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When You Get the Facts...It's RE/MAX®

What real estate network -

• Has the most effective training?
  
• Is the fastest growing?
  
• Has the most productive agents?
  
• Has the strongest national advertising?
  
• Check around. Compare stats. Read what others are saying. Then, you tell us.

To help your search, tour this site and review some facts and figures as you consider moving your career up to RE/MAX.

If you're ready now, call us at RE/MAX International, (800) 525-7452 or (303) 770-5531, or: search for nearby offices; give the owner or manager a call or e-mail; and start your journey toward aligning with real estate’s most productive, innovative and highly trained network.

Why RE/MAX? Use this chart to compare and see for yourself.

Driving the growth is the RE/MAX Concept, created by top-producing real estate agents – for top-producing real estate agents. RE/MAX links a fair and equitable brokerage management system with a powerful brand, extensive support services – and respect for entrepreneurial spirit. The result: a formula for agent success unmatched in the industry.

New to Real Estate?

Home of the Best Agents®
Most agents join RE/MAX after already achieving some level of success in real estate sales. But RE/MAX also attracts agents who are just starting their real estate careers. This usually occurs under one of the following scenarios.

Typical agents starting their real estate careers with RE/MAX:

• A RE/MAX Broker/Owner sees potential in an individual who has achieved sales or other success in another profession.
  
• A RE/MAX office brings in an enthusiastic new licensee who has the motivation, commitment and desire to succeed in real estate sales.
  
• An existing RE/MAX agent who has his or her own sales team, or is developing such a team, adds a newly licensed agent to the team to serve as an assistant or to serve as a buyer or listing specialist. The team-leader agent often sees benefit in being able to train the new licensee in the specific marketing, sales and service strategies of the team.
  
• An existing RE/MAX agent brings in a newly licensed spouse, child or other relative to help with the business, or to be groomed to ultimately run the business.
  
• Some agents or agent teams bring in unlicensed assistants who are new to the business. In most states, unlicensed assistants are strictly prohibited from performing a number of duties connected to a real estate transaction. Sometimes, these unlicensed assistants pursue licensing so they can serve the team as a licensed assistant or buyer or listing specialist. Ultimately such individuals might transition into a role as an independent agent within the same brokerage.
  

Regardless of the reason that a newly licensed agent joins a RE/MAX brokerage, some brokerages encourage, or even require, the new agent to complete the 100 Days to Greatness program. This proven program is also used by agents coming from other brokerages who want to follow a specific strategy to ensure their performance is of RE/MAX caliber. Even some existing RE/MAX agents go through the program to refocus their efforts on growing their business.

Designed for RE/MAX, 100 Days to Greatness is an intensive training program that taps the resources of one of the most successful and highly regarded coaches in the industry: Brian Buffini. No travel is required.

The usual first step: Get a license

In most states and provinces, a minimum requirement to joining a real estate brokerage as a sales agent is to have already earned a real estate license. In some states, however, a new agent needs to obtain a sponsoring brokerage prior to pursuing a license. Licensing requirements typically involve coursework and passing a state test (Most states also require that you be a high-school graduate or hold an equivalency diploma). You can check with your state or province to find the names of licensing schools near you. Some states also require post-licensing coursework immediately after you earn your license; and most states require continuing education throughout your career to keep your license active.

RE/MAX agents in the United States and Canada are required to be members of their brokerage's local real estate board and complete certification training and contract-completion training, and perhaps additional training through that board.

How to find a school

To help you learn more about real estate licensing requirements, including how to find pre-licensing and continuing-education schools across the United States, here is a list of Web sites or other contact information for each state's real estate regulatory body. The links connect you to the appropriate state agency's home page, real estate licensing page, education page or roster of accredited licensing schools.

Unlimited rewards

If you're looking for a career that enables you to control your workday and offers a direct correlation between your effort and reward - with unlimited potential on the reward side - then real estate sales might be a good fit. It's not easy. But when you surround yourself with other serious professionals you realize an immediate benefit - because you see first-hand the habits and strategies that work and you're motivated to emulate the success you're witnessing. That's a core of the RE/MAX Concept. Add in all the other RE/MAX advantages, and you can see that for some, RE/MAX isn't just where you want to be at the peak of your real estate career, it's also where you want to be at the start.

To find out about joining RE/MAX as a newly licensed agent, contact a RE/MAX office near you and ask the office's owner or manager for more details about available opportunities.

How to Join RE/MAX

If you are interested in working alongside the real estate industry’s most productive practitioners, under one of the industry’s strongest brands – and as part of one of the fastest-growing real estate organizations in the world, contact us.

For more than 30 years, RE/MAX has sought the top 20 percent of agents, who are estimated to do 80 percent of the business. In exchange for paying a management fee and a share of the monthly office overhead, RE/MAX Associates keep the maximum allowed amount of their commissions and receive the many benefits of RE/MAX programs and services.

Nobody in the world sells more real estate than RE/MAX, "The Real Estate Leaders®." RE/MAX Associates are the first group of real estate agents to be involved in more than 1 million transaction sides within a single year.

RE/MAX Growth

The most powerful testament to the strength and value of the RE/MAX Concept is the network’s unparalleled growth. RE/MAX has increased its agent count every month since the first Associate joined in January 1973. On average in 2004, an agent joined a RE/MAX office somewhere in the world every hour of every day. With each additional agent, the network increases in yard signs, referral opportunities, national advertising funds and market share. That all adds up to more business for each individual agent.

• At the end of 2004, the RE/MAX network had more than 100,000 Associates. Projecting the historic growth rate forward puts the network at 150,000 Associates by 2007.
  
• The number of open offices has increased every year since the first office opened in 1973. For the past four years, an average of 327 new offices have been added every year. The RE/MAX Network now has more than 5,400 offices in more than 50 countries.
  
• From the adoption of the RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon as its corporate symbol to the entry into national advertising, the organization has taken giant steps along the way to build awareness in the public mind. In 2005, RE/MAX television advertising alone is expected to make 5.4 billion impressions in North America. Commercials are also shown around the world – throughout Europe, Southern Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean and elsewhere. In 2005, print ads are in national publications such as Time, People, Money, Fortune and National Geographic, among others. RE/MAX promotions are also appearing on popular national radio programs, Internet sites and at sporting and charity events. RE/MAX national advertising reinforces with consumers the local image established by each individual RE/MAX Affiliate: RE/MAX is synonymous with the best in real estate service.
  

RE/MAX Training and Coaching

For most agents, finding training opportunities in recent years hasn’t really been a big challenge. The challenge is finding training that will actually pay off – and then finding the time to take advantage of such training.

An abundance of training can be found through local boards, state associations, regional conferences, professional associations, real estate schools, independent online providers, and traveling seminars. Most of it, though, is extremely basic. Even with online advancements, the real challenge hasn’t changed: finding flexible, easy access to dynamic, top-quality training that targets where you are in your career – and doesn’t interrupt your business.

That’s the training and coaching challenge RE/MAX has focused on – and met.

Because most agents who join RE/MAX already have extensive real estate sales experience, RE/MAX skews its training toward an advanced level. And because RE/MAX agents are closing more transactions than most other agents, RE/MAX delivers a large percentage of its training via satellite television – straight to homes or offices via DISH Network and the RE/MAX Satellite Network, RSN®.

RE/MAX is the only real estate network with a satellite television network. Of course, RE/MAX covers all the other bases as well, with online services, CD-ROM courses, video courses, and state, regional, national and international conventions and conferences – as well as training by individual brokerages and groups of brokerages.

RE/MAX even has a comprehensive in-office boot-camp program, 100 Days to Greatness, for new agents, a huge benefit to team-leader agents who prefer adding new licensees who are free of nonproductive habits.

About RE/MAX Agents

Home of the Best Agents®
RE/MAX Associates average more sales per agent and hold more professional designations than other salespeople. They have set industry heights in productivity by mastering the latest technologies, sales strategies, marketing innovations and business systems. That translates into an annual average of more than 20 transaction sides per agent.

Benefits and Competitive Advantages of RE/MAX Affiliation

Every program and service that RE/MAX provides is designed to enable Associates to reap the maximum reward for their efforts and to help them reach their full professional potential. From national television advertising to a global referral network, and from the RE/MAX Satellite Network to state-of-the-art electronic tools, RE/MAX offers it all.

The RE/MAX Concept

The name RE/MAX was coined from the words "real estate" and "maximums." In exchange for paying a management fee and a share of monthly office overhead, RE/MAX Associates keep the maximum allowed amount of their commissions and receive the many benefits of RE/MAX programs and services. RE/MAX Associates share office expenses and a common identity and retain their earnings.

National advertising

Prime-time RE/MAX images fill television screens in homes across the United States and portions of Canada, generating more than 5 billion impressions annually.

Public relations

RE/MAX public relations takes many forms - from charity sponsorships to sports marketing through the RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship and auto racing.

Freedom in advertising

While all RE/MAX Associates contribute to group advertising funds, you determine how to invest in your own individual advertising and personal promotion. At RE/MAX, it's the Associate - not the Broker/Owner - who decides how much he or she spends on advertising and which media to use to best serve customers. Unlike agents with other real estate operations, RE/MAX Associates receive the leads that their efforts generate. The independence and creativity of RE/MAX Sales Associates are nowhere more visible than in personal promotion activities.

Build a personal sales team

At RE/MAX, you are free to hire licensed or unlicensed assistants, or create a sales team with members specializing in various aspects of the business - all within the overall management framework of the brokerage. This freedom enables you to build your business to any level you desire.

Negotiate commission rates

Sales agents with conventional companies work within a rate established by the brokerage. It's different at RE/MAX, where you have the flexibility to negotiate commission rates with customers. This freedom benefits both you and the customer, especially when specialized properties require innovative marketing.

Advanced business training

Since it doesn't have to cater to inexperienced or marginal producers, RE/MAX training immediately jumps to the top producer's core need - increasing business without increasing work time. All RE/MAX training focuses on this goal, whether delivered via the RE/MAX Satellite Network, RSN®, national and regional conventions, or office-level training sessions. An increasing number of RSN® courses are worth credit for continuing education or professional designations. A typical RE/MAX International Convention includes more than 130 educational sessions, including numerous courses offering credit toward professional designations.

International referral program

The RE/MAX Referral Program has proved to be more successful than any other referral system in North America. Full-time quality Associates sending leads directly to other full-time quality Associates provide better service for customers and extra income for themselves. With the RE/MAX Web Roster on Mainstreet - which is updated daily - it's easy to find an ideal recipient and automatically generate and send referral forms.

Most recognized logo in real estate

The RE/MAX Hot Air Balloon is one of the most recognized symbols in real estate, a reflection of large market share. The "Above the Crowd®" logo soars on RE/MAX advertising and promotion worldwide.

More signs, more ads, more prospects

When an office is filled with top-producing agents, the result is more yard signs and advertising throughout the market and more customers walking into or calling the office. Momentum picks up even more because only competent professionals handle the floor - converting a high percentage of off-the-street business into listings and sales.

Experiment and be creative

RE/MAX Associates are innovators. They were among the first to aggressively embrace personal promotion and buyer agency, and to adapt technology to the real estate sales process. New ways of doing business don't depend on top-down approval. The innovations start in the field and the RE/MAX system responds with support. RE/MAX Affiliates are encouraged to be the first to pioneer trends that lead to increased productivity.

Have all the advantages of owning a business without the disadvantages

At RE/MAX, you enjoy the independence of running your own business without the hassle of keeping shared equipment running, handling staff payroll, getting the brokerage bills paid, dealing with business ownership tax issues and meeting other regulations that are among the day-to-day responsibilities of the broker. This arrangement frees you to focus on selling real estate.

Control your expenses

At RE/MAX, you have complete control of how much of your income you put back into your business and how you allocate business expenses.

Benefit fully from business-expense tax deductions

The maximum commission concept means RE/MAX Associates don't immediately lose a percentage of income - and thus the tax deductibility of that "expense" - to a broker.

Set and attain your own goals

At RE/MAX, you create your own business plans and set your own goals. No manager will tell you how many sales you need to make or whether it's appropriate to pursue a particular professional designation. You schedule your own vacations and work under your own pressure, not someone else's.

Control your work schedule

Having the freedom of being in business for yourself, you can set your own income goals at RE/MAX and plan the use of your time accordingly. Convinced that leisure time is crucial to professional success, RE/MAX encourages Associates to take time for other areas of their lives and to recharge their energies.

Personal promotion

At RE/MAX, Sales Associates have the freedom to be creative with unlimited promotion and advertising to generate a continual stream of qualified prospects.

Prosper in any market

RE/MAX synergy, services, the maximum commission program, referral and repeat business, and real estate experience, enable RE/MAX Associates to survive - and even flourish - in down markets.

The Real Estate Leaders®

RE/MAX was the first network in the industry to pass the sales milestone of 1 million transaction sides in a single year. Nobody in the world sells more real estate than RE/MAX.

Repeat and referral customers

RE/MAX Associates have built up reserves of satisfied customers. About 70 percent of RE/MAX transactions result from repeats and referrals, quality prospects who require far less qualifying than new customers. The less predictable sources of business make up about 30 percent of the transactions of RE/MAX Associates. When a recession hits, it's the salesperson with the contacts and the referrals who continues to thrive.

Choose your specialty

Being in business for yourself at RE/MAX, you have the flexibility to choose your listing and sales specialties. A glance at the RE/MAX Referral Roster shows more than 20 residential and commercial specialty areas declared by RE/MAX Associates. These include auctions, buyer brokerage, condominiums, farm and land, luxury homes, military, new construction, relocation, rentals, and vacation and resort properties - the entire property and housing spectrum.

Specialize in real estate sales, not marketing unrelated services

With RE/MAX there is no pressure to market products or services in conjunction with the real estate transaction. There is no risk that the success of a transaction will be tainted by a customer's experience with a product or service over which the agent has no control. No mandatory home warranty programs. No home improvement projects. No hotel or car-rental pitches.

Build your real estate portfolio without paying big commissions to the broker

When selling property in your own portfolio, you want to keep the maximum gain possible - not forfeit a big chunk of a commission. Why sacrifice personal investment returns to fund your broker's retirement instead funding your own?

Worry-free vacations

At RE/MAX, it's not going to be the new kid who fills in on a suddenly sensitive deal because the broker thinks the experience will do him some good. When you are away from work, only competent professionals are there to shepherd transactions forward.

Enjoy the pride that comes with running one's own business

RE/MAX Associates are perceived as being independent entrepreneurs. This earns the respect of industry peers and other professionals in the community. And most important, it generates an intense internal pride that comes from making your own way.

Unlimited opportunity to succeed

At RE/MAX, your success is limited only by your ability, determination, and hard work - not by restrictions one finds in conventional real estate companies. At RE/MAX, quality people who are serious about excelling in the real estate business have the freedom to realize their full business potential. The professionalism and experience of existing RE/MAX Sales Associates contribute to the success of each new Associate.

In addition, RE/MAX name recognition, reputation for quality service, and market strength - rapidly becoming worldwide in scope - provide Associates a considerable advantage when competing for clients.

Take a Step Above the Crowd®

If you are interested in joining one of the fastest-growing real estate organizations in the world, call your nearest RE/MAX office or call us at RE/MAX International, (303) 770-5531.