Guide To Seattle Real Estate

I have been a Seattle Real Estate Agent for a few years now.  While it was good and now when it is not so good.  I have worked as a Discount Agent, a Full Service Agent, with Expired listings, FSBO listings, met clients Door to Door, met them telemarketing, and of course worked with Family and Friends.  The industry is huge and everyone has their own niche or book of business that they work from.  Lately, the reasons I love working in the Real Estate industry have been overshadowed by the reasons I don’t.  This I have to change.

How do I capture what I like about the Industry and discard the rest?  Here is my pro/con list.

Pro-Real Estate Industry

• Helping people through education
• Houses and what type of family each will best serve
• Being a knowledge resource for clients
• Blogging
• Working with great Agents and Lenders
• Helping First-Time buyers get into a home.

 Con-Real Estate Industry

• Not getting paid for all of your time
• Not getting paid due to someone else’s failure
• Working with SLIMY Agents and Lenders
• The inherent Cut-Throat nature of the business
• The zero-sum game nature of the process
• Again working with SLIMY Agents and Lenders

I have learned so much and built relationship with some great people in the past few years in Real Estate.  While I am in transition away from being a Full-Time Agent and to spending more time in my marketing career, I am looking for a way to still be of service and involved in the industry.  I have some ideas that I am going to be exploring over the next few weeks.

In a training class I once met an agent who had been in the industry for 15+ years and never had closed a transaction.  Lame you might think, but she made a decent living and worked with several clients a month.  Instead of finding a buyer for a seller or a house for a buyer she found great agents for her clients.  She found agents that weren’t slimeballs agents, ones that actually specialized in what that client wanted.  Not just an agent who said that they could do whatever the client asked.  (I have been guilty of that one myself, Tacoma is not in my area)

I am going to have to work on my business model and see how to do this, but I know that there is a way I can provide valuable services to clients and still maintain the passion I have for real estate while ditching what I dislike about the industry.