Special offer

What Turns a Buyer Into a Real Estate Client?

By
Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

I advise my team members who work with buyers to establish relationships with these people. Don't just run out with your lockbox key in hand to show a home in Sacramento without engaging in a conversation, preferably person-to-person in the office. This is a potential buyer with whom you'll be in constant contact for 45 to 60 days, and you can't call that person a client until they become a client.

Invite them to the office. Discuss the market. Talk about the specific home buying process. Give them the purchase contract to read. Show them the information you can retrive from MLS for them. Talk about needs and wants. Get to know the person or family before showing homes or drawing a purchase contract.

There are reasons for this. You can read more in my personal blog today about real estate clients at this link: What Exactly is a Real Estate Client in Sacramento?

 

P.S. I am loving this new photo upload option in AR.

Posted by

elizabeth weintraub

 

 

Weintraub and Wallace Realtors

 

 

Elizabeth Weintraub reviews

 

 

 

Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

Photo: Unless otherwise noted in this blog, the photo is copyrighted by Big Stock Photo and used with permission.The views expressed herein are Weintraub's personal views and do not reflect the views of RE/MAX Gold. Disclaimer: If this post contains a listing, information is deemed reliable as of the date it was written. After that date, the listing may be sold, listed by another brokerage, canceled, pending or taken temporarily off the market, and the price could change without notice; it could blow up, explode or vanish. To find out the present status of any listing, please go to elizabethweintraub.com.

Comments(6)

Kristin Johnston - REALTOR®
RE/MAX Platinum - Waukesha, WI
Giving Back With Each Home Sold!

Great information!  Trying to get used to the new AR format this morning!

Sep 21, 2016 12:28 AM
Michael Jacobs
Pasadena, CA
Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hi Elizabeth -- real estate semantics can be interesting, right?   I have had agents call me to tell me their "client" is coming by my open house and give me their name as if to "register"(or maybe it's a "branding" process like cattle).  They haven't even met the people but want to make sure no one "steals" them.   

A lead may become a client but it's not necessarily true.   

Sep 21, 2016 05:54 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Kristin Johnston, Waukesha County Realtor 414-254-6647 I noticed it changed yesterday right in the middle of when I was leaving a comment on somebody's blog. The change is very similar to what thebalance.com is doing on About.com.

Sep 21, 2016 06:01 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Michael Jacobs Yeah, I'm with you. I like the agents who tell me all these stories about what their "client" will or will not do, and they just met the guy 15 minutes earlier when the dude strolled into their office off the street asking if they could throw away their Big Mac wrapper in the receptionist's trash.

Sep 21, 2016 06:04 AM
Sally K. & David L. Hanson
EXP Realty 414-525-0563 - Brookfield, WI
WI Real Estate Agents - Luxury - Divorce

People want to do business with someone that they have or know they will...enjoy as  a partner in the buying/selling decision.

Sep 21, 2016 08:05 AM
Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

Hi Elizabeth.  This is excellent advice and something I try to work on getting better at.

Sep 21, 2016 10:50 PM