Plenty of people enter real estate chasing the commission cheques in the listings online. The ones who are still here in five years got good at the parts nobody photographs.
Read the room before you read the contract
Negotiation is less about clever lines and more about noticing what the other side actually wants. Practise listening until the real motivation surfaces — it usually does.
A house is the largest thing most people will ever buy. Treat the decision with the seriousness it deserves and the trust follows.
Get fluent in the numbers
Comparable sales, days on market, price-per-square-foot — these are the vocabulary of the job. Clients can tell within minutes whether you actually understand them.
Finally, learn to write clearly. Half of this business is email, and a confident, plain message closes more gaps than any sales script ever will.
Mike Moore
Real Estate Agent
Mike grew up in the suburbs he now sells across, and that local fluency shows in every recommendation he makes.
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