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Are you thinking about a real estate career? Are you an established agent looking to transfer to the Southern Maryland area? For more information about becoming an agent or transferring to O'Brien Realty The Best of Southern Maryland, please click the appropriate link(s) below.




Licensing Procedures
Contact O'Brien Institute of Real Estate (800-693-4888) and register for the "Principles and Practice of Real Estate" exam prep course as required by Maryland state law. This course covers all the technical aspects of real estate - math, law, and theory. After successful completion of this course you will be instructed to take the State Licensing Examination. Your exam is administered at a PSI Testing Center or Promissor Test Center. For a list of PSI Testing Centers, click here.

Upon passing the state exam, you have one year to affiliate with a real estate brokerage firm (such as O'Brien Realty) to activate your license. If you choose to affiliate with O'Brien Realty, our Best class training is designed to assist new and experienced agents with hands on training and discussions on current real estate practices.



Class Schedule
O'Brien Realty Institute of Real Estate offers both a 5 and 10 week class (800-693-4888).

The next 10 week class will begin on April 3, 2008. This class will be taught in our Charlotte Hall office on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 5:00 - 8:00pm.

Our 5 week class will resume in spring 2008.



Advantages working with O'Brien Realty

Join O'Brien Realty and receive the following benefits:

- No franchise fees
- In-House bonus potential
Training & Support
Marketing Development
Resources & Technology
Business Management

Training & Support
O'Brien Realty offers the following services for our new and experienced agents:

  • On site management in all 5 sales offices
    • Best class training - Discuss and review current issues, forms, and real
      estate practices
    • Mentoring program - Provides guidance and support throughout the first 2
      transactions of your career
    • Worldwide Relocation Services to help your business prosper
    • Intranet tools and features offer time saving tips and practices
      to service your customers more efficiently
    • Weekly sales meetings
      o Discuss and review current issues affecting the Real Estate market.
      o Company news and information
    • Business support
      o Virtual Tour
      o Showing Time
      o Intranet

    Marketing Development
    Broker/Office advertisements:

  • Public Website
  • Phone Books and related online publications
  • Local Newspapers
  • Multiple Real Estate publications
  • Office Marquees
  • Relocation Vendors
  • Yard Signs
  • Local Chamber of Commerce
  • Local visitors map

    Agent Marketing Benefits:
    As an agent in an ever changing market, you can develop personalized marketing and prospecting materials using customizable items offered by O'Brien Realty.

    Use the O'Brien Quality Survey to track customer satisfaction and stay on top of the needs of the consumer.

    Build a profitable business with the backing of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World, our affiliate company that supports O'Brien Relocation Services, for all of your clients relocation needs in all 50 states and 26 countries.

    The ability for a client or a customer to be able to reach an agent easily is very important to O'Brien Realty. Agent photo, contact information and personal website address (if available) is listed at no charge to the agent.

    Resources & Technology
    O'Brien Realty's sales offices offer its' agents free access to the following items:

  • Agent workroom
  • Copier
  • Fax Machine
  • Computers
    o Internet - Access to MLS database to search inventory available
       and online programs for real estate use and development
    o Intranet - Company toolkit to access email, links to other real
       estate resource websites, keep in touch other
       sales office with the message board, preview
       company calendar for news and upcoming events,
       electronic forms and helpdesk assistance
    o Email services - Agents are provided with an email address with that has
       the capacity to handle bulk messages and photos. If an agent has an
       existing email account with an outside provider and would like
       to keep it, the agent has the ability to forward all O'Brien
       emails directly to their existing account
  • File system containing Pre-Printed forms and materials for client transactions
  • Tax maps available online
  • Personalized voicemail system
  • Specialized computer programs for real estate use and development
    o Autocontract.com
    o Printshop.com
    o Showing Time
    o Virtual Tour

    Business Management
    O'Brien Realty agents can assist their clients and customers with the following services:

  • Buying
  • Selling
  • Leasing/Rentals
  • Commercial Services
  • Property Management
  • Worldwide Relocation Services
  • Mortgage Services
  • Title Services



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