There is a reason for that, real estate is an extremely high turnover occupation with an extremely low barrier to entry. I know this because when I was 18 (a v

There is a reason for that, real estate is an extremely high turnover occupation with an extremely low barrier to entry. I know this because when I was 18 (a very long time ago :-) ) I wrote and eventually sold the rights to real estate inventory and CRM software to a small real estate company in NY to pay for my college education. Before I wrote the software I wanted to gain domain knowledge in the industry so that I could write an application that actually met the needs of the real estate industry and also so that people would take me seriously as a "kid". So I went to get my real estate brokers license which required I take a course that was a few hours, a course exam and then a state exam. It took less than two weeks for me to be qualified to help people make the biggest financial decision of their life and I learned much less from the course than I did from a few books I picked up from the bookstore.