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Are you a Real Estate Professional? Now
you can finally earn like one. Earn 100% Commission
and Keep More Of Your Own Money. Only $295/Month.
SERIOUS AND PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE
AGENTS IN MARYLAND ARE DISCOVERING THAT REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS,
INC. OFFERS ALL OF THE BENEFITS OF OWNING YOUR OWN REAL ESTATE OFFICE
AND BEING YOUR OWN REAL ESTATE BROKER WITHOUT THE HASSLE, HEADACHE
OR COST!
Hello. My name is I am 38 years old and have been in the real
estate business for fourteen years. I have been successful and am
fortunate to have loyal clients that have made real estate a very
enjoyable and worthwhile career for me. One of the keys to my success
was that I took time to make my business work for me. I have control.
I work only the hours that I want to work and I choose only the best
clients to work with that treat me with professionalism and respect.
I have more clients to work with than I can handle. This is a great
problem to have, and one that I hope that you will have also. I have been married since 1997 to my wonderful
wife, Jennifer. We have a six year old daughter
named Sydney and a three year old son named George. I live in an
old house (built in 1897) near LEARNING WHAT NOT TO DO I started in the real estate business in
February, 1995 with Long & Foster
Real Estate, the same company that I took the real
estate classes through. You didn’t think they held those classes as a public
service did you? Long & Foster had a large
number of agents but it seemed to me that a large percentage of them didn’t
have a real “business” and most of the agents were making the kind of income
that you could get from a “job” without the cost and expense and headaches of
being in the real estate business. I was also disappointed with the number of
bad agents that I met. When I
passed my real estate licensing exam, I was excited. I called my parents to
let them know and they were very proud. I was 24 years old at the time. I was
making $11.00 per hour slicing lunch meat in the deli at Mars Supermarket.
I got my business cards and bought a new car. I mean you can’t take customers
out in a 1984 Dodge Charger with primer spots, can you? I have always been a
motivated person and I was ready to take on the real estate business. A
famous real estate speaker I heard once said, “you don’t try real estate,
real estate tries you.” Well,
I learned many important things, the hard way. I learned how to answer the
phone on floor duty. For 3 hours at a time I answered the phone, Hello, Long
& Foster, this is Prospect:
I am looking for a house. Me:
Great, I think that I can help, would you be willing to work with me? Prospect:
Sure Me:
Are you working with a real estate agent? Prospect:
Yes. I have 6 agents. Me: 6? Prospect:
Yes, 6. Me:
Why are you working with 6 agents? Prospect:
The first agent to find me the right house, I will buy from them. Me:
You’re kidding? How long have you been looking? Prospect:
2 years. Me:
Have you seen anything that you liked? Prospect:
No. Not really. Me:
When were you looking to move? Prospect:
Next year. I am in a lease and I can’t move until June. I couldn’t understand why they couldn’t
afford a receptionist. After thinking about it, I realized that they had one,
Me. I was
never taught much. You learned by doing it. Sure they told me how to fill out
a listing agreement and a buyer agency contract. I guess they forgot to tell
me how to find the listing or the buyer, and what I should say to them when I
found them. I mean I was pretty well versed on how to fill in the blanks on
the form, but I think they were leaving a lot of critical information out. I
soon came to realize, very few agents in the office knew how to find a
listing or buyer, if they didn’t call us first, we would all starve. I
marched into my manager’s office and asked how I can drum up some business. I
was told that I could hold an open house on another agent’s listing. What a
great idea I thought, as visions of buyers and checkbooks lining up at the
front door filled my mind. The open
houses were most always a big waste of time. Nobody told me how to do an open
house, so I learned by observing and figuring it out on my own. My typical
open house consisted of putting 2 or 3 open house directional signs on the
street and putting some balloons on the for sale sign in front of the house.
Without any advertising, most of the open houses were a total waste of time.
Inside the house I was armed with a smile, a pocket full of business cards, a
notepad and little else. I can
remember holding an open house on a hot summer day on a vacant house with no
air conditioning. I can remember falling asleep on the stairway of another
vacant house because there was no place to sit down. I guess you could say
that it was my fault for not being prepared and asking questions about how
the open house should be conducted, but I thought I was giving up to half of
the commissions I generated for top notch training and support? Is this any way to do business? I did
start making sales and was soon on the fast track to success through sheer
determination, luck and hard work. In my
first 10 months in the business I made $9,600.00. Combined with my massive
income as a deli clerk at the local supermarket, I had made $25,000.00 in
1995. Oops, I had forgotten about the money that I had spent on the business.
This was my first lesson that gross income doesn’t really count. It is what
you keep that matters. I think I hated the deli clerk job worst. I can
remember waiting on customers with my paper hat
on and seeing one of my seller clients coming down the aisle. I quickly
ducked into the back and hid until he was gone. I made
a lot of friends at Long & Foster and had some good times there. Many of
the good people that I met there, I am proud to say, are affiliated with Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. now. My income went from $9,600.00 to $25,000.00
to $45,000.00 and I finally left the lunch meat counter after they gave me a
hard time about something and went full time into the real estate business.
Every once in a while I will have a dream that I am working in that
supermarket. When I wake up, I am relieved. After
3 years at Long & Foster, I knew that it was time to go. The office had
some bad agents there and the office productivity was non-existent. The whole
atmosphere in the office was depressing. I knew that RE/MAX® was the way to go.
Pay the office a monthly fee and keep 100% of all commissions, a more
competitive environment, more freedom, better agents. What a great idea!
Hopefully I can make it there. A NEW BEGINNING During
the end of 1998, I joined a local RE/MAX® franchise, RE/MAX® Elite Realty. My income
immediately went from $45,000.00 to $106,000.00 the very next year. I was
very happy there. My broker, Joe Banick was a good person and a great broker. I had
about 4 years of experience in the real estate business and I finally felt
like I had some control over where my business was headed. I felt like a
business person and I had money to finally reward myself for all of my hard
work. Agents have asked me what I did
differently during those first 12 Months. My answer, Nothing. I had a system that
worked for me, not against me. It is kind of like swimming against the tide.
You can have the tide working for you or against you. You pick. I soon
had a gross income nearing $150,000.00 per year. Sure, I had large office
fees to pay and had to pay my own expenses and advertising but everything was
going pretty good. I worked a lot but that extra income made a difference in
my life. It was during this time when I observed many top producer agents
making $200,000.00-300,000.00 a year by killing themselves. I figured that I
would be better off making less money and having control over my business and
a life outside of real estate. Many of the agents making 200-300k per year
were on a treadmill. They bought nice cars and nice houses and then had to
work 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week to pay for it all. I
was happy, but not totally satisfied and I thought that I had many better
ideas. A BETTER IDEA I am an entrepreneur at heart and I loved
the power of creating new ideas and developing marketing strategies. The idea
of negotiating handrails and furnace filters after a home inspection just
wasn’t as appealing as creating a new idea and creating a perfect system for
real estate agents to use. My idea was to take the best of what companies
like RE/MAX® had to offer and combine this with all of the benefits of an
independent real estate company along with my own unique ideas for conducting
business. In 2002, I received my broker license. In August 2002, Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. was in business. At that time, my perception of most real
estate companies in our market was that they weren’t run properly. Some of
the companies had ideas and procedures that were so outdated and dumb; I
couldn’t understand why anyone would want to work there. Not to mention that
at most of the companies, the agent was the barnacle on the bottom of the
company ship. Many of the companies thought that the agent existed solely for
their benefit, to go out and promote the name of the company. The
relationship was a more glorified employer-employee relationship than
business partner. My goal was to build an agent-friendly company where the
company and agent could be true business partners and complement one another.
I
wanted to give honest, ethical and successful real estate agents a place
where they could earn 100% commission for a very affordable fee, have a
professional image and make a high income. That place is Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. We have worked hard to make Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. the best choice for a real estate agent to affiliate
with. Will it be the right choice for everyone? Of course not. You can’t be
all things to all people. We want to make Real Estate Professionals, Inc. a
company where you can be the best that you can be, earn a lot of money and
have great quality of life. It may sound trite or clichéd, but we actually
care about all of our agents and are devoted to helping them reach their
goals. We work one on one with all of our agents to make sure that they are
successful. We
do more for our agents than any other real estate company. A PRIVATE AND ELITE CLUB OF EXPERIENCED AND PROFESSIONAL
AGENTS Anybody can call themselves a real estate
professional, but does it mean anything? Real Estate Professionals, Inc. is
not a typical real estate company. When we say something, we actually mean
it. Our company is more
like a private club where the best agents from the real estate industry do
business. We do not hire or
affiliate new or inexperienced agents. Unlike just about every real
estate company out there, Real Estate Professionals, Inc. is not interested
in creating a “body count” of agents. We don’t care about having the most
agents. We do not hold real estate licensing classes or affiliate new
licensees. We won’t throw you against the wall and see if you stick. You must
have a minimum of 12 months experience in real estate or equivalent to
affiliate with Real Estate Professionals, Inc. You also must be:
Do you want to be a part of something
special? Are you up to the challenge? If so, you will be surrounded by other
people like you. You will be associated with other professional business
people that take the real estate business seriously and have a good time in
the process. I’ll be honest; we aren’t looking to be the biggest real estate
company. I won’t even say that we are the best. When someone tells you that
they are the best you should be suspicious. We strive to be the best.
Do you really think that most real estate companies have any standards or do
they hire anyone with a
real estate license? You and I both know the answer. WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT? FAIRNESS. The other day someone asked me what Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. was all about. What was the one thing that makes
us different from everybody else? My answer was “fairness.” Deeply rooted in
our principles is a fundamental element of fairness. We want to give real
estate agents the deal that you can’t say “no” to. Our idea is that if
someone comes to Real Estate Professionals, Inc. and we make it very, very
profitable for them and treat them fairly and professionally, they will tell
other agents about the company. Hopefully over the long term we will build a
business that is of great value. We are not looking to enrich the company on
your hard earned commissions and your profit. We have a long term view of
things. We want you The agent is the one who generates the
vast majority of all business that is conducted. Most real estate company
advertising is a waste of time and brings no real business to the agents.
Many of the large real estate companies have brainwashed their agents into
thinking that the company gets them business. The opposite is true. Many real
estate companies have their agents convinced that they won’t be successful
without the “mother ship” company behind them. What a sad joke. Look at the
agents that get their business from “floor duty”, why are they broke and have
very little sales activity? With many real estate companies the deal
you sign on for today may not be the deal that you get tomorrow so you must
trust that your company will always treat you fairly. If not, you will be
constantly changing companies looking for a better deal. We will treat you
fairly. We take pride in coming up with new ideas and tools for you to be
more successful. You can trust that we will never take advantage of you. Some real estate companies think that
they are in the business of providing real estate services to the public. Not
us. We are in the real estate agent business. Our job is to offer you the
best possible environment to be successful in and to help you to do more
business and to meet your goals. Do you think buyers and sellers actually
pick a real estate company or agent by driving by a billboard and seeing a
sharp logo or a clever slogan or pictures of children and dogs? Did the last
buyer or seller you worked with use you because your company had a large
market share? Did they know or care what real estate company you were with? We know that the company is not the
critical factor when people buy or sell homes. The agent is. THE MYTH OF THE BIG COMPANY While Real Estate Professionals, Inc. is
not a small company (we currently have 98 agents affiliated with us) many
agents believe the myth of the big company. The myth of the big company goes
as follows: The company’s name is widely known and
the company is so large and they do so much advertising that business will
come to the agent. The real estate business is and always
will be a personal service business. People do business with people they know
and people they trust. The real estate business is unlike the shoe business
where people may buy “the hot brand.” I doubt that many of your clients care
what company you are affiliated with, some probably don’t even know. I know
that sounds harsh and extreme, but it is the truth. I dare you to write down
a list of your recent transactions and where the business came from. I’ll bet
90% if not all of your business was generated by you. There is not a real estate company around
that can provide you with enough leads for you to be able to make a decent
income for one person and pay your expenses. Some have tried, but the truth
always prevails in the end. By relying on the little bit of business that a
company’s floor duty or advertising generates, you are crippling your real
estate business for the long term. If you don’t learn how to generate your
own business, you will starve and die a long and slow painful death in real
estate. Think about the welfare system for a moment. The welfare system gives
people just enough to get by. After a while many welfare recipients would
rather live off of their stipend, then give it up in hopes of something
better. YOUR
SUCCESS IN REAL ESTATE WILL BE SOLELY DETERMINED BY WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU DO
AND HOW YOU DO IT. Many companies are very proud of their
supposed golden reputation, stellar sales record or 99.9% customer
satisfaction rating. These companies believe in the power of the brand and
that all of their marketing and advertising makes people destined to use the
company. In my opinion, the sales success of a real estate company is
determined by the number of agents and the hunger of these agents to procure
business. A real estate company that has 10,000 agents sells a lot of real
estate not because the brand is advertised so much and means something, but
that the company has 10,000 agents walking around handing out business cards,
talking to people and asking people if they want to buy or sell a home
through the agent. The power of any real estate company to have market share
is determined solely by the number of agents, yet that market share does not
translate into dollars for an agent affiliated with that firm. Promoting the
big company “mother ship” in your marketing or advertising will do little if
anything to improve your standing in the eyes of buyers and sellers. The mega
company may make tens of millions of dollars a year in income but the agent’s
income will only be determined by that which they have procured for the
company. Most agents care about their personal income and not the profits of
the company. You can capture 85-90% of the real estate
market no matter what company you are with as long as you have something to
offer the real estate consumer. Whether it is your award winning personality,
your great sense of humor or your 8 step home selling system, people will do
business with you because they like you, they trust you and they feel that
you can do the job for them. You see, buying or selling a home is not
like buying a pizza. It’s not like buying a CD player or even a car. An agent
gets to know their clients and customers rather intimately over many weeks
and perhaps months and can finish a transaction as a friend and referral tree
or enemies. Your skills at making people like and trust you will do more for
you than any real estate company can. The real estate business is a business,
it is not a job and it requires an investment of time, effort and money. An
investment is something that you invest in today for a greater return
tomorrow. By planning and working the real estate business the right way, you
will plant the seeds of success that will repay you with immense returns down
the road. If you do not understand this, you will be doomed to earn a dismal
income in real estate or you may be forced to leave the business. Real Estate Professionals, Inc. was made
for agents like you that want to have a real business and earn a professional
income working the real estate business on your terms. Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. has made it affordable for agents like you to earn 100%
commission for a very low monthly fee. If you are willing to listen and take
action, we can show you how to meet the goals that you have for yourself. Here are some of the many benefits that
you will receive from being affiliated with Real Estate Professionals, Inc. PROFESSIONAL LEADERSHIP Our management team has years of experience
actually selling real estate and making money. We can work with you one on
one to help you do the same. We maintain an impeccable reputation in the real
estate business for professionalism, integrity and ethics. Unfortunately, the
requirements to be a licensed broker are not that tough. There are brokers
and company owners in the business that you may not want to associate with.
Make sure you do your homework. You are the company you keep. WHERE AGENTS EARN 100% COMMISSION™ - KEEP MORE OF YOUR OWN
MONEY Real Estate Professionals, Inc. offers
only 100% commission programs to our agents. Why Earn 100% Commission?
* This chart is based upon sales volume and
an average commission of 3% per transaction side and does not take into account any office
fees paid. Let me lay the cards on the table. If you are not earning 100%
commission, you are behind the curve. Even at a high commission split,
you have to work harder and harder to make the same amount of money. Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. has made earning 100% commission affordable for
all agents. Our money-saving commission programs let you reap the rewards of
your own success. You are the one who every day, makes phone calls and meets
with people to make things happen; then all your company thinks about is a
new rule or fee that will cost you money or steal your time. If you are the
one that does the work, shouldn’t you receive the rewards associated with
your hard work? Many times companies extract large profits from an individual
agent and still treat the agent like a nobody. This is wrong. If you are
doing $1 Million or more in sales volume and splitting commissions with your
broker, it is like trying to drive a car on a sandy beach. You are going to
be working a lot harder than you should be and you will go nowhere fast.
There is an easier and better way to do things. WHAT
WILL YOU DO WITH THE EXTRA MONEY? Many of our agents are now saving the
thousands of dollars that their previous company was taking from them. Our
agents can now travel on expensive vacations, put children through college,
or buy the home of their dreams without working any harder than they were
before. Combine this with the fact that our company does more for the agent
than any other company and you have to ask yourself, “What are you going to
do about it?” What will you do to stop losing thousands
of dollars every year to your current broker? How much money are you losing? These charts will show you how much money
you are giving away to your current broker. The center column shows you
how much money you are giving away per each million dollars of sales volume.
This chart is based upon an average
commission of 3% per transaction side and does not take into account any office
fees paid. What
happens when you discount you commission? It gets even worse…
This chart is based upon an average
commission of 1.75% per transaction side and does not take into account any office
fees paid. With
these kind of numbers you will make just enough to be broke! Many agents are working the real estate
business like a job. They might even earn enough to make a living and pay
their expenses but they forget about profit. Profit is what a business owner
has after paying themselves for the job that they do and paying all of their
expenses. Profit is why you are in business and taking a risk. Without a
healthy profit you might as well sit in a cubicle somewhere and work for
someone else. If this is the way you do business,
you will have a little too much MONTH at the end of your MONEY! Hopefully you never receive a letter like
this:
Seriously, could you find a better way to
spend this money? I know you can. OUR OFFICE WILL NEVER CHARGE YOU JUNK
FEES LIKE MANY COMPANIES DO. HERE IS A LIST OF THINGS THAT AGENTS ARE PAYING
EXTRA FOR AT OTHER REAL ESTATE OFFICES: ERRORS AND OMISSIONS INSURANCE,
FRANCHISE FEES, FORMS PROGRAM, TECHNOLOGY FEES, LONG DISTANCE CHARGES,
SHOWING SERVICES, COMPANY REFERRAL PROGRAMS, COMPANY SPONSORED SOFTWARE,
TRAINING PROGRAMS, YEARLY COMPANY DUES, POSTAGE COSTS, COPY FEES,
REFRESHMENTS, ETC. Real Estate Professionals, Inc. offers
you a choice of two money-saving 100% commission programs. TOP PRODUCER PROGRAM – 100% COMMISSION MADE AFFORDABLE!
The cost of the Top Producer program is
only $295.00 per month to Real Estate Professionals, Inc. You will be paid 100% commission on your
sales at the settlement table. After settlement, you will be responsible
for paying a $195.00 administrative fee to Real Estate Professionals,
Inc. You have the freedom to charge commissions to your clients as
you see fit to help you pay for or offset your office fees. This is
the only difference between our Top Producer program and our Standard
Commission program. All Top Producer program agents have the full
use of our offices and all other benefits of affiliating with Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. Should you choose to go from one commission
program to another, this is acceptable. The only requirement is that
you must notify us in writing about your desire to change programs,
using a simple form that we provide to you on our agent intranet site.
This change can be made on the first of the following months, January,
April, July and October. All monthly fees are due by the 20th of every
month and are subject to late fees if not paid. STANDARD COMMISSION PROGRAM – 100% COMMISSION WITH NO
TRANSACTION FEES!
COMMISSIONS PAID DIRECTLY TO YOU AT SETTLEMENT At Real Estate Professionals, Inc. you
won’t wait several days or a week or more to be paid your commissions. As
long as you are in good standing with the company, we will give our permission
for your commissions earned to be paid directly to you at the settlement
table. Many real estate companies take a very long time to pay their agents.
How long does it take your current broker to pay you the commissions that you
have earned? Why would you want to wait? FIRST TWO MONTHS FREE The first two months of fees paid to Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. are free if you decide to pay for your first year
upon affiliation. If you choose this option you will pay 10 months of office
fees at the time that you affiliate with the company. You won’t have to pay
any office fees for a year. You
may leave the company at any time and are entitled to a full refund of any
unused months.
NO LONG TERM COMMITMENT There is no long term commitment at Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. You are free to leave our company at any time. There are
no penalties or rollback of commissions if you wish to leave. We believe that
we offer you more benefits than any other real estate company out there. We
want to do so much for you that you wouldn’t think about affiliating with any
other real estate company. If another company wants you to sign a
long term agreement or give months of notice before you leave, why would they
do that? What are they afraid of? At Real Estate Professionals, Inc. you can
leave the company at any time without penalty. We have to keep you satisfied.
This is why you can be assured that we will do more for you than any other
real estate company. NO SECURITY DEPOSITS We never charge any security deposits to
you. We want to help you to get a strong start at Real Estate Professionals,
Inc. with as little cash out of pocket as possible. Some 100% commission
companies will charge you $1,000.00 or more to be held by the company
as a security deposit. FREE ONE ON ONE SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE At Real Estate Professionals, Inc. you
won’t be ignored. You
will receive personal attention and one on one support with anything that you
need help with. All agents are different and people need help with
different things. One of our agents that transferred to Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. from a large real estate company told me that he learned
more in two days than he did in the entire first year at his previous
company. We have free weekly success training and coaching meetings where any
agent can meet at the office and go over anything that they might need help
with. Technology, marketing, contracts, etc. If you need help, we will give
it to you. You won’t be on your own. We believe that the best way to create
wealth by selling real estate is by building your own professional real
estate practice. Lots of companies offer training, only we will teach you how
to build a business. Your own business. Unlike most companies, you won’t learn
how to fill out a form. We will teach you everything you need to know to be
successful in the real estate business. What is success? We will find out
what it is to you and help you to obtain it. We will teach you cost effective
ways to get all of the business that you can handle. We will teach you how to
work the hours that you want to work. We will teach you how to meet your
goals whether you want to make $300,000.00 per year or make $40,000.00 per
year and only work three days a week. You are only limited by your own
motivation and ambition. Here
are some of the many items that are covered during our weekly success
training and coaching
AND MORE! In a small group setting we will help you
to assemble all of the tools that you need to get everything out of the real
estate business that you want and deserve. MAKE MONEY BY BECOMING A CERTIFIED AUCTION ASSOCIATE WITH REAL
ESTATE PROFESSIONALS, INC.
Agents
that receive the CAA Certified Auction Associate designation are entitled to
numerous benefits for FREE including special training/coaching sessions on
auction marketing, auction promotional materials and a FREE e-mail address at
one of the following domains, yourname@repauctions.com,
yourname@baltimorerealestateauctions.com
or yourname@certifiedauctionassociate.com. There
are large commissions to be made marketing for auction clients. If you have
the ambition and desire to learn and to apply what you learn, becoming a
Certified Auction Associate can make your real estate business explode and
create hundreds of thousands of dollars in real estate commissions for you.
Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity! RUN YOUR OWN REAL ESTATE OFFICE PROGRAM Have you ever dreamed of running your own
real estate office? If you have been in the real estate business for 3 years
or more and are doing a significant amount of sales, we will allow you to
operate your own Real Estate Professionals, Inc. branch office. You will be
able to have a sign in front of your office with your phone number and we
will get you licensed as the branch manager of your office. Unlike many
companies that will try to sell you a franchise, this opportunity is
absolutely free. We benefit because Real Estate Professionals, Inc. receives
increased exposure as one of the fastest growing companies in the CHARGE ANY COMMISSION YOU WANT – NEVER LOSE A LISTING UNLESS
YOU WANT TO Does your current broker allow you to charge
any commission you want? Do they make you compete with one arm tied behind
your back? Does your current company reduce your commission split if the
commission you receive is not high enough? We are not a discount real estate
company but some of our agents do offer discount listing services and full
price services also. My problem with most discount brokerages is that their
advertising is always centered on a super low commission rate to generate
calls. What if I as a seller am willing to pay a full commission? How will
the agent at the discount company then charge more. The discount company is
undercutting their own agent’s efforts and making the agent do more business
and provide a lower degree of service to make the same amount of money. I
know, the discount companies do it all…for less. Do they? If you have to work
with 2 clients per month or 6 clients per month, do you really believe that
the 6 clients will get better service than the 2. In my opinion, Discount
commission = Discount income. You should make the decision as far as what
your services are worth. At many traditional large real estate
companies there is a minimum commission that must be charged. But what if you
have a seller with a $500.000.00 waterfront property that won’t pay that
commission? The deal is lost. What if that property will sell quickly through
the MLS with little effort? The commissions you charge must be worth your
time. Our company does not force you to make your business fit in with our
company guidelines. The difference is that Real Estate Professionals, Inc.
will let you make the decision as to what commission is charged. You can be a
discount broker or a full commission broker or anything in between. At Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. we give you the freedom you need to be successful. YOU OWN YOUR BOOK OF BUSINESS AT REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS, INC. Real Estate Professionals, Inc. knows
that people list with you because of you, not us. If you ever decide to leave
Real Estate Professionals, Inc. we will release any active listings to your
new company should you so desire, provided all of your fees are paid current,
all proper paperwork has been received on your files and we receive written
permission from your seller. Will other companies do this for you or will
your leaving trigger World War III when it comes to your book of business? FREE PROFESSIONAL RECEPTIONISTS – NOT FLOOR DUTY AGENTS Our company uses a professional answering
service to take all incoming calls to the office. This service answers our
phone calls 24 hours a day. Between 8 AM and 8 PM calls are referred to your
business phone. Between 8 PM and 8 AM this professional service will take a
message for you and forward the message to you by e-mail. Our office is
automated. The office is never closed. Your customers will not call our
office and get lost in an automated attendant voice prompt system. Your will never have to worry about
having your client call the office and speak with a rude floor duty agent.
You will never have to worry about a dishonest agent stealing your customers. PROFESSIONAL COMPANY IMAGE We spent over $2,000
to have a professional logo designed. When you join Real Estate Professionals,
Inc. we will design a custom personal logo for you Our company slogan is, Great Properties,
Great Agents™. This explains to the public exactly what we are, a
professional real estate company that offers the best properties and the best
agents. I can’t think of a better image to promote to the public than that.
Because our company name is a general name many clients and customers that
probably have never heard of us before have told us that they knew who we
were. We don’t argue with them. RECEIVE ALL FOR Many agents don’t realize that for sale
signs are a great investment and are one of the best advertising and lead
generation tools available to real estate agents. All of our agents use for
sale signs with their direct phone number on them. All potential buyers on
your listings will be able to get directly in touch with you and not the
floor duty agent that some companies use. Many of our agents are making
$10,000.00 a year and more as a result of receiving these phone calls and
selling their own listings or helping the buyers find other homes. If you have listings and are not receiving the phone
calls from these listings, you are being ripped off. A small amount of money spent on for sale
signs will be a very profitable investment for you. Our standard company for
sale sign can be customized with your name and your phone number. An office
phone number appears on all signs in small type to comply with new regulations put in place by the Maryland Real Estate Commission.
You spend lots of time and money to procure people that want to sell their
homes. Shouldn’t buyers be able to contact you on your property listings,
rather than the floor duty agent? Investing in signs is an important step to
becoming successful in the real estate business. Having a for sale sign with your
name and your phone number on your listings will make help you to make
thousands of dollars in extra commissions. These signs will also help you to
generate new listings from prospective sellers. Why would your current broker not allow you to have for
sale signs with your name and your phone number on them? The answer is rather
simple. The business generated from your property listings is being given to
someone else.
NO FLOOR DUTY We wouldn’t insult you by asking you to
be our unpaid receptionist. There is no floor duty time for you to perform at
Real Estate Professionals, Inc. The only phone that you will have to answer
will be your own. Many of our agents have spent dozens or hundreds of hours
answering the telephone at their previous company with little to show for it.
These same agents are now investing that time into earning real income and
building their own personal real estate business. Just about all of the
agents that I have known during my time in real estate that relied on floor
duty for their business have been long gone from the business. When floor
duty produces leads, they are usually of lower quality and many of the
callers “just want information” and don’t want to work with you. Floor duty
may give you enough business to survive but you won’t make the kind of money
that you want or deserve until you decide that it is not the best use of your
time. There is no company out there that can give you the income you want by
performing “floor duty.” You won’t ever have a profitable business unless you
learn to generate business for yourself. We can help you. FREE TOLL-FREE APPOINTMENT LINE All of our agents utilize our toll free
appointment line for their listings. The service that we use is called Centralized
Showing Service. In the agent listing remarks of the MLS the following
text is used: ***AGENTS CALL CSS APPOINTMENT LINE 1-866-891-7469 FOR ALL
SHOWINGS*** The cost for this service is paid for by the company. This cost
is included in your office fee. You will be responsible for updating your
listings and showing instructions online at www.showings.com. CSS will give out lockbox
information or will confirm appointments with your sellers. When an
appointment is made, you are immediately e-mailed the agent name, company
name, phone numbers and appointment date and time. The selling agents are
also e-mailed a feedback request. You can also access this information online
for each of your listings. You can even give your seller a user account so
that they can see their history of appointments and know which ones are
coming up. There are no per listing or per appointment fees. The fee that the
office pays covers unlimited appointments. Using an appointment line for our
company listings allows us to give you and the seller a better result and to
keep our overhead low and pass the savings on to you. Don’t let the floor
duty agent make appointments on your listings! THE VERY BEST TECHNOLOGY Real Estate Professionals, Inc. has
invested a lot of money in technology to save you time and money. One of the
reasons we can provide you with so many benefits for such a small price is
our investment in technology. Our technology and innovative ideas lower our
overhead and it Our office has a sophisticated fax
system. We receive all faxes directly into our network server. This allows
our receptionist to forward faxes to you by e-mail. This is a tremendous time
saving item. No longer will you have to drive to the office to pick up a
faxed offer on one of your listings. You will be able to open your e-mail box
and view your faxes like an original document. You will save paper and
printing costs also. If you run to your real estate office every time you
receive something you are wasting a lot of time. A 20 minute drive to the office
becomes an hour or more by the time you get back home. What is your time
worth? $10 per hour, $20 per hour, $50 per hour or more? That means that you
are paying that amount to receive your faxes plus the cost of gas and wear
and tear on your vehicle. Save time and money by receiving your faxes to your
e-mail. What if you receive an offer on one of your
listings that an agent drops off for you or an important letter? No
problem. We will scan and send you the documents by e-mail. Our office has a super-fast internet
connection so that we can download and upload files quickly. The technology that we have invested in
saves us and our agents, time and money. We have spent a great deal
of money to be able to have the efficiency that we do. Many real estate
companies in our marketplace don’t care about technology because they
don’t see the benefit for the company. FREE PROFESSIONAL FORMS – THE OFFICIAL FORMS PROGRAM OF THE NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. We provide ZipForm Online, the official forms program of the
National Association of REALTORS® free for you to use. This internet
based forms program will give you access to always updated REALTOR®
designed listing, sale and lease forms. You will be able to access
your own customized form sets, templates and past transactions from
home, the office or anywhere that has an internet connection. FREE BUSINESS CARDS Real Estate Professionals, Inc. will pay
for your first 1,000 business cards. We have several business card
designs for you to pick from. FREE E-MAIL ADDRESS You will receive a free yourname@myrealestateprofessionals.com
e-mail address when you affiliate with Real Estate Professionals,
Inc. You will need to provide your own internet access for home. We
can program this e-mail address to forward to another e-mail address
that you already use. We can also program this e-mail address to work
with an e-mail program so that you can both send and receive from
your new e-mail address. We can also help you to register your own
domain name and set up your own e-mail such as kevin@kevinjacksonrealtor.com
for about $10.00 per year. COMPANY WEBSITE
Real Estate Professionals, Inc. offers a
company website, www.myrealestateprofessionals.com
with a live property search of the MLS and information on buying or
selling a home. Prospective clients can get information on you and
the services that you offer. Our website is constantly updated. myrealestateprofessionals.com
attracts thousands of unique visitors every month. COMPANY INTRANET
Real Estate Professionals, Inc. has an awesome
password protected company intranet where you can download files and
access links to important information. Our company intranet has many
amazing features and these features will save you time. The intranet
site gives you access to custom made forms, customizable letterheads
and logo files. Our intranet has lots of helpful information for you
and grows weekly. Our goal is to run the company and eliminate as
much unecessary bureaucracy as we can. FREE WEBSITE LISTING You are entitled to a free page on our company
website under agent list. This page is yours and is titled with your
name so that your clients can find your information quickly if they
use an internet search engine. We will arrange for free to have a
high quality photo taken of you. We will also write a detailed biography
of you with your assistance. We encourage all of our agents if they
haven’t already, to register a personal domain name, like www.sarajones.com.
If you don’t have another website set up, we can show you how to register your
own domain and point it toward your personal webpage on myrealestateprofessionals.com.
The cost is about $10.00 per year to register a domain name. ERRORS & OMMISSIONS INSURANCE A one million dollar errors and omissions
insurance policy is in place through a highly rated insurance company.
Real Estate Professionals, Inc. pays for this insurance. There are
no yearly e&o fees that you are required to pay. Many companies
are charging their agents $500.00 per year or more for errors and
omissions insurance or even worse, on a per transaction basis. Ask
your current company what your current insurance coverage is. Ask
how much deductible that you have to pay in the event that a claim
is covered by the company policy. At many companies the deductible
to be paid by the agent is $500.00, $1,000.00, $2,500.00 or even $5,000.00.
At Real Estate Professionals, Inc. we pay for the cost of any deductible
as long as you are licensed with Real Estate Professionals, Inc. and
are in good standing with the company. FREE USE OF OFFICE AND CONFERENCE ROOMS, FREE REFRESHMENTS All of our agents are “home office”
agents. This simply means that you do the majority of your work from home.
You will have full use of our offices and conference rooms. You will be
provided with a key and a unique security code to access our offices after hours.
Our offices have just been remodeled and have been professionally decorated
by an interior designer. Our main office is located in the Essex area of FREE HIGH SPEED INTERNET ACCESS You have full use of our high speed
internet connection and network. We have plenty of work space and conference
rooms with network jacks for you. You can use our computers or bring your laptop
computer with you to work in the office. FREE USE OF COMPUTERS You have full use of our numerous
computers and network server. Our computers have updated and licensed
versions of many different types of software including Microsoft Office,
Adobe Acrobat, ZipForm and Settlement Express. We have several laser printers
and a digital copier for your use. We never charge for copies or any nonsense
like that. TRANSFERRING YOUR REAL ESTATE LICENSE TO REAL ESTATE
PROFESSIONALS, INC. After meeting
with us, and if we are both in agreement to you affiliating with Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. we will take care of everything involved
with your transfer. We will make it easy for you to transfer and be
set up to do business the same day. REALTOR® AFFILIATIONS Our company is affiliated with the Greater Baltimore Board of REALTORS®,
Harford County Association of
REALTORS®, Howard County Association of
REALTORS®, Anne Arundel County Association
of REALTORS® and the Greater Capital Association
of REALTORS®. You must join or transfer to one of these associations
to join Real Estate Professionals, Inc. If you are already a member
of one of these associations, we will send written notice to the appropriate
association and let them know that you are now affiliated with Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. IN SUMMARY Here are just
a few things that our agents are saying about being affiliated with Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. “Robert has created a company that truly puts the
agent first, and has allowed me to accelerate my career by leaps and bounds.” “My business has grown a lot since I have
affiliated with Real Estate Professionals.
For one thing, I don’t waste a lot of time around an office water
cooler, or helping other people figure out how to use a computer in the
company work room. But more
importantly, by keeping 100% of my commission, I have more money left over at
the end of every month to pour into promoting my own business. This has resulted in much faster saturation
into periodicals and newspapers, and allowed me to get my name out there
faster than I normally would have been able to.” view original
testimonial letter (.pdf format) Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. “With the extra $3,750.00 I would have made on
just this one deal, it would have more than paid for an entire years monthly
fees with Real Estate Professionals, Inc. and I would still have about
$800.00 left over for other costs. It just doesn’t make sense for me not to
have made this move.” “I know I’ve made the correct choice.” view original
testimonial letter (.pdf format) Robert H.
Leininger, REALTOR® – Real Estate Professionals,
Inc. “I personally have referred a minimum of 5 agents
who have now signed on with Real Estate Professionals.” “As far as I am personally concerned, I would
never work anywhere else.” listen to testimonial (.mp3
format) Real
Estate Professionals, Inc. You are in business for yourself and if
you don’t make necessary changes from time to time your business will never
prosper. Decide today that you will do something for your future. If you
agree with the ideas and principles embodied in our company, Real Estate
Professionals, Inc. might be the best company for you to affiliate with.
Please e-mail me at robert@myrealestateprofessionals.com
or call me at 410.916.8200. I can talk with you on the phone, respond to your
e-mail questions or meet with you and show you how we can work together for
mutual success in the real estate business. We would never put pressure on
anyone to make a decision, and of course any inquiry will be strictly
confidential. Thank you for taking the time to read
this. To your success,
Broker, REALTOR® robert@myrealestateprofessionals.com
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company like Real Estate Professionals, Inc. a long time ago. We can be business partners
and make each other successful. Don’t procrastinate. Make a decision today to
investigate the possibilities. Fill out the inquiry form below while this is
fresh in your mind and you are excited about the possibilities. "Never
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