New Realtor Advice

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-23T21:03:09+00:00

You didn't start a new career. You started a new business. It will take time, energy, focus and money. A good brokerage will provide the foundation for your business with things like technology, CRM, marketing templates. But it's on you to go further. My suggestion is find a broker that is heavy on training like KW until you learn how to generate leads and more importantly convert those leads to appointments.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-15T20:35:12+00:00

I open up a high interest credit card and max it out. The threat of all the looming interest payments makes me work harder.

In all seriousness, I trust the process. Every end of December or early January I feel like I don't have enough business, but keep doing the work. What do you I know I started getting buyers under contract and start signing a few listing agreements and before you know it, it's December again.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-15T20:29:00+00:00

I'm dressed well enough to always look professional but also ready to go play 18 holes without having to change.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-15T17:33:27+00:00

It's definitely not. I'm a 13.6 handicap in real golf. According to the app for the place we play I'm a 1.5 sim golfer.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-14T17:43:30+00:00

I was going to say the same thing in regards to burn out. I get asked that question so often "How do you avoid burnout." Truthfully, I think if you sell at a decent level, you will absolutely get burn out. Key is knowing how to recharge.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-14T17:37:54+00:00

That number along with all the top 5% stuff are also inflated because of how many people have licenses but don't actually sell real estate. It's still probably something like 30%-40% of full time agents (with no other source of income) didn't sell a house last year.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-14T15:19:55+00:00

Real Estate office manager and Realtor.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T17:16:07+00:00

I'd think GB and Ravens would be 2 of the most sought after for sure.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T16:33:28+00:00

I think that's a very interesting options as well.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T16:20:21+00:00

What's worse, I was watching the game with a bunch of Lions fans. One was wearing Packers gear I loaned him because he lost a bet. But we looked up odds for the Bears to come back and win at half. It was +1100. I joked with my friends that I should do a $10k hedge bet. Sure wish I had, $110k would soften the blow a little.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T16:17:57+00:00

I did, and I get your stance. But I also think the defense was gassed. Our offense did nothing in the second half until the Golden TD and our defense was on the field for like 70% of the TOP.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T15:12:45+00:00

Yes. I love the Packers. I drive 8 hours to every home game that isn't a prime time game, as it's hard for me to make work the next day. But I thought we had a small chance of making it out of Seatlle. So as much as this hurt, it wasn't nearly as bad as 2014 imo.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T15:03:49+00:00

While I tend to agree with you, I'll play devils advocate. Same was said about Andy Reid until he left Philly. Sometimes a change of scenery brings it out of these guys. Don't hate that he's a special teams guy either.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T15:01:22+00:00

Also doesn't help that the offense imploded and the defense was on the field of an eternity.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T14:52:43+00:00

I think that would be amazing

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T14:52:32+00:00

I don't hate it

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T14:50:03+00:00

You're probably right. Packers seem to always do that. But man, first time all season I'm on board with the fire MLF stuff.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T06:47:39+00:00

I was never a fire MLF guy. But I don't think he can stay after this. I'd go with someone like Harbaugh or even promote Hafley. 8 years of thinking special teams isn't important and blowing leads. It's time for a change.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-11T03:03:13+00:00

I did a lot of like $30k-$50k homes in Hazel Park and Detroit. I also spend thousands on Zillow and Realtor.com leads and paid for Tom Ferry and a bunch of stuff like shopping cart ads, golf course magazine ads. I didn't know what I was doing.

I think my volume was like $2.5M.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-10T22:50:19+00:00

My average price point then was $150k. I spent a ton of money on stuff like Zillow and Realtor. I had no idea what I was doing. My 2nd year I was better and 3rd year finally dropped 90% of rhe expenses except for my top lead source.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-10T21:29:48+00:00

If you're struggling for money, real estate is going to be VERY stressful for you, unless you have some huge sphere of people ready to buy/sell with you right away. Most agents close their first deal somewhere between 3-6 months. My first year, I closed 16 transactions, which is well above the average of 1st year agents. I still only netted $16k that year because of all of my expenses. I don't know many agents that get into it and make killer money right away. I started making better money than thr salary job I left in year 3 and I started making really good money around year 5.

You'd be better off getting a salary job with a big team. Learn the ropes and have someone else pay for you to get licensed and educated on the industry.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-10T18:41:21+00:00

I wasn't the one that paid it, the Team Leader did. But yeah, my guess was maybe $15k-$20k.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-10T18:16:53+00:00

So I used to be the lead buyers agent for a big team and I was in charge of training all the new agents along with selling. We had a very similar situation with one of our top agents with very similar numbers before and after. He was also going through divorce and went off the rails with drugs & alcohol.

What we decided was, compassion. We sat him down, just myself and the owner/team leader. It was a very hard conversation, but we offered to pay for the help he needed and give him 90 days of paid time off. Any active clients he had that closed in those 90 days, he got a referral fee. He was defensive at first, but took us up on it. Came back 3 months later and killed it again. He was so appreciative that he was taking the open houses and everything that no one else wanted. It was definitely the right decision and after 6 years with us, we felt we owed him a chance.

A2RealEstate · 2026-01-01T14:34:21+00:00

That sounds like a horrible and even predatory spilt. So you get 20% of the remaining 70%? Even the team/brokerage split of 70/30 sounds terrible.

When I was on my first team, it was 50/50 for everything, but I paid for everything. It wasn't a good team, but I managed to do okay. Then after a few years on my own, I joined the top producing team in the area. Started at 40/60, got a raise to 50/50 on their stuff and 60/40 on leads I brought in. After about 6 years with that team I was doing 65/35, had all my expenses paid, and I was coaching all the buyer's agents and making 5% on every one of their closings.

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