{"id":9387,"date":"2018-07-03T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T23:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/blog\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2018-07-03T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T15:55:41","slug":"things-a-real-estate-agent-should-never-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertypro.ng\/blog\/things-a-real-estate-agent-should-never-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Things a Real Estate Agent Should Never Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you want to be a successful <strong>real estate agent in Nigeria<\/strong>, there are some things you should never do. In your pursuit to become that favourite agent every homeowner or potential buyer wants to deal with, you should avoid the following things below.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/lagos\/land\">LAND FOR SALE IN LAGOS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Losing contact after closing a deal<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some agents lose contact after a closing a deal. After working hard to convert leads to clients and getting a successful transaction, it won\u2019t do you any good to lose contact with your clients. Maintaining contact with your clients will earn you lots of <\/span><b>referrals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as most homeowners prefer doing business with a trusted agent. You can send out \u2018thank you\u2019 notes periodically or call them occasionally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/abuja\">HOUSES FOR SALE IN ABUJA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Unorganized information<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retrieving a phone number or an email address might prove to be a difficult task if your client\u2019s information is not organized thereby making follow-up difficult. \u00a0Always try to organize your data so you can easily access it whenever you want.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/rivers\/port-harcourt\/land\">LAND FOR SALE IN PORT HARCOURT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Bad investment<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before you invest in any form of marketing, always make sure you do a market survey before investing in any form of marketing. You need to identify the marketing channel where you get the highest numbers of leads, referrals, and clients. When you make these observations, you can reduce spending on some irrelevant areas in order to re-invest it in other profitable areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-rent\/lagos\/surulere\/mini-flat\">MINI FLAT FOR RENT IN SURULERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Ignorance of trends in the real estate sector<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regardless of whatever industry you are in, it is always evolving on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis with new laws, techniques, and trends. If you\u2019re not aware of what\u2019s happening in the real estate industry, you will be left behind.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All you have to do is educate yourself by reading various publications about real estate, going to workshops or seminars, join a class online and many other educational options to learn from.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/enugu\/land\">Land for Sale in Enugu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>Contact me anytime<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agents should never tell a client to contact them anytime especially if you do not mean it. Is it okay for your client to call you on a weekend at 2 am? If your answer is \u201cno\u201d, it\u2019s better to let them know the best times to call, text or email you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tolet.com.ng\/property-for-sale\/lagos\/ikorodu\/land\">LAND FOR SALE IN IKORODU<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><b>I will read the contract for you, just sign the contract<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As real estate agents, you will read a lot of contracts and work closely with lawyers, but you\u00a0are not a lawyer. \u00a0An agent should never tell a client to sign any contract that they have not read. Don\u2019t sign a contract unless you have read the contract and had a lawyer review it for you.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to be a successful real estate agent in Nigeria, there are some things you should never do. In your pursuit to become that favourite agent every homeowner or potential buyer wants to deal with, you should avoid the following things below. 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