Vantaggi
Good culture, lots of basic training on demand, online. Low cost opportunity to start your own business part-time or full time. You can recruit others and build an agency if your own.
Svantaggi
Not really con's, just my exoerience here - successful agents doing the training or sharing success stories are 1 out of 50 or maybe 100. 92% of agents don't stay in the industry very long as a whole. I think those #s are true here too. Most people that get licensed and join quit within a few months. It's all about putting the effort in. Starting up your business in this industry as an independent agent? Expect to buy cheap older leads 1-3 months old, make hundreds of "dials" (50-100 leads/names) per day for the telesales approach every day. For the in-home sales approach, make hundreds of dials 2 days per week to set appointments for the other 3 or 4 days running those appointments in people's homes. The agents doing really well making more than $100K/year admit they are working days and nights and weekends. Once you get the hang of it, you can be confident in buying newer or new more expensive leads, making less dials and getting better results. No training on generating your own leads with social media. Company sells leads too which is convenient and occasionally suggests you buy leads from several vendors to get a mix of leads.