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How do I start a career in real estate?

by on Jan 27, 2010 | Careers and Training

Realtor Students in ClassroomSome of the Valley’s most successful agents call John Hall & Associates home, and a lot of them started their real estate career with us.

Regardless of which real estate agency you choose, step one is most definitely getting an AZ real estate license.  This process begins at a real estate school, not a real estate brokerage.  (Let us know if you are interested in discounted tuition to some of the top real estate schools here locally.)  Once you’ve completed the state required 90 hours of real estate school curriculum and passed the state and national real estate exams, you’re ready for hire by a brokerage.

ProStart Training for New Real Estate Agents

ProStart is just what the name suggests – a way to get a Professional Start to your real estate business.  Our ProStart New Agent Training Program includes 2 weeks of classroom training split into staying legal skills and sales skills followed by Professional Mentoring.

Classroom Training

Marge Lindsay is one of Arizona’s top real estate trainers.  Not only does she teach Continuing Education classes for the Phoenix Association of REALTORS® and the AZ School of Real Estate and Business, but she’s a Graduate REALTOR® Institute (GRI) instructor as well.  In between teaching existing agents how to improve their businesses, she teaches new agents how to effectively build a business from the ground up.

Lindsay is the the primary instructor for the classroom portion of ProStart.  The main focus is generating business and completing transactions with strategies and techniques on avoiding legal trouble.  After ProStart students complete the REALTOR® fundamentals, the real world training begins.

Mentors for New REALTORS®

New real estate agents exit the classroom and enter the arms (not literally, but close) of their professional mentors.  Mentors are practicing REALTORS® that are hand selected to help guide and motivate new agents, while being a great resource for learning the nuances of this business.

So there you have it.  How do you start a real estate career? Get a license and join the John Hall & Associates ProStart Training Program.  Please don’t take my word for everything I’ve shared here – check out what new agents say about ProStart.  If you know of anyone that might be able to benefit from having a structured start in residential real estate, have them give Diane Mork a call (602) 953-4043.

Business Planning – Real Estate Style

by on Jan 14, 2010 | Real Estate News

New Year……New You
Easy Does it!

I’ve been listening to the NAR conference MP3′s available on the John Hall Intranet and I’m getting frustrated! I hear so many great ideas that I would love to implement but you’ve heard the old saying, “When you are unraveling string, you find that everything in the universe is connected to everything else.” Business planning and implementing new strategies is exactly like that old saying. You don’t know where to start and then lose the ideas and the concept. So I started thinking (‘bout time, right?), it’s like using computers. I used to think that computers were a fad and I would be dead before I had to learn anything new, Boy was I WRONG! But, as a friend pointed out, I don’t know how a combustion engine works but I know how to drive and use a car. He was right and that became my new approach to technology. I’ve embraced the same approach to business planning and maybe you should check it out, it might work for you.

I’ve attached (pdf link) four areas of business planning, one for each quarter, you can handle four, right? Under each area, I have listed a few strategies, choose at least two, you can handle two new strategies a quarter, right? Then, go about implementing them for that quarter. The next quarter implement two or more new strategies. By the end of the year, you will have “layered” eight or more new strategies that become habits. Easy does it and the attached sheet will help you stay focused and what you focus on
E-X-P-A-N-D-S.

A friend of mine gave a “Good Riddance to 2009 Party” for New Year’s Eve and invited everyone to bring their old calendars and desk pads for a ceremonial, ritual burning. Great idea! Symbolically burn those old mind sets and embrace the New Year – We’ll prosper again in 2010!

We have Business Planning classes scheduled for John Hall agents in January, be sure to check the intranet calendar.  If you’d like a little guidance or need peer support, please mark your calendar and plan on attending.  (Class Flyer)