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31Oct/09Off

Hiring Illinois real estate agents

OwnACondo.com is hiring Illinois and Florida real estate agents for their Oak Brook, Chicago and Miami offices. OwnACondo.com focuses primarily on representing buyers and sellers interested in condominiums, but have a real estate auction division that sells all types of real estate.

When a bank solicits OwnACondo.com to sell their REO condo portfolio at auction, OwnACondo.com uses their real estate agents to service the listings.  The OwnACondo.com Realtor has to get all information on the listing coordinated with the employee staff to get ready for the auction.  The listing agent needs to conduct at least three open houses and handle all the leads associated with the condo or townhouse listing.  During the real estate auction the agent is expected to be present and help with the contracts and hosting of the event.  After the auction, the real estate agent is expected to follow up with the financing process up until the day of closing.

OwnACondo.com is hiring real estate agents to service all the listings coming in from banks and developers.  Developers are also turning to the OwnACondo.com auction to finish out their developments and close outs.  There are too many listings versus real estate agents currently.  OwnACondo.com will be hiring 25-50 agents over the next three months to handle to volume of listings.

If you are a licensed real estate agent and looking for a career opportunity with OwnACondo.com, you can email Brian at BK@ownacondo.com or call directly at 877.627.5543.  OwnACondo.com is in need of full and part-time real estate agents, seasoned veterans or rookies. 

OwnACondo.com is well known for providing hundreds of leads to its realtors and its World class training programs.  OwnACondo.com markets its brand with billboards, search engine optimization, taxi cabs, newspapers and dozens of other lead generation sources.  This produces hundreds of buys and sellers a day flocking to the OwnACondo.com website.  Once a lead registers with OwnACondo.com, it then gets transferred to a real estate agent that handles the area the client wants to be serviced in.  Our real estate agents service all areas of Chicago.  If you as an agent want to service one area or all areas of Chicago metro, that's solely up to you.  We just want to make sure you service the lead professionally.

OwnACondo.com will also have classes starting in February to get licensed if you're currently not a real estate agent.  If you're interested in these classes, call 877.627.543 as well.

2Aug/09Off

Chicago Real Estate Jobs

How tough is it to succeed in Chicago real estate jobs today?  The market seems to be hot for some, not for too many others.  How are some companies failing while other companies are wailing? The key to success lies within the individual, not the company.

Where are there Chicago real estate jobs?  Chicago real estate jobs normally mean selling real estate in Chicago.  Most companies are looking for agents because they basically do not pay for them.  Almost the entire industry is made up of independent contractors, meaning that the agents do not get paid a salary.  Normally the way it works is the agent places their Illinois real estate sales license with a brokerage. Once they are with that firm, they go out on to the streets of Chicago and look for business, people who want to sell or buy a condominium.  Once they have established the relationship and begin servicing the client, the potential for making a sale is there. 

If a real estate agent makes a sale, he or she is paid a percentage of the purchase price.  For instance, if the sales price was $200,000 they might get a 5% commission or $10,000.  This commission is handed over to the brokerage and then a percentage goes to the sales agent and a percentage goes to the company.  Every company has a different commission split.  On average, the agent will make about 60% of the commission while the company will keep 40%.  This is just an average though.  It's different from one agency to the next.

Chicago real estate jobs are plentiful because every real estate company is looking for more agents to sell real estate.  The more agents, the more income for the agency.  The problem is not the job.  The question that needs to be asked is if you're ready to begin a 100% commissioned based business where you do not get paid unless you make a sale. 100% commission are words that conjure up fear in the meek and excite the aggressive.  100% commissions mean you can make as much money as you'd like.  There is no ceiling.  Real estate selling can change a person's life if they're good at it.

Chicago real estate jobs are abundant.  Get your real estate license and interview the companies out there and start selling some Chicago real estate.  You'll know about six months later if the Chicago real estate job was for you.

4Jul/09Off

Chicago real estate jobs

Chicago real estate jobs vary from being a secretary at a real estate agency to running a full fledged real estate brokerage. There are a number of opportunities to be involved in running a real estate organization. Starting from the top down, real estate brokerages are run primarily by the managing broker of the real estate office.  This real estate job can only be run by someone with a real estate broker’s license which is different from a real estate agents license.

To obtain a real estate broker’s license in Illinois you must attend 120 hours of Illinois approved classes followed by a state exam.  If you pass the exam, you become a licensed real estate broker.  The sales agent’s license is a little easier.  You need to take a total of forty hours in classroom time and then pass your real estate exam.  You do that and you’re a licensed realtor in the state of Illinois.

Chicago real estate jobs can be an incredible experience because you’re not only making a living doing them, but you’re learning an incredible amount about investing in real estate along the way.  Real estate transactions are happening everyday in a real estate office.  Here is where you’re able to see deals that are hard to find if you’re not in front of them.  You’ll hear one Realtor say to another about a particular transaction.  You’re basically on the inside tract to dozens of deals because you’re working in the business. 

Then there is contract administrator.  The contract administrator in the office is the person that handles the real estate contracts from the time they come into the office until they close and beyond.  They document all the activity on that particular piece of real estate from the time it goes under contract.  Their role is to keep the transaction moving to the close and to keep all the organization of the contracts together.

The office manager in a real estate office is the person that is the glue that binds all these real estate jobs in Chicago. The office manager will help the real estate managing broker’s role, they’ll help in any questions coming from the real estate agents themselves and they are there to handle the office activities from a day to day perspective. The office manager usually wears many hats in the office.

Chicago real estate jobs can be obtained by calling your local real estate agency and ask for the office manager or managing broker of the office.

17Jun/09Off

Hiring Real Estate Agents

OwnACondo.com is hiring real estate agents to help with its expansion nationally.  The OwnACondo.com website is optimized for a number of keyword phrases causing leads to come in from cities all over the United States.  If you’re a real estate agent that would like to receive leads from OwnACondo.com and you are outside the Chicago market please call us at 877.627.5543 for more information.

OwnACondo.com is also looking to hire real estate agents for the Chicago market.  Currently OwnACondo.com has more than 90 Realtors and is looking to hire approx. another one hundred in the next six months to handle its expansion in the city of Chicago as well.  OwnACondo.com is looking to hire part-time realtors and full-time realtors.

OwnACondo.com is a full service real estate company focusing in on condos only.  The real estate agents that work for OwnACondo.com are the best in the business when it comes to selling condos.  They are trained daily about how to sell condos, but there is a natural evolution that basically makes every OwnACondo.com Realtor the best at what they do because that is all they do.  Everyday our OwnACondo.com Realtors are getting leads that come in from the OwnACondo.com website.  These leads are dispatched to our real estate agents and they begin the process of finding our clients condominiums to own.  All of our clients are looking for condominiums.  Over time, it’s just natural that all our agents know the market better than any other Realtor out there.

When you specialize, you become very good at what you do.  Think about it from the flip side.  Imagine that you are selling a condo and you’re looking for the right real estate agent to list your condominium with.  Wouldn’t you want to list it with a real estate agent that does nothing but sell condos?  And everyday they come back to an office of a hundred real estate agents that do nothing but sell condos?  And these agents are trained every single day about the condominium product they’re representing in that specific town?

That’s what separates an OwnACondo.com real estate agent from the pack.  We are the best place to buy and sell condos because of the Realtor we have.  And now we need more!  If you are thinking of a possible real estate a career with OwnACondo.com please call us at 877.627.5543 to discuss all the possibilities of becoming the next OwnACondo.com Realtor.

24May/09Off

Chicago real estate agent jobs

OwnACondo.com has Chicago real estate agent jobs for full and part-time Realtors. OwnACondo.com corporate is located in Oak Brook, Illinois.  Here they brand their company with billboards and other marketing avenues creating thousands of leads that they dispatch to their Realtor team.  Today OwnACondo.com has almost one hundred licensed real estate agents on their team.  As the leads come in, they look to give the lead to a Realtor that wants to field that particular area. Leads come in everyday from everywhere in the Chicago area.  With billboards and internet marketing, literally leads come in from as far south as Kankakee to the Wisconsin-Illinois border line.

OwnACondo.com is also looking to fill real estate agent jobs not only in Chicago, but New York, Miami and Los Angeles as well.  We especially need brokers and agents that can handle the leads that coming in from our internet marketing even before we have physical offices in the area. OwnACondo.com has optimized its website so when a particular keyword phrase is typed into a Google Search, OwnACondo.com ranks high n the first page of that phrase.  As a test, type in the following phrases in a google search bar to see what I’m talking about.  Please type in “buy a condo”, “finance a condo” “Chicago condos”, “rent to own condos” and “find a condo”. In almost every example, OwnACondo.com will appear on the first or second page of the results out of millions of results.  Ultimately, this brings a number of clients and leads to the OwnACondo.com website.

All of this creates the need to fill real estate agent jobs all over the United States.  Today we’re getting leads from mainly four cities.  Soon we’ll receiving condo inquiries from every city in America.  If you’re interested in finding out how to become an OwnACondo.com agent, you can email Brian at BK@OwnACondo.com or call 877.627.5543 and we’ll give you all the information you’ll need about a career with OwnACondo.com.

If you are a part-time Realtor, OwnACondo.com has a real estate agent job position to be filled as well.  There are a number of leads that can be handled in the evenings and the weekends.  Training classes can be taken via internet so you can integrate it with your busy full-time job.  Please call for information about either a part-time job or a full-time position for a real estate agent here in the Chicago area.