Are you the kind of person that wants to be in charge of your life, your work, your income and your future? Maybe you even like to be “the boss” or just not have a boss. If you've been a top performing agent for a minimum of 2 years and and want to achieve more [...]
A career in real estate is not only a potentially lucrative one, but may come with a number of additional benefits including a flexible schedule, a certain degree of independence, the chance to constantly meet new people, and even a great deal of emotional rewards that come with helping your clients’ dreams come true. [...]
Keeping an eye on your commission is good but it's better to protect it - by representing your clients properly. Think about the first thing you do when you get some money. When someone hands you a few hundred dollars, do you just lay it on the table and walk away? No, you [...]
Keeping Up With Changes Continuing education is a requirement for most professional licensees in the state of New York, including most areas of real estate practice. Whoever said “when life hands you a lemon, make lemonade” must have been thinking about the times we live in today. Let's face it, finding a great [...]
A real estate class offers a wide array of opportunities to fill needs on many levels. Every state, including New York, has requirements for prelicensing as well as continuing education hours. Obviously, before a new agent receives their New York Real Estate license they would need to attend a real estate class designed to [...]
Real estate training never ends and is crucial to continued success. Real Estate Training in Important Knowledge really is, as they say, power. Knowledge takes away fear of the unknown and empowers the educated one to approach life with a distinct advantage. Real estate is an industry which involves large financial transactions as well as [...]
The pre-licensing class is only one New York real estate course offered. The Real Estate Course According to the US Census Bureau, in 2012 about 65% of Americans owned their own home. That means in any given crowd 2 out of 3 people have been real estate clients at least once in their life; and [...]
Execution is the key to success This is the final installment of this blog series “The G$ System: Maximizing Your Rental Business”. The big question left is “Are you doing it? Are you “executing” what you have learned in this series?” I have trained thousands of agents in my career and every month I teach [...]
Do you want to make more money? For most real estate agents the answer is a resounding “YES!” Unfortunately, at many companies if an agent approaches management and asks the question “How do I make more money?” the only real answer that management has is “You should work harder and longer hours and then you [...]
More People, More Opportunity How many people do you need to work with? I have an answer but you need to come up with your own. It is a vital component of your business plan. My answer is 200 people per year or 4 new people a week. A top agent would close 50% of [...]