Waiting for your License Checklist
- Have a buyer or seller right now? Contact Keith.
- The National Realty Agent’s Intranet site is: nat22.com Our Intranet is password protected, but you can access it now.
- On your 1st visit it will ask for username/password. Under that, it says “Don’t have an account? Sign up now”. Click that.
- After signing in on your own computer, click remember me. Remember your username and password for other computer usage.
- To check your license status on Intranet: At the top right-hand corner look for “agent look up”: Click and type your name. If nothing found, you are not an agent yet. It takes about 3-5 weeks for it to arrive due to the FBI fingerprint check.
- Basic Real Estate contracts: On nat22,com at the top middle is PDF forms. Click it and go to buyer forms. This is the basics for making an offer. Read the contract so you can tell paraphrase what it says.
- Basic Real Estate practice: On nat22.com there are two sets of training tabs: Documents and Videos. Read the 2 or 3 page document tabs of interest or click and watch a 1 hour video.
- Announcement Party: You want to let everyone know you are now a Real Estate agent. So, start now to assemble every person you can think of and add to your computer’s contact data base. After your license arrives you will be inviting them to your Realtor Announcement Party. But you need to get their names and emails together now. To help you remember people you know, see trigger points under Training documents called Planning for Business Planning on nat22.com
- Prepare now, but do not send it out until after your license arrives: Create your party invitation email with your attached invitation flier. In your email, show your excitement to now be a Realtor and partnered with a 20-year Real Estate Veteran. The attached invitation you create will be colorful with date, time and place for your party featuring shrimp, coke, beer, and wine. Create your own invitation. (Very few will come to your party, but everyone will now know you are a Realtor.) Do not sent this out until your license arrives. Only create at this point.
- Social Media: Show excitement on Facebook and other social media that you passed the Real Estate State exam and have joined National Realty. Mention you are excited to have a 20-year Veteran agent partner with you as part of your team and blend with something about you personal, so its not too much marketing.
- Schedule your free headshot photo session. In your notebook you will have an information sheet on what to wear etc. Email: Kimberly Hartke hartke@gmail.com
- Pick out your favorite headshot for all your marketing needs including your free business cards. Email your favorite picture along with name ( nick name if you prefer) email address and cell phone number to paulhartke22@gmail.com
- Schedule your MLS and contracts training with Roger West. rwest94@verizon.net. Training is only scheduled M-F mornings.
- Office Orientation tour: Meet with Keith to arrange your office orientation tour. This can be done same day as Roger’s training
- “Writing a contract” training: After your MLS training and after you have reviewed the PDF contract forms on our Intranet, practice pulling up a house on MLS and writing a contract. Keith will get you started.
- If you already have a client or just want to get things moving, come into the office to practice pulling up homes and writing contracts.
- Personalized signs: Go into Intranet nat22.com and scroll down to sign ordering. Company pays for all generic National Realty signs. Order your personal sign rider and directionals. These will be 75% cheaper than NVAR charges.
- Website: Consider getting one. This is like an online resume so your clients can see who you are. Scroll to find on website information at nat22.com
- Stitching Station: Go to Dulles Town Center Mall with a shirt, hat, or any clothing you wish. We have already paid for the company logo set up fee of $200. For about $12 you can get the company logo stitched on. (Very effective at obtaining clients.) That along with your National Realty notebook are called Passive Marketing techniques.
- Laptops: To enable your personal laptop to print on company copier: find copystar.com, click downloads for all A3 models, find 4052ci and download the KX driver (a huge file)
- Front Door Code: We are open M-F 9-4. After hours or on weekends the entry code is 4512 then twist black knob right and pull both the door handle and the knob at same time. To reset, twist left. This is your 2nd
- Set up an area in your home for your home office with a white board and desk. This should not be the side of the bed. On the white board draw 4 columns and at the top of each Hot, Warm, Cold and Tickler. It will start blank. You want to add clients and keep them in front of you to pursue.
- Start studying online at the documents and video training tabs for business plan ideas. Under PDF forms read and understand buyer contracts. This is your continual contract. Also remember that on all ratified contracts, they must be submitted under the case processing links. Explore: nat22.com.
- Business Plan: When your license arrives, we will develop a business plan. This is a plan to find clients that should be linked to your day to day lifestyle. They may be in your personal niche groups, sports, church, school, and other social activities It may be linked to your social media or other interests. Keith will help you blend your lifestyle with what works in Real Estate vs. what does not work.
Real Estate is an exciting and rewarding career, but you have to take it seriously. Take action one step at a time and remember, “Not to decide, is to decide.”