All Forum Posts by: Felipe Munoz

I'm an extremely part time agent. I have a steady income at the moment. When I got license originally, it was to become a full time agent. Life took a different turn but in the short time (18 months) I was full time agent, I learned a lot. The most important thing was to show up! Do something real estate related everyday. Take advise from experienced agents in your office. The larger named companies often offer more structured training programs (pre-licensing classes teach next to nothing about "being an agent"). Maybe try to get on a "team". You may have to split commissions a little more but little "less money" is better than "no money". It'll probably shorten the time to get that 1st check too. Good luck!!

Scott Beck The reason I originally posted to this thread was to hopefully brainstorm ideas exactly like this. I have considered a VA but I think that's going to be in the next phase of business. I think landing a few listings first is step one. For some reason I feel like Google Voice is going to be a good tool to use but I just haven't figured out how I want to implement it.

Jeff Valentino , no kidding!! I'd be so embarrassed for my client to see listing if the pictures were blurry, wrong size, and/or upside down.

Jeff Valentino my initial plan is to direct mail market to a neighborhood of just a couple of hundred. Converting leads will be the same way anyone else converts a lead. If I can't answer phone, I'll just return the call when I can. I'm targeting a C+/C neighborhood where I feel there is a need for more quality agents. Don't get me wrong, I ran across some really good agents but the number of terribly entered listings in the MLS was unreal. Don't know if 1) it's where a lot of newbie realtors enter market 2) the clientele isn't getting the type of service they are paying for 3) realtors with the "less money for me, not as important" attitude. Maybe combo of all three?

Now I'm curious.....I may be way off base here. I've worked a bunch of transactions from the buyers side and those seem to be a lot more demanding of my time. Driving clients around all weekend, in the afternoons, as well as having to make all of the phone calls to coordinate showings (mostly with the seller, not the agent) takes a ton of time. Once your client finds a home writing offers (my experience has been multiple offers per client on multiple homes). Once offer accepted, coordination of inspectors/title/lenders require a lot of communication. Seems like the successful agents I know can handle way more listings at a time than they can buyers. Like I said, I'm going to market for listings. Even with limited communication daily until 1:30pm, I'll be doing a much better job than a lot of listing agents I crossed paths with on a current transaction I'm working. I'll share how things are going (good or bad).

Thanks for input guys! I'm pretty sure I'm just going to jump in part-time. Honestly the more I ask people, the more vague the definition of "part-time" becomes. Does item it's your only source of income? Does it mean you do a certain number of transactions? Hit a certain dollar amount? I have a personal get-out-of-debt plan but I want to accelerate it a bit by closing a few more deals a year. I typically close 1-2 sale side transactions but I think listings might be the way to go. I'm going to market for some listings and I'll let you guys know how it turns out :-). If anyone out there is doing something similar, I'd love to hear about some of how you run your business. Thanks again!!

I can't really answer phones due to the nature of my job. I do get out in the early afternoon so maybe that isn't too bad. A little background: I recently helped a friend buy a home and noticed the overwhelming amount of terrible listings out there. Being a guy who does almost zero real estate business, I know I can do better than a lot of the agents doing business in the areas we were looking. I'm also willing to bet almost anything that most of the people in these areas don't interview 3 agents like your "supposed to". They probably hire the first person they call. With that being said, I'm wondering if anyone out there had any "hacks"...for example using specific software/Google voice/partners. I'm just trying to gather a little info before I actually start marketing.

Maybe BP isn't necessarily the place for this... I'm a licensed agent but I don't really do much with license. I want to become more involved and try to market for some listings and was wondering if anyone has some good tips for juggling listings and a 40 hr/week job. Just starting to brainstorm and I'm fully aware that some full time agents aren't fans of the part-time agent....so I'm sorry in advance to you folks :-)

WOW! Not a single comment in 6 days. Never saw that happen to anyone! What a loser!! HA HA!!

Hello,

I have a current real estate license in AZ. I don't do much with it at all but I'm thinking I want to use it to make a little extra cash to get myself out of some dumb debt. Ideally I'd like to find a broker that might charge on a "per deal" basis. Due to the fact that I don't do much business with my license, my current split with broker is horrible. Not sure if you're allowed to provide specific brokerage names here in the forums, but if anyone has any names of companies that any of you investor/part-time agents use, I'd really appreciate any input.

Thanks!!