a day in the life of a realtor now what i wanted to make sure is that you understand
kind of everything that happens in the background because a lot of the movies in relations to real
and that could be true at times but there's a lot of knitty and gritty and administrative
stuff that realtors will work on as well and today i'm going to walk you through my day
and kind of show you a behind-the-scenes view in order to allow you to understand better what we do
a listing okay so it's a very simplified flow that i'm gonna walk you through but know that
this by no means is everything we do and with that said i'm gonna have a little bit of coffee
delicious it's morning time and that's how we're going to get started in the morning i typically
wake up between 6 30 and 7 o'clock soon as i wake up i take a shower i brew a cup of coffee i get
dressed up i start my day and so the very first thing i do is i check my phone i check my email
i check my social media accounts to see if any of you guys contacted me
and typically you get a reply back as soon as i read the message unless i'm with a client
or i'm showing a home once i'm done going through my social media and email accounts i then will
look in the mls which is a platform that realtors can tap into in order to see what's on the market
in order to put in their own listings so the mls is essentially a data powerhouse that feeds into
websites such as zillow most of the data from zillow and realtor is being pushed in from the
mls so if you're looking at zillow or realtor.com you're looking at the same data that we're looking
at except that we have a much more detailed view that you're not able to see so for example
we can see all the attachments that are associated to a listing a listing agent typically will put in
realtor remarks you have the opportunity to get into those details prior to us showing you the
home let's just assume i have a conversation with you you call me in regards to a home i will put
in a search in the mls based on the criteria that you've given me so whatever criterias you give me
i place it here in the mls so that i get notified as soon as the new listing's on the market
and because the listings are being placed into the mls and then the data is being pushed into all
these other real estate websites such as zillow we have access to the information far greater because
in many cases the information takes a while to refresh on zillow.com for example i've seen one
example where it took over an hour for zillow to refresh but i can tell you this that the mls which
we have access to because it's where the data is originated from it's the fastest way to look for
anything new on the market how do you tap into that information through a realtor once i'm done
with the mls depending on what day out of the week it is i may have a team meeting so i work in the
coldwell banker palmer ranch branch we have quite a few team meetings that happen throughout the
the week i typically will join via zoom sometimes i'll go in in person depending quite honestly
where the covid rates are but i would have to say that my broker who's been in this business for
gosh i would say over 20 years is an amazing powerhouse of information not only does she
share back what she's hearing from you know upper level real estate market analysis type of approach
we also open the floor to us sharing information and ultimately comes back to understanding what
is most beneficial for a buyer or seller today as a matter of fact we had a team meeting in the oaks
club which is in palmer ranch we had the broker that talked to us about the market condition
and then we had a guest speaker katie rossi who's been in the industry she has been named
as one of the top sales people in the world she came in to provide us with a few words of wisdom
so once i'm done with team meetings i typically spent the afternoon
showing clients homes around sarasota bradenton venice lakewood ranch and even st petersburg if
a client wants to see a home in the morning i can do that too i'll rearrange my schedule if it's a
new client that i haven't met yet i typically like to meet them in the office for a meet and
greet for any questions and also to kind of talk about sarasota and the different neighborhoods
if i don't have clients in town i typically will go around from new development to new development
the ones that i know are opening up new lots or have new opportunities for a potential buyer
to get the latest and greatest update from them and to kind of look around and see what
has evolved right over time from a kind of visual standpoint monday doesn't stop there if i'm home
at say around five o'clock i'll have dinner i mean i have to feed myself in order to have the energy
to go on throughout the rest of the day or for the next day right we eat later on in the night
i typically like to do a lot of data crunching so i'm extremely analytical it's part of what i've
done in my past is look at the analytics to ensure that the programs we put in place were actually
workable and the same holds true in the real estate market where do i get the information from
i get it from several different places i look to see what's trending on google under florida real
estate all sorts of different keywords that will look in order to tap into the latest information
that's coming from publicized sources with coldwell banker we also have a dashboard
that enables us to slice and dice data in order to see market share by condos by single-family homes
by regions i mean there's so many different ways i can look at the data i think it's really important
for you to understand how equipped coldwell banker agents are some of the smaller brokerages yes they
have access to mls data but they won't have the tools that we have necessarily they won't have
necessarily the internal know-how that's being spread to agents via these formalized classes
or sessions or industry leadership that is coming to share their recommendations with us
ultimately benefiting again you the buyer or the seller we also have another tool called
exclusive look and this is where co-woldwell banker listing agents can place a new listing
before it actually hits the mls so all agents in the region have access to pre-listings coming up
which is very beneficial to you especially because if i understand what you're looking for i will go
and see if there's anything that matches your desires with what's coming up and is currently
listed in kind of that pre-listing stage because there is an opportunity to strike a deal before it
hits the mls and so this is a huge benefit of you working with a larger brokerage because we have so
many agents coldwell banker agents that are dominating the sarasota county region especially
most pre-listing opportunities will likely come from a coldwell banker agent the smaller
brokerages can't even compete with that that kind of wraps up my evening i do work a lot on
social media i do my own videos right so i film it i narrate my videos most of it is just top of mind
like this one but there's a lot that is involved in putting a video together i don't hire camera
people i don't hire editors i do it all myself partially because i want to get an authentic
message out to you and that also means how i visually display the information but separately
from that i love doing it the video production i will do that on the weekends or sometimes
late late into the night because i believe it is so important to get the message out to you
somewhere in my crazy day i find some time to exercise whether it's very very early in the
morning or maybe in the evening or maybe even during the day depending on my workflow that's
really important to me there's something you can do for me if you enjoyed this video please
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truly enjoy hearing from all of you thank you so much for tuning in and if you've watched until
the very end i always appreciate when you do i'll see you in my next video take care