Welcome. Here is exactly what to do, in order.

You passed your test. These are the steps that get your license active with Patino Real Estate and get you into your dashboard. Check each one off as you finish it. This page remembers where you left off.

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Buy your RISC insurance

New Mexico requires every active broker to carry errors and omissions insurance. It protects you if a client ever claims you made a mistake. RISC is the group plan the New Mexico Real Estate Commission set up for brokers, and it is the one we like our realtors to buy.

Go to the RISC website and choose New Mexico.
Enroll as an individual licensee and pay online.
Save the certificate they email you. You will upload it in your dashboard later.

Go to RISC

Transferring from another brokerage and already insured for this year? You do not need to buy it twice. Check this step off.

I bought my RISC insurance

Fill out your license form

This is the official state form that puts your license under Patino Real Estate. Our page fills it out for you in about five minutes.

Open the form and tap I'm newly licensed (or transferring, if you are coming from another brokerage).
Type your information and sign with your finger.
Manny signs as your Qualifying Broker and the finished form comes to your email.

Open the license form I filled out and signed the license form

Upload the form to the state and pay $20

Only you can do this part, because it is your own account with the state.

Open the email with your finished form and save the PDF.
Log in to your NM-Plus account at rld.nm.gov, under Online Services.
Start the application to activate or transfer your license.
Upload the signed PDF and pay the $20 fee.

Go to rld.nm.gov

The state reviews it and then shows your license as active under Patino Real Estate. When that happens you will have your license number, and you can do step 4.

I uploaded my form to NM-Plus and paid the $20

Once you are licensed, ask for your dashboard

The dashboard is where your leads, your website, your marketing and your deals live. We can only open it once the state shows your license active under Patino Real Estate. When you have your license number, fill this out and Manny sets it up.

Full name, as it will appear on your license * Email *

This becomes your dashboard login.

Cell phone *

Manny texts your sign-in link to this number.

Where are you in your license? New Mexico license number *

Not issued yet? Come back to this page when the state sends it. Your checkmarks will still be here.

City you will work in

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Got it. You are in line.

Manny approves your dashboard and sends your sign-in link by text and email. Tap the link, pick a password, and the dashboard walks you through the rest.

Inside your dashboard: three things before it opens

The first time you sign in, the dashboard walks you through these. About fifteen minutes total.

Sign your contractor agreement. Manny has already signed it. You read it and sign with your finger. You need your license number for this one.
Read the office policy manual and tap I agree.
Send your W-9 so the brokerage can pay you.

Then take your time on the rest

None of this holds you up. Your dashboard keeps the list and checks things off as you go.

Your headshot. No photographer needed. Stand facing a window, plain wall behind you, and have someone take the picture with an iPhone in Portrait mode. Then upload it to ChatGPT and ask it to turn it into a professional real estate headshot without changing your face.
Your bio. A few sentences about who you are and who you like to help.
Your insurance certificate. Upload the one RISC emailed you.
Your local REALTOR association and the MLS. This is how you get access to show and list homes. In Las Cruces that is the Las Cruces Association of REALTORS.
Your lockbox key. It comes through the association.
Your email signature. Patino Real Estate logo and the office number, (575) 520-7604.
The 30 hour new broker course. New Mexico requires it in your first year.

Your deal, in plain English

You keep 85%The brokerage keeps 15% of each commission on your own business.

$12,000 yearly capAfter that you keep 100% for the rest of the year, less a flat $250 per closing.

No monthly feesWebsite, dashboard and tools are included.

Transaction coordinator is your callIf you choose to use one, you hire and pay them yourself.

Your contractor agreement has the exact terms.

Stuck on a step? Call or text Manny: (575) 520-7604