In a little less than three decades, buyer representation has grown from a business concept on the fringe of the real estate industry to a common way of doing business.
Here are a variety of ways to reduce business expenses without sacrificing quality. Some of the tips offer the potential for significant savings right away. Others will save you money over time. Clients and customers won’t notice a difference in your service, but before long you’ll see a change in your bottom line.
When Carol Greco, CRS®, GRI, began selling real estate 25 years ago, she knew two things: She didn’t want her young family to suffer because of her career, and she was going to need help to make it all work together.
Jason McMahon had been a full-time practitioner for three-and-a-half years, booking an average of about $4 million in annual sales, when his wife Pamela, a kindergarten teacher, told him she was expecting their first child. Here's how the family made the move to a single income.
These days it’s not difficult for Shontell Rucker, broker-owner of Houston-based Rekcur Properties, to spend time with her husband, Al. Together they own Rucker Inc., the holding company for Rekcur Properties and The Rucker Group, a mortgage brokerage of which Al is president. The couple share office space and have lunch together just about every day.
Ann Marie McManus started Mom’s Mastermind, a group of mothers who are also practitioners, which meets every other week by conference call to discuss ways to maintain a healthy balance.
Chuck Hilbert says losing three-fourths of his business in one fell swoop was one of the best things to ever happen to him. Rather than scramble to replace the lost business, he decided to take advantage of the opportunity to spend more time with his family and to pursue his other passion, competitive sports.
As important as consistently branded marketing materials are, even more critical is incorporating your brand or theme throughout your entire business process.
It's important to treat family time with the same accountability as business appointments. Since you wouldn’t cancel a meeting with a client, you shouldn’t reschedule time with family either.
Drive by a new-home development today, and you may not see a dramatic difference from one built five years ago. But interiors—and even exteriors to some extent—reflect a changing consumer dynamic.
Bob Taylor, ABR®, CRS®, associate broker with Weir, Manuel, Snyder & Ranke LLC, REALTORS®, in Birmingham, Mich., was your typical workaholic. But in retrospect, he says, he’d lost sight of what’s important.
Whether it’s a condominium high-rise nestling into the urban skyline or a cluster of homes rising on a once-vacant parcel of suburban land, new-home construction is likely to generate competitive heat for your resale listings. Meet this challenge head-on with these tips.
Whether she’s working with a client to find the perfect home or cheering her seventh-grade daughters’ basketball team, Ruth S. Adams, CRS®, e-PRO®, stays focused on the task at hand.
