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Training for our clients’ success is central to Long & Foster’s mission. If you have a positive, self-motivated attitude and are committed to serving home buyers and sellers through education and experience, please contact us for more information about our exclusive Long & Foster Career Development Program.

We can help you become an effective top producer upon acquiring a Virginia real estate license completion of our 120-hour, comprehensive training.

About Our Sales Agents
Long & Foster employs only full-time real estate professionals who are willing to complete our extensive training course prior to employment, participate in continuing education requirements throughout affiliation, and work with our non-selling managers.

Our Exclusive Marketing Services
Long & Foster assures the success of its sales agents through its outstanding marketing resources:
• the Valley’s only weekly real estate television show on a national network,
• the largest HOMES magazine in the Valley, and
• the most comprehensive real estate website in Southwest Virginia.

Sales Agent Training
Long & Foster requires every new associate to complete a Long & Foster designed 120-hour basic training and Career Development course, which is recognized as the Best Real Estate Training Program in Southwest Virginia. And, Long & Foster does not allow any new agents to list or sell a home until they have worked with a seasoned agent.

• Buyer representation: An increasingly popular way of doing business today, Long & Foster developed and taught the Roanoke Valley's first course on buyer representation.
  
  When we represent a buyer, our loyalty remains true to that buyer whether it is helping him or her determine a fair property value, negotiating contracts, finding the perfect home buyer match, or providing information that is unattainable from a seller's agent.
  
  The region's authority on buyer agency representation, Long & Foster requires its associates to complete a specific, comprehensive buyer representation course and guarantees you will get the highest exposure and the best buyer representation service available today.
   
• Continuing education: Ensuring our Sales Associates stay up-to-date with the housing market, loan programs, contract language, technology and the wide variety of elements associated with selling or purchasing real estate, Long & Foster requires every associate to take continuing education programs throughout the year.