Most real estate agents want to be extremely successful. Goals are set and then the hard work begins to reach those goals. So what steps can you take to skyrocket your success as a realtor? Here are 7 powerful steps that will get you on the road to success:
1. Realize your Potential
In order to succeed as a real estate agent, you need to see that you have the potential to reach your goals.
2. Don’t Look Back
Everyone has failures or mistakes from the past. To have success in the real estate industry, you need to learn from those past mistakes and learn valuable lessons from them. After doing so, simply move forward and make better, more educated decisions from the lessons learned.
3. Dare to Dream Big
To succeed as a realtor, you need to have big dreams and aspirations. Be honest with yourself as to what you want out of life and what you want to give of your life. Allow your mind to dream and think big!
4. A Powerful Business Plan
Create a powerful business plan that will organize your strategies. This plan will be the blueprint to your success. The business plan should include prospecting, listing strategies, prospect follow up techniques, networking ideas, and ways to boost customer loyalty.
5. Don’t Give Up
To reach success as a real estate agent, you must persevere through difficult times. Even Thomas Edison had to learn this. When he was inventing the incandescent light bulb, it took him more than 10,000 times to get it right. Keep striving even when the challenge seems to be overwhelming.
6. Have an Unstoppable Attitude
You need to have determination in order to succeed as a realtor. Be wary of close friends or family members that feel it would be better if you focused your attention in another direction or career. Uphold your unstoppable attitude, determined to succeed.
7. Stop Complaining
You might think there is no correlation between complaining about you difficulties and success, but there is in fact a connection. When you spend time complaining about the obstacles you are facing in you real estate career, you're wasting so much time being negative that you are actually missing out on chances to move your career forward. Don't think of challenges as problems, think of them as opportunities.
Monday, July 9, 2007
Using A Real Estate Agent To Find Your Home
Having trouble trying to decide which home to buy in a particular area? Most people do - if you’re moving into an area and haven’t lived there before, you simply won’t be familiar with much in the way of where you should go. The solution: retain a real estate agent to do it for you.
Most people are familiar with real estate agents from selling houses, acting in their role as a broker. However, many people don’t know that you can also get a real estate agent to scout around for you among houses that they aren’t selling themselves.
You usually don’t have to pay them a fee - they take a cut of the commission from the sale of the house. This arrangement is beneficial for a couple of reasons.
First, you have an expert person looking on your behalf for local housing. Second, because they aren’t trying to sell you one of the houses they represent (if they offer, you should probably decline unless you really like the house), the agent will be acting solely on your behalf. They’ll want to move you into a home, but they won’t have any incentive to push a bad house that they are getting a premium commission for. You should always try to be at least a little informed yourself - you may not know everything about the area, but once the agent recommends a place to live, you should check things out on your own. Don’t rely on their word unless you absolutely trust them - it’s very easy to go check things like crime statistics, etc. and you shouldn’t get caught in a bad area simply because you didn’t want to do the work.
If you have friends in the area, ask them to scout for you or for their own recommendations. You’ll get a better house than by just relying on somebody else - combine your own hard work with the knowledge and expertise of an agent.
Most people are familiar with real estate agents from selling houses, acting in their role as a broker. However, many people don’t know that you can also get a real estate agent to scout around for you among houses that they aren’t selling themselves.
You usually don’t have to pay them a fee - they take a cut of the commission from the sale of the house. This arrangement is beneficial for a couple of reasons.
First, you have an expert person looking on your behalf for local housing. Second, because they aren’t trying to sell you one of the houses they represent (if they offer, you should probably decline unless you really like the house), the agent will be acting solely on your behalf. They’ll want to move you into a home, but they won’t have any incentive to push a bad house that they are getting a premium commission for. You should always try to be at least a little informed yourself - you may not know everything about the area, but once the agent recommends a place to live, you should check things out on your own. Don’t rely on their word unless you absolutely trust them - it’s very easy to go check things like crime statistics, etc. and you shouldn’t get caught in a bad area simply because you didn’t want to do the work.
If you have friends in the area, ask them to scout for you or for their own recommendations. You’ll get a better house than by just relying on somebody else - combine your own hard work with the knowledge and expertise of an agent.
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