After you have completed the necessary courses, you will submit copies of course completion documents, transcripts, and a $30 fee to the Commission for review. When the Commission has determined that you’ve met the education requirements, you can complete the license application for an inactive salesperson. You can complete your application and pay the required application fees online at http://www.trec.state.tx.us/.  Applying online usually results in a faster approval process than applying by mail. The fees for filing the application are $107, and submitting an application automatically authorizes a background investigation. Texas state law requires that all applicants submit their fingerprints. Information on the fingerprint submission process can be found online at the TREC website. When your application has been approved, you are eligible to sit for the licensing exam and will receive notice that you may obtain a copy of the Candidate Information Brochure (CIB). This document contains all the information you need to register and prepare for the exam.

You cannot begin work as a licensed Texas realtor until you have obtained sponsorship from an actively-licensed Texas real estate broker. When you obtain sponsorship, a Salesperson Sponsorship Form needs to be submitted to the TREC for approval. The TREC will mail your active license to your sponsor once all the paperwork has been approved. It is very important that you do not perform any act requiring an active real estate license until your sponsor has received your active license from the TREC. Once your sponsor has received your active license, you are all set to begin work as a licensed Texas realtor.

The courses that you will need to complete are; the principles of real estate, principles of real estate 2, law of agency and law of contracts. You can find discounted prices online for these courses that include all four of the required courses, books and materials and your choice of either taking your exam online or an exam in a classroom. If you’d rather take the courses in a classroom with one on one help from a teacher many real estate companies offer these courses in hopes of you becoming a real estate agent for their company.

Once you have completed the course you will receive your certificate of completion which you will need as proof and will need to supply to the real estate commission. Once the real estate commission has notified you that all educational requirements have been met then you will be able to move on to taking the license exam.

Problems arise when people take their required real estate training classes from the wrong places in Texas. Since the real estate commission is allowed to approve or disapprove required trainings based upon the quality of the classes, it is very important that everybody desiring a Texas real estate license take their classes from the right places to take trainings from.

With technology the way that it is today, it is often possible to find deals on real estate training by shopping online and looking at many schools until the cheapest school is found that will meet your needs. This method of finding real estate training classes will not work in Texas.

The Texas Real Estate Commission keeps a list of schools that they have approved to be teaching classes. It is always best to choose a school from their approved list to get through your proof of trainings requirements easily.