The work

Each item lands as a package: a task written the way a client, broker or board might phrase it, the AI agent's full attempt including any spreadsheets, contracts, disclosures or budget files it produced, and a scoresheet an AI grader already filled in. You answer four things. Whether the task is one that actually arises in your job as described — realistic, borderline, or contrived. Whether the domain content holds: commission splits, disclosure timing, reserve percentages, agency duties, state-specific contract language, deposit-handling rules. Whether the grader's eleven yes/no calls are defensible, item by item, with the files open. And whether the final score matches the band you'd give the work yourself — usable by a practitioner, acceptable, or not.

Budget roughly an hour per item. Most of that hour is reconciliation and reading, not writing. You produce a short written reason for every judgment, so the bar is clear business English under time pressure, not essay writing.

What the screen looks for

Mercor's screening is AI-led and pushes on specifics. Expect to be asked which license you hold, in which state, and whether it is currently active — inactive and referral-only licenses are called out in the listing as a poor fit. Expect follow-ups that test whether you have sat on the practitioner side: a disclosure you caught as defective, a reserve study that didn't reconcile against the operating budget, a commission dispute you actually handled, a damage claim you adjudicated. Vague summaries of a real estate career get discounted fast; dates, dollar figures, jurisdictions and outcomes do not.

The second thing it measures is evaluation temperament. Reviewers who mark everything wrong because the AI isn't as good as they are, and reviewers who wave work through because it reads polished, are equally unhelpful. The signal is calibration: can you separate a stylistic difference from a substantive error, and can you disagree with an automated grader in writing without hedging into uselessness.

Logistics and pay

  • Fully remote and asynchronous; you claim items and complete them on your own schedule.
  • Observed pay for this listing sits at $55–60/hr. Bands on Mercor vary by track and are not guaranteed.
  • Four separate tracks — sales agent, property/HOA manager, broker, and counter/rental clerk. Apply to the one that matches your actual work history; cross-applying weakens the profile.
  • Volume is variable rather than a fixed weekly commitment. Reviewers who can absorb a handful of hours a week reliably tend to see steadier flow than those who disappear for a month.
  • You need to be able to open a spreadsheet or PDF and check whether the numbers reconcile. No specialist software beyond that.