Realty Ideas Per Day

Hey, everyone. It’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty and your realty idea of the day is the Starbucks open house. So, let’s say that you don’t have a listing right now that you wanna hold open or can’t hold open and you need to be able to get clients. Go to a Starbucks or a local diner or anywhere you like to go hang out for a couple hours. Have breakfast, have a cup of coffee, and put a sign on your table that says, “I’m a realtor, ask me a question.” Now, be sure this is a place that has good flow of traffic on a weekday or weekend because you don’t wanna sit there at a place that you’re the only person. But sit there, put a sign on your desk, have it on the back of your computer. One of my agents wears a hat all the time says, “I’m a realtor, ask me questions.” Put that up there. Hold an open house no matter where you’re at and see people will come up and ask you stuff. People will come up and start a conversation if you invite them. So, put the sign up, put it on the back of your screen, put it on the back of your hat, whatever. “I’m a realtor, ask me questions.” Go do a Starbucks… There is no excuse for not having an open house almost every weekend. I do Facebook open houses. I sit in front of my computer for an hour and just talk into the computer and whoever dials into the Facebook Live, gets to talk to me. Bob McCranie, Texas Pride Realty. There’ll be another realty idea of the day posted tomorrow. Bye-bye.

Taxes & Shredding

January 18, 2019 · by Bob McCranie

Hey, everyone, it’s Bob McCranie with Texas Pride Realty. And your realty idea is taxes and shredding. So it’s tax season, you know, obviously it’s not due until April, but a lot of people do them early. Don’t know why. Anyway, so talk about the fact that record retention is something they have to do. I think it’s four years worth of records you have to maintain, but that 5th, 6th, 7th, 20th year, it’s time to shred them. So what we do in our company is we have a shredding day. We hire a shredding truck, costs us $200 an hour for the truck to come to a parking lot. And we invite people to load up their cars and bring boxes and boxes of things to shred. It’s shredded and then recycled and you don’t have to worry about identity theft. So talk about the taxes, talk about your receipts, talk about records, and talk about you hosting a shredding day, or if you don’t wanna host one, find someone who is doing one, maybe a local bank or a mortgage company you tie in with. Host a shredding day, protect their identity, help them shred their documents. Take care. Bye-bye.