Increase Your Income....Avoid Other Agents

If you are a real estate agent that relies on transactions to make a living, the less time you spend talking and socializing with other agents, the more money you will make.

This rule holds especially true for other real estate agents in your immediate area and most certainly agents in your office.  Unless you are a new to the business or you are recruiting for a position on your team, there is very little reason to spend much time at all with other agents.  Here's why:

• Other agents don't give you referrals
• Other agents don't give you leads (that will buy a house)
• Other agents talk about all their problem clients
• Agents hanging around the office talking are not top producers
• Mediocre agents love to talk with other agents

The next time you find yourself hanging out with other agents think about how much you could be doing to further your career by generating new business or working your sphere of influence for referrals or writing a blog post or working on an association committee or something else much more productive.

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Comments

[John Gallagher]

The one exception I think to this is that the relationship needs to be built with realtors so they are comfortable working with you on a transaction. Having said that, other Realtors who tend to hang around the office, in general, are not top producers.

[LaShea Miller]

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[kaylee]

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