win the buyer every time perfect your buyer consultation with scripts and systems to win the buyer...
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Win the Buyer Every Time
Perfect your buyer consultation with scripts and systems to win the buyer every time!
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Win the Buyer Every Time
• Setting the Stage for Success• Explaining the Home-Buying Process• Conducting a Needs Analysis• Defining Expectations• Getting an Exclusivity Agreement Signed• Delivering Stellar Buyer Consulations
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Setting the Stage for Success
• Discuss lender prequalification. • Set the consultation appointment: “CITO”.• Review the housing inventory and market
conditions.
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Setting the Stage for Success
• Prepare a Home-Buying Packet or Buyer’s Book.
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Setting the Stage for Success
Use a script to set the stage for success:“Before we get started, I would like to share my/our team mission with you. Our mission is to help you achieve your goals and exceed your expectations. By doing this we hope you would never hesitate to refer us to your friends, family, or coworkers. Therefore, at the end of our meeting today, one of three things will happen…”
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Scripts
Setting the Stage for Success
“One: You will understand all the benefits I/my team can provide to you and you will choose to hire me and that would be great!”
“Two: You may not understand all the benefits I/my team can provide to you and you may choose not to hire me and, to be quite honest, that wouldn’t be so great.”
“Three: I may choose not to represent you in the purchase of your new home.”
“Would that be a fair assessment?” (Pause for reaction)
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Setting the Stage for Success
“Let me explain why I would say that. Remember, our mission is to help you achieve your goals and exceed your expectations. Well, if at any time during our meeting today I feel I cannot achieve your goals or exceed your expectations, I would rather turn you down now than let you down later, and we can part as friends. Does that sound fair to you?”
“Great, let’s get started!”
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Setting the Stage for Success
Explain Buyer Agency
“Let me share something with you—did you know that you have rights? The same rights that a seller does?”
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Setting the Stage for Success
• Walk through state disclosures.• Don’t ask them to sign any documents … yet.
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Explaining the Home-Buying Process
• Overview• Research Process• Properties• Market Conditions/Inventory• The Offer• The Contract• Negotiation Process• Contract-to-Close Process
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1. Overview
• Ask permission.• Adjust your script. • Explain the steps. • Help buyers understand the value an agent brings
to the process.
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2. Research Process
• Explain the research process • Research sources:
– Multiple Listing Service (MLS)– For sale by owner (FSBO) houses– New construction houses
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3. Properties
• Set up for success.• Determine average number of homes a buyer
typically tours before making a decision.• What would the buyer
do if the first house meets all of their criteria?
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4. Market Conditions/Inventory
• Share local market conditions.• Explain buyer’s market vs. seller’s market.• Educate.
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5. The Offer
• Discuss how much they are willing to pay.• Explain the process of determining/making an
offer.– Comparative Market Analysis (CMA)– Types of contractual contingencies
• Prepare for multiple offer situations.
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6. The Contract
• Highlight key points in contract documents.• Walk through sample
documents. • Ask buyers to review
documents.• Encourage questions.
Explain which standard contingencies will be included.
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7. Negotiation Process
• Explain your role.• Reiterate responsibilities of a buyer’s agent.
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8. Contract-to-Close Process
• Explain the importance of this phase of the home- buying process (“Our job really starts now.”).
• Provide: – Statistics on real estate closings.– A brief overview of the activities and interactions you
will manage during this process.
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Conducting a Needs AnalysisThe Tens Exercise
• Use a script to ask about the transaction:
“On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being ‘not very good’ and 10 being ‘it’s awesome, it’s a great experience,’ what one thing has to happen for this transaction or process to be a 10 for you?”
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Scripts
Conducting a Needs Analysis
Always go three-deep!
1. What is important to you?2. Why is _____ important to you?3. What does that look like for you?
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FAMILY
Defining Expectations
• How does somebody win with you?• How does somebody lose with you?
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Defining Expectations
• What do you feel I have the right to expect from you as my client?
• What do you feel you have the right to expect from me as your agent?
• Listen to how their commitment to you is developing and strengthening.
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Getting an Exclusivity Agreement Signed
Use a script and move straight to the buyer’s agent exclusivity (representation) document:
I feel good about this process. How do you feel? ... Great. Then let’s move forward with this relationship.
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Getting an Exclusivity Agreement Signed
• Complete the document with their participation.• Put exclusivity language into layman’s terms.• Present document for their signature.
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Delivering Stellar Buyer Consultations
• Elements that make this approach “stellar”• Key points to remember• Common obstacles or objections• Ways to customize the approach
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Ideas into Action!
• Develop powerful scripts to help set the stage for success.
• Create a Home-Buying Packet to help you explain the steps in the process.
• Practice probing to identify needs, wants, and values.• Clarify expectations!• Learn how to get an exclusivity agreement signed.
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Action Plan
List at least ONE action you will take as a result of what you’ve learned.
1. _________________________________________
2. _________________________________________
3. ___________________________________________________________
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