What a great idea...a Pilot has flight simulators, golfers have golf simulators, and even the army has combat simulators... I think after you decide to start your Real Estate career you should be able to plug in your "Wii" and see how you can actually do... Maybe we would have more productivity, higher Sales volumes, more Listings, leverage more investment properties or decide to open your own real estate office. Either way, I can only let my imagination run wild because trial and error takes on a whole new meaning when you're not using live ammunition. . And now with the information explosion caused by the internet, we hardly have any excuse for not being able to leap the tallest building in a single bound because if it has been done before we can find out how to: Do it, Build it, or Buy it.
So, the simulator may be getting closer to reality... But wait, the Wright Brothers, Bobby Jones and Arnold Palmer, and certainly the US Army have triumphed for years before the proliferation of the simulator. How did they get the Job done? I guess the old fashion way... PDR...
Practice,
Drill
Rehearse...
Plus a little bit of Mentoring, a little bit of Discipline and a ton of Hard Work. It's still the tried and true way to succeed at almost anything I guess the only pieces the simulator will not be able to do is the Discipline and Hard Work part... The mentoring can be accomplished by a Mr. Miyagi looking fellow who pops up when you click on the help screen... but I haven't quite figured out how to simulate the hard work piece...How many of us will stay on the simulator long enough to become great realtors, reach for the stars or will everyone simply default to the path of least resistance. How many of us are ready to get to level 7? It takes hours just to master that Listing Presentation in level 4, or finding the perfect fit for that family of five while maintaining their budget isn't easy in level3... baking cookies at open houses in level one sure seems easy enough, but canvassing a neighborhood in level 5 and asking for referral in level 6 may take you hours to master... and the key to level 7 will be helping people without looking at how many points you're scoring, that certainly will separate the average Real Estate Agent from the Professional Realtor... I guess at the end of the day, perfecting the results of a real estate simulator will be no substitution for hard work....
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