Along my journey.....

Along my journey, I worked for a real estate company for a while before I worked for Friemann Companies full time and I loved looking at all the houses. I loved digging in to the prices to see what we could get the customers and finding ways to get everyone their dream home! I took a short stint away from that and followed some other career paths but in the end, I came back to Brenda and joined the Friemann Companies team! I think I always knew deep down I would!

After working a while on office management and marketing for Friemann Companies, it was brought to  my attention that maybe I should think about getting my real estate license. You think that would be a no brainer but it is a little scary at first thinking about it!

Think about it...of course it's fun to look at homes (I guess maybe not everyone loves it as much as I do!), and it's fun to be a part of everyone's home journey, but what happens when you are the one with the responsibility to make sure the paperwork goes through and the inspections are done and the home appraises for your buyers and sellers and that everyone goes to closing and leaves closing happy....then it gets a little more real!

I knew I wanted to pursue this and decided to jump right in! It helps that I had a great mentor to talk to me about the process and knew I had someone to talk to when I finished and help me whenever I ran into any issues. So I signed up!

The courses as a whole are divided into 3 Courses. Course 1 preps you for the MN and National Exam. I will dive into these a little more in the next posts but to just give you a general idea..... After Course 1, you take your proctored Course 1 exam (if you completed the course online), then you sign up for and take the National and State Exam. After that, you take Course 2 and 3 and take the proctored exams (again if you took it online otherwise you take the exams in the classroom) before you can continue. After you complete all of that, your broker (I will get into that as well later) needs to send in all your paperwork to apply to get you your license.........at that point.........welcome to the world of real estate!!!
 

And the Realtor Journey Begins!!!!

"I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents; we're all teachers - if we're willing to pay attention to the lessons we learn, trust our positive instincts and not be afraid to take risks or wait for some miracle to come knocking at our door." - Marla Gibbs

I believe everything we go through in life serves a purpose. Whether it be a lesson learned or to help us figure out who we are, or to give us an answer that we are looking for - it may not help us now, but later we will see it had a reason for being part of your journey.  I look back at myself a couple years ago and I  must have been crazy! Within a 6 month period, I moved to the Twin Cities, planned my wedding (or was in the heat of planning), got a new job, moved into a cousin's house for temporary living arrangements, got to know a whole new area and how to drive in all this traffic, and bought a house! Oh that's nothing right? Well I look back wondering how I actually handled all that without pulling my hair out, but I did it!

Somewhere along the way, I met Brenda. I remember calling my dad one day about what I should do for living situation and how I hated my apartment hunting (if you don't know that story, look back in my blog!). He mentioned to me how awesome the interest rates were and I should talk to my husband (fiancé at the time) about it maybe being a good time to look at purchasing a home. Well I shared that whole experience with you but what I didn't share is how much I came to LOVE homes and looking at them in the process. Brenda became one of my best friends in the process and has been my mentor and inspiration to get my license. And now, I have it!!

But, what does that take to get!!?!! And how did I know enough about real estate to decide it's for me??!?? That you will find out in the next post!

Stay tuned!

BIG NEWS! I just passed my licensure exams today! I am offically an agent!!!

How did I get here? Let me tell you how! Stay tuned!!

 

 

Closing Day :)

CLOSING DAY!

If your closing goes smoothly, this is the best day and one you won't forget! You get the keys to your new home! We were extremely blessed and had great sellers so that helped a lot! Sometimes the sellers or the buyers will have power of attorney to sign their documents (giving permission to someone else to sign your paperwork) and may not be there. If you are there with the sellers it can be awkward....crickets....or it can be super fun and a chance to talk to them about their home! Brenda also had gotten a list of utility companies they used previously for us to call and switch names and billing for to make the process smoother. The closer, buyers and sellers (or person designated by one party or another to sign), along with possibly the mortgage broker will be there. They go through a million pieces of paperwork and you sign, sign, sign, sign and oh, you sign! You have your funds sent there for them as well (your down payment).

After we finished, we got a great congratulations gift from both Brenda and our closer. Then we got to the home and the sellers had planted some new flowers for us in the outside pots, wrote us a super nice note, got us a couple of big robes, and had a bottle of champagne, and 2 wine glasses awaiting our arrival (I told you they were awesome!).

After that, move in and make it your own!!

OR, sit back, relax (most likely on your floor unless your furniture is there!), and look around at your brand new purchase!!