Starting a buisness while on unemployment?

Well are you an employee or an independent contractor? If they're not paying you a salary (and they usually aren't for real estate agents) you technically could say you aren't really employed but not sure exactly how it works. If it were me I'd call and ask the unemployment office. I mean don't tell them you accepted yet, just say you are interviewing and wondering if you're not being paid a salary if you are technically employed? I would think as soon as you get your first commission check you are employed in their eyes...but not exactly sure.

What I can tell you is that the unemployment office has a great tracking program and if you're doing any job that is paying you and withholding taxes...they will find out about it. If you don't tell them and they keep paying you and find out later, they can make you refund some of the money they paid you and if you don't they have the power to go after tax refunds....so in short I'd be fairly up front with them.

Also the real estate business is tough, you are told how many people are making 100k per year, but for 95 out of 100 employees that's not the case. Especially just starting out. You can get calls weekends, late at night, all the time and you might talk to twenty or thirty people for hours at a time and never make a penny.

Just my experience with friends who worked in real estate.