Recently while having a cold iced mocha frapaccino at a local Star Bucks, I was overhearing a couple of people on the next table talking about homes, mortgage rates, and prices. The next thing I heard is this lady asking the guy in front of her if he is an average agent? First the guy seem offended and then speechless. The lady then said that doesn't most real estate agents know this much or do this and that and how is he different then the rest?
This is very interesting but I didn't want to bud into other people's business even though agents different in a vareity of scopes. According to the National Association of Realtors, the average agent sells about 3-4 homes per year and plently of them 0 per year, while 90% of the transaction is done by the top 10% of the agents. I also learned that the average career span of an agent is 5 years where a majority of new agents leave the field within 9 months.
Even though I have not been in real estate full time for 5 years and might not have over 100 transactions per year to consider myself in the top 10% agents yet, I know that I am not an average agent because my mindset is different and I am actually doing things to make sure I am not an average agent.
Don't want to be an average agent? Change your mindset, have goals and follow a productive schedule, have systems to generate and follow leads, get contracts signed, and constantly learn. If we follow this we would all be super agents.
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