you failed as a Realtor,
I owned the company and we did a great deal more than peddling residential.....last thing I would do is make a living doing the same....way more money in other areas, but never turned down a quarter million dollar commission, but then you would understand that my company does not fool around with the pedestrian residential real estate sales....commercial, subdivisions, and farm sales. How do you think I determined you knew nothing about a 1031 exchanges....a yellow jacket never would, but I bet you were good handing out cookies at open houses. Disclosures....oh my, so that is what you are hanging your hat....oh my. I have lost more money than you have earned in your lifetime, but this is fun........disclosures, you really are what you post. I can see my friend from St. Charles sending out a memo on a required new form, and you going to Chicago to learn the same, and then teaching the bright stars which make up residential licenses about a new form, no more understanding it than the material you have been given....please pretend about the compensation of real estate classes with somebody who knows better. My biggest failure had to do with other business interests and those had more to do with banks pulling their commercial lines of credit, but I never would have to revert to teaching real estate courses. Not a denigration, just a simple fact.
I believe firmly that residential real estate does not need licensed brokers in the transaction. A title company, yes, a lawyer, yes, but a real estate professional getting a commission.....entirely unnecessary but sadly there will always be people who need help and are incapable of buying or selling a home. My son will help friends and family on residential, but he is now in downtown Chicago doing commercial and multifamily, and most people still in residential have been starving for almost a decade now, so teaching or part time jobs is the norm.