Real Estate Agents Becoming Brokers, Brokers Becoming Zombies?
Well, our brokers are not really becoming zombies, but coming up in the next month or so the ‘agent’ and ‘broker’ designations for real estate professionals in Washington state are getting a make over. The reason for this? I would like to blissfully believe that it is simply because the state is wanting agents to be more qualified and more competent, but my suspicion is that they simply want more and higher licensing fees.
So what is going on? As of July 1st real estate ‘agents’ will become ‘brokers’. The old ‘associate brokers’ will become ‘managing brokers’ and ‘brokers’ will become ‘designated brokers’. Sounds great doesn’t it?
Does this all mean that the inept and poor quality agents will drop out of the market magically? I don’t think so. It just means they have a new name and more hours of class time under their belts. Bad real estate agents will always be bad agents no matter how hard you educate them.
MY DISCLAIMER!
As part of this, of course, all my marketing materials will change to referring from me as an ‘agent’ to ‘broker’. If you see any place in old articles, websites, ect. this is simply an over site. Honestly I don’t remember all the places I have articles, profiles and so on posted, so it is likely I will miss one or two.
Written by: Jacqueline Cliff
