Lines
A line is one industry 11.broker brokers. Each has its own rules, its own licenses and its own page, and one job can run on several.
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Real estate
Buying, selling and leasing land and buildings.
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Insurance
Placing insurance: shopping a risk to carriers and putting the cover in force.
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Animals
Buying, selling and leasing horses and livestock.
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Shipping
Arranging freight: a carrier, a rate and the paperwork, from pickup to delivery.
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Business sales
Buying and selling businesses: the operation, its equipment, its name and its customers.
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Mortgages
Arranging home loans: shopping lenders and carrying the application through to funding.
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Vehicles
Buying and selling cars, trucks, motorcycles and RVs for a client.
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Boats
Buying and selling used boats and yachts for their owners.
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Produce
Brokering fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables between growers, packers and buyers.
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Something else
A deal in another industry. Say what it is, and the desk says whether it can be backed and what that would take.
What no line takes
Stocks, bonds and other securities: selling them takes a securities registration, which is not on our register. Anything a line lists under what it leaves.
Open, and opening
A line is open when the licenses its jobs need are in place: held by 11.broker, or by a licensed professional who leads the job. Until then it is opening. A request on an opening line still gets a job number and an answer, and no work starts on it until the line is open.