A Real Estate Answering Service can work for your agency to help you better service and sell to your clients.
As we all know, the current real estate conditions in the US are at an interesting standpoint to say the least. If you’re the optimistic type; you see many great buying opportunities. If you’re not, you see a glut of unsold homes and people somehow trying to manage their monthly nut with an adjustable mortgage. What this all means is that there is a lot of activity for real estate agents and the agencies they work for. In the major cities, and now even in the suburbs, rentals are still a thriving business; people simply need housing. Some experts say it’s currently much cheaper to rent than own. With all this in mind, there’s a real need now to have a real estate answering service for your agency.
A real estate answering service can help your agency in many ways. First and foremost, you can’t afford to miss a single call considering the current marketplace. A real estate answering service can provide professional call coverage and customer service. They can handle your overflow and after-hour calls, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365-days a year. Yes, you have a cell phone, but there are times you don’t get the call for all kinds of reasons. You don’t have enough bars; you’ve got no signal, no network. Isn’t a live, well-trained, an articulate operator better than a voicemail? You bet it is.
A real estate answering service can take incoming calls for that open house or seminar you have scheduled and it’s likely they would be less expensive than the cost of running your classified or print ad in a major newspaper. The smart real estate agencies and groups want to keep their sales agents out there: showing that apartment, co-op, condo, home, commercial space or property and not inside tied to a phone, waiting. While they’re working, showing and hopefully selling, a real estate answering service will cover your calls whenever needed, on a part-time or full-time basis.
Finding good and reliable professional sales and service help can be costly and time consuming. By teaming-up, or shall we say; backing up your sales force with a reliable real estate answering service, your business will simply be better off service and sales-wise.
