Crowd - Sourced Advice for New Real Estate Pros When NAR asked its Facebook fans to share tips for real
estate newbies, they got an avalanche of wisdom.
In this episode, you'll learn how two real
estate newbies grew their business in just five years, why they chose to start with leases even though everyone told them not to, and how they've expanded their business.
What is your top tip for real
estate newbies?
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Not exact matches
This can be intimidating to property investing
newbies, so we're breaking down some common real
estate investing terms in a reader - friendly glossary.
Century 21 spokespersons said the recruitment program is aimed at three demographic groups: successful experienced real
estate pros, new salespeople who are in real
estate school or have been in the business less than a year, and
newbies just coming into the profession.
Thus, selling real
estate for too many registrants really turns on being psychologically able to influence targets to «do» something, to buy happiness vs educating them about the product, especially if the salesperson knows next to nothing about said product, which I would estimate to include the vast majority of real
estate sales people in the mix today (those with five years or less poorly prepared / inexperienced
newbies) which brings us right back to Mclean's first concern.
Ryan, so true,
newbies hear the hype and get the idea that your million in real
estate will happen in the first year.
Most
newbies in real
estate are getting better returns than the expert CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst which you find on wall street) on a yearly basis.
We shouldn't confuse ourselves, or
newbies, with any kind of an analogy to politicians, in terms of, what is good for a political candidate must also be good for a real
estate salesperson.
Perhaps it's time for a new organization of true real
estate consultants to come to the fore, being comprised of ex Realtors of high repute with a vast background in real
estate experience behind them... no
newbies allowed.
At one such event, there were so many
newbies flying around, that if you had your real
estate business card in your chest pocket and your shirt was translucent enough, people would move to avoid you — if they believed they could see anything that might be a real
estate, sales persons, business card.
My secondary (but just as important) concern is that
newbies and other longer term failures - in - waiting who read your current article are more easily influenced by the old school sales culture that pervades organized real
estate to this day, and that old school sales culture is the main problem that underpins the industry.
What does that say about the scatter - gun approach that is Organized Real
Estate's answer to preparing newbies and educating the rest for the proper approach to the real estate sales
Estate's answer to preparing
newbies and educating the rest for the proper approach to the real
estate sales
estate sales wars?
Because, first, the very people who need to establish themselves quickly in the industry, the
newbies, of whom there are always far, far too many at any given time, can not, with all honesty, hold themselves out as being trusted advisors unless they have an extensive pre-Realtor background in various related real
estate venues... the guts of the thing just aren't there for these folks.
The only part of the concept of «experts» that applies to the vast majority of
newbies is the reality that most will end up as «ex-spurts» when their short real
estate professional internet sprints have run their inevitable short - term courses.
There is a reason why the majority of
newbies fail within five years of entering the real
estate brokerage business.
No wonder so many real
estate - ignorant but tech - savvy
newbies think that they can «fake it» until they make it.
It can be done ethically, honestly, legally and profitably but it takes more education in real
estate and in business than what
newbies have, or think they have.
CAP rates are a crummy way to value residential real
estate and an equally crummy measure of financial performance for all of the reasons mentioned above and more... you may disagree, but since the only other person out there that regularly disagreed with you on this was kicked off this site for doing so, and just about every other turnkey operator seem to be in the business of perpetuating it as a metric to try to artificially pump up the attractiveness of their offerings and scam
newbies, please forgive me if I try to offer some counterbalance and perspective to other new investors who would otherwise not have any other exposure to such radical ideas as using CAP rates the way they were designed to be used by the professionals who use them.
Another time and another place — and my current posts are worth
newbies» reading if for no other reason than to have a little history on events and how the real
estate world functioned at that time.
The name of the game for Organized Real
Estate is to keep the coffers full, overflowing preferably, and the only way to do that is to keep the
newbies coming as the failures regularly depart.
How can the majority of real
estate salespersons (
newbies: less than five years experience, often with only five to twenty transactions under their belts) meet the definition of «skill» when they have little experience?
What the
newbies need to know is that higher Real
Estate Education is in fact what's precisely needed, to be a bigger part of the answer.
Today Lane podcasts at «SimplePassiveCashflow.com» to help
newbies get into real
estate and helps more sophisticated investors get into larger MFH syndications that Lane puts together.
There's no shortage of
newbies heading to the historic city of Charleston, SC, both for the lower taxes and the year - round balmy weather, says local real
estate agent Randy Bazemore.
I like your podcasts and writing, but the methods you're talking about investing in real
estate is the way
newbies invest.
BP is definitely a great real
estate website for
newbies as well as experienced investors to exchange ideas and network.
It is sad to think that after wannabe - real -
estate - salespersons students have successfully passed their exams, that thereupon entering their fields of dreams, licenses in hand and managers earnestly pushing for listings, that these same said
newbies do not seem to understand (or put into practice) what the meaning of fiduciary responsibility to ones» clients entails unless it is explained via more paperwork.
In a BiggerPockets Podcast first, we sit down and chat live with financial conference attendees Matt Giovanisci from New Jersey, Romeo Jeremiah from Detroit and KC Beavers from Rochester, NY, three real
estate investor
newbies with fascinating stories and great tips for beginning investors and veterans alike!
You can read my «farming (real
estate)» (nothing to do with selling farms — lol) commentaries in many places including those forums previously mentioned, wherein I not only addressed my own success in that arena, but left a trail of advice for the
newbies.
I have warned several
newbies about the dangers of real
estate and it takes years to know what you are doing, not just several months of reading.
Not only is this true for
newbies, because I have two Properties and it's 6 years since buying the last one, and I know I want another one but have yet to make the move,,, as far as, going for the financing,, making the offer, etc,, but I do plenty of reading and researching and visiting all the real
estate sites,,, but have yet to follow thru.