Real Estate Express American School of Real Estate Express Don't Waste Your Money! Internet

I just finished my course for the Florida Sales Associate Lic.  This isn't the first time I have done online work, so the format was what I expected.  For approximately 100 dollars I received everything I needed to complete this.  What the Author is forgetting here is that you MUST DO A COURSE THAT IS ACCEPTED BY THE STATE.  This was.  For 100 dollars, what do you really expect?  I went through the entire course, read every chapter (downloaded the .pdf format and re-read), read the entire section of Florida Real Estate Law from the state, etc...  Oh, I took notes, re-read every online chapter three times and felt good about taking the test.  I downloaded practice exams from the internet as well.

I passed the online course final the first time.  The questions here however were not exactly what I recieved in the course material.  The Florida Real Estate website lists that this course has to be no more than 10 questions that you can memorize, the rest scenario based.  That is where I feel the real estate expressed course lacked. 

I took my exam today, passed first time.  I didn't get to see the final score as they only show you pass or fail.  If fail, you can go back to the test center (scheduled appt.) and go through the ones you missed.  The State Exam was more like the course final, yet even more different.  The scenario's on the questions that you take just don't match up well with the course presentation.  That said, I knew the material well enough that I never had a question that I couldn't narrow down to two possible answers for the questions that I was unsure of. 

Summation:  This course is just fine if you are willing to study and can study on your own to learn it inside and out.  It is more than enough to allow you to pass.  If you think you need more scenario based discussion, I would think you may want to actually take a class from a school listed on the DBPR website.  I have to think they go more into examples, vice just the black and white you learn on your own.

My satisfaction with real estate express:  Overall C+

Content for the basic understanding of Real Estate:  A-

Content for scenario's:  D

Textbook:  B

Real Estate Express answering my e-mails:  F (I wrote three times in 2 days after I took the course final to see what I missed, I never did hear back) Good luck and post if you want to know more.

Those that are seeking "textbook" type instructions, should not be using online courses in the first place! You have to be able to "self-educate" yourself with any type of online course. You seriously PRINTED the materials?? You wouldn't photocopy the classroom textbook so why do that to the online text book? TAKE NOTES! I used them for my original license in 2007, all of my CE courses, all of my designations and now will be using them for my Brokers course. I had a sprial notebook (costs less than $1) and didn't even use half of it for my notes when studying for my Salesperson exam. I continued to use it for my CE and I still don't think I ever filled up that notebook.

Regarding the end of exam wrong answers - if you are printing everything, how did you possibly get any wrong? In any case, if they "gave" you the answers, how would you learn the information? I found it more helpful to have to find the information myself. That meant I was actually "learning" and not just reading. Plus, if you are taking any quiz or exam, you would not be able to leave the classroom for a potty break. Discipline yourself to be prepared to sit through the entire test.

And my advice... join us in 2011. Everyone has internet. Everywhere. If you travel without a laptop or smartphone or ipad, how do you expect to survive the Real Estate world? Most of our communication today is all electronic (hello, like this website). Be prepared for most of your Real Estate leads (not self-generated of course) to be leads off of your company website or from Realtor.com listings. I wish you the best of luck!