It can feel lonely when you’re thrown into the real estate industry with no support. These tips can help you advocate for yourself and get a quicker start to your career.
New agents can’t depend on prelicensing classes or their brokers to teach them everything about real estate. Here, experienced agents offer advice on what rookies should know at the beginning of their careers.
For new agents, it can feel like a personal defeat when a real estate deal falls apart. Here’s how one practitioner learned to pick herself up and move on after her first summer in the business was a wash.
When you’re new to real estate, prospective clients may question whether you have the skill to represent them. These scripts emphasize your drive and work ethic over transaction history and will help put clients’ minds at ease.
You may think you should start spending right away on big-time marketing and expensive lead-generation tools. But when you’re starting out in real estate, it’s best to keep things simple and save your cash.
Agents often think of open houses as a waste of time because they don’t always attract serious buyers. But if you use it to showcase the lifestyle a home offers, it could do the trick. Here are three instances where open houses closed the deal.
Beth Lam lost three transactions in 36 hours — the only deals she had lined up in her first year in real estate. Somehow, she found the will to keep going.
Choosing which aspects of real estate to focus your business on is harder than it seems. Here’s a rule of thumb: Choose what you know, what you love, and what you dream about.
The run-of-the-mill agent sites that brokerages provide don’t always let agents shine. Sonny Cox broke from the mold and created his own site to stand out from other agents in his office.
When Suzanne Tenney took on a listing from a friend, she was excited to help him out in his time of need. But when the deal fell apart, so did their friendship.
Ryan Willhite joined her mother's real estate company, but soon found that clients overlooked her in favor of her more esperienced mom. Here's how Ryan set herself apart.
Bryan Maynard is in his first year as a real estate agent. It seemed like his career was going nowhere, with rejections left and right. Then he got a "maybe" client — and success came shortly afterward.
