Upgrading How We Help You Pass Your Real Estate License Exam

The Real Estate License Professor has been around for a while. The practice exams work. People pass their real estate license exam. But I've been doing real estate education for over a decade and I can tell you that what we've built so far is the floor, not the ceiling. We've been doing some things the same way for too long, and that's changing.

I'm Matt Wilson. I'm a licensed broker in California and Washington, a Gonzaga grad, and I've been with The Real Estate License Professor long enough to know exactly where the product falls short. My colleague MJ Kim and I are the ones writing most of what you'll see on this blog, and we're both involved in what's coming next.

Here's what we're actually changing.

The new version of The Real Estate License Professor has better tools for tracking what you actually know versus what you're guessing on. Those are not the same thing, and the current real estate exam prep doesn't distinguish between them well enough. It will. The practice exams and study guides are being refreshed across every state. The interface is cleaner. State-specific content is getting more depth, because that's the part that actually determines whether you pass the real estate exam on your first attempt.

That last point is where the blog comes in. MJ is the other half of this. UCLA grad, licensed in California, detail-oriented in a way that makes me look like I'm winging it. She reads the statute. Not the prep course summary, the actual statute. She has two cats named Rochester and Baby. Rochester is named after the city in New York because she grew up there and considers this relevant information at all times.

Together we're going to be writing some blog content covering the three topics per state that candidates most consistently miss. Fifty states, so this will take a while. The idea is simple: your national prep course taught you the general rule. We're going to teach you where your state does it differently. That gap is where most people fail the real estate exam, and it's almost never covered in the materials people rely on.

MJ is pushing hard to add video. She keeps sending me subscriber count screenshots from real estate YouTube channels like she's making a business case. I have not committed to this yet. I told her I'd think about it. She said that's what I always say. She's not wrong, but I'm still thinking about it.

This is the first post in the series. MJ and I will be delivering more content soon. She said we should call it "special delivery." I said absolutely not. She's already making the graphic.