Real Living Just Got Much Bigger

Great news for our Lake Norman Area Agents! Even more exposure and opportunity to buy or sell homes!

November,11 2009, Real Living will formally announce that Real Living Network Services, the franchisor subsidiary of Real Living, Inc. is merging with GMAC Real Estate, fulfilling our mission to grow Real Living and increase investment in the people, tools and technology that will assure our success well into the future.

GMAC Real Estate is one of America’s leading residential real estate franchises, and combined with the Real Living Network, we will have over 600 office locations, 10,000 plus agents and more than $20 billion in annual home sales. Together we will become a bigger, bolder company, offering a strong appealing, consumer-focused brand, with a suite of industry leading tools and technology that will power us forward in the years ahead.

The new organization was created after Brookfield Residential Property Services, the owner of GMAC Real Estate, acquired Real Living Network Services, and merged the two companies under the Real Living brand name. As we move forward, the Real Living agent-centric and consumer focused philosophy will continue to drive our decision-making and investment strategies.

We am pleased to let you know that Real Livings, Harley Rouda Jr. will lead the new organization as President. Kaira Sturdivant Rouda, will continue to oversee the brand and provide the marketing leadership she has shown in the past.

As we make the transition, Real Living will focus on excellence in five key areas: technology, sales, marketing, training and business planning. These are areas that we will invest in to make our combined organization into one of the most sought after brands in the business. Our primary goal will continue to be to help our agents, offices and franchisees grow their business.

Contact your Local Real Living office at 704 746 3937

Real Living In Style Mentor Program

Provisional Brokers, here is your chance to get trained by an experienced agent.

Brokers, here is a chance to use your expertise to train a Provisional Broker and get compensated 10% on all their transactions until they become brokers.

This is a fantastic opportunity for both Brokers and PB’s. 

Some of the benefits:

• Brokers-Make extra money
• Both-Build relationships
• Provisions Brokers-Learn from someone experienced.
• Provisional Brokers-Have a shoulder to cry on.  (Just kidding)

All Provisional Brokers join at 60% commission until making Broker.

Brokers choose from one of our plans and make 10% on all mentored PB’s transactions.

Call us today to learn more.  704 451 7051

 

Real Living In Style | Reason Number Three To Join

Free Marketing Templates Library

Spend your time closing transactions instead of creating marketing materials! Real Living’s award-winning marketing department has designed a complete library of marketing pieces that are print-ready for you!

Real Living In Style | Reason Number Two To Join

Free Personal Web site

Real Living agents get a free personal Web site that they can easily edit and control. Their contact information and listings are automatically fed into their site.

Why Real Living In Style | Inventory Marketing – Another Reason To Join

A reason listings don’t sell is that they are not seen where buyers are looking!. Today’s buyer comes from the internet, almost exclusively.  Don’t  simply plop the property on the MLS, and start praying?  Want to be on all the websites…(Trulia, Zillow,  Google Base, etc…) all the places that buyers are searching? Real Livng Agents automatally get their listings placed where the buyers are looking (see image above).

Call us today at 704 451 7051 to ask any question you need answered.

Join A Company That Gives Back

It is Much Better to Give Than Receive!

Saturday August 15th, I attended the Ace & TJ Grin Kids silent auction held at the Galloway Hooker in Cornelius NC.

Being one of the sponsors of the event and golf tournament (see banner), we were a part of a great group of people willing to help chronically ill children get a free trip to Disney World.

It was a fun and amazing event. While this event was about having fun, I was amazed at the generosity of the volunteers and sponsors.

Even in tough times, people are willing to give to a great cause. One of the highlights for me was Yankee Pete (of the Ace and TJ show), telling stories about the kids that have made the trip in the past. He told of how these kids never complain and always put others first.

One particular story was of a kid who was chronically ill but found out one of his neighbors had both the father and mother laid off from work. Here he was living a life that was sure to be shortened and he was organizing luminaries and fundraisers for this family and neighborhood at Christmas.

Each and every story was touching and a check back to reality. My problems and the problems of my family are minimal when you compare them to these kids and their families.

I found out our sponsorship is enough to send one child to Disney and I am very proud of our Real Living agents for being a part of the effort to send a child to his/her wildest dreams.

This is something that Real Living In Style will support for years to come. If you want to learn more about Grin Kids please visit www.Grinkids.org. It does not take a lot of money to make a kid smile!

Real Living In Style – MORE Important Benefits

Some of our Benefits!

• We Have an award winning Brand that sets us apart from the field.
• You have a work from anywhere on-line business center that allows you to conduct all facets of your business.
• We maintain a small office mentality with multiple offices so you will never just be a number.
• Management and Broker In Charge opportunities will become available as we continue to Grow.
• We train you on what you need to be trained.  Individual training is offered instead of ramming ‘old’ school’ methods at you.
• Learn about Social Media, Blogging all tat WEB 2.0 has to offer.
• Work with other agents and management that actually care and help you with your business.
• We have an inventory of for sale signs to use as available to save on that expense.
• A FREE complete customizable website (Not one web-page)

More Benefits

• Statistical Data Collection on your Listings with ready made emails to send to clients
• Contact Management System
• Professional customizable newsletter sent monthly to your contacts
• Prospecting Ecards
• Individual training and on-line training via our RealU on-line training center.
• Real Time Listings with pre-Made Information Box flyer’s, Property URL and presentations
• Customizable buyer and seller presentations

What we are NOT!

• A recruiting company acting like a real estate company.  
• A 100% behemoth where you are just one of hundreds with little to NO interaction with your fellow agents and management.
• A small time shop offering  just a place to hang your hat.

Why Agents don’t Blog and How Real Living Can Help

It can be difficult to get agents to blog, especially those from old school real estate. 

Here are some of the reasons agents don’t blog!

1. Tech dysfunctional – “I focus on real estate and have no time learning about search engine marketing / blogging / technology”
2. Immediate gratification complex – “I want to see an immediate ROI”
3. Lacking confidence – “I can’t write (a blog)”
4. Lacking time – “I have no time to write (a blog)”
5. Lacking creativity – “I’ll run out of ideas for articles”

Here is what Real Living In Style does for it’s agents. 

Train agents, in layman terms how to get started and tools to make sure your blog is found online (Search Engine Marketing (SEO) techniques). We do this by provide education and coaching to overcome the three hurdles blogs present to agents – learning the blogging application, writing content and understanding how to develop a successful blog through networking, etc.

Roby Robertson, broker/owner of Real Living In style has over 20 years of technology experiece with many being spent in a training capacity.

What some proof?

Check out these two blogs:

Living at Lake Norman

Birkdale at Lake Norman

Couple this training with Real Estate Knowlege, aa new ane exciting award winning brand, great commissions and you will see why Real Living is a great place to consider joining.

Real Living In Style, Beyond the Cubicle

More and more brokerages are moving towards a leaner and meaner environment for their agents.  What we mean by that is why set up a huge cubicle world and charge agents money for something they rarely use.  

The bottom line is that agents need a place to meet clients, print documents, research information and meet with teammates or other agents.

You are going to see more and more that brokers are not offering everyone their own phone lines (they transfer the number to their cell anyway).  This is an added cost that has to be transferred to the agent. Also, you are going to see smaller more boutique like offices to keep from having to charge high desk fees or low commissions.

At Real Living In Style, we already offer all those things.  We have a great office that is entirely wireless.

Want to do phone duty?  With our IP phone system you can do it from home!  

Need to make copies?  Check. 

Need a conference room?  Check! 

With an award winning  innovative online business center, everything an agent needs is right at their fingertips with in Internet connection!

Give Real Living In Style a look.  You will be pleasantly surprised!

Real Living In Style;Do We Have Training?

A better question may be, “Are Agents afraid of Technology?”  Do they want a company that actually helps and care about their success?

From my experience, the resounding answer is “YES!”

Actually it is  not just agents that are afraid of technology, much of the working public is afraid of technology.  However, our world has changed and this trend is also changing.

Real Estate Agents, however, are still very afraid of technology!  On top of award winning marketing and brand, one of the great things that Real Living has to offer is technology!  The on-line business center has many tools to assist an agent with doing their business. It is always available 24 hours a day from wherever you have an Internet connection!

However, unlike other companies, Real Living and Real Living In Style offers real training on it’s technology and the Internet as a whole.

Here are some examples:

Real Living offers monthly on-line training that actual trainers walk agents through different aspects of the business center.

There is a on-line training center that has step by step instructions on how to use the business center.

There is a help desk that can be called or emailed for answers to questions about Real Living tools.

Roby Robertson, broker in charge has over 20 years of technology experience and training experience and does one on one training with those agents that are interested in SEO (search engine optimization), blogging and building a website using Real Livings FREE website builder!

Are you not earning what you want? 

Are you getting everything you deserve?

Want to learn how to blog?  We will teach you!

Want some business planning training, we will work with you!

Want to make sure your trained in commisson rules, we work to keep you out of trouble.

Want to brainstorm marketing techniques?

Want to get to the next level?

Call Roby today for a demonstration at 704 451 7051

Want to start out at 70% or 80% commission?  Want to cap to 100% faster than any other company in the area?   We are 8K less than the best know (capping) company in the area!

Tired of floundering or just being a number.  Won’t happen with us!

See also:  Real Living In Style Additional Training

Note: Check out our great compensation plans!