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An Understanding On How To Park Real Estate License

By Martha Edwards


If ever you want to go on a travel, go to school, or will be leaving the business temporarily for maternity leaves, retirements or any other reasons, you may not surrender your real estate license. You can just register it to a non board member brokerage of real estate board associations. Parking sometimes is called as warehousing or shelving. Even you do not have with you your license, you are still fully registered with the council.

When doing this, there is no need for you to pay for any fees like high brokerage fees that are related to the board associations. Another advantage for park real estate license Ontario is you may still trade through referrals. And by parking, you can maintain your educational or work requirements and you can earn referral fees.

There are a lot of reasons why should park your license in Ontario. One reason is to reduce your fees. An example for this is if you and your mate are working in the same brokerage. Another is if someone is new to a business and does not have ideas yet, a position for administrator or assistant can be of help in adapting the new environment.

Another reason is when you have obtained already your license but you are not ready yet for the business. Lastly, when you decide to transfer to other places and not sure of going back. Parking time for licenses is unlimited, unless you stop paying for your fees and maintaining the requirements.

If there are instances that it expires for less than two years, it will be parked still, but a reinstatement is needed. But if it lapses for two years or more, you must begin to start registering and taking the courses. It is recommended that you park it right away if ever still unsure of your decision to continue the business or not.

If parked already, do not involve yourself into any transactions. Avoid selling houses to past clients, and even to your families and friends. You can do only referrals, which means that you have to entrust them to the sales representative and you will earn a referral fee. Always select the representative that you can trust for them.

Your buyer or seller will not pay you for giving them the best person whom they can work with, but instead, the brokerage will pay you for your referral commission. Always make sure that your buyer or seller knows that they are not your client but they are the client of the brokerage. And make sure that both parties have signed a referral agreement to avoid problems when it comes to referral amounts.

Referral amounts can be discussed between the sales representatives and the broker. Usually, the amount ranges from 25 percent to 50 percent of the commission. There might be some people who might ask if they can do open houses, like working as an assistant to another brokerage.

Working with another broker is never allowed, because you can only be paid by the broker whom you registered to. This is a very important rule by brokers. This means that you will be paid only, as well as the sales representative when you are working with the same brokerage.




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