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Questions & Answers
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What advice would you give to a customer looking to hire a company like yours?
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Shop around, interview lots of agents and ask them these questions:
1. Annual Home Sales
The average agent nationwide sells 12 homes a year, and the average agent in our local area sells 6 homes a year. That is problematic for a lot of reasons. One – they are not going to have that much experience. Two – their income is really dependent on each one of their transactions, especially if they are only doing six per year. In my experience, that leads to high-pressure situations, since that agent is really counting on you to buy a home. We don’t like to put people in high-pressure situations. Our team sells over 360 homes per year and each of the agents on our team average 24 transactions per year. That means we’re doing, per agent, four times the amount of sales as the average real estate agent in our market. This mean our team is not going to be in a situation where we pressure you into buying a home.
2. Years in the Industry
The second question you should ask is how long have you been in the business. You want to know if this person is starting out, if they’ve been in the business a year, five years, 10 years. etc. Some experience is good, however, sometimes a decade of experience can be bad if the agent isn’t doing a ton of volume year in and year out. Times do change and they need to be constantly updating their methods and strategies to keep up.
3. Back-End Support Structure
Ask what type of support do you have? You want to make sure that the agents you’re working with can give you support for showings on nights, weekends, and whenever. What happens if they get sick? What happens when they’re on vacation? What happens when they’re with another client? The list goes on. This is especially important in our market where there’s not much inventory and seeing homes can really mean the difference between getting the home or not.
If the agent is not working as part of a team, if they are solo agent at a large brokerage, you want to make sure they have a support syste
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What is the most common type of project or service your company provides?
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Residential home sales and residential home purchases in Washington DC, Arlington, Virginia, and Maryland.
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In what ways is your company environmentally friendly?
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Lots of volunteering activities as a team; most recently we joined DC Urban Greens to help provide healthy food for those without healthy food options available to them.
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What would you like your customers to know about your company?
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We work around the clock to ensure your satisfaction.
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What is your company best known for?
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Our guaranteed home sale program. If we can not sell your home in 30 days, we will buy it.
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