Skill Team

You need to constantly learn and improve your own education level, but you also need to develop the skill to educate others. Whether it’s teaching a first-time homebuyer about mortgages or a savvy investor about the internal rate of return on an income-producing property, you need the skills to be able to convey your message effectively.

You don’t have to be an attorney or be able to recall every real estate code on the books. But you do need to have familiarity and comfortability with legal terms. You are suppose to refer your clients to legal experts, but you better know when it’s appropriate to do so.You don’t have to be an attorney or be able to recall every real estate code on the books. But you do need to have familiarity and comfortability with legal terms. You are suppose to refer your clients to legal experts, but you better know when it’s appropriate to do so.

To be an effective processor of information, you must first perfect the basic listening skill. Then you can move on to processing your client’s needs and goals. You also need to be able to process lots of information at one time and on short notice to react. Processing is critical to proper action and reaction.

Marketing is such an advanced skill it could have it’s own post (or thousands of books on the topic), but suffice to say you better have some skills in this area to succeed long term. You will be marketing properties, cities, school districts, and yourself. It will pay you to be good at it.The ability to motivate others and have them committed to your ideas and ideals will inspire people to work toward a common goal. Your clients will thank you for taking them where they want to be.