What You Do Not Know About a Brand New Agent in Sacramento

The price of a reaching veteran status as a Sacramento Realtor means helping a new agent.

Don’t ever underestimate the power of new a real estate agent in Sacramento.  Every Sacramento Realtor was a new agent once. No agent is born into this business knowing everything, even if one grew up in a family of Realtors. The way an agent learns is by doing. By accumulating years on the job. By closing escrow after escrow. The basic truism is an agent who closes a home a week is a much more experienced agent who brings tons of value to her clients than an agent who, say, closes a sale every couple of months.

This is not to say, either, that every agent who has been in the business for years knows everything because some agents repeat the same thing over and over without learning anything new. Some veterans work all by themselves in a one-person brokerage, unsupervised, they do not attend Sacramento Association of REALTORs monthly meetings, are often unaware of new laws and procedures (which occur regularly), nobody has their back, and they tend to conduct business the same way, year in and year out, inaccurately assuming that whatever crazy idea they can conjure will apply as a solution without consequences.

Yet a new agent in Sacramento is often discriminated against simply because he is new, and that’s not an ethical nor a fair way to welcome new agents into the Sacramento real estate business. I’ve been an agent through enough decades to realize that a brand new agent today could be a superstar next year and a megastar producer for years to come.

I am reminded of this because over the weekend a brand new agent called and asked for help. He had shown one of my listings and his buyer wanted to write an offer. For whatever reason, he was on his own and did not know how to prepare a purchase contract. See, the thing is, he had a buyer who was qualified and eager to buy this home. And guess what? I have a seller who is qualified and eager to sell her home. That meant I walked the new agent through the California Residential Purchase Agreement, paragraph by paragraph, explaining what he should do. He called no less than 8 times on Saturday. We talked for at least 90 minutes.

Not only do many veteran agents give back to the real estate community, they also don’t underestimate the power of a new real estate agent. They help their fellow real estate agents if for no other reason than they would have appreciated that kind of assistance when they were new. I suggest veteran agents spread a little compassion; it’s contagious.

If you’re looking for an experienced agent with 40 years in the business to list your home, call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759.