Estate agents have a lot of on their plate. That is why it is important to have the right tools for the job.
Estate agents have a tough job. Not only do you have to be intelligent in your industry; you also need to have to have personality and negotiation and sales skills. However, it doesn’t have to be as difficult as it appears. When it comes to being an estate agent, there are several tools available that can make your job easier. It is valuable to have these items to not only make your work more efficient, but to also make things simpler for your clients.
These tools should be in every estate agent’s office, ready to help them during their day. Some of the tools that every estate agent should have include:
- Business cards to help you get your name and contact information into the hands of potential clients to garnish business for you and your firm.
- A list of homes available either from your own research or from helpful property databases.
- Paperwork protection or any container that can protect your important documents from theft and accidents.
Professional Business Cards
Business cards are an important part of any business. Although online marketing it the primary means of getting new business for companies, a business card is still a great way to market
yourself to other individuals. Once you give a client a business card they will always have access to you and your company and will allow them to always reference back to your agency if they or their friends have business. Business cards are also good to have for walk in clients to grab when they walk in to get information. Business cards should always include the company’s email address, phone number, and fax number. If needed they could also have information for individuals as such as their own contact information.
A List of Homes
Having a ready list of homes available for clients will speed up all processes. Whenever someone calls for a listing it is important that the estate agent have homes ready to read off for them for any type of home they are looking for. You can compile a list of homes through your own personal research or
you can use a property database to help you. These online catalogs are accessible to not only the estate agent but also to people looking for information so you can easily reference properties in your correspondences with your clients. The different homes would of course have to be placed into different categories that best fit the client in question.
Trustworthy Paperwork Protection
Certain paper or digital files that estate agencies have are very important to keep safe. Real estate agencies may hold important information like Land Registry information, the personal information of clients or property transaction paperwork. It is important to keep all of these items safe from theft or accidents. Use a quality
document fire safe to protect the important files of your office. For instance, the
Chubbsafes Executive 65K 1 hour Fire Safe can protect documents for up to one hour in a fire and can resist opportunistic theft.
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