Comments on: There is No “I” in “Team”

By: Matthew Rathbun

Matthew Rathbun — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 15:12:12 +0000

The single best thing our Association has done was to distance themselves of production awards.

Here’s my thing about teams – I love them. I liked them even when I was a single agent practitioner. I like them because that means (hopefully) when I called the team, the agent I spoke to was the best suited for that transaction.

I like them know, as my mindset about real estate practice expands, because it “can” allow an agent with 25 years of wisdom and experience partner with a new agent who may be more inventive and technically proficient. They “could” learn from each other and be a power house.

Unfortunately, the teams I typically see are either family teams -or- people of similar demographics partnering. I really think teams will be the prevailing mindset in the future. I just hope the do so to encourage diversity.

By: RentJuice

RentJuice — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:19:20 +0000

Thoughts on rental market and real estate agent teams. Also some implications for RE agents. http://bit.ly/nGCCO

By: Missy Caulk

Missy Caulk — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:27:15 +0000

I think some agents are more wowed my awards than others. Mine are all in a bankers box in my basement. Seriously

I remember the first time I made Platinum at Remax it meant nothing to me until I made it alone not counting my teams volumn.

Yes I advertise Missy Caulk & Team on all my stuff except Twitter and FB.

Teams always evolve and I am in the process of evolving mine. I might be wrong in who but I think Brian Buffini did a study a few years ago and divided the types of teams up. It was interesting.

I love my team it affords me the opportunity to do what I love and them what they love to do.

By: BawldGuy

BawldGuy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:18:57 +0000

Stacey — As the owner of my firm, all of our awards carry the likenesses of dead presidents.

By: Stacey Harmon

Stacey Harmon — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:10:40 +0000

This issue became basically a non-issue when the brokerage I worked with decided to not have awards (they had the benefit of starting fresh after an NRT buyout and they could set the culture at a new independent brokerage). Problem solved. Another great side benefit was that the coordination of the monthly, or quarterly, or annual awards no longer needed to be done – we gained back almost a whole half an employee who no longer had to worry about printing certificates and getting crystal engraved (and then re-engraved because it was really a team award instead of an individual award)- stunning how time consuming this is. Most of the independent brokers in my area have adopted the same “no award” policy. In fact, I don’t even see it much in the franchise brokers either (used to be pages of accolades in the paper years ago…all but gone now). Instead, now the brokerages just fight over how market share is calculated and which brokerage says they are #1.

By: BawldGuy

BawldGuy — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:51:47 +0000

Bill — Some teams would indeed bring that reality to sellers. But if a relatively big time producer is unhappy because his 87 deals a year was eclipsed by the eight man team’s 249 deals, the seller is probably not gonna get inferior results from the team.

That brings us to wonder who’re really the major whiners here. My nomination goes to those who’ve just moved from a deal a month to two deals monthly. Their mindset remains in ‘recognition’ mode, when increasing their batting average is what matters.

This falls under what Grandma taught me shortly after she learned I was to be married.

“There’s only two people who you should always ensure are happy to see you coming — your wife and your banker.” That’s funny, and I laughed at the time, but over the years I’ve found it to be unerringly true.

Trophies are cool, I like ‘em too, but in the end they sit on the mantle collecting dust. Besides, I’ve yet to get a banker to accept them as a deposit.

Make sense?

By: Bill Lublin

Bill Lublin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:55:18 +0000

Jeff; I love that you always boil things down to their most practical issues – the cash we earn for doing the job properly! And that is a tough point to argue.

But I wonder how the seller feels if they thought they were getting the top gun in town, and instead end up with a team member, who might not be the same stellar quality….

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By: Mark Eibner

Mark Eibner — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:16:49 +0000

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By: Real Estate Feeds

Real Estate Feeds — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 18:37:46 +0000

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