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How I Close 80+ Rentals Per Year • Chih-Hao Yang
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
03/12/20 • 55 min
Chih-Hao Yang from Prospect Equities realizes that buyers were once sellers. He wisely has built up a rental empire, closing over 80 per year, and specializing in Chicago’s luxury apartment market. In this conversation, Chih-Hao discusses the importance of niche marketing, social media and customer service. His professionalism and energy has secured him as one of Chicago’s most talked about new real estate agents.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Chih-Hao Yang can be reached at 217-819-8009 and chihhao[email protected]
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D.J. Paris 0:00
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Okay, today on the show, we have Xiao Yang from prospect equities. GL Yang is bilingual, both speaking both Mandarin and English. He is a broker who specializes in Illinois real estate rentals and sales. He’s been living in Illinois since 2003. And to see the continuous growth of the city and knows every insight a renter or buyer needs to know he has worked with investors and buyers from from the from here locally as well as overseas. He has closed hundreds of deals and receives five star reviews from his clients. He helps clients purchase their dream home and also sell their investments. Besides sales. She also helps international students look for rental apartments throughout the city of Chicago. He’s received tremendous amount of positive feedback from his clients in the rental and sales services. She was part of a part of our future top producers. A series that we’re doing on the show and what caught our eye about him is that every year in addition to all the sales he does, he closes over 80 rentals, which is an insanely high number and it’s super amazing. We’re We’re so honored to have him on the show. It’s an incredible amount of production as we as we enter the rental season. A great reminder that rentals are how a lot of realtors ...

How To Upgrade Your Real Estate Website • Malte Kramer
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
11/21/23 • 54 min
Malte Kramer the CEO of Luxury Presence talks about his journey and how he ended up in real estate. Malte dispels a few myths around website creation and talks about SEO and how to bring traffic to your website organically. Malte shares a few recommendations on nurturing leads. Malte also discusses AI and its impact on the real estate business. Last, Malte shares his short-term predictions on real estate market.
Check out Malte’s profile on LinkedIn and follow him on Instagram.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Malte Kramer can be reached at (310) 955-1077.
This episode is brought to you by Real Geeks.
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D.J. Paris 0:00
Are you thinking of upgrading your personal realtor website? Well, today we’re have a conversation with one of the top website designers in the industry, and he’s going to tell you exactly what you should think about if you decide to upgrade. Stay tuned. This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by real geeks. How many homes are you going to sell this year? Do you have the right tools? Is your website turning soft leads and interested buyers? Are you spending money on leads that aren’t converting? Well real geeks is your solution. Find out why agents across the country choose real geeks as their technology partner. Real geeks was created by an agent for agents. They pride themselves on delivering a sales and marketing solution so that you can easily generate more business. Their agent websites are fast and built for lead conversion with a smooth search experience for your visitors. Real geeks also includes an easy to use agent CRM. So once a lead signs up on your website, you can track their interest and have great follow up conversations. Real geeks is loaded with a ton of marketing tools to nurture your leads and increase brand awareness visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod and find out why Realtors come to real geeks to generate more business again, visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod. And now on to our show.
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris, I am your guide and host through the show and in just a moment we’re going to be speaking with multi Kramer, who is the CEO and founder of luxury presence. They make realtor websites. So it’s gonna be a really interesting one because we’re going to talk all about what a realtor website should have and shouldn’t have and maybe what you should consider for your own site. Before we get to Malte please tell a friend about the show. That’s the best way you can help us think of another realtor that could benefit from this great conversation we’re about to have or any of the other conversations we have in previous episodes, send a link over to another realtor that would really help us and also please leave us a review especially if you’re listening on iTunes or really anywhere that you’re finding our podcast. Let us know what you think of the show we appreciate it and are so grateful for everyone listening right this very second it’s been five or six years we’ve done 500 episodes over 3 million downloads all because of you guys really it’s all because of you so I’m so grateful. This is we’re getting towards the end of 2023 and I just wanted to say thanks in case I forget to do it in a future episode. So thank you thank you thank you keep listening. We’ll keep making episodes and enough from me let’s get to the main event my conversation with multi Kramer.
Okay today our guest on the show is multi Kramer and I want to tell you more about multi. Multi Kramer is the CEO of luxury presents, which is the leading real estate marketing platform and one of the fastest growing propped up companies in the United States since founding the business in 2016. He’s grown it to over 100 million in revenue with a global team of 600 employees and a client list of nearly 10,000 real estate professionals. To date luxury presents has raised 50 million from notable investors, including top VC firm of Bessemer Venture Partners, Zillow co founder Spencer Rascoff, real estate Coach Tom Ferry...

Why College Housing Has Amazing Real Estate Investment Returns • Carol Horsford
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
06/24/20 • 45 min
Carol Horsford from Farnam Group in New Haven is the most successful real estate agent in Connecticut with respect to leasing. In our conversation Carol shares why she focuses a majority of her business in college housing. She also explains how college housing has changed in the last decade and why this has now become an incredible investment opportunity. Carol emphasizes the importance of never giving up and how to be determined as an agent to achieve success.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Carol Horsford can be reached at 203-671-1961.
Transcript
D.J. Paris 0:00
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris, I am your guide and host through the show. And today in just a moment, we’re going to be speaking with Carol Horsford from Connecticut. But before we get to Carol, I wanted to remind everyone of two quick things that we ask all of our listeners to do. We very much appreciate this. By the way. Number one, please tell a friend think of one other realtor that could benefit from hearing these interviews with top 1% producers from all over the country and send them a link to our podcast, you can always send them directly to our website where they can stream every episode we’ve ever done. They don’t need a podcast app, they can do it right there, which is keeping it real pod.com Obviously, you could always have them pull up any podcast app and search for keeping it real podcast. They’ll find us there too. But keeping it real pod.com Is is there and it also we put all the videos there as well for all of our interviews. And the second thing we ask everyone to do is please follow us on Facebook find [email protected] forward slash keeping it real pod every day we post an article that we find online it’s written specifically to help you grow your business. We post it there and also of course links to all of our interviews. So please again find us on Facebook facebook.com forward slash keeping it real pod and now on to our interview with Carol Horsford.
Okay, today on the show we have Carol Horsford from a Farnham group in New Haven, Connecticut. Let me tell you a little bit about Carol’s waving. So thank you. Carol originally was working in New York City and luxury goods and marketing. And she has been in the real estate industry in New Haven, Connecticut since 2007. She started her own brokerage in 2012. She specializes in property management and investment sales. And most impressively to us. She is the number one rental agency in the state of Connecticut. Please visit Carol at Farnham group that’s F AR n a m group.com. Carol, welcome to the show.
Carol Horsford 3:15
Thanks for having me.
D.J. Paris 3:17
We’re really excited to have you. I was telling Carol, prior to us getting on board that I have been to New Haven and I’ve eaten the famous. I forgot Pepe, pet bass pizza. And I really enjoyed my time in New Haven. But I only have been there a couple of days total. So I should next time I’m around that area. I’m gonna swing by and go get some more pizza, I
Carol Horsford 3:39
think. But yeah, I’d love to meet you in person.
D.J. Paris 3:43
Yeah, that would be fun. Well, thanks. Thanks for being on the show. You are you have the number one rental agency in all of Connecticut, which is huge. I would like to go all the way back to the beginning of your real estate career, because you’ve really you’ve been in business for some time, but you’ve had incredible success in that time. And so I’d love to go all the way back to the beginning. Tell us how you got involved in real estate.
Carol Horsford 4:06
Okay, so I’m from New Haven, my dad went to Yale, and I was working in New York City, and I got married and I quit my job in New York and moved back to New Haven and I grew up in this big house that was called the Farnum house, w...

What does Knowing Your Business Mean To Real Estate Agents? • Coaching Moments • Ryan D’Aprile
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
06/08/20 • 37 min
Welcome to another episode of Coaching Moments With Ryan D’Aprile from D’Aprile Properties!
In this episode Ryan discusses the importance of knowing your business and the specific steps agents need to take to develop this skill set . Ryan also spends time talking about lead generation and deepening relationships with existing contacts and how agents should be spending a minimum of one hour a day on this activity, no matter how busy they are servicing existing clients.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Ryan D’Aprile can be reached at 312.590.6416 and [email protected].
Transcript
D.J. Paris 0:00
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Welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris. I am your guide and host through the show and today we have our regular episode which is called coaching moments with Ryan de April. Now if you’re not familiar with Ryan Ryan is a progressive thought leader. Here in the Chicagoland area. We focused on providing for his agents and staff. He’s actually in Indiana, Illinois and also Wisconsin. His strengths are his motivational skills, his coaching style and his dedication to training. He has 14 offices throughout Chicagoland also Wisconsin, Indiana and I forgot Michigan, and has hundreds and hundreds of brokers do real property is a coaching company with eight strategic coaches who work week in and week out with every single agent at their firm individually focused on business, business planning, coaching and accountability. If you’d like to take your career to the next level, or if you’re just maybe not getting the attention you deserve. Check out deep real properties, visit them online deep real properties.com. Ryan, welcome once again. Thanks, TJ. Good to see you. I’m very dressed down today. Our listeners won’t see it. But this is about as dressed down as you’ll ever see me.
Ryan D’Aprile 2:07
So I apologize. It must be cool in your office because it’s hot outside.
D.J. Paris 2:11
It is I keep it. I keep it at 68 in here. So I keep it cool.
Ryan D’Aprile 2:17
Yeah. Then you get out and you just get hit with the heat.
D.J. Paris 2:21
I’m wearing a hoodie. So Ryan’s probably wondering why I’m wearing a hoodie in this weather. It’s only because a t shirt wouldn’t have looked as professional. So I’m just slightly above t shirt into a hoodie.
Ryan D’Aprile 2:33
I’m casual as well. I’m in a golf shirt. So that’s how I
D.J. Paris 2:36
that’s a huge step above where I’m at right now. But anyway, thanks. Thanks for once again being on our show. Yeah. How tell us what’s going on? What are your thoughts? What do you want to talk about?
Ryan D’Aprile 2:48
So what I figured we talked about with our agents today is kind of just bringing structure back in to our life. And we are in a very abstract type world sales, right being whatever sales you are in, it’s very unstructured business. And you have to know, you got to know what’s important, you have to know the importance of structure. And I think the theme that I want to go over in today’s session is structure and know your business. And there’s several different areas of your business that you should know about. But I figured that’s what I would cover. And I would also just, you know, go back to some best practices, as we all start begin to feel overwhelmed. Running our own business, there’s so much to do. And a lot of us are just busy being busy. And that’s where the unproductive work comes into play. And we got to get, you know, dial it back and figure out what’s the one two or three things that I could be doing, that’s going to be moving the needle, my business structure will help you bring that back. And also knowing your business ...

How To Story-Sell Pre-Construction Properties • Monday Market Minute • Carrie McCormick
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
07/13/20 • 15 min
In our July episode of Monday Market Minute with Carrie McCormick of @Properties provides an update on the current red-hot Chicago real estate market. She is seeing an increase in activity around suburban homes and provides advice on how to handle multiple-offer scenarios for both buyers and sellers. Carrie also discusses Alcove, the newest Wicker Park development that she’s representing. She points out that selling pre-construction properties requires the ability to tell the story of the finished product.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Carrie can be reached at [email protected] or by phone at 312.961.4612.
Please follow Carrie on Instagram by clicking here.
Transcript
D.J. Paris 0:00
This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by gogos bootcamp Are you a real estate agent looking for the best social media training program on the planet? Gogo Beth key is considered the top Instagram Realtor in the country. And her step by step training program will take your social media game to the next level. She’s so confident there’s a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose, keeping it real listeners receive a special discount, so please visit Gogo podcast.com That’s Gee, oh, gee, oh podcast.com for your special discount, and now on with the show.
All right, welcome to another episode of Keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents. And for real estate agents. My name is DJ Parris, and I am your go, ghost, I’m your host and guide through the show. I’m not a ghost. But thank you, for everyone tuning in. You might be watching us live right now in our private Facebook group. If you’re not a member of our group, please follow us on Facebook facebook.com forward slash keeping it real. Or you might be listening through a an app, which is great. We also do video episodes. And we’re going to be today specifically showing some some some video. So if you are listening, we encourage you to click on the link in the notes see the video because we’re going to be showcasing a development here in Chicago. But today is our Monday market minute with Carrie McCormick. Now if you’re not familiar with Carrie Carrie has been with us all the way since the very beginning that we started the show almost five years ago, she comes on every single month to talk about the Chicago market and what real estate professionals and also buyers and sellers need to know what’s going on in the market, how it’s responding. And you know how you can you know, take advantage of those current trends. She is a broker for over 20 years at add properties, one of the very top brokers not only at at properties, but in the entire Chicagoland area. She is in the top 1% of 1%. And there’s 44,000 agents, he or she is always in about the top 20 Out of all of those in production. She’s an absolute, we’re so grateful to have her she’s an absolute professional. And Carrie, welcome once again to the show.
Carrie McCormick 2:23
Thank you so much. Good intro.
D.J. Paris 2:26
Thanks. So before we get to you, I forgot to also tell everybody who’s listening to follow Kerry on Instagram. So find her at Kerry McCormick real estate. So it’s at Kerry McCormack real estate and also visit her website, which is Kerry McCormick r e.com. All right, Carrie, what do we got to this month?
Carrie McCormick 2:45
Well, thank you so much. It’s a crazy world out there, as everyone knows who’s listening, our market has skyrocketed here in Chicago, we are seeing multiple offers on properties. And what I what the big shift is. And again, I know everyone knows this, but will you see this big change of how people are living you know, there’s home offices that are needed, kids are at home, they just want more space, they want outdoor space, right. So whether you’re a two bedroom homeowner, you want a three bedroom, three bedroom wants a four bedroom, tap up to townhomes single families land, the suburban markets doing amazing, I’ve got a lot of city sellers looking to move to the suburbs. And finally, our suburban market is seeing multiple offers as well. So we’re in a dynamic market, I’d encourage everyone to take advantage of this as much as possible, get our sellers and buyers to the places that they want to be. And it’s great. And I was actually telling DJ before we went on, there’s a lot of off market inventory right now. And I brought some buyers to some off market properties. And we’ve ...

Why Real Estate Agents Should Always Be Investing In Education • Ryan McKane
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
11/05/20 • 65 min
In this episode Ryan McKane from Redfin begins by telling us how he started in real estate (before becoming a top producer). He credits his success as an residential agent to previous experience in mortgage, property management and commercial real estate. Ryan also discusses agent perception around Redfin and why he decided it was the best fit for his career. He also emphasizes the importance for agents to invest in their education of the evolving market and public trends. Last, Ryan focuses on writing out your goals and determining daily actions to lead to their completion.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Ryan McKane can be reached at (312) 313-2689.
Transcript
D.J. Paris 0:00
This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by gogos bootcamp Are you a real estate agent looking for the very best media training program on the planet. Gogo Beth key is considered the top Instagram Realtor in the country. And her step by step training program will take your social media game to the next level, keeping it real listeners receive a special discount. So please visit Gogo podcast.com That’s Gee Oh gee, oh podcast.com for your special discount, and now on with the show.
Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents. And for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris, I am your guide, and host through the show. And in just a moment, we’re going to be speaking with top producer Ryan McCain. Before we get to Ryan, a couple of quick announcements first, as always, we say thank you everyone who is listening to these words, we really appreciate it. You’re the reason why we continue to do this and we are happy to serve you. Now one way that you can help serve us if you feel so inclined, is really very simple. Just tell a friend, think of one other real estate professional that could benefit from hearing from top producers all over the country with the exact strategies they use to grow their business and send them a link to our show. You know, tell any Realtors you know to pull up a podcast app or do a search for keeping it real, you should find us if they can’t, they can always go directly to our website, keeping it real pod.com where not only do we have links to the podcast to subscribe via the app, but you can also listen to every single episode we’ve made right on the site. So again, follow us at keeping it real pod.com and tell a friend and then last please follow us on Facebook we post so much great content there every single day we find an article that’s written by someone who is specifically trying to help real estate agents grow their business. And we of course we also post all the episodes we do as well. So find us on Facebook facebook.com forward slash keeping it real pod and now on to our interview with the great Ryan McCain.
Today on the show we have Ryan McCain from Redfin. Now Ryan got his start in the real estate industry in 2003, as both a realtor and a mortgage broker working for his stepmothers real estate brokerage here in Chicago. Since then, he’s worked as a leasing agent with Chicago apartment finders. He also spent a few years in property management and commercial real estate before getting back into residential real estate about five years ago, where he is now a top 1% producer in the Chicagoland market. Ryan, welcome to the show. We’re super excited to have you.
Ryan McKane 3:08
Hey, CJ, like I said before, longtime listener first time caller.
D.J. Paris 3:14
Well, we love having our listeners on the show, we’d love the fact that we have listeners were so so like, honored and grateful that anybody listens in the fact that people find value from listening to people like yourselves, top producers is really what we’re all about. And, and we’re so glad to connect with some people that have been longtime listeners, we’ve had that happen a bunch of times on the show where people say, hey, you know, would you consider interviewing me, I’m a big fan. And, and so, you know, I don’t think that I think we reached out to you specifically this time. But we did get that as well, which is a lot of fun. But we’re excited.
Ryan McKane 3:48
I would think reaching out to a podcast, they asked you to interview and it’s like inviting yourself to a party.
D.J. Paris 3:54
It’s like, you know, maybe it is but I tell you, it makes the art makes our booking go a lot easier. So we love it when people say because what we do is we were able to look up to se...

Why Short Term Rentals Are Taking Over • Avery Carl
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
06/07/21 • 42 min
Avery Carl from The Short Term Shop talks about how she got into real estate and describes how she and her husband started investing in real estate and built up their portfolio. Avery also discusses how she finds properties to invest. Next, Avery discusses the current situation in the real estate market and the difference of managing short-term and long-term rentals. Avery gives tips on what an agent should do first when starting a short-term rentals business. Last, Avery talks about her book titled “Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth” which will be published in September and her coming podcast.
To buy Avery’s book “Short-Term Rental, Long-Term Wealth”, click here!
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Avery Carl can be reached at 800.898.1498.
Transcript
D.J. Paris 0:00
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris. I am your guide and host through the show. And I have a question for all of the listeners or viewers out there right now. Have you ever thought about adding in short term rentals into your portfolio either in your own personal investments or for your clients? My guess is you probably haven’t thought about it. But today on the show we’re gonna be speaking with Avery Carle. Not only is she a short term investment specialist, she’s also one of the top Realtors in the country. So we’re gonna be speaking with her in just a moment. Before we get to Avery just a couple of quick reminders. Please tell a friend about our show. Think of one other real estate professional that could benefit from hearing from top producers from all over the country. And let them know that we exist send them a link to our website, which is keeping it real pod.com They can stream every episode we’ve ever done right from their browser, or if they are if they’re a podcast person, just have them pull up a podcast app search for keeping it real and hit that subscribe button. And second please follow us on Facebook every single day we find an article that’s written specifically designed to help agents grow their business and publish it there. And we also do all of our interviews there as well as lots of other tips and tricks for agents to grow their business so you can find [email protected] forward slash keeping it real pod and now on to our interview with Avery Karl.
Paid today on the show we have a break from the short term shop with exp Realty Avery was named one of Wall Street Journal’s top 100 realtors and Newsweek’s top 500 agents last year 2020. She and her team at the short term shop focused exclusively on vacation rentals and short term rental clients. Now Avery herself has sold over 300 million in short term vacation rentals since 2017, and investor herself with a portfolio of over 30 properties. Avery specializes in connecting investors with short term rentals with the highest ROI potential and then training them to manage the short term rentals from their smartphone from anywhere in the world. She has a book coming out this fall on bigger pockets we are huge fans of bigger pockets and Upad. Many of their their people on our show, but this new book is called a short term rental. So all you BiggerPockets fans out there, keep your eyes out for that she sorry, short term rental long term wealth is the name of the book. She also has a podcast coming out very shortly called the short term show. And we’re going to be speaking with her about all things short term rentals and investments. Visit avery at her website, which is the short term shop.com. And Avery Welcome to the show.
Avery Carl 3:4...

What Real Estate Agents Need To Know About Supply Chain Issues • Close-ing Time • Chris Linsell
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
12/17/21 • 41 min
Welcome to our monthly feature, Close-ing Time – in partnership with TheClose.com.
Chris Linsell from TheClose.com discusses topics he’ll be covering at upcoming live presentation. Chris provides tips on how to stay on top of supply chain issues and how these concerns have affected the real estate market. Chris and DJ also chat about best practices for agent-client relationship. Last, Chris discusses a NAR statistics for the real estate market he found interesting this year.
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Chris Linsell can be reached at [email protected].
This episode is brought to you by iGuide.
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D.J. Paris 0:00
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Welcome to keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris I am your guide and host through the show and today is our monthly series called closing time with Chris Lin sell from the closed.com. Now this is a partnership between keeping it real and the closed.com. And let me tell you about the close. Now the close.com is the kind of real estate website designed to give agents teams and brokerages actionable strategic insight from industry professionals. They cover real estate marketing, lead generation technology and team building strategies from the perspective of working agents and brokers who want to take their business to the next level. Please visit the clothes.com T eight that’s th e c l o s e.com to see their amazing articles, and also subscribe to their newsletter so you get notified each time they publish an article with us as always is crystallin Sal, he is a staff writer and real estate coach for the close. Chris is the closes resident expert on real estate topics ranging from marketing lead gen transactional best practices and everything in between. He’s a licensed agent in the state of Michigan. Chris has also been part of hundreds of transactions from modest rural starter homes to massive waterside compounds. And when he isn’t writing or speaking, you’ll find Chris fly fishing or performing on the stage of his community theaters production. Chris Welcome once again to keeping it real, we’re excited to have you
Chris Linsell 2:43
DJ great to be back. Glad to glad to be sitting inside I don’t know if it’s cold and snowy where you are. But I’m watching the snowfall outside. It’s got me in the mode to talk about real estate. You know, from the comfort of indoors, I’m not really doing any walkthroughs to the
D.J. Paris 3:00
way we hear we’re not too far away from each other. Um, thankfully it is sunny and relatively warm 45 degrees Fahrenheit today here in Chicago, so do not have the snow yet. So imagine it’s coming,
Chris Linsell 3:14
it’s coming, it’s coming buddy.
D.J. Paris 3:16
And we you and I got a chance to meet in person at the National Association of Realtors Conference just a few weeks ago in San Diego and that was very exciting and fun.
Chris Linsell 3:26
Oh man so much fun. It was great to get to chat with you to talk shop a little bit to just connect us as human beings to you know, real estate. This is a human being business so always taken an opportunity to meet a virtual and now in real life friend who’s also in the biz here. And man, a lot has happened in real estate this year a lot already, you know, still happening in real estate this year. So, you know a lot was going on at NAR and man, you know, my my news feeds are continuing to blow up right now about big things that are happening in the world that are affecting our in...

27 Years Old & Over 19 Million In Production • Lexi Belland Perez
Keeping It Real Podcast • Secrets Of Top 1% REALTORS ® • Interviews With Real Estate Brokers & Agents
03/20/20 • 51 min
Lexi Belland Perez of The Belland Team at Lepic Kroeger in eastern Iowa is 27 years old and closed almost 20 million last year in production. This year she’s on pace to close over 30 million! In our conversation Lexi talks about the importance of being present, proactive and involved in your community – that’s the marketing strategy her team had utilized to become the top team in her area!
If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube!
Lexi Belland Perez can be reached at 319-530-1055 and [email protected].
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D.J. Paris 0:00
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Hello, and welcome to another episode of Keeping it real largest podcasts made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Paris. I am your guide and host through the show and in just a moment we’re going to be speaking to a young superstar 27 year old named Lexi Belen of the Belen team. I’m so excited because she’s just crushing it in eastern Iowa. Before we get to Lexi, I want to remind all of our listeners of a couple of things. First of all, thank you for continuing to support and listen to our show. We’re coming up on our 100 and 50th episode in the next week or two. We couldn’t do it without you and we appreciate every one of you who listens. But please remember we could use more listeners of course we have everyone out there goes and tells just one other real estate professional about our show we double our listenership and could do more episodes for you So please think of one realtor that you know that could benefit from listening to the the interview we’re about to do with Lexi and share the podcast with them. How do you do that? Send them to our website keeping it real pod.com You can stream every episode we’ve done and also we have links to videos we just started adding video. So if you want to watch this episode as instead of listening to it right on our website, it’ll take you to our YouTube channel and you can do that as well. And lastly, follow us on Facebook. We have so much great content on there every single day we post an article that we find online dedicated to helping you grow your business. In addition to that we also post video recordings of all of our episodes while we’re recording them live want to see what it’s like a few minutes before we get started and want to hear me screw up and ask questions before we actually go alive. That’s what we do. So follow us on Facebook facebook.com forward slash keeping it real pod and other than that, thanks for continuing to listen. Thanks for continuing to support our sponsors and telling a friend and now on to our interview with Lexi Belen of the Valentim.
Today on the show we have Lexi Belland from Lepic Crager realtor from the Belen team in Williamsburg, Iowa at age 27 Lexi success is no accident. This business has run in her family for generations and comes very naturally to her fresh out of college she dove in headfirst. After six years in the business her and her team reached almost 20 million in production in 2019. Actually 19 point 8 million. She is extremely passionate and committed to educating mentoring and supporting her clients. She truly has a passion for what she does and is just getting started and I should share her production goal for 2020 which is 30 million and she’s already done like 8 million a year today, which is insane. Please visit the Belen team.com. That’s B E L L A N D. Team. And welcome to the show Lexie.
Lexi Belland 4:04
Hey, thanks for having me. That was quite the introduction. And one thing I do want to say is, if you’re a new listener, and you’re an agent, this is a super resourceful outlet. When my sister and I are my mom and I when we’re on our way to a listing appointment, we have this blasting in our car, gives you motivation gives you ideas you can hear from other realtors. So if you’re not subscribing, we highly recommend it.
D.J. Paris 4:30
Wow, than...

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