Agent team leaders offer sales tips for today’s marketRISMEDIA, May 14, 2007-From presenting counter offers at 2 a.m. to planting trees in the dead of winter for staging a home, successful agents know how to get the job done. Recently RISMedia interviewed several agent team leaders from coast to coast to find out just how creative they are when it comes to making the sale in today’s changing market. Their answers may surprise you.
What’s the most creative thing you’ve ever done to sell a home?
“We presented counter offers at 2:00 in the morning. I don’t know how creative it is, but the bottom line is, Teri (wife and business partner) and I do whatever it takes to get the job done.”
Rick Brenkus
The Brenkus Team
Keller Williams
Southern Nevada
Years as Team: 18
“I was into staging before staging was staging. I used to even put my own furniture into the house sometimes to get it done. I’ve gone in and cleaned houses on my own. My husband and I have planted pine trees in the dead of winter. We have done so many things. Whatever it takes to make the house look great and ultimately get it sold.”
Barbara Wilson
The Wilson Team
Real Living, Medina, Ohio
Regions Served: Medina, Akron and Wayne counties
Years in Real Estate: 21
Started team: 14 years ago
“We just rented out a movie theatre to play a movie, serve popcorn…the works. Before the movie started, we had a slide show presentation of all of our listings. We figured we had them all in the theatre so we should maximize that. We had over 100 people there and they all loved it. We were going to rent out the theatre for our customers once a year but it went so well that we are now going to do it every four months.”
Jackie Ellis
The Jackie Ellis Team
Keller Williams
Boynton Beach, Lake Worth, Florida
Team age: 5 years old
Years in real estate: 18
“It’s not necessarily creative. I just do hard work. I get on the phone and just phone everyone in the area until I find a buyer. But that’s what I do every day. I get on the phone and I call till I find buyers.”
Firm Name: Liz Carter & Team Realty
Agent team name: Liz Carter & Team
How many people on the team: 8
Area served: Katy, Houston & Sugarland, Texas.
How many years in Real Estate? Licensed in 1976
“We did the very first interactive kiosk at the local mall back in 1995. It worked really well.”
Principals: Kurt & Darla Buehler
Team: The Buehlers and Associates of Keller Williams
Brokerage: Keller Williams
Area Served: Northwest Dallas suburbs
Team age: 20
Years in real estate: 20
Team members: 14: 9 licensed agents, 5 Administrative
“I just sold a townhouse. We had a situation where we had a buyer who was making lots of renovations to the townhouse and decided not to move forward leaving the house looking like a construction site. So there were a lot of challenges. I teamed up with an artist who uses metal in her work and she created a gallery in the house and we invited clients to a catered gallery event and ended up on the 11:00 PM news. The townhouse sold!”
Jackie Teplitzky
The Jackie Teplitzky Team
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Number of Team Members: 7
Region Served: Manhattan
Years in real estate: 11
“My mindset is such that you don’t have to be creative to sell a house. Price it right because that’s the only thing that’s going to sell the house.”
Jeff Quintin
Jeff Quntin Real Estate Super Team
Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors
Ocean City, New Jersey
Years in Real Estate: 14
Number of Team Members: 6
“We have some of Michigan’s major athletes as clients. We flew first to North Carolina to meet with financial planners for the athletes and then to New York City to show local sports figures how serious we were about selling their houses. We learned early on that the wealth is in the relationship and not in the one-time deal.”
Jason Abrams
The Abrams Team
Keller Williams
Region Served: Oakland County, Michigan
Years in real estate? 5
Reports compiled by Leslie Geary for RISMedia’s Power Team Report. For more information on how to subscribe to the Power Team Report, the definitive source for Agent Teams, visit https://secure.rismedia.com/
