 homes and my parents are real estate investors. My experience has been that 90% of realtors are uncommitted chumps looking for short term sales. I've dealt with 4 realtors and they were all dumb, slow or unwilling to answer their phones, lazy, and left me 100% unwilling to recommend them.

The last guy I used was recommended by someone else. He was 100% professional, ansered his phone or texted right back 99% of the time, and knew his shit. He could answer any question and never pushed anything. I could tell his goal was to close the deal in whatever way I wanted and get me to refer him to the next guy. I asked him and he said he sold over 30 houses in 2017. Houses where I live are about 450k on average so before tax if he made average 2.5% that's well over 300k. No flashy car or clothes, no promises, no bullshit. He saved me big on recommendations and collected on my sale (430k) and purchase (525k) and made it look easy. Now he's my guy for life.

He only sells in my area and knows EVERYONE. He knew my wifes family and our neighbors. He knew 75% of the realtors showing my house and followed up with them, and he knew the investor I bought my new house from. We wanted to look at houses in the next town over and he recommended against using him because he didnt know the area well enough. That scored points with me because he walked away from over 10,000$ commission to do the right thing. He used to be an attorney so he had a good idea of what's legal and how to protect myself.

So OP, I think you'd better be smart, clean cut, committed, and insanely conscientious if you want to make it. If you approach it like the housewives who want an easy buck, you'll fall off a cliff.

Realtor 5 years here.
To make it you have to be able to work your ass off. Not just dabble in it. If you are young. It is the best career. Takes about 3-5 years to build up clientele but once you have it. It is a lot easier. One big key is to be able to save money for tough times and be a go-getter. If you can't do either. Forget it.

All these brainlets ITT who think that real estate is just single family residential sales by Agent Chad and Stacy.

I don't know where you are but the average age for a real estate agent in the US is about 55. Most are women, and most do less than 3 sales a year and treat it like a part time job. If you are good at sales and motivated you could do much better. Not all agents are just residential sales. If you are good at paperwork and dealing with bullshit then try property management. If you know basic finance then consider commercial real estate sales.

Most thots don't make it in real estate. Usually last a year or so and then go back to using the pussy pass and milking their husbands, again.

Oy

>be able to read a fucking map
I know a lot of realtors. In no way is this a prerequisite.