ActiveRain Success Stories

"I received a featured post with my fourth blog article. How cool is that! I haven't even hatched out of my pre-license training shell yet and have already experienced such tremendous guidance, direction and encouragement from a large number of professionals right here on ActiveRain. I can't thank everyone enough, but I sure will make you proud!"

"I was at a R/E office the other day and I heard someone say "HEY I KNOW YOU" I've seen you on ACTIVE RAIN. Welcome and come on in. I have since been doing inspections for this R/E office. Mrs Brawn called me from out of town. She told me they had purchased a home (made an offer) in Boulder Colorado. She told me she was a follower of Active Rain, and she liked the posts by me. She asked me to inspect the home they were to purchase in Boulder. I told her I was not licensed in Colorado, but I could recommend an inspector there. She was really grateful. I did and the inspector did a great job for her. She then wanted me to collect a "finders fee" but I told her she didn't have to pay it. Helping the client is what My company was all about. They have since moved to Boulder Colorado, but they left word with the senior community that we provide excellent service. I have gotten a couple of calls for my efforts. Go Active Rain. Mr. Rodriquez was skeptical at first. His realtor told him he did not need a home inspection. But he called me anyway. After the home was inspected and i found the water heater was operating at only 45% efficiency. He had it added to the contract the water heater was to be replaced before the closing. It was and saved Mr. Rodriquez about $800.00 in the replacement costs. This savings far out weighed the cost for a Home Inspection. Mr. Thomas from Artesia New Mexico. I have purchased a home in Artesia New Mexico. I had Clint with Desert Sun Inspections Inspect the home I wanted to purchase. After the inspection Clint sat down with me and explained everything to me. Glad I had him inspect the home. He found the following, No GFI breakers in the Baths or Kit. No ground on plugs in the "older section" of the home. A vent pipe on the roof, that was missing. Letting water in. No insulation in the attic. Faucet in 2nd bath was defective. After taking these concerns to the seller. We negotiated a repair list and these Items were taken care of. It saved me over 1,500.00 dollars. It only cost me $300.00 for the inspection so it saved me $1,200.00 in actual costs for the home being repaired. Thanks so much ,Clint for being so diligent. R. Thomas Thanks' to Active Rain, I have found more "new client's" than ever before. Thanks' Active Rain. Clint McKie The phone rang and I was working. I answered it and it was an Inspection company from Houston Texas. They needed a Inspector in the Carlsbad New Mexico area for some home inspections for a insurance company. They needed some inspections completed as soon as possible. I agreed to do them and when I asked where the got my name and number to call, They said they got it from the Active Rain Site. How cool is that. Now I do inspections for them on a monthly basis. thank you Active Rain. Another new client from Active Rain. Yes Mr. Irving found me on the Active Rain site. He had me inspect his Geodesic home he was looking into buying. Things went great and now the Realtor is useuing me as well. Thanks for the exposure Active Rain, Clint McKie Active Rain has been a god send. Since I have been on Active Rain, there has been a lot of inspection companies looking for a local inspector. They found my name in the Active Rain system and now I do work for them weekly. Thanks Active Rain. Hello Mr. McKie, This is Mr. Irving, I did go ahead and buy the geodesic home in Carlsbad, New Mexico. I just wanted to tell you that you are the only inspector I would ever recommend to a home buyer. After three inspections "yours being the fourth" the other inspectors did not find much of anything. When I looked at the old reports two hand written. I didn't see half the stuff you found. We did have the A/C fixed and it's working great now. This was a big deal, because it cost the seller about $750.00 to repair. Then the water leaks were reapired too. A cost of $450.00. The relief valve drip leg was installed to the outside of the home at a cost of $200.00. All of the screens were replaces a cost of $400.00. A total cost of $1,600.00 . I just want to thank you for the good inspection and for your honesty with the inspection. I will not hesitate to recommend you when a buyer wants to get a home inspection. Thanks again, and thank you to Active Rain too. Sincerly yours, Mr. Irving, C hill Geodesic. I got a call from a Realtor that has a agency out of town, thye are looking for a new inspector for the agency. I gave him all the information about my inspection services. Now I have added another agency to the Real Estate agencys I represent. Thank you Lois Oliver Real Estate, Artesia, New Mexico. Posting on the Active Rain site has produced a lot of new client's. When I asked where they found me they say "I found you on Active Rain". A great way to find and keep new customers. Clint McKie New home buying and Active Rain goes hand in hand. Since I have been posting on Active Rain I have been receiving more and more calls for new construction homes. Posting on Active Rain has helped Desert Sun Home Inspections A lot. Clint McKie Owner of Desert Sun Home Inspections"

"I just keep getting more excited about ActiveRain. It is amazing how many people that I have met through ActiveRain and how much I enjoy keeping in touch. I also am finding so much information about blogging and other technology that will help in anything that I do. My new venture of specializing in referrals to Latin America is getting great support from the members. I am looking forward to the best year ever with the help from ActiveRain."

"Active Rain has been a wonderful experience for me. At first I was fearful of blogging but with the encouragement of other members I am on my way to blogging at least 4 times per week. Also, I have started to video various events and neighborhoods in my community so that I am able to produce video blogs. Here again, with the advice from some Active Rain members I have the right equipment and look forward to blogging those out this week. Stay tuned!! I wished I had joined Active Rain yars ago when i started in real estate but better late then never."

""Jeannie is wonderful and she was a joy to work with. She did such a beautiful job staging our home. She is very creative and the end results were outstanding. Thanks to Jeannie, we sold our home in one day. We highly recommend her to anyone wanting to sell their home. Thank you so much, Jeannie!!!" Sonny and Cheryl Bryan The Woodlands, TX "Jeannie recently helped me stage a home for sale. We loved her professionalism and inventiveness. Most of all, we loved selling the home in ONE day! Great job, Jeannie" Lonnie Minze, Realtor The Woodlands, TX"

"Activerain is a great tool to grow your business and to help others succeed as well! Let it Rain! Partnering with real estate professionals with Activerain and growing our businesses together by helping homeowners achieve their home ownership dreams come true. ActiveRain has taught me so much in the last year regarding Internet Marketing in Arizona that I became inspired to learn more and now am a Certified Local Guerrilla Marketing Consultant. I can now assist Arizona real estate professionals how to grow their businesses even further by dominating the Internet with their presence so THEY will be found."

"I have got an incredible amount of business from ActiveRain. I usually link my blog post up with my FaceBook business page and have found that this gives me great results. I might not have people directly respond to my business page but when I see them out in the community - they almost always say something about my post."

"I was contacted by a seller in my area requesting some information on their property. I have scheduled a listing appointment this week. The seller got my information and contacted me through ActiveRain!!"

"We enjoy the AR network. We learn and share real estate ideas. We have received business from this network."

"I received a telephone call from fellow ActiveRain member Lenn Harley. She referred me to a Broker in Maryland who had a referral for one of his clients looking to purchase an office space for expanding his business in Northern Virginia. My client purchased an office condo in Alexandria that was a perfect fit for his new Virginia location. Thank you Lenn Harley!"

"It's not just actively raining...it's actively pouring....with support. I am so impressed by the amount of support I have received from this amazing community during my short time here. Joining active rain has been exciting and I look forward to becoming more and more involved in this community."

"I am new to ActiveRain, My Success Story will come later."

"I love Active Rain because there is so much information available from the ActiveRain community and especially the veterns who share their experiences."

"Since I have been a member to active rain, I have had much success networking with professionals with my same field and experience...I really like this website!!!!!"

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"It brings me great pleasure to be in a business where I assist people in achieving their dreams. For the second consecutive year, I was acknowledged for delivering exemplary service to my clients and business associates by receiving 'The Five Star Professional' award. What an honor to love what you do, know you are really helping people and feel the appreciation for your hard work. Doesn't get any better than that!"

"Whew. I must admit - I have received no financial gain since blogging on Active Rain. But I tend to define success much different than others. In a quirky way, Active Rain success for me is the best friend that can't be there at 3 in the morning, or the sounding board of advice on those sleepless nights when you need information about something, or going to another town and knowing you have a friend there you can call or a new friend to meet! At some point the money reward for blogging will come - and that will just make my success even more successful!"

"I am here to make it rain!"

"I began selling real estate at the age of twenty-two. My parents were not business owners; no one took me under their wing or mentored me. I had to learn to be successful on my own. As an individual salesperson I struggled. I would build my listing inventory to up to over 50 listings, only to have the market collapse. Looking back, I can see it was not entirely the economy’s fault. My brokers in charge and managers were wonderful. They shared important safety practices which were extremely helpful. Each manager had a different idea of how to become a top producing Realtor®. Half would tell me to call every stranger in town, while the other half told me to only do business with people that know, like, and trust me. No one showed me how to run a successful real estate business. Throughout my 25 year career I implemented training from various real estate coaches. Each time I threw out my old systems and implemented new ones. I had spent thousands on new training, and still I was stuck in a vicious up and down cycle. One day, I found some audios with business building exercises that changed my life. I stopped focusing on what does not work. I stopped throwing out my old systems. Instead, I improved on what I already had. I set goals, achieved them, and then set bigger goals by adding additional systems to get to the next level. Success followed. Determined to help fellow Realtors® reach their personal income goals faster, I volunteered to teach agents at the local board of Realtors®. Though difficult at first, each presentation became a little easier. At the age of fifty, while working full time, I went back to college and graduated Summa Cum Laude with an AS degree in Education. I began my life’s work of helping real estate agents become top producers, quickly. I was on a mission. My husband and I moved from Point Pleasant, NJ to Wilmington, NC where I accepted a job as a sales training director on a company team. The owner asked me to start a “Success Center” for 300 real estate agents and brokers. It worked. Agents joined the ranks of the best of the best for the first time. We formed top producer coaching groups after graduation and each agent averaged 9 units in 8 weeks. Then a wonderful thing happened. We held mastermind meetings with top producers. They began freely sharing detailed success systems with the new agents. Our company, as a team, quickly jumped from #13 in the nation to the #4 Coldwell Banker Affiliate in the US, in closed units, in the 100-500 agent category. (This at a time when real estate companies across the nation were folding, agents were leaving the industry, and top teams were shaking their heads in shock from the housing decline). We held the winning ticket. The owner’s vision of a Success Center had indeed materialized. Our company results were 34% higher in closed units than the local MLS statistics. Soon, managers began requesting coaching materials to share with their agents. Our northern manager requested Mike Ferry coaching materials. Our southern locations requested Rick DeLuca Coaching. Our main location manager wanted Ninja Training, and another manager requested we teach Buffini. Life was good. And then it happened. One day I was asked to implement a training program with stale ideas from 30 years ago proven to no longer work by our top producers. To teach this system, I would have to break the promise I had made to the agents ”to only introduce proven training that works”. We were selling half a billion dollars annually and our company team was closing over 3000 units a year. The agents were implementing ALL of the training and coaching systems into their business plans. I knew I could not limit the training down to one worn out system. The top producers had systems for EVERYTHING. So with my promise to the agents unbroken and my 95% approval rating in hand, I left the company. It was one of the darkest days of my life. But soon enough, Top Pro Group Coaching & Top Pro Training, LLC was born. Today I coach and train agents to become top producers one step at a time with proven Top 10 Systems for 50 Sales in a cutting edge live and virtual education center. We are able to help thousands of agents build real estate lead generating and lead conversion marketing systems with the best group real estate coaching and training available."

"I have had different forms of success from Active Rain in various forms. A while back I wrote a piece on the New Fred Meyer shopping center that had taken up Residence in Wilsonville, OR, a great addition I might add. In fact I wrote at least two pieces and received phone calls from the public thinking that the phone number on my blog was the number for Fred Meyer. I had several great conversations and kept the real phone number at my desk as I was getting a number of calls. I then wrote another post giving the telephone number of the store. To me this was a great success."