A personal assistant to a Realtor® is an unlicensed individual whom a Realtor® could hire to perform any activities undertaken in the regular course of business for which a license is not required.
SentriLock and Personal Assistants
While personal assistants are technically not members of NVAR, the Association can assist them with creating a SentriLock account. Personal assistants can apply to register with NVAR and Sentrilock by completing the Personal Assistant Agreement Form above. A Personal Assistant SentriKey account would grant them access to their managing Realtor’s® lockboxes or the lockboxes of that Realtor® member’s team.
*Please note that Personal Assistants with NVAR cannot hold an active real estate license.
Bright MLS and Personal Assistants
Bright MLS has a personal assistant category called Affiliate User. This is ONLY if the party is truly unlicensed. A licensed agent does not qualify to be an Affiliate user of Bright MLS (formerly known as MRIS), but they qualify to be a standard Subscriber user.
You can read the Bright MLS Subscription Agreement (Article III-Sec1.6.1) for clarification purposes on brightmls.com.
In the Key Defined Terms section, Non-licensed Personnel is defined as administrative and clerical staff, personal assistants, and individuals providing administrative support to Subscribers.