How does one become a top real estate agent? Let me count the ways. One, two, three, Two Hundred and ninety eight million. In .71 seconds Google found 298,000,000 results pertaining to my question. In .47 seconds Google gave me 366,000,000 results for real estate training. Certainly there appears to be interest in. (1.86 million results for train me to be a top real estate agent.)
I just saw a social media post recognizing the top real estate agents in an established local firm. Of the 60 agents who achieved the recognition level nine began their careers since the Great Recession. They did it without training. They committed to learning, and did the work. Going from zero to multiple millions is the carrot real estate trainers dangle, and who wouldn’t want that? As long as it’s fast, and easy, there will always be a rush to pay the fee, to be trained to be a star. We won’t see 15% of them in the top performer list of their firms. Rather than a quick road to success, the training programs launch most of their customers on a short career.
That’s not the same for learners. Learners like the nine I mentioned are in a hurry to be effective. They are in a hurry to do things right. They want to learn. They don’t have an interest in being trained. What’s the difference? Training is remembering which boxes to check and which lines to fill in. Training is the passing along of memorized scripts. Learning is knowing how to interpret and explain contract terms. Learning is knowing why the contract has this or that provision and knowing implications of those provisions. Not just well enough to draft an Offer, but well enough to also explain the document in terms their client can comprehend.
Congratulations to you all. I remember you when you didn’t know anything. You learned well. Keep growing. Keep sharing what you learn. Enjoy your careers. You learned it.
