Top Orlando Realtors Work Harder During The Holidays

With the holiday season among us, it seems that buyers and sellers take a vacation from buying and selling just like everyone else. With all the distractions that the holidays have to offer like shopping, dinner parties, celebrating, traveling, etc. Many Orlando realtors welcome this time of year to enjoy some much-needed downtime with friends and family. Real estate professionals know that once all the holiday distractions disappear that it’s back to work as usual because historically that’s what happens. This is why Top Orlando Realtors never stop working and even work harder through the holidays.

Marketing your business and keeping up with the competition is no easy task but it’s by far the most important. The fact that the phone doesn’t ring as much during the holidays allows for top real estate professionals to work even harder so that when things go back to normal again they find themselves ahead of the game instead of having to play catch up. I hate coming back from a long vacation to face an even longer to-do list. It makes me feel like I need a vacation!

 Catch up on your Blogging

With the phone not ringing as much, it also provides more quiet time during the day which is perfect for writing articles for my blog, like this one. It’s a lot more challenging keeping up with a daily blog when you have to follow up with 20+ Orlando short sale files every day. I get my best ideas when I have silence and the more silence that I have, the more I write.  As a matter of fact, I usually do enough writing during December to cover my company blog all the way through the end of January freeing up more of my time to work on other projects.

A Great Time to Sharpen Your Real Estate Marketing Tools

It’s also the perfect time to knock out some things that I’ve meant to get to for a while like revamping my website by changing over to a new theme with responsive capability. This means that when it will be user-friendly on all devices including desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Have you ever gone to a website on your smartphone and you can only view a small portion of it?  It’s very frustrating… you have to manually scroll over to see the information one tiny section at a time. Not only that, but the new Google algorithm “Hummingbird” is supposedly going to start penalizing websites that aren’t mobile-friendly moving into 2014.

Thank Your Real Estate Clients From 2013

Working as full-time Orlando Realtors, we depend on our clients for 100% of our income. I think it’s very important to reach out to those people that have bought and sold properties through us during the past year. Not just so that they refer their friends and family to us but because it’s just the right thing to do. After all, if it wasn’t for our clients, we wouldn’t be able to survive.

That being said, I would to thank all of our clients from this past year for choosing https://orlandorealtyconsultants.com/ and putting your faith in us to handle one of the most important transactions of your life. Thanks to you it’s been a fantastic year for us. It’s been our pleasure to serve you.

Happy Holidays!

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4802 CAYVIEW AVE # 30814 – ORLANDO SHORT SALE – CONDO

4802 CAYVIEW AVE # 30814 – ORLANDO SHORT SALE – CONDO-

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The Days of Door Knocking for Leads are Over

When I first got involved in the Orlando real estate business in 2003, I was on a shoestring budget and hungry to make some money in this business they called real estate. At one of the first real estate boot camps that I attended, there was a guy named Dan Doran aka “Dan Doran the marketing man” and he was selling a course that was supposed to teach you about knocking on doors of people that are in the process of foreclosure. When I think about it, it was a scary thing to do. However, we just had our first son and we were determined to “make it” in the Orlando real estate business no matter what. So I went through Dan’s course a couple of times, made some cheat sheets that I could carry with me, and hit the ground running.

You see, when we first started this business, we didn’t have the budget to do massive postcard campaigns or any other kind of marketing for that matter. That was the beauty of door knocking… all you needed was an up-to-date foreclosure list and a tank full of gas. In those days I was a private investor and not a realtor which sometimes had its advantages.

Anyway, I started knocking on doors in a town called Pine Hills which happens to be a pretty rough part of town. I got all kinds of responses such as the door being slammed in my face, getting yelled at, and even getting a few death threats. Responses like; “Who are you and what do you want?”  or “We don’t want any, Go away!” were common responses and I was told that these responses would build my character. LOL! However, about one out of every 15 doors that I knocked on offering to help the homeowner,   I would get the deal! Wow, what a great feeling that was!  Then I would be soo happy that I seemed to forget about the 14 other people that I visited that told me to get lost.

These days, the thought of knocking on doors to get leads makes me cringe… Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I ever did it in the first place.

Orlando realtors are finally getting the “Big Picture”

Most Orlando real estate agents these days like myself,  are trying to focus more on their online presence above all else. The price of postage is expensive and most days people start their search with Google for everything anyway. Orlando realtors that don’t do any online marketing are really missing the boat when it comes to advertising in 2013. Our site at  https://orlandorealtyconsultants.com/ brings in about 90% of our listings with the rest being from referrals. We haven’t sent out a postcard or letter in over 2 years.

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Orlando Short Sale Realtors outsourcing short sales to unlicensed 3rd Parties

 “Orlando Short Sale Realtors” using unlicensed negotiators to do the work

It’s recently come to my attention that certain Orlando realtors that claim to be “Short Sale Experts” are actually outsourcing their short sales to  unlicensed third party negotiators. Now, I’ve heard of  real estate attorneys outsourcing their short sales to licensed real estate agents, which to me makes perfect sense especially because by law the property must be listed on the Multiple Listing Service. However, when a licensed realtor marketing themselves as an Orlando short sale expert or specialist goes out and hires a non -licensed 3rd party negotiator it just doesn’t seem right and in my opinion is just downright deceiving to the homeowner.
When a realtor goes to a listing appointment to meet a potential client, they are making a commitment to that client as the realtor that will be representing them throughout the entire short sale process and look out for their best interest every step of the way. Do you really think that they would get the listing if they told the seller “By the way, I will be turning your file over to an unlicensed negotiator for them to work the entire short sale process with your lender and hopefully we can someone to buy it”… No Way!

The truth of the matter is, escrow officers, title representatives, and many of these amateur negotiators are inexperienced and they can cause a deal to fall apart. They lack the proper experience knowledge and care that a transaction of this sensitivity needs. A true Orlando short sale expert knows the urgency of the transaction and possesses the skills, experience and tenacity to get things done. Running a successful Orlando Real estate brokerage requires the outsourcing of many things such as; marketing, lock changing, cleaning crews, posting for sale signs, etc.  However, if a realtor is outsourcing the most important part of any real estate transaction which the processing and negotiating, then maybe that realtor needs to find another profession.

Choosing a Short Sale Realtor that’s right for You

As an Orlando homeowner you deserve the best chance at negotiating a successful short sale with an experienced realtor that’s willing to work hard for you throughout the whole short sale process from beginning to end. That’s why it’s soo important to important to to research a realtors track record as well as ask for testimonials, etc. If you’re in the market for a true Orlando Short Sale expert, read my article “A Typical Work day for an Orlando Short Sale Specialist”. It will help you in choosing the best agent to meet your particular needs.

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