Ch. 4 Principles of Investment RE Brokerage Flashcards
What is the Broker Competency Model?
The third party consultants interviewing the top 5% of our most accomplished M&M agents to identify the characteristics and personal attributes that make them successful
What are the 4 most important aspects of the Broker Competency Model?
- The Incentive: Maximized Sales Opportunities and Results: Tenacious about Sales Goals. Defines a strategy for specializing, sets goals and consistently employs them. Accurately identifies unlikely or high risk sales situations and avoids or minimizes the time spent on them.
- The Interaction: Maximizes Relationships: Builds Influential Relationships. Manages Relationships Effectively. Understands when to persist and when to let go of an option, recommendation or strategy.
- The Approach: Maximizes Time and Impact: Works efficiently, manages time/energy. Creates time saving business systems. Uses teamwork for greater efficiency. Effectively probes and addresses clients needs.
- The Attributes: Is Perceptive, Energetic, Self-Motivated. Perceptively Balances Analysis and Intuition. Energetic, Enthusiastic, Self-Motivated. Faces the Facts about individual performance.
What is the M&M Brokerage Continuum?
The complete steps of how we should effectively run our business, from start to finish.
What are the steps of the Brokerage Continuum?
- Research
- Business Development Calls
- 1st Appointment
- 2nd Appointment
- Exclusive Listing
- Marketing
- Field of Offers
- Contract
- Due Diligence
- Remove Contingencies
- Closing
- Post Closing
What do agents need to know to effectively navigate the Brokerage Continuum?
- Why private parties Buy, Own, Continue to Operate and Sell Investment Real Estate.
- Current and Historical Economic Drivers in Local Markets. Rent Comps, Sales Comps, On Market Comps, Financing/Underwriting.
- How to Build and Use Complete Ownership Records and Segment Your Database. Tier 1: Institutions, Tier 2: Professionals, Tier 3: Mom & Pops.
- How to Ask Targeted Questions to Uncover, Clarify, Develop Needs: Implied Needs: Stated point of dissatisfaction, Explicit Needs: Client is willing to incur a cost or to alleviate.
Why do private parties: BUY
- Passive Cash Flow
- Make a Percentage Return
- Appreciation
- Add Value/Upside
- Tax Shelter- Write Offs/Depreciation
- Advantages of Using Other People’s Money
- Stable Investment (more so than stocks)
- Greater Return than Bonds
- More Passive than Other Businesses
- To Reposition
- Ancillary Feed (Development, Management)
- To Rehab
- To Use
- To Park Money
- Wholesale/Retail
16: Pay Down Principal
17: Wealth Preservation
18: Hedge Against Inflation
Why do private parties: HOLD
- Believe Values Will Keep rising- waiting for peak
- Earn management fees by holding the property
- Enjoyment/Something to Do
- Not enough equity to sell
- Nothing wrong
- Rents are low
- Easy to manage
- Bad selling or broker experience in past
- Property is debt free
- Low tax basis- don’t want to pay capital gains
- Great cash flow
- Don’t want the imposition or cost of selling
- Wants to refinance to acquire more
- Thinks it’s in the best interest of estate
- “No good deals out there”
- Emotional attachment to building (owner vs investor)
- They live in it
- Bad loan on property (prepayment penalties etc.)
Why do private parties: SELL
- Problem
- Price
- Change
- Opportunity.
Why do private parties SELL because of Problems:
- Management
- Cant fill vacancy
- Estate Issues
- Lack of Returns
- Building Deterioration
- Change in Market Conditions
- Low Depreciation
- Balance Portfolio
- To boost stability of income
- Need to pay down debt on other properties
- Property Management is too much stress
- Insurance/Rising expenses
- Health Reasons
- Divorce
- Partnership Problems
- Debt Balloon
- Demographic Shift in Neighborhood
- Stability of Income
- Growth of Income
- Functionally Obsolete
Why do private parties SELL because of OPPORTUNITY?
- Need money for another opportunity
- Re Leverage
- 1031 for growth
- Has repositioned
Why do private parties sell because: PROFIT?
Gets an Offer too GOOD to turn down
Why do private parties sell because of: CHANGE?
- Estate Planning
- Moving
- Consolidate Holdings
- Reposition to different type of Real Estate
Why do private parties sell because of: CHANGE?
- Estate Planning
- Moving
- Consolidate Holdings
- Reposition to Different Types of Real Estate
Why do Different Buyers Pay Different Prices for the Same piece of Real Estate?
- Different Underwriting
- Different sources/costs of equity or debt
- Different sources of income (fees)
- Different attitudes about risk/reward
- Different yield expectations
- Different goals and timeframes
- Different strategies
- Different degree of sophistication
- Different past experiences/future expectations
What are the advantages to working the List Side?
- Helps new agents learn about market
- Agents learn how to underwrite properly
- Create loyal client relationships- Rapport, Credibility, Trust
- Learn to represent third party investors
- Access to More and Better information
- Control over the Flow of Information
- Higher probability approach to closing deals