Careers
Start Your Career in Real Estate Today!
Real estate is a rewarding and exciting industry. As a Real Estate professional you provide your clients with valuable services that can help you build a business with virtually unlimited income potential. With Mel Foster Co. as your business partner, you'll be part of one of the most experienced real estate leaders in Eastern Iowa and Western Illinois.
Mel Foster Co. provides extensive training, up-to-date technology, a mentoring program, and excellent tools and resources for you to become a highly successful REALTOR® in business for yourself, but not by yourself. Mel Foster Co. offers you an exciting opportunity to be responsible for your own success while being supported by a strong network of professionals every step of the way.
Traits and characteristics to be a successful REALTOR® include:
- Organization Skills - Real Estate is a business where rewards are in direct proportion to the efforts. The more organized and consistent the efforts, the greater the rewards.
- Communication Skills - Listening and verbal communication skills are important to enable you to identify, understand, and discuss your clients' needs.
- Perseverance - A successful real estate agent needs to have the ability to overcome resistance and maintain a positive, upbeat attitude.
I invite you to
contact me directly for a confidential conversation about what this challenging and rewarding career has to offer.
Are You Currently a Real Estate Professional and Looking for Greater
Opportunities?
The moment your name is on a Mel Foster Co. business card, doors will open to you that have never been opened before - and for good reason. Our company has gone the extra mile to build an exceptional reputation for honesty, superior service, and integrity in our business and in our community involvement. When it comes to integrity, there is no compromise. We do things right or we don't do them at all.
If that kind of reputation is important to you, let us show you how Mel Foster Co. can help you enhance your career. Our agents benefit from continuing education, comprehensive agent development, state of the art marketing, and trained support staff to help you reach your goals.
For a confidential discussion please
contact me or 563-823-2289.
Career and Agent Development Resource Specialist
Mel Foster Co. instructors, licensed in both Iowa and Illinois, are highly regarded for their knowledge and presentation skills of real estate materials. Nancy Carson, with over 22 years of real estate experience, has been a licensed real estate instructor for over 13 years in Iowa and Illinois, is a certified career coach and highly regarded for her knowledge and presentation skills of real estate materials.
Contact Agent and Career Development to find out how Mel Foster Co. can jump start your career in real estate.
Career Development Department
After learning industry best practices, you then learn how to apply your knowledge. The Career Development Department provides post-license training programs concentrating on everyday situations and brings the confidence you need to start your career.
Our intensive training program, provided by Nancy Carson, enables you to quickly acquire the basic sales and technical skills necessary to begin building your real estate business and developing good habits and includes sessions on:
- Where to find buyers and sellers
- How to do a competitive market analysis on a home
- How to counsel both buyers and sellers
- How to have a successful Open House
- The "Ins" and "Outs" of showing properties
- How to use technology in your real estate business
- How to handle objections
- Financing
- Negotiating
- Writing various types of contracts
- Working with builders
Additional ongoing training is done by sales managers and field trainers, who bring their own passion for real estate into the office every day to develop and enhance the new agent's skills. Mel Foster Co. seeks out nationally know speakers that both educate and motivate our agents to reach their highest potential in the real estate business.
Free CE
Mel Foster Co. offers all Mel Foster Co. agents
FREE Continuing Education classes throughout the year. Topics are developed and class times are scheduled with the agent in mind.
Continuing Education
As the Real Estate world continues to evolve, we understand the importance of providing you with excellent education and we recognize the growing demand for CE in an online format. We are proud to introduce our partnership with
The CE Shop to provide CE training in an easy to use online format.
Through this partnership you can access great online continuing education courses that are Iowa and Illinois state approved and 100% accredited! Additionally, once you complete the course you can access your certificate instantly and
The CE Shop manages all reporting to the states.
We are excited to offer this great resource for CE training and look forward to an even more robust online education platform as the year progresses!
