Do I need to graduate high school to be eligible for a license and career in the Real Estate Industry? I am almost 17, in 10th grade and school is extremely difficult for me. I am pretty sure I won't be able to graduate do to how demanding and hard the work is. I was hoping to be an agent seeing as it's just the perfect job for me and my personalty. I am also interested in design. The only problem is, I know I'm smart and I have great business skills/techniques. It's just the things they require us to learn these days is so unnecessary I don't see the point. So anyways, I live in Seattle Washington, if that matters, and was curious to see if maybe I have the slightest chance of being successful one day.
I'm from Illinois and I am in Real estate school now. The requirements were high school diploma or ged and have to be 21. But some states are different.
Law is the type of carrier that you will have to ALWAYS continue studying, updating, learning the new laws, etc. There are an insane amount of lawyers out there and the older we are the hardest it is to succeed in this field. Not to mention that like you said you will be in debt for something you are not sure you will get your money back for those loans + survive. I would go for the Real Estate or Loan Officer license because your investment is very little if any, most anyone out there can do it, the market is going to stabilize in about a year, and is very rewarding. (You won't have to defend a criminal knowing he/she is guilty) but rather help someone else fulfill a dream. Good luck!
You can get a real estate salesperson's license in Washington without a high school diploma, but you must be 18 years of age. You do need a high school diploma or equivalent to get a broker's license. The licensing is probably the easy part. However, finding an employer might be more difficult. As a broker, I would never even consider hiring a licensed salesperson who was a high school dropout unless they already had a well-established and successful career. P.S. There's a lot of stuff I had to learn during my brokers' coursework that is totally irrelevant to my field of practice (for example, I had to learn a lot about commercial and industrial real estate, even though I had no interest in that field). If what you're learning now in school is so unnecessary [you] don't see the point, you'll be disappointed to learn that there is plenty of that in training for a career in real estate too.
