360training.com This company does not educate! Such a waste of money! Do not use 360training.com! Internet

I was required to have 60 hours of education in order to get a real estate license.  I chose 360training.com and definitely came to regret it for the reasons listed below. I am a former teacher and am a very intelligent person.  However, instead of helping me to learn, this course just confused me and made me feel stupid.

First and foremost:  correct answers and explanations of these should be shown on Lesson Assessments!  I was told that I got something wrong but was not told what the correct answer was or why it was the correct answer.  It should show a screenshot of the slide where it was taught with the correct portion highlighted and an explanation. 

Secondly, after finishing the lesson assessment for each section, there was no way to go back and repeat a lesson assessment or even look at the assessment so that I could remind myself what questions I missed and what I needed to study more.

Thirdly, there was no review before taking the final exam.  Any teacher goes back over important information with a student to ensure learning has taken place instead of going directly to a final exam.

Test on relevant terms.  I felt like many of the tests were vague and meant to trip me up.  The object is to teach the main points of the subject instead of ignoring the main points in favor or obscure things not even listed on the state guidelines for what we are to learn.

There were incorrect test questions!  I wrote down a few questions and answers as I took the test after I discovered that I couldn’t go back and I looked the question up on other websites and saw that the question was incorrect on the assessment!  I remembered this from one question on the final exam, but didn’t write it down that day.

There were few examples with this company and half of the example links were bad links!  Many concepts are hard for the person who is new to real estate to understand but become more solid when they are accompanied with at least one good example.

 Content is poorly explained.  I had to look up numerous terms in other websites because the term was not explained well at all in the course (especially in the first third of the course).

Make the slides attractive and easier to read by using things such as bold or italics. It was as if the company knew they already had my money and didn’t have to impress me with making things easier to read.

Use hyperlinks to refer to previously covered material and occasionally have quizzes to go back and refresh memory on older terms.

Fix bad links – here are some that I remembered to write down but there were a LOT: Lesson 28 (link to example is bad) and Lesson 38 ($5 Trillion Mess).

Make sure questions in assessments are on the correct lesson.  For example, there is a question about the capitalization rate in the lesson 51 test when it was not answered until lesson 52.

It’s outdated, which makes me as a student feel that the author has not even looked at it in years or that it was copied and pasted. See Lesson 42 – it refers to things happening in the future for 2010.

Get a better a better proofreader. There were numerous typos.  Here are a few:

Lesson 16 – Title Page – the word “businesses” was spelled “bussinesses”

Lesson 22 – Test was in the middle of Lesson 23.

Lesson 27 – Topics – misspelled “situations” – Then, lesson assessment begins after topic page of Lesson 27, then it had a correct topic page.

In Lesson 45, there is a heading that says “gross lease” yet it talks only about net lease.  Then, five slides later it has “gross lease” as a heading.

Lesson 46 – typo in objectives

There was a question about the cap rate in the Lesson 51 assessment but the question was not really answered until Lesson 52.

I bought some review apps for my phone and took a lot of online quizzes after I finished my required 60 hours and after failing most of the quizzes, I knew that something was wrong.

  I had copied and pasted the content as I went through it so that I could highlight things and make notes in the margins.  I also made over 800 flashcards with which to study the content and studied them night and day for a week before taking the final.  Yet, I barely passed with a 77. 

After going back and watching numerous videos from real estate teachers online and also purchasing a study guide, I am even more angry that this company is taking advantage of people by professing to "train" them.  It was a waste of my money and I hope that they have their license revoked.