What's in it for you?
NO BROKER
FEE, NO DESK FEE, $200 Agent Setup, $249 Annual
Web Marketing Investment.
NO BROKER FEE means
you pay nothing to your broker, UNLESS you close business, then it's
a small percentage of ONLY closed business, plus the costs of Errors
& Omissions converage.
NO DESK FEE means
you pay no 'overhead' such as desk fees, office fees, etc. Since nearly
everything you need to be an effective real estate agent means not being
tied to an office (cell phone, PDA, email, plus virtual agent tools
like Top Producer and other web-based applications), it does NOT make
sense to pay desk fees. The virtual office / home office is the agent's
best approach.
$200 Agent Setup
means you DO PAY this to have our administrative assistants and web
technicians get you setup in our system, change your license to our
firm, and get you on board. It costs staff time to do this, so we pay
them this entire setup fee.
$249 Annual Web Marketing
Investment means the costs of putting up and hosting your 3-page
web site and email address are covered with our web hosting partner,
annually. We believe a 3 page site is all you really need to gather
buiness on the web. It's pointless to put your entire inventory on web
pages (especially 'SOLD' inventory from 2 years ago!), so we build quality
web sites for our agents that have high search placement, align the
agent with their market, and get the site visitor to take action (either
through a phone call, a reply form, or an email). We build plenty of
links on these pages to provide as much information as anyone could
ever want.
You didn't take classes,
study & pass tests, then take continuing education (and spend the
time & money to do all this) to become a statistic. You have to
take charge of the career you've chosen and control your destiny.
You are a real estate professional, an independent contractor, a small
business. And like any business faced with a shift in fundamentals,
you have to be prepared. This means taking an account of your
financials, budgets, projections, and goals. The old broker-agent paradigms
are DEAD.
Look at your broker-agent
relationship & analyze the costs-benefits to see if it still makes
sense. Look at your expenses, what you get, and what it really
takes to operate your business at this point in your career. Now
is the time to determine if you're operating your business to survive
(and even thrive) in the curent shakeout in real estate. It's
about the best opportunity for you.
Take the time to see
what a small but important change could do for your career.