@Alice K. My apologies for the late reply! I will definitely have to turn on the notifications to my email for the forums.
Vanguard has a lot of foot traffic through the offices for floor time. The offices with the most foot traffic are Castro Office and New Montgomery Office. Our open houses do get a lot of foot traffic too since our brand is known to have great marketing, service, and luxury properties.
***I found out Pac Union does have a small office of 8 people on the peninsula. My friend in the same coaching group as me was recommended to go there by our coach since she lives in the peninsula.***
If you don't have a full time job, I think you should call again to inquire about openings on the teams if you want to shadow and learn faster that way. We do have a mentor program too and you can shadow that way.
Also other things to think about are:
- What neighborhoods does this brokerage's agents dominate in?
- Do I like the housing stock that this brokerage's clients sell?
- Does this brokerage have agents who are also investors and/or developers with investor and developer clients?
- Are the brokers that I want to model after located in this brokerage?
- How is the culture of the brokerage and how are the agents generally? (the brokerages are really different and you can visit the weekly meeting to get a fast whiff of it)
- Do they really educate me or are they full of it?
- Have I been to some of this brokerage's open houses?
- Does the office look like a shack?
- Will I become the next Million Dollar Listing Agent at this brokerage? (I'm jk, you will be no matter what)
Picking the brokerage is critical and moving from brokerage to brokerage is such a pain in the butt because each brokerage have different systems and services (such as CRMs, Databases, Transaction Coordinator setup, Marketing, CMA services, and etc). Message me for any questions!
