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Who is The Number One Agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown?
The Number One Agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown is Elizabeth Weintraub.
A team member reminded me this weekend that I have not yet blogged about who is the Number One Agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown. First, it helps to know that Lyon has almost 1,000 agents in the company. As if it’s not enough that this Sacramento Realtor has placed four times in the 3 top agents at Lyon Real Estate, she has also earned the top agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown for the past 6 years straight. Of course you know I’m talking about myself. How quickly time passes by when you’re busy with Sacramento real estate.
If my mother were alive today, she would harp on what I’m going to do with the rest of my life, why don’t I go back to school and finish my degree? Or, her favorite, why don’t I get a real job? Then she’d drone on about the doom and gloom of international politics and how our economy is about to collapse. I’d certainly never get to stop listening to her rant about the horrors of our present administration, unless I set the phone down and picked it back up 20 minutes later . . .
I study the awards sitting on my shelf in my home office, and I can hardly believe the journey myself. I’ve had such highs and lows in my real estate career. When I started in the business in the 1970s, I was selling 10 homes a month to investors my first year. Then the Tax Reform Act of 1986 sent the investor side of things to a crashing halt. It’s been ups and downs every since until about 2003. First I earned a few Executive Awards and most Most Improved Sales from Lyon. Then Senior Executive Associate, followed by a couple of top 1% agent awards.
In 2009, I placed as the Number 3 agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown. That was a good year. But 2010 was better; I moved up and earned Number 2 agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown. Now, ever since 2011, I’ve been the Number One Agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown. I recall sitting in the lobby of Lyon Real Estate when I first moved to Sacramento in late 2002. My husband and I were waiting for an agent to show us homes. I glanced over at my husband and said, “I think this where I am going to work.”
Sure, I interviewed with many other real estate offices in town, but I kept coming back to good reasons to work at Lyon Real Estate. Besides, one of those other smaller offices did not want to hire me. I was flat-out turned down. Rejection has never stopped me. And today, well, I have a long history of being the Number One Agent at Lyon Real Estate Downtown. We have around 80 agents, so it’s a decent accomplishment. Not that my dead mother would agree.
If you’re looking to buy or sell real estate in the Greater Sacramento region, please call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759.
Realtors Willing to Pay the Price Become Top Producers
Many top producers are always digitally connected to clients.
Top producers in Sacramento real estate generally get to that spot two different ways. Either they know a ton of people or they pay the price by working super hard. It could be a combination of those two things but usually it is not. We all know the guys whose lives are a continual party; who rarely return phone calls, seem to subsist on scotch and cashews, yet are rolling in the dough. It’s only human nature to want to gravitate toward that HGTV lifestyle. Who wants to work that hard?
There are always those handful of agents who mess up again and again yet continue to be top producers. They’re just lucky, I think, that the business that falls by the wayside due to their lack of attention doesn’t matter in their overall scheme of things because they can afford to lose clients. Their relationships shower business on them. Or, maybe it’s their charm that continues to open doors. I’ve been married to a few ex-husbands capable of that.
Many top producers work a system. When top producers find something that works, they rinse and repeat. When the fish are biting, they don’t move the boat. I’ll share with you that my system is very simple. Answer the phone, respond to email, reply to a text. Focus on doing what I say I will do.
But you pay a price to do that. It means being connected. I try to stay connected from 7 AM to 7 PM every day. Very few Realtors seem to do that, and I don’t know why. Well, I suppose they have family they pay attention to, hobbies they enjoy, and they probably do normal every-day things like preparing meals, cleaning the house, raising children, which I don’t have time for. Although my fabulous TC does those things, and she’s always available, so go figure.
My number one priority is my business. I gladly pay that price because the real estate business is rewarding and immensely fun. But it doesn’t mean I work in a vacuum or sit in the closet, because who sat in front row seats at the Crest Theatre last night with her husband when Timothy B. Schmit performed? The point is if you want to be part of the top producers in Sacramento real estate, then you’ve probably got to establish a system. That system for me is answer the phone, respond to email, reply to a text.
I found a way to make my lifestyle blend. Wherever I am, whatever I am doing, I communicate. A seller told me yesterday that she is not concerned if if I take off for Mexico to see the butterflies, because she knows I will stay in touch. You know the adage, if you want it done right, ask a busy agent. I tallied my production for 2016, and I still rank in the top 10 agents in Sacramento. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759.
