Even agents with the most exciting, successful, and enviable real estate careers can experience burnout from time to time. Burnout can be stressful, confusing, and downright depressing to experience. Here are some ways you can avoid the perils of burnout: 1. Recognize the signs. You may feel less interested in your daily tasks or bored …
Listening is an important skill for real estate professionals to develop. It is by listening that you understand your clients’ needs, expectations, and desires. Listening is also critical in negotiations, interacting with colleagues, analyzing information, finalizing real estate transactions, developing relationships, and growing your career. Here are some ways that you can become a better …
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Career success doesn’t usually happen by chance. For most people, building a business and moving up the ladder takes focus, drive, and planning. So, if you’re unsure where your career is headed or what your next steps are, perhaps it’s time for some goal setting. Whether your goals are immediate, mid-range, or long-term, here are …
As a real estate professional, you’re probably accustomed to giving clients advice about what to do before listing their homes. In some cases, it can be just as important for clients to know what they shouldn’t do before selling. If a client lets you know they are thinking about putting their home on the market, …
Selling a home can be a stressful and nerve-wracking time for homeowners. There can be a lot at stake for your clients financially and emotionally when they put their home on the market. For many sellers, preparing a home for listing photos and keeping a home in tip-top shape for showings can also be anxiety-producing. …
As a real estate professional, you know that buying a house is serious business for most people. In addition to making a significant financial investment, buyers often make an emotional investment when they find a home and begin new chapters in their lives. A home purchase also represents substantial investments in time, energy, and research, …
By the time buyers contact you for help in making a real estate purchase, they’ve likely considered their budget and determined how much they can afford to spend on a new home. They’ve probably considered a down payment, mortgage payments, closing costs, taxes, and insurance. Your buyers even may have obtained pre-approval from a lender. …
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Getting a home ready for its prime-time listing debut can be an exciting, busy time for you and your clients. Presenting a home in its best light for listing photos, videos, and showings can create a lot of pressure and anxiety, especially when clients are still living there. Whether your sellers are using a professional …
A real estate career can be interesting, exciting, challenging, rewarding, and stressful — sometimes all in the same day. In addition to dealing with all the moving parts of typical real estate transactions, real estate professionals find themselves responding to market and economic fluctuations and a variety of human emotions on a daily basis. Real …
Building a strong repeat and referral network through long-term client relationships is a major part of growing business as a real estate professional. It’s important that the service you provide and the connections you form are memorable enough to prompt clients to recommend you to friends and family and call on you again when they …