Now that you have received an offer on your listing and/or your buyer has an accepted offer on a property, you will want to manage the closing process along the way in order to make sure nothing delays or prevents the transaction from closing and from you getting compensated. Your efforts can best be served [...]
The phone rings and a buyer is on the other end asking about the price of a home located at 111 Pick-a-name St. Because this is your listing you can, in great detail, describe the home from the tile flooring to the new shingles on the roof. However, the buyer only wants the price. Your [...]
I just finished reviewing service customer evaluations I received this week from customers who recently bought or sold a home through us. Our practice is to send every customer a service evaluation survey immediately after their closing. We want to know among other things, what prompted them to contact our company and our associate and what [...]
10. Would you take the wheel while I answer the text message I just received? 09. I’m a little short this week, will you spring for gas? 08. At least my real estate license is not suspended. 07. If we get pulled over I will need you to jump over to the driver side. 06. [...]
Most people would think it crazy to work for nothing. Surely no one in their right mind would work day after day for zero compensation. Unfortunately, there are real estate agents going to their offices ever day, working and yet their efforts result in little or no income. Are you one of those agents? Are [...]
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Email really is a great tool and one that saves real estate agents a lot of time and energy. I can remember back to the days before email when even the smallest bit of information required a phone call to the other agent or our customer. We have so many great tools at our finger [...]
Just prior to the start of the upcoming college football season, many agents within our company purchase magnetic sports calendars that features schedules of the Florida, Florida State, Georgia and Miami college football season games. These marketing pieces include the agent’s contact information and are usually given to those in their center of influence or [...]
A real estate agent needs to think twice before complaining about a seemingly endless list of tasks that need to be completed during any given business day. A busy day filled with a variety of tasks that include putting out fires and last minute miracles, in order to close, are going to be part of [...]
As a manager of a busy real estate office you will be answering questions from your agents’ everyday of the week. I have found nearly all questions that agents ask have a common answer. I have listed these answers below in no particular order. Any answer that contains conversation about commission is of course meant [...]
