The 5 Real Estate Tasks You Should Outsource to a VA

Real estate professionals know exactly how difficult it is to handle client transactions. From marketing using social media to conducting due diligence, realtors will have to spend precious time handling such tasks for their clients.  

While it’s important that you handle these processes more thoroughly, you still need to focus on growing your real estate business. You can’t juggle the two simultaneously, but you can at least outsource some of the grunt work to a real estate virtual assistant.

Increase the time you spend scaling your business by letting a VA handle these processes:

Any experienced realtor worth his salt knows the importance of comparative market analysis or CMA. If you’re helping a seller determine the best listing price for a property, you will have to go through the tedious process of assessing the neighborhood. Using the MLS and sites like Zillow and Realtor.com, you can search for similar properties, make comparisons, and determine a good listing price. It can take a while, but why run a CMA yourself when you can have a real estate virtual assistant do it for you?

 

You don’t want a property to remain in the market for too long, so you will need effective advertising to attract interested buyers. In this case, coming up with a marketing strategy requires expert knowledge of multiple channels, including social media, blogs, e-newsletters, and online advertising platforms such as Craigslist. You can’t expect to learn everything there is to know about digital marketing overnight. Fortunately, you can always outsource your marketing tasks to individuals who are already experienced in the field.

 

Keeping tabs on your listings through the MLS is crucial, whether you’re helping a buyer find the right property or setting a home up for sale. However, preparing your entries to the MLS can get a bit tedious at times, considering the repetitive nature of the task itself. That being said, you can let someone handle your MLS inputs and ensure that the information for each home is accurate.

 

Before listing a property, you will have to hire contractors to make it look more presentable to potential buyers. However, delays and other issues on the contractor’s side can disrupt your timeline, so it helps to have someone monitor your home improvement projects and see to it that you list your home according to schedule.  

 

During the due diligence stage, you will need to set up appointments for home inspections and price negotiations on behalf of your client. In some cases, you won’t be available to make arrangements. A real estate virtual assistant might come in handy in setting up important meetings based on your schedule.

 

Surely, there’s a lot more a real estate virtual assistant is capable of handling. The bottom line is that you can increase your business’ productivity when you have someone with the right skills and know-how. Hire a VA today by giving us a call or filling up this questionnaire.