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Candice A. Donofrio
Next Wave RE Investments LLC Bullhead City AZ Commercial RE Broker - Fort Mohave, AZ
928-201-4BHC (4242) call/text

If you look at the US map and point to where NV AZ and CA criss-cross over a single point . . . that is where I am. Interestingly, there are VERY FEW who have all 3 or even 2 licenses, and here's why. The AZ side has more properties and more different property types. So most of the ambitious agents who get all 3 licenses usually abandon all but AZ. 


It's even hard to refer across the state lines around here!

Oct 13, 2023 06:18 AM
Rainmaker
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Nina Hollander, Broker
Coldwell Banker Realty - Charlotte, NC
Your Greater Charlotte Real Estate Broker

I'm licensed in both North Carolina and South Carolina. Geographically, no real difference... the parts of SC that I sell in are essentially "bedroom communities" for Charlotte. I probably do 40% of my sales in South Carolina and in some years, more.

Oct 13, 2023 06:16 AM
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

I am licensed in both NC & SC as Charlotte is right on the border. I probably spend about 30% of my time in SC.

I don't go deep into SC so there's no real difference for me geographically. The southernmost part of NC is nearly identical, geographically, to the northernmost part of SC.

Oct 13, 2023 06:15 AM
Rainmaker
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Carla Freund
Keller Williams Preferred Realty - Raleigh, NC
NC Real Estate Transition & Relocation 919-602-848

I'm currently only licensed in NC. I was licensed in FL at one time many years ago but chose not to keep my license up.

Oct 13, 2023 05:57 AM
Rainmaker
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Doug Dawes
Keller Williams Evolution - 447 Boston Street, Suite #5, Topsfield, MA - Topsfield, MA
Your Personal Realtor®

I am not but given the close proximity of NH & Maine, I could be licensed in each.

Oct 13, 2023 09:01 AM
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Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

 

Count me in for one license in one state. The State of the Land of Oz, California!

Oct 13, 2023 07:39 AM
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
Real Estate Broker Retired

Wouldn't think of it, too much territory.

Oct 13, 2023 06:45 AM
Rainmaker
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Diana Zaccaro Broker Associate
ZOOM Realty Group - Cocoa Beach, FL
"The Accidental Blogger" Cocoa Beach, Florida

I'm in central Florida so it would not make sense for me to be licensed in other states due to distance. I know a few agents who are licensed in FL and GA or FL and AL but most don't do enough to make the costs  worthwhile so end up going to referral status.

 

Oct 13, 2023 09:12 AM
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Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Just one license here, and not close to any other state line.

Oct 13, 2023 07:54 AM
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Olga Simoncelli
Veritas Prime, LLC dba Veritas Prime Real Estate - New Fairfield, CT
CONSULTANT, Real Estate Services & Risk Management

Geographically there may not be much difference. For example, I am in Connecticut, within a mile of the NY state border, so I consider our area part of the Hudson Valley. However, the laws and practices may be very different (even within the same county in CT practices are different!), so agents need to be very careful. When I got my Florida license via mutual recognition (between the two states), I still had to pass local law tests, which makes sense; NY does not require that (they call it mutual reciprocity),  which I think is a mistake. 

Oct 13, 2023 07:21 AM
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Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

I know a lot of agents who live minutes from other states and it certainly makes sense for them to do that.  But I live in the middle of Georgia and have no desire to expand the area I work.  I have gone out of town, but not state for family... generally selling, but nope, no way, no how do I want to learn another state in this point in my career.  

Oct 13, 2023 07:06 AM
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Tony Lewis
Summit Real Estate Group - Valencia, CA
Summit Real Estate Group Valencia & Aliso Viejo

I barely work outside my community let alone outside of my state.

Oct 13, 2023 10:56 AM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

Just licensed in California. And when I was in Massachusetts it was only that state, not any of the other nearby New England states although I considered it.

Oct 13, 2023 09:11 AM
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - Wanda Can!
Red Rock Real Estate (435) 632-9374 - St. George, UT
The best agent in Southern Utah!

One state and that’s Utah. Arizona border is 20 minutes away and Nevada, another 15 after that. No interest to pursue outside of my selling area.

Oct 13, 2023 05:57 PM
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John Meussner
Catalyst Mortgage - Fair Oaks, CA
#MortgageMadeEasy Fair Oaks, CA 484-680-4852

As a lender it's a little different, but I have licenses in 24 states.  I actually spend time in most of them, but a few I've never been to.

Oct 13, 2023 09:14 AM
Rainmaker
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Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Oswego, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Before I retired licensed in Illinois and Florida. Used the Illinois license primarily ofr commercial transactions and the Florida license for residential. It just worked out that way.

Oct 14, 2023 05:10 AM
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Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Though we do our forestry work in many states it is not worth it to be licensed to sell real estate in all of them with a good network of referral agents.

Oct 13, 2023 10:13 PM
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Hella M. Rothwell, Broker/Realtor®
Carmel by the Sea, CA
Rothwell Realty Inc. CA#01968433 Carmel-by-the-Sea

I have a brokers license in California and Hawaii.  So, yes, there's a big ocean between us but I love both states.  In real estate, we are different in that California is a trustee state (non judicial) and Hawaii is a judicial state. Hawaii also has two systems for the recording of documents, the “Regular System” and the “Land Court System”. There are several MLS/Realtor associations throughout Hawaii, and I belong to the largest, Honolulu Board of Realtors which reaches all the islands.  In California, I belong to the Monterey County Realtors and it belongs to the MLSListings group which reaches throughout California. I do some small sales in northern California and invariably agents call me and say "you are not on the MLS" to which I answer, "yes, I am, but I'm not part of your small local Del Norte Realtors Association" which costs as much as the big one down south where my main office is in Carmel-by-the-Sea.  And one each in each state that I'm licensed in is surely enough.  

Oct 13, 2023 02:10 PM