Hello everyone.
Thank you for coming to this weeks video blog here at California Realty Training.
We're very excited to have you here.
I am Robert Rico, hoping to bring you some great information that'll definitely support
and encourage you to get your real estate career off and running in the right direction.
Listen, today's topic I want to discuss with you is, in my opinion, one of the most crucial
topics in the real estate field.
Especially when you're just getting started.
This topic is the support cast that you'll have in your real estate corner when you're
getting started.
Now, when we first get our real estate license, sure, we have people who are encouraging us,
and people who supporting us.
Our family members, our friends.
But once you get in the actual field of real estate, and you're out there on the field
playing ball, and you're out there working hard in the real estate field, your family
isn't there with you, and your friends aren't there with you.
We must understand that we attend to attract professional people because they want to be
part of our real estate business.
Let's talk about sports for a second.
Two types of sports out there in the sports world.
We have independent sports, such as a tennis player, a bowler, a swimmer, a golfer, all
these people are out there playing, of course, by themselves.
Their success and failures are all dependent upon themselves.
Then we have your team supports.
For example, football.
It's football season coming up soon.
That's kind of exciting.
We have your football teams, you have your baseball teams, your basketball teams.
Those are teams that depend on each other.
You have several people on the same team depending on each other.
Now, if real estate was a sport, where do you think it would fall in these categories?
Would real estate fall as an independent sport, or as a team sport?
It's almost so interesting because we're going to ... In analyzing this situation, of course
when you're out there door knocking, and when you're out there cold calling, and you're
out there promoting your business, of course you're doing it by yourself.
Sure, we understand that, and it can be scary, so on and so forth.
But in reality, you should have a great support cast with you.
A team, a team that's going to help you, encourage you, to make it happen.
Now, what do I mean by a team?
Let's understand this a little bit better.
A boxer goes in the ring, of course he's by himself.
A boxer goes in there, and he's fighting, and he's punching, and he's seating, and he's
bleeding.
Whatever it takes to win a fight.
He's out 12 rounds, he's in there for 12 rounds, and he's making it happen.
At least doing the best he can.
You may think they're doing it on their own, but are they really?
Just like a realtor.
Are we really doing =this on our own when we're starting our new business?
A boxer in his corner has their own support cast.
For example, they have the cut man, a trainer, their nutritionist, their psychologist, their
spiritual advisor, they have a whole cast that encourages them to go out there and do
the best they can, to be at their top game when it comes to mind, body, and soul.
I'm not calling a real estate agent a boxer, but a real estate agent in a similar fashion,
has their own team that encourages them.
Sure, a real estate agent is out there on the streets, pounding the streets, door knocking,
and cold calling, and doing a whole bunch of things alone.
Passing out their business cards alone.
But in the background, once they get into the transaction, and they get in that ring,
they're not on their own anymore.
They want to have a super support cast.
They want to have a fantastic escrow officer helping them out with their transactions.
They want to have an established, and reputable, and experienced title rep.
A title representative is crucial for a real estate agent to have in their corner.
How about a great home inspector, a sales person, who knows all there is to know about
home inspections?
How about an MHD, a representative?
How about a transaction coordinator?
A transaction coordinator, are you kidding me?
That is extremely helpful once a real estate agent has a deal going in an escrow.
The transaction coordinator, within themselves, helps the agent one on one, to keep it all
together.
To keep all their forms together.
To have all their disclosures signed in a proper time frame.
To have everything accomplished by the time escrow finishes.
The transaction coordinator keeps all that in tack, and helps the real estate agent keep
it all in tack.
While they're out there fighting the fight, or they're out there making it happen, they
have an extremely helpful support cast.
From the escrow office, to the title, to the transaction coordinator, to all these other
service providers that will make it that much easier for the real estate agent to keep it
together.
Now let's ask the question again.
Real estate agent, are they an independent sport, or are they a team sport?
From the surface you would think it's an independent sport, if it was a sport.
But in reality, it's a team sport.
However, you, the real estate agent, are the one in charge of this team.
Ladies and gentleman, I hope you learned something today in this weeks video blog.
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We hope to see you next week at California Realty Training's video blog.
Have a great day.