Welcome back. It's Tim and Julie Harrison. This is Real Estate Coaching Radio. And we are going to talk

about what is perhaps one of the most important topics that all of you need to be very clear about,

especially, you know, as you progress in your real estate career, many of you, thousands of you

listen to Julie and I every single day. We have become your de facto or real life coaches and we thank you for that. But I'm here to tell you that yes, choosing the right coach is important, but there's actually a question that's even more important that you must have answered if you want to be successful long term in real estate. And a lot of you already know what that question is. It's choosing the right real estate broker. Or if you are a real estate broker, if you're running a team, maybe you want to decide to elevate your career as well. So what we're going to be doing is we're going to go through the 15 must ask questions that you should choose or you need to ask when you're choosing your real estate broker. Now, these questions in all of our notes are available, of course, on our newsletter, Harris RealestateDaily.com. So we're going to go through

these line item by line. And I have to say, of all the questions that we get through direct

messaging on Instagram, are you guys texting us or just a student asking questions? The number one

question is by far about choosing a broker. Or, you know, maybe you're at a broker and you want to go to a new broker. Or maybe you are a broker and you're wanting to no longer have to, you know, manage agents, but you still want the benefits of being a broker, those types of thoughts and questions. And so what we're going to do is we're going to encapsulate all those questions with our best answers that we can come up with and help you guys to make decisions. And again, we're going

to do this in our unusual style of bullet points and we're going to be presenting to you,

you know, thoughts that you should be running through your own brain, questions you should be

asking, really pertinent stuff that'll make it so that you make the right decision for you.

All right. So the old habit of picking a broker is primarily done because of location. And I know some of you are still doing that, you know, especially new agents. New agents are notorious for making this mistake. They'll choose the broker that's down the street because after all, they're convenient. They can go in there and ask questions anytime they want. We're're going to talk about that they're going to make decisions based on non-business decisions like this other one i heard this the other day someone said they're thinking about leaving

broker a and going to broker b because they thought the community was better or the environment

the you know the culture right the culture, exactly. So people make decisions.

A lot of real estate agents are making decisions that aren't using their business brains, but

they're using their emotional brains. And those are the decisions that you soon regret as you start

making money. Because when you start making money, you'll realize that the real culture that you're

seeking was the culture of success that comes

from you being successful. And now that you're making a lot of money, you're overpaying your broker,

the environment that you thought was going to be supportive of you indeed isn't, because now

you're the most successful person at the broker. Things like this happen. So you've got to have

to make decisions around which broker is going to be there for you

for the long run.

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