One of the terrific by-products of implementing Web based real estate systems is that they enable you to make even better use of Virtual Assistants (VA). You can setup VAs to log into your systems and support you on a wide-range of tasks including:

• Answer the telephone
• Arrange closings
• Arrange for and oversee repairs
• Assist with agent recruiting
• Build web sites
• Collect demographic information
• Contact management
• Create web sites
• Customer call backs
• Deliver information and forms to a mortgage company and closing attorney or agent as part of the preparation for closing
• Deliver paperwork to other brokers
• Deliver paperwork requiring signatures in regard to financing documents that are prepared by lending institutions
• Deliver paperwork to sellers or purchasers
• Distribute information on listed properties when such information is prepared by a broker
• Drip marketing campaigns
• Fill out necessary forms
• Flyers
• Forward calls
• Gather listing information
• Hand out preprinted, objective information
• Listing presentations
• Make and deliver copies of public record
• Make appointments
• Make cold calls
• Make follow up calls
• Newsletters
• Open house invitations
• Order promotional items
• Organize an open house
• Perform clerical duties
• Perform company bookkeeping
• Personal tasks such as ordering groceries or making flight arrangements
• Postcards - just listed or just sold
• Prepare market analyses for sellers or buyers on behalf of a broker
• Promotional mailing
• Property cards
• Receive and deposit funds to be held in trust for others including earnest
• money, security deposits, and rental payments
• Send listing information to a multiple listing service
• Set or confirm appointments (with no other discussion) for:
• A licensee to list or show property
• A buyer with a loan officer
• A property inspector to inspect a home
• A repair/maintenance person to perform repairs/maintenance
• An appraiser to appraise property
• Set up PowerSites or single listing sites
• Solicit interest in engaging the services of a licensee or brokerage
• Take messages
• Thank you gifts
• Thank you notes
• Transaction coordination
• Type forms
• Virtual tours
• Write and place advertising in newspaper and other forms of publication

And many other duties too numerous to mention here.

Advantages of Working With

 Virtual Assistants

• They have entrepreneurial mindsets, like you.
• They have their own equipment, phones, Internet access and places to work; saves you a lot of overhead
• They are professionals, ready to accomplish things from day-one; no lengthy learning curves.
• They're on call; you pay only for work you need done, not time you had to commit to.

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