You have one year from receiving your testing authorization to pass both exam portions. Once you pass, your license still isn't active until you add a sponsoring employing broker through MiPLUS — that's a separate "Modification" step you'll complete using your broker's 10-digit license number, and it can technically happen any time, but nothing's official until it's done.

There isn't one to schedule in the way most states require. Michigan doesn't use fingerprint-based background checks for salesperson applicants — LARA evaluates "good moral character" based on the disclosures in your MiPLUS application itself. If you're worried a past record might be disqualifying, you can request a preliminary determination from LARA before you spend money on coursework.

No formal reciprocity agreements with any state — Michigan is one of a handful of states without one. That said, LARA evaluates out-of-state applicants case by case: if your training and experience are judged "substantially equal" to Michigan's requirements, you may have parts of the 40-hour course waived, even without a formal agreement in place.

Yes — Michigan allows you to request a preliminary determination from LARA about how your record will be viewed before you complete your pre-license course, so you're not paying for education only to find out afterward that you don't qualify.

No — you can complete your course, apply, and pass your exam without one. But LARA won't issue an active license until a licensed Michigan employing broker agrees to sponsor you, added through MiPLUS.

70% across the 115-question exam (80 national, 35 Michigan-specific). PSI uses scaled scoring, so your results report will show whether you passed rather than a raw percentage you can reverse-engineer.

Most people spend $400–$700 total: the $94 LARA application fee, the $79 PSI exam fee (paid separately when you schedule), and your 40-hour pre-license course, which includes a required 4 hours on Civil Rights Law and Equal Opportunity in Housing.