140: The Realtor Starter Pack

This episode is a fun one because we’re talking about what would actually come in a Realtor Starter Pack 😂

Not the glamorous HGTV version of real estate. The real version. The “my car is basically a mobile office and I haven’t eaten a real meal since 11AM” version.

We’re chatting about all the random things agents eventually realize they can’t live without. The tech that saves us daily, the snacks permanently living in the center console, backup chargers because our phones somehow die by lunchtime, and the ready-to-go documents we keep on hand because chaos is always one text message away.

We’re also talking about the systems and little habits that make this business run smoother. Things like having listing packets ready, extra sign riders floating around your trunk, emergency stain remover pens, open house bins, and all the “I didn’t know I’d need this until I REALLY needed it” moments that come with real estate life.

Basically, if you’ve ever wondered what Realtors actually carry around to keep the wheels on this business… this episode is it 😂

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

For starter bang.

SPEAKER_03 0:02

It'll be I'm excited to see where we go with this because there's it'll be fun. There's I think it's I think it's good to throw in a funzy one every once in a while. I am a podcast binger. Like if I it's like it's like a Netflix series. If I find a podcast that I really like, like I will start scrolling down to episode like six of 320. Oh, it's terrible. It's awful. And I'll just listen and listen and listen and listen. And I love it. And some what some of them are like really hard and really heavy. And you're like, wow, that like I need a break. I need to go get like a soda or something and just like take the edge off after that. Yeah, after that episode. And uh sometimes I have to say that there are like these, like this one's gonna be a funsie one, and there are ones that I'm like, mm, I'm feeling a little more tactical than that today, and I won't listen to that one, right? Because I'm trying to do something else. But I do love, I do love a funsie one. There was one that I just listened to on Hustle Humbly, which if you listen to us, you should probably also listen to Hustle Humbly.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Um Yeah, they did just do a function of one that was kind of funny, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:06

So I appreciate that. I like that. So today we are talking about the realtor starter pack. Our version.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

This is I feel like this is like if if they made like realtor Barbies. What would what comes in, or like American Girl Realtor? Yeah, well, if you were in that starter pack, and then you can add on the different accessories.

SPEAKER_03 1:28

Was it over like Christmas that the AI like Barbie realtor box was such a big thing?

SPEAKER_01 1:34

Yeah. I fell into the trap for the one for the Christmas because everyone was doing the like um with the giant lollipop. Yeah, and the white sequined outfits, and I was like, that is so not my vibe. And so, and it's funny because it I asked it for like a cute little black dress and the dress it designed I actually own in my class. I'm like, I own that exact dress. So nailed it. Nice. I do like that. I put Roxanne in mine because I was not going down without she had like a little gold chain. It was good. But yes, this is what I feel like. If you bought like the American Girl Realtor version starter pack, here's what a realtor comes with or eventually ends up with. Um I currently have two of the same things sitting on my desk, so I can confirm this is valid. Um, and then some of these are probably like add-ons, like you'd have to buy additionals.

SPEAKER_03 2:24

Yeah, I think the American Girl doll is such a it's or the like my life dolls at Target. You know, you can go get the the hair salon ones or the horse riding ones, and they have like a whole accessory pack. So I mean I love that visual. Let's yes, let's do the rest of the stuff.

SPEAKER_01 2:38

That's what I feel like this is starter back. Okay. So the first one the giant water bottle. Is it a Stanley? Is it a Yeti? Is it one of those gallon jugs that tells you how much you have to have finished by a certain time of the day? Um it usually also comes with like a half finished coffee that sometimes is also in a Stanley.

SPEAKER_03 3:02

Also in a Stanley. That's the important part. Yeah. Um I have this. I have multiple pictures. I'll have to share one that like I'm holding because I mean, you know, I love my Dunkins, so I have my Dunkin' refresher, I have a coffee, I have my water bottle, and sometimes if I'm feeling real healthy, I'll have like a protein shake, right? So that's four drinks. And I've got like my bag and everything, and I'm just like loaded up with hydration. There's nothing, there's two things that I hate in this world being cold and being thirsty.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

Yes, or like feeling like my lips are dry.

SPEAKER_03 3:33

Oh, that too. That's I can't. Those are top three.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

I have lip balm everywhere. Like seven comes from my car, in my purse, in my desk, like everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 3:43

But no, Stanley Cups for sure. One of my clients actually they've we toured enough houses and they saw enough versions of my water bottles that they caught me a Stanley when we closed.

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Is it your first Stanley, like name brand Stanley?

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Um, no, I have another Stanley. Um, but I like the brewmates right now because I can turn the straw off. And I gotta tell you, yeah, I just love being able to throw it in the seat or like I don't have to worry about if I put it in my bag, it doesn't leak in my bag. But I love a Stanley. Um Travis is a big Stanley. We have Yeti's and Stanley. Um, actually, his is Yeti, but I like being able to turn the straw off. So I'm on a broommate kick right now. Um, I actually asked about that in one of in a poll on one of my Facebook stories the other day, and it was almost completely 50-50 as far as people preferring uh Stanley herb roommate.

SPEAKER_01 4:36

So I was like, that's just I need I need another tumbler, like I need a hole in my head, so I'm not gonna go buy a brewmate. So I can't, but I definitely I used to love my Yetis, and I still have them, but they were slow to the draw on the handle, and then when they did come out with a handle, it was tiny. Yes, and they I've heard they've since improved, it's gotten bigger, but that was what drew me. I liked the handle. I was like, because I can't like yes, I can physically hold it like this, but when I'm like loaded down like a pack mule, that handle is clutch.

SPEAKER_03 5:11

I still have my Yetis because they perfectly hold a large Dunkin' cup.

SPEAKER_01 5:17

So it keeps them. Yeah, that's a good um, they also perfectly hold a bottle of champagne in case anyone.

SPEAKER_03 5:25

But these are these are our emotional support systems. Like if I don't have my water bottle, it's like a kid walking around with their favorite toy or blanket. Like, if I don't have my water bottle, I'm having a bad day.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Yeah. I drink water like I live in a desert. You would I probably drink four or five of these a day and then a couple seltzers. And when I say seltzer, they're not alcoholic, it's just the bubbly water with the flavoring.

SPEAKER_03 5:45

I a thousand percent am on board. Travis was so sick last week and he's like, I just don't know what I was like, have you what have you drank for fluid aside from a Red Bull and a coffee? And so then he's like, Oh yeah, I gotta drink some water. But he'll he'll like drink a bottle of water and be like, I had a bottle of water today. And I'm like, That's how my bottle of water and I know she's listening, so I'm gonna call her out.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

My mom drinks no water.

SPEAKER_03 6:06

My dad's saying she's like, I don't like the way water tastes, and I'm like My dad is convinced that water gives him heartburn. And I said, That's just because your body has you don't drink enough of it. So your body has no idea what it is and what to do.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Your body's like, whoa. It's like, well, it's like when you have super chapped lips and you finally put like as I hold my emotional support lip balm and you finally put lip balm on and it burns because it's like, oh, okay, hold up. Okay, but let's move on for a good one. You could talk about water all day. What flavor do we put in it? Do you drink your electrolytes? Blah blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_01 6:39

Okay, so the next one, and I know we both have this, is the car office. Oh, it's terrible. So you I don't have full signs in there usually, but I have pieces for my posts, lock boxes, uh, business cards. Um, I definitely have like little the rubber duckies for Jeeps, so like pop buys. Um, I know you always have snacks for the girls. I'm not always as good about the snacks.

SPEAKER_03 7:04

We did an episode a while back about like the car kits and stuff like that. And one thing I have um my Yukon, there's a part in the back that like lifts up, and it's not very deep. It's probably like four or five inches deep, but I've got my um like sledgehammer in there for signs. I've got a whole tool kit in there. I've got my um gimbal in there, I've got an umbrella, I have an extra pair of shoe. Oh yeah, then I don't have to remember bringing it in the car. Um, I actually have a stand-up um like one of the stand phone like a tripod. Tripod, thank you. Yeah, that one of the one of those in there. I do have a bag of snacks, just random snacks. It's got trail mix, it's got rice krispies, it's got uh like granola bars, it's got a bag of chips, just to keep the kids occupied if if need be. Um right now it actually has less stuff in it, real estate wise, than it normally does, because I have a whole box that I put in there that has light bulbs, right? Got my light bulbs in there. We've got extra batteries, we've got zip ties, like all of that crap is in that box. But right now I don't have room for softball gear and the box.

SPEAKER_01 8:18

So the boxes one in and one out. Yep. Yeah, I have a trunk organizer that has all that stuff in it.

SPEAKER_03 8:24

Yep. It's crazy. But it's so important though. Um, and I used to have printed documents, and I mentioned this on an episode recently. I don't have the new I have documents, but I don't think they're the right ones, if we're being honest.

SPEAKER_01 8:41

I stopped carrying printed ones because like I'm not a pop tart agent. I don't so I have not found the need for them. And like, usually, even if it were to write a contract, I'm finding Wi-Fi somewhere to get it done. Like I'm not it's not my first couple of years. Maybe like a working with real estate agents, but the likelihood of needing that on the spot is just I feel like slim to none these days.

SPEAKER_03 9:08

Absolutely. So I use them a lot. I wrote my first offer on the back of my car, right? So I if I hadn't had those printed, that would be a big thing. Um, I used to go to listing appointments with the listing documents, um, and I don't really do that anymore either.

SPEAKER_01 9:21

So I don't have a lot of I don't have a lot of well and where you are, there's a better greater chance of you not having signal.

SPEAKER_03 9:28

Except my car is gonna submit some hotspot.

SPEAKER_01 9:31

True. But how are you gonna submit a handwritten contract anyway if you don't have signal? Right. You're gonna leave it on the seller's kitchen counter.

SPEAKER_03 9:42

Well, and then you have to scan it. And I have the scanner app on my phone and stuff like that, but sometimes it's like grainy. Sometimes you know when you open like the property disclosures, right.

SPEAKER_01 9:51

If it's like 2020 multiple, you have multiple offer scenario and you have five minutes, then yeah, we're going old school to get this thing in. And then we'll be like, listen, once you accept it, we'll clean it up and do a clean version.

SPEAKER_03 10:03

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

But I'm just not seeing that right now.

SPEAKER_03 10:06

Well, say, and you scan it, and sometimes when you open like the documents on like the MLS, like the property disclosures, and they're just like massive JPEG files, right? Because it's a it's a weird, it just shows up weird. It prints weird, it shows up weird. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 10:19

I just I just yeah, there's a listing I'm thinking of at a certain firm that I was like that that this is what you uploaded. Okay. Um, okay. So this one is not me. This next one is not in my starter kit.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

It's not mine either.

SPEAKER_01 10:38

Never it used to be.

SPEAKER_03 10:41

Well, no, so but I don't have it in like my car, like ready to rock and roll.

SPEAKER_01 10:45

True, but you do probably have an emergency blazer somewhere that like if you were already in jeans and a t-shirt, I could see you throwing it on to run out the door for a showing.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

Oh well, heck, I have like six of those just hanging in the closet. Like, I could use why. I do, I do, and I think I don't know, I love a blazer with a t-shirt and some jeans. I just think it's so cute. Um, but I don't I don't have a backup outfit in my car. Like if I was in jeans and like a hoodie with my kids somewhere, and again, this goes back to I let my buyers know, like, I'm not scheduling showings within 24 hours. So like they're not gonna call me and be like, hey, can you meet me in 30 minutes? Because the answer is no, right? Um, so I don't have anything like that. I do have a pair of, like I said, in that little cubby, I have extra shoes. Um, and it's either they're either like regular shoes or I'll swap them out for boots. Like if I'm doing more like land showings, there's boots in there.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

Or like I definitely have lint rollers. I probably have four of them in my car right now.

SPEAKER_03 11:44

Mine's probably I probably don't because it's probably gone.

unknown 11:48

Right?

SPEAKER_03 11:49

I just took one out.

SPEAKER_01 11:50

I went out to get Tylenol out of my car earlier and grabbed one because the sweatshirt had dog hair on it. But um yeah, there's probably and actually there isn't one in my house because I keep dragging them all out to the car, forgetting I have one in there.

SPEAKER_03 12:02

The easiest thing though, like I have a hat, like a realtor hat. It's like one of the have you seen the trending, like it's the word is like upside down and backwards. Yes. So I have a hat that has like realtor on it. Like, so if you're having a bad hair day, like you can throw that on.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

Some like it's funny you say that because I was gonna say my emergency blazer is definitely an emergency baseball hat because oh, I haven't washed my hair today and you want me to come out. All right. Baseball hat, jeans, cute shirt, yeah, and makeup on so I look put to neither. We're out. Like let's go.

SPEAKER_03 12:30

Yep. Fun bag, fun accessories. Oh my god, I just bought the cutest bag. I can't wait for it to get here. Um, my computer bag, the strap, like the arm strap, officially broke. So that sucks. I needed a new bag.

SPEAKER_01 12:42

Uh yeah. So speaking of bags, speaking of bags, yours sounds like it's more like the tech cubby in your car, but the tech bag or the tech in general. I feel like all of us have a portable charger if or a bat like one of those battery banks. Yes. Um the one I have the magnetic ones that are just it'll be the baby ones when I need a little boost. Um, but I also have the big mama that Taylor gave me um that sits in my purse. It it goes everywhere with me just in case. Because it has it has the extensions for like eight different things, so it's not just for me.

SPEAKER_03 13:19

I have one that I it's not the size of a brick, but it feels like it should be the size of a brick. Um and it it it powers my heated chair for softball as well. So like it's it's got some pretty hefty juice to it. I have a Milwaukee battery charger plugged into the backseat of my car always. Um because that also will heat my heat, like use my heated jacket. I have like the sleeve that will go over the Milwaukee battery that will put like charge my phone or like any of those things. Um, I have a power tool kit in my in the back of my car that's a that's a drill, uh, it's a multi-tool that uses full-size drill kit? Oh, yes.

SPEAKER_01 14:04

Girl, what are you doing at your listing?

SPEAKER_03 14:07

You never know what I want, I never need it. My husband bought it for me for Mother's Day last year. It was actually for the Airbnb because we were doing stuff at the Airbnb. And he's like, you can use this for your real estate. And I said the same thing. I said, I can count on zero fingers the number of times that I've needed an electric drill. Maybe a screwdriver here or there, but like well, and say it's got the drill bits, it's got it's got everything in there. And I have used it. I have used it a few times, but that's why I always have a battery. It's already, it's always plugged in the back of my car, it's always charged, and I have a backup battery, so if I take the charged one out, I put the other one in. Of course you do.

SPEAKER_01 14:47

See, and this just shows like we're so similar but so different because like even my battery in my house for my drill in my house, like every time Eric comes over to do something, he's like, make sure you charge the batteries. I'm like, oh man, I should do that. Because he'd get I never use it, I mean maybe three times a year. And he'd get here and be like, I told you we were going to use your tools today, so I'd have to bring it. I was like, Oh yeah, I forgot about that part.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

Let me let me plug that in. Yeah, so I just keep it plugged in. That so my tech is like, I mean, it's not like what I guess you would assume for tech. Like I know that right now there's a lot of agents that I know that have just gotten like the remarkable tablet, the new one that's just come out. I've never been like gotten on board with a tablet. I try to write on a iPad.

SPEAKER_01 15:37

I just yeah, you and I tried it like the same time when we first met. And we even got like the screen protector that felt like paper. Yep. And I was like, I still don't like this. I need I literally carry purple notepads everywhere. Mm-hmm. I it's just I have to and then file folders.

SPEAKER_03 15:55

Um but other than that, the tech is literally it's it's tripod, my laptop, oh yeah, my laptop. Portable charger, the like things like that, like headphones, um, noise canceling headphones, so if I'm working somewhere, but that's that's really the tech stack in my in my car.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

That's about mine too. Like this had ring light on the list, and I'm like, I mean, I'm sure I guess if I were purposely going to film content, I'm going to have ring light, but it's not and I think what we're forgetting is we're not keeping this in our car. I do have a ring light. I haven't used it in probably two years. But if I were getting back into more like talking head content from my office, sure, then yes, but I feel like a ring light is definitely in the realtor starter pack. Um yeah, I have the tripod, I have the portable chargers, a ring light, um, I do have a drawer full of like cords and adapters because you need to.

SPEAKER_03 16:52

Absolutely, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:53

And you never can remember they all look the same but different. I'm like, which one goes to what? I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 16:59

Um so maybe our starter pack American Girl Barbie doll or whatever won't have like a Milwaukee toolkit, but definitely, definitely a battery pack and a laptop.

SPEAKER_01 17:09

Yeah, and probably either a gimbal or a tripod. You've got one or the other. Yeah. Um, probably I would say the gimbal's the upgrade because if the tripod is cheaper and you can get the spinny thing for the top to follow you. So um, okay, here's the personality starter pack, and I pulled this one on you last night and I realized it as soon as I said it. I was like, shit. So we were talking about um topics for today, and Brennan did not want to talk about this one topic either, and I was like very passionate about it. And very passionate. I was like, because I wall, I was fired up and rightfully. So there, there, you guys are gonna hear about this at some point, but um just remember fair housing is it you're gonna get in big trouble, you don't follow it, and racism is bad. But anyway, the I'll circle back personality. That's where we take like those corporate phrases that realtors tend to overuse. And I pulled it on you last night. I said, okay, we'll just table this for now.

SPEAKER_03 18:07

We'll table this for now. Yeah. We'll table this. It's a good one. I mean, it's a good one, right? It is, but a lot of the ones like you hear is like won't last long, or location, location, location, or you know, those ones that you read on the the MLS.

SPEAKER_01 18:24

My favorite is the highest and best, but then it fell through and they forgot to take the highest and best out of the description.

SPEAKER_03 18:31

Well, and we've talked about that too. Check your like which Monday, sure, right?

SPEAKER_01 18:35

Which Monday in the last six months was highest and best.

SPEAKER_03 18:38

Oh god, that's terrible. Um do we actually work at coffee shops? Like, I know I do, but when I saw this, like, why do real estate agents just love to pretend to work in public? Like, I do actually work in public, but I also do know that there's some people that like I know and love that go to a coffee shop and like will just scroll Facebook and enjoy their coffee, as they should. Sometimes you just need a minute, right? Yeah, absolutely. Enjoy their coffee.

SPEAKER_01 19:06

I gotta go because like right now, I don't know if you guys can hear if it the mic is picking it up, but since it's 10 o'clock right now, almost. Since quarter to seven this morning, all I've heard is, and I literally I had to go get Tylenol. When you were like, I'll be a couple months late, I ran out to grab Tylenol out of the car, is the beeping of construction trucks, them dropping construction debris from five stories up into a metal dumpster, literally shaking my house, or it's the dog wants in and out, the cat wants and I'm like I'm out. I walk out with a list, these are the four things I need to accomplish before I'm allowed to come home because I have to walk away. Um, I will probably do that at some point today. Um today.

SPEAKER_03 19:55

I love I love doing that. I really do, and it's just it works really well. But I do know that there's and they'll just snap a little pic of their computer screen on the MLS or something really good with their and be like working outside the office today.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

Yep. Or like I posted one yesterday, it wasn't from a coffee shop, it was from my couch last night. And it was a little quick little video where I had Mabel on one side and George on the other, and I was like, my co-workers are freaking lazy. But yeah, we we like to do that. I think it also like also like every social media coach tells you post the behind the scenes, post what you're doing.

SPEAKER_03 20:30

Listen, sometimes you don't want to see the behind the scenes. Let's just be so so real.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

Right, because right now, if you saw from like here down behind the scenes, I'm still in pajama pants. Like, because that's just how today's going.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

It just happens, it just happens, but I mean, just know that some of the behind the scenes that we share as clients, like we know that you know that some of that is curated. You know what I mean? Like it's the choice behind the scenes clips.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Well, it's just like um sorry, Rexanne just deleted a whole bunch of this list on my end. Um it's just like people curating their family photos. Like, I know your fall photos were beautiful, but I can guarantee there was also some type of family meltdown behind the scenes during, before, or after. And the this is the cutting board. So this is usually how that happens. Yeah, if my working from a coffee shop feels too curated, like just I'll remind you when your when your Christmas card comes out.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Oh, let's talk social media. Where what are we known and loved for in social media world?

SPEAKER_01 21:40

So, and I this is not a dig at the company. This is No, we both use them. Yeah, we love them. We love them, love them. Right. But it's when people say contracts, just another Tuesday. It's or they have the shirt like uh right in deals and high heels. Sorry, Patricia. Does that hurt you? I love you. Um I'm just like okay. Alright. Or like like they have the ones that like say like, um, oh, like coffee something contracts. Like they get it.

SPEAKER_03 22:27

Like the live, laugh, love or peace, love in real estate.

SPEAKER_01 22:30

Yeah, but then they put it on their social media, like, oh, just another day. Or my favorite is there's two people who do it locally, um, and they probably don't listen to this, but every time they take their car to the car wash, oh, you know, life of a realtor, life of a lender, gotta have a clean car. I started mocking them once. I was like, oh, look, my once every six months car wash.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

Oh, I wash my car more often than that. But I take it. I do too.

SPEAKER_01 22:54

Well, I don't right now because we're in a drought. My car is I haven't been.

SPEAKER_03 22:57

Yeah, I haven't been.

SPEAKER_01 22:58

Because I was like, okay, I will not do my every week, every other week run through.

SPEAKER_03 23:04

And it shows. But I need to. Yeah, it's not gonna lie.

SPEAKER_01 23:07

Even my clients commented out, they're like, Liz, like, we know you love your cars. Like, we're in a drought. I'm trying to be a good participant.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

Right, right.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

We don't have not washing my car.

SPEAKER_03 23:16

Um, the other thing that real estate agents have for social media is we all have like a Canva Pro account. Yes. And we know you spend way too much time changing the colors and the fonts and playing with that like heart-shaped key lock that is gonna be just perfect for your next background.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

Uh, if you're really good at Canva, no one will know you're using Canva. Right. That's my like obviously there's sometimes where I need to, like, for a for sale template or something. Like, obviously, but you guys would be amazed at how often Brennan and I use Canva, and you probably don't realize we're using Canva.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

And Canva, my goodness. In the last year, like they have added a tech stack of their own inside that platform. So if you don't use Canva or don't play around with their new features, like I suggest you go take a look because it's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_01 24:07

My this is mine is the overuse or the lack of editing with Chat GPT. Now, don't get me wrong, there are times where I'm exhausted and I'm like, I'm like, I've just gotta get this up. It's gotta go post it. Fully admit. But when every post there's an agent I'm thinking of specifically, my head is pounding today. Um, every post is obvious.

SPEAKER_03 24:35

Did I tell you this was this a couple weeks ago? Uh I might have sent you a picture of it. I don't know. I was in the MLS trying to schedule showings and the literal, like the listing description. You know, when you talk to Chat GPT and it gives you, it spits out this information. And at the end, it's like, if you would like me to shorten this into a Facebook reel or whatever, like if you would like a punchier, like, oh my god, whatever it said at the end, like was Chat GPT being like, I can change this for you if you'd like. If you don't like it, let me know. And they didn't cut it out, it was in the listing description, and I and y'all cackled.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

One, check it for that, but I asked it to help me with what like I I'll I'll admit, I use it for help. But then I rephrase or like redo it in my my language and or my style. I asked it, and it said, oh, for my listing the other day, it said, Oh, this great house that sits on a cul-de-sac. I was like, this house doesn't sit on a cul-de-sac. Right. So, like, don't only check it for that, oh, would you like me to make sure it's accurate? Like, everyone thinks AI is this holy grail, and I'm like, you have no idea how many inaccuracies in so much of it that there is these days.

SPEAKER_03 25:44

Like Well, it's getting so big so fast, but people are forgetting how to communicate for themselves. Yeah, you know, they're like, Oh, I need to draft this email. Oh, I need you to reword this text that you know I butchered the first time, and it's just we're we're forgetting how to communicate as individuals because I'll get emails and I'm like, you don't sound like that.

SPEAKER_01 26:07

Do you know I mean I've been accused even like before I started using it, and but it was a thing. People were like, use Chat GPT to draft this. And I was like, no, I have a legal background, but thanks.

SPEAKER_03 26:17

Yeah, well, say, and I was like, that's actually how I sound. I'm a very wordy person. My husband the other day, I read him something, and he's like, Well, that was long-winded, but it was good.

SPEAKER_01 26:29

Right. I'm just like, no, that's actually how I write, but cool.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Yeah, yeah. So it it bothered because I'll read it. I'm like, oh, she didn't read that, or didn't write that.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

And I mean it's fine, but or like even I'll admit we use Chat GPT a lot to come up with the ideas and the outlines for this to keep us organized, but it's my idea. I tell it what we want do and don't want to talk about.

SPEAKER_03 26:53

It formats it.

SPEAKER_01 26:54

And it formats it for me, and then I come in and I play with it and go, okay, take that out, add this. Like one of these things that wasn't on this list when it punched things out. The local expert. Everybody is the mayor of their town.

SPEAKER_03 27:07

Because it's a I mean, and it worked.

SPEAKER_01 27:10

I'm not right.

SPEAKER_03 27:11

Yeah, it's a tool, it's a it's supposed to be something that helps you do something, right? But it it's not to take over. And I think that right now we see a lot of it taking over. And somebody, I forget who said it. Actually, it might have been I don't remember. Somebody in a class recently said that they predict, like, in the next five years, that like face-to-face and like genuine interaction is gonna be trending again, you know what I mean? Because there's so much that we have to question. Like, is that them recording a video or is that an AI dupe?

SPEAKER_01 27:46

Well, and it already is. They're saying, like, the next gen, whatever's after us, is dropping dating apps. Dating apps are dying because people are crippling in person. And I've used them like twice and I can't stand them. So I get it. But let's finish our list.

SPEAKER_03 28:04

I know we're getting off on a T. See, this is what happens when we try to do a funsie episode because it's not so tactical step by step. We get off in the weeds.

SPEAKER_01 28:12

So that's okay. Let's finish social, let's do hot, like fight rapid fire of social media. Okay. Filming, reels, and empty listings.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

Don't hate. It works really well. Okay. Agree.

SPEAKER_01 28:26

I'm not hating. I'm just saying it's in your starter pack. Yes, um day in the life content. Right. Or the fake typing videos. Like, oh, look at me, I'm writing a contract. Normally I actually am, but okay. Or the local expert. Breta's been hitting this one hard lately. What it would be like if you lived in Hickory this week. I'm like I mean, I love it. You're doing a great job. But I'm like, Bretta lives in Hickory.

SPEAKER_03 28:53

It's not, it's a it's yes. It is in our starter pack. You're right. You're right.

SPEAKER_01 29:00

So, and I think like the the upgrade is like the the boss level is at what follower count do we start filming ourselves walking into a house in slow motion? I think that's the social media upgrade. Like that's not starter pack level. That's you gotta pay extra credit for bonus that one.

SPEAKER_03 29:22

Yeah, absolutely. Oh god. Um do we want to do that. Networking?

SPEAKER_01 29:27

The networking event circuit? I get wrapped into this one. We got wrapped in this one for a little while. For a little while. Yeah, and then I then we both realized this one, they probably aren't the rooms we want to be in. No. And two, um, we were spending so much time there learning and not doing.

SPEAKER_03 29:48

Do you remember that ADU class that we went to that we were so excited about? Oh, yeah. And literally didn't learn anything.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

We we barely waited for it to end. Well, one, it started super late because the person was like literally an hour late and no one could cover for them. That that should have been our sign. And then it was like not, it was it gave you no valid information. It was all about well how to do it.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

I could have YouTubed it or googled it and had the same amount of information in 30 seconds. So here's the thing when you're new, these rooms are great, right? Like I spent a lot of time, I didn't know anybody or anything about nothing, right? So you can meet your uh your vendors, your home inspectors, your lender partners, like you can meet all these people because they're always supporting and sponsoring these events. But just know that if you are sitting in a class and taking notes about something that you are not going to go implement when you get home, you are wasting your time.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

And that's I mean, that could even be a webinar. Honestly, that could be listening to us. If we're talking about, I don't know, a social media episode and you freaking hate social media, yep. Skip to the next. I mean, well, maybe like double speed it so we get credit for you listening. But why are you wasting it? Just leave it in the background.

SPEAKER_03 31:04

Well, and say, like this one, this one's kind of a silly, this is kind of a silly episode, but we hope you love it. Right.

SPEAKER_01 31:09

But maybe this is you're driving kids to softball and you forgot to plug in the jacket heater and you know you're gonna freeze for the next four hours. So you want something light to listen to so you're not miserable on the way there, too.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

I think the other thing that we do a lot is like you'll see the, hey, my Instagram is A B C Realty XYZ1234. Follow me and drop yours, and I'll follow you too. First of all, we are not trying to pick up followers that are real estate agents.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

That's just French one giant circle jerk.

SPEAKER_03 31:38

Well, and it's gonna be so confusing for the algorithm.

SPEAKER_01 31:42

Oh, your algorithm trying to speak.

SPEAKER_03 31:44

Now, if your thing is agent attraction or or referrals from but if you're looking for referrals, you're not getting those from Instagram or following people on Instagram that are within 10 miles of you, that's not gonna help either.

SPEAKER_01 32:01

So Right Right. Okay. So here's a few things in our starter pack, only realtors will understand the brain rot. You're instantly judging someone's landscaping. Don't come to my house, it's bad right now. Um, mine is after every house I walk through where the floors are rolling, I spend the next six months thinking my house is rolling. So literally, I just always think that my my house has foundation. I've literally had three foundation companies cannot check it out. So I'm like, uh, and they're like, you're fine.

SPEAKER_03 32:33

And I'm like, oh we all know that mine are light bulbs. Like I'm like, does that not match why I haven't because we listed last year, I didn't it it's a whole thing.

SPEAKER_01 32:45

My fault. She has a light bulb out in a stairwell that she can't get to, and it came up in feedback, and I was like, what is this? And she's like, Oh yeah, I can't I can't reach it. And I'm like, gotta get someone up there to change a light ball. I was like, Brenda would kill me.

SPEAKER_03 33:01

But it's these things that you just like constantly think about that you don't even realize you're thinking about when you like walk through a property and you're looking, you're like, oh wow, they're missing a piece of trim, or oh wow, they didn't cock around the sink in the bathroom, or oh wow, that like normal people don't see you guys.

SPEAKER_01 33:15

Or you're like, you're at a cocktail party and you're like, this floor plan does not work for this. I don't know if they really love entertaining. Why did they buy this out?

SPEAKER_00 33:25

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 33:26

I could find you a better one. Or like you're always thinking or talking about interest rates.

SPEAKER_03 33:35

Like um, I have my kids on a kid now as we're driving. The like I'm always looking for because I love for sale by owners. So now my kids will be like, Mom, mom, for sale. That's the for sale sign, right? Right there. Um, so I I do appreciate that. Sometimes it is the house, sometimes it is like the car or the camper or something like that. But they're like, for sale by owner, you see it, there it is.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Right? Well, see, and that you could incentivize that. You get five bucks every time you see one that's actually a house, and when I close it, I'm gonna put money in your college fund.

SPEAKER_03 34:08

I love that, and that's I mean, that's easy.

SPEAKER_01 34:10

That's and or like find a way to do that like payroll tax trick, whatever it is, like to you're paying your kids. Make it incentivize that anyway. You're showing time addiction. We all have this problem. Oh my god, my listing's been on the market 24 hours. I don't, my clients do, and then I'm like, am I not doing enough? Um, but like when no one books fast. I've we listed it Sunday night because of the way things fell. And I had a showing by two by Monday scheduled for Thursday. And my client was still like, we only have one showing, it's not too. And I was like, girl, we hit the market eight o'clock Sunday night. And it wasn't my it was to get her under contract and her purchase. We had agreed within 24 hours we'll be we'll be in MLS. So it is what it is. I was like, we've had three showings in the first week. That's good. It is like um, or you panic when too many people book because you're like, oh crap, did I underprice this? What why is this suddenly so or obsessively some people obsessively check for feedback? I do like. I am kind of right now because I need this listing to go under contract. Yeah. So I'm like, okay, what tell me if we're not writing an offer, can you please? Because I need to figure out where to pivot.

SPEAKER_03 35:29

Um have you ever had a lockbox like not work for you?

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Uh why do you think I carry bolt cutters?

SPEAKER_03 35:37

Bolt cutters.

SPEAKER_01 35:39

You ever had a super shit the bed? No. There's no way. I literally I had and this is I always have two lock boxes on my listings now. I had a supra on there. Couldn't get into it. Thankfully, I always keep a sp well now that I do the spare lockbox, I don't keep a spare key as much. But um I had a spare key, so I ran over, let them in, and was like, and threw a regular lock box down. But to get the supra off, we either had to disassemble the whole doorknob, or I ran to Lowe's and got bolt cutters. And those things are not easy to cut through.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

But that's bolt cutters aren't cheap either. Um, it's so funny. I always that's like my worst part. I always try to get to the houses a few minutes before I tell my clients that we're going, right? So I can get into the house. Turn the lights on, all that those things. But when we're seeing multiple houses, it's inevitable that they're gonna be standing behind me while I'm fumbling trying to get this lockbox open.

SPEAKER_01 36:34

Or not even the lockdown. There's only been a few times. The key won't like the lock is just it's not even the lock.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

They have 23 keys on the key ring, and like it's just dealer's choice, pick one, see what fits.

SPEAKER_01 36:47

Or we I I went to a listing a couple weeks ago, it had two lock boxes on it, and the instructions said go to the side door, and they were two side doors, and they both had a lockbox, and I was like, Okay.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

Some agents just really enjoy messing with people, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 37:06

But there's been one that it had expired with a previous agent and they never came to get the box.

SPEAKER_03 37:12

Never take took the box off. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah. There's been a couple recently, and showing time does glitch sometimes, but there has been some recently that they've just put the house on the market and never put the code in into showing time, right? So, but there's a setting in showing time that like normally I'll go in and check ahead of time or I'll print my showing time map and it'll generate the codes and everything like that on the printed out sheet.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

I screenshot.

SPEAKER_03 37:35

Yep, there's settings in there that it won't activate, like you won't get that code until closer to your time, right?

SPEAKER_02 37:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:42

So I don't even know that there's no code until I get there, and I'm like, bro, there's no code. And guess what? The other thing real estate agents don't do is they don't answer their phone.

SPEAKER_01 37:51

Yeah. So I'm like, Or like they don't, if there's a security system, I I hate that you have to go to a second screen to find that, but it's also like some people don't put that in, and then you've got an alarm going off, and you're like, great, thanks. This is exciting. Or those keypads that are like the motion censored ones, I they will not read my hand. I can never get that. And I'm always I always professional. No, I have dry skin. I'm a I joke at my clients, I'm like, I know I'm a professional door opener. Can I borrow your finger for a second?

SPEAKER_03 38:24

Right, can you just touch this for me?

SPEAKER_01 38:26

Yeah, I can't get them. Cannot get them. That's hilarious. All right, so if we were buying the advanced realtor pack, the booster pack for a realtor. And then we're gonna close this one out because for fun we we went on a long ride here. Um the the advanced pack.

SPEAKER_03 38:45

Okay, wait, I want let's go through the list, but then tell me if you would get it or not. Let's let's just do that real quick.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

Okay, I wanna so the first one, hold on, I'm gonna add something to it and hit save real quick so you can see it on your end. Okay. Because this is one that annoys me recently. Great. I can't stand it. Can't I say I'll go through so the second phone or the Google call scanner.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

Won't do it.

SPEAKER_01 39:24

I don't have a second phone, but my phone runs two phone numbers. Because when I first started, no one down here would answer a New York phone number. Yeah. So I had to run two phone numbers. But it's they both come into here. One phone, but it's great. Um a transaction coordinator.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

Everybody should have one of those.

SPEAKER_01 39:45

Everyone should have one. Yes. Everyone who's done at least a couple, I think you need to do even if you have one for your first couple deals, hopefully they're walking you through it. Because if you don't understand the process, then it's pointless. But anyway, yeah. A chiropractor, or we'll say, or massage therapist.

SPEAKER_03 40:01

I have both.

SPEAKER_01 40:03

I don't like people touching me like that, but I do I have a chiropractor and I have a physical therapist because I prefer stick me with all the needles.

SPEAKER_03 40:13

Um how about a regular therapist? Do you think the advanced realtor pack should come with like a mental health therapist?

SPEAKER_02 40:21

Probably, but I always have you and Aaron. You, Aaron, mom, and Ed. That's where I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 40:29

Right. Stooges over here. Um nine different subscriptions that you don't use. So edits, splice, some weird like tracking. Something somewhere you forgot that you're still paying for that you have no idea what it goes to. You get the you get the receipt from Apple, but you're like, what is this?

SPEAKER_01 40:51

Mm-hmm. Yes, the meta-verified. Um random HOA knowledge.

SPEAKER_03 40:57

Yes. If you sell enough real estate in specific areas, you know. You you're like, oh yeah, this one, mm-mm. This one's pending a lawsuit for roof issues.

SPEAKER_01 41:08

Right.

SPEAKER_03 41:08

Or like not your documents, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 41:13

Right. Yeah, like McCaddenville, just so you know, if you if you live on the main drag, um don't leave your house in December. Or if you live if you live in McCaddenville proper, it's gonna suck from November to January. Yeah. But I hope you like Christmas lights. Like I hope you have a budget for that. Um becoming emotionally attached to floor plans. I'm more like a style. Like I am emotionally attached. Give me a mid-century ranch with a slight A-frame and a sunken living room.

SPEAKER_03 41:48

Ooh. You and your sunken living rooms.

SPEAKER_01 41:51

Oh my god. But I also love like big old historic houses that have been very like upfit where they they kept the character, but they've made it today's technology and like like yeah, there's one on Main Street in Belmont right now. I just need a couple million dollars and I'm gonna go buy it.

SPEAKER_03 42:11

Um this is your bonus superpower as a real estate agent, and then we will wrap this up. Your ability to smell a photo will increase dramatically. You'll be able to look at it and be like, oh wow, that's cappy. And 30 years of Marlboro's.

SPEAKER_01 42:28

Don't forget the white rain.

SPEAKER_03 42:33

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 42:35

Yeah, that's probably I feel like that's definitely that's a superpower. That's a or like clients like, oh look, it looks like it's all been all remodeled. And I'm like, I can tell from the pictures this is slapped together with bubblegum, but okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:48

We'll take a look at it and let you know what we think. Um, this is fun. I think that it was it's very different from what we've been doing, but I think we needed a little reprieve. We needed a little fresh air. And I hope that you chuckled at a few of these things. I chuckled because I mean I do some of these things.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

So Right. We'll wait until the next one where we go over what your realtor car says about you, because yours is definitely in there.

SPEAKER_03 43:12

I saw that. I'm excited.

SPEAKER_01 43:14

It wasn't on purpose, but it came up and I was like, It's not wrong.

SPEAKER_03 43:18

It's not wrong.

SPEAKER_01 43:19

So it's right.

SPEAKER_03 43:20

So stay tuned for next week, and we will talk to you guys later.

SPEAKER_01 43:23

Bye, gal.