Nov 18, 2014 12:00:00 PM

Referrals: The Easiest Money You Will Ever Make In Real Estate

It’s no secret that there’s plenty of money to be made in the real estate universe. Investors, developers, brokers and agents all stand to earn a good living, if not, for the elite ones, a fortune. 

Equally well-known, however, is that the industry is tough, plain and simple. It’s competitive, it moves at break neck speeds, and it’s notoriously fickle.

However, there’s an exception to this general rule: referrals.

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Nov 10, 2014 1:24:00 PM

The Quickest Way to Get Your Real Estate Sales License in New York

You have decided you want your real estate salesperson's license, and you want it now.

Only problem is, you now have to face a bureaucratic gauntlet that makes an American Ninja course look like your neighborhood park's jungle gym.

Have no fear: below I have outlined the quickest way to get your real estate sales license in New York -- including all the steps, plus tricks you can use to expedite this process.

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Nov 4, 2014 10:36:00 PM

A New Kind Of Brokerage: Why We Do What We Do

We conceived the idea that would become Minetta Realty in Ben’s Minetta Street apartment during our final year of law school at NYU.

As real estate nerds, it was impossible to drown out the sounds of NYC’s thunderous real estate market, and across the state generally, it was becoming evident that the economic tides had turned dramatically since 2008.  This has become especially true in the real estate world, where prices continue to climb in meteoric fashion, and investors, developers, and salespeople (aka agents) find themselves amidst a modern day gold rush.

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