A Realtor in his first 12 months of business submitted an offer yesterday and got this response from the listing agent. ” Did her attorney draft this Offer?” Agent replied, “Nope. Just me.” Listing agent: “Are you a lawyer?” Agent: “Nope”.
I always ask new licensees to tell me what they fear most about starting their careers. It’s common to hear that what wakes them up at 3 AM with worries is making mistakes, disappointing someone, or just plain looking like they don’t know what they’re doing. There is a solution to that worry and fear. It’s learning. More than two years ago we started weekly Skill Share sessions designed to raise our knowledge of contracts. We believe the best way to be relevant in the real estate transaction is to know how to make the contracts work for our clients and to do that we had to know what is and isn’t in the contracts. We had to learn to take addenda from other firms and lawyers apart to discover the hidden trips, and traps. We’ve done that, and more.
Today, our experienced agents and our relatively new agents who make the commitment to attend, participate, learn, and share have insight well beyond the understanding of even the most experienced agents. (Don’t be so sure that experience equals competence. Time is not the difference maker, learning is.)
Imagine being well prepared to fix a bad contingency and prepared to draft terms that work for everyone. You can do it in your first year. Just make the commitment to learn. We’ll give you the insight. That’s our unfair advantage. We care that you’re prepared.
