My point in posting about the all-too-easy, quasi-academic requirements in order to sit for the CA agent or broker exam was to illustrate the low caliber of the CA state requirements. IMO this lack of standards has contributed in no small way to the current situation. That said, I worked with a wave of career transitioners, starting in 2000, who left the tech field in the Bay Area due to layoffs. For the most part I found those highly educated newbies to be ethical and competent.
I do immediately dismiss those bloggers who, painting with a broad brush, characterize all agents and brokers as charlatans who will ultimately flip burgers at MickeyD’s (which I did in high school).
As in any field, there are the incompetent…the competent…the superstars…and always the ethical and those lacking ethics.
