First Tuesday

I had started a course which I did not finish. I called to restart it and was asked if I needed the printed materials, I said I did not. Then I get my receipt– They charged me for Printed Materials, Shipping and Tax on the printed materials. I called to inquire talked to the Manager Connor Walmark and he «corrected» my receipt my upping my registration fee from $ 38.29 to $ 124.42. The shell game with my money– well 1^st Tuesday just lost my business to the CEShop– I suggest you do that as well. Integrity is what we need more in the Real Estate Business– not less. Do not support this Company.

I passed first try!!! I liked the materials and quizzes provided. Some questions were word for word on the test. I used the online format for test prep. I didn’t read the books for the certificates, just open booked it December 2014. Waited a year, studied quizzes and tests and passed. Whew! I spoke to customer service twice and they were helpful answering questions I had.

The California Real Estate Practice Exam materials did not look anything like the actual exam. Looking back, I can honestly say buying their course materials was a BIG waste of money and studying their flawed materials was an even BIGGER waste of time!
AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS!

Signed up for the First Tuesday Live Crash Course last Saturday and PASSED the CA broker exam the following Tuesday! The material was relevant and up to date (course material edition was recently updated a few months ago). The tips and practice questions were very similar making the exam easy and stress free. Thanks Randy for a great exam cram class!

Thank you so much First Tuesday for helping me to take my exams, which I hate to do. I had such a peaceful experience. When I was insecure your helpful staff guided me through all my questions without making me feel foolish. I have taken the last several exams with you and I would never use anyone else.
Marilyn M

Course material is buggy. My progress was reset. Lost 7 hours. Manager refused to give credit for progress lost by bug. Stay away.

Poorly constructed materials. Written in past with INCORRECT future market conditions, but, to be correct– you had to study as if their failed predictions were correct ?
References made throughout to terms/​phrases that were not concretely defined, so– needed to review backwards a lot. Have renewed my license many terms over the past 27 years and it has/​was NEVER this complicated or just plain strange to follow. If I want input on how OBAMACARE is great and we owe it to the people of lesser incomes to use our incomes, taxes, higher rates to offset this. PLEASE do not preach your opinion in Real Estate materials I paid for. Also– If you favor illegal immigration– Please do not preach this is good for California in materials I have paid for as well. Disturbing.

I took their correspondence courses (read the books then took the tests online) for the three courses that I was required to take for my salesperson license, and I’m going to continue to use them for the courses I need for my brokers’ exam as well.
The books are pretty dense legal texts. If you want a course that really simplifies learning, this might not be for you. If you want a course that covers just about everything and leaves you with a collection pretty thorough reference material for the future, this is for you.
The tests for each course are open book, and you only need 60%. Since the questions are verbatim from the text and you can use «find» on your e-​book to pinpoint the section, the courses are basically not failable. While they helped prepare me for the licensing exam (which I passed), and more importantly, to practice real estate, I still needed a separate, focused prep for the licensing exam whose focus was kind of different.
Their licensing exam prep book, especially the vocabulary section, was essential to my preparation. I also used the Barron’s book to fill in some of the vocab that First Tuesday didn’t cover. Many of the questions on their practice tests came up on the exam. Memorize all of the times (i.e. you’ve got 3 days to do this, 21 days to file that, etc.) that are listed in the prep book.
My only real complaint is that the books were out of date. Many laws changed following the real estate bubble pop, but you’d have to click on their hundreds separate update links and piece it together for yourself. Most of these changes had little bearing on the BRE licensing exam though.

The First Tuesday textbook on Trends in California Real Estate is unlike anything I have read in my life. Somehow he manages to bring in Obamacare, illegal immigration and the evils of Wall Street into a textbook. Whatever you political beliefs are, this stuff has no business in a textbook. There really is a crazed zealotry to the writing and it is filled with angry invective. It is so wack that I can’t believe the BRE would even allow this course to be approved. This is the first time I have ever had a First Tuesday course and boy was I surprised.

DENIED ACCESS by Capsula. Please fix this! I intended to study my CE while in Italy but I cannot. So disappointed. If you can repair this please contact me ASAP.

48 hours of continuing ed. FAST, EASY and DONE!!! I would not use any other service!

I will not be using First Tuesday again. Their website was down for 3 days over the Holidays — when the classes were conveniently taken. Also, while taking their online courses I was constantly blown off the site which was keeping track of the hours spent reading materials. This is crap. The learning materials are very bias and almost show disdain for the buying/​selling process.

I love the school, except, if you are traveling… they will deny access to your website… this is what I got…
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owner has denied your access to the site.
Why??? and what for?

I have used FT since 1983, and they keep getting better and better…
You get a year’s worth of updates, and newsletters, included in the price for the CDs,
the online info, and the paper text book…
Best deal in California, and, no, I have no connection to them, except admiration.

I have been very disappointed by First Tuesdays’ 45 hr CA license renewal. I am shocked to find so many «editorial» comments included with the material. The Due Diligence and Disclosures material refer to sellers as «greedy» and buyers as «permissive». The context was one which I have experienced and my sellers were not «greedy». This is just an example of their biased material. My husband is doing the Economics program. That too is full of bias and editorial comments. One section states the government is the «employer of last resort» and the government is responsible for stimulating the economy and job growth. That is opinion, definitely NOT fact.
Whether the material is referring to sellers, buyers, the agents, or the government, First Tuesday’s material is rife with editorial and biased comments. I happen to agree with some of the comments, but that is not the point. I signed up for the CA license renewal program and expect only factual information required to take and pass the license renewal exam.
One other point, the editorial/​biased material is smoothly incorporated with the factual material, so it is unclear where the propaganda ends and the «real» information begins.
Side note: I have also found several grammatical errors.
First Tuesday does a great job marketing — I received multiple emails and marketing material by mail, soliciting my business for the license renewal classes. Too bad their product is not as good as their marketing material.
I will definitely be letting the First Tuesday editorial staff and CA DRE know my thoughts.

I’ve been using First Tuesday since 1999 to get my Real Estate license. I took the class online but it’s nice to know that they have a physical establishment in riverside.

Been using First Tuesday since the beginning of my start in Real Estate. They had many forms before CAR caught on and are Real Estate Investor friendly. They offer courses that other education companies don’t provide and also give you access to the forms library when you take a course. I am a raving fan!