I'm jealous. I wish we had Red Robin in this area. They have some of the best hamburgers.

Congrats Perkey! I am glad you Hell week is over and hope that all works out Fine. I was never worried about you, you seem to be a smart intelligent person and can figure out whats best for Perky.

Im not a huge fan of Red Robin though. I do buy their seasoning mix though, Its great on grilled meats! Other than that, they can leave my area and I'd be OK with that.

Man... my split and brokerage are looking better all the time! I'll refrain from details but it's better than 75/25 and I have no desk fees nor any other kind of fees.

May I cast a vote for something similar to what I am doing. I am in a small brokerage, with 5 of us total. We have almost no advertising. We hustle our own business up. I have nearly 24/7 access to my broker whenever I need it for any reason. I have NO obligation for floor time; on the other hand, it'd be silly since we don't have floor traffic.

My split is amazing, I have my own office with a computer and phone line and internet, and reasonable use of the printer room. IE, I wouldn't abuse it by printing 200 color flyers or something but other than that, I hit Ctrl-P and print whatever I want.

If you truly want to be an independant contractor and not a psuedo-employee, it's something to think about!

-jeff

Hey how does this work? I can't see anyone talking but I know they are there doing something. I heard this was a good place to get theinfo on obtaining REO Listings. The most guarde secret in The RE Indusrty. Gotta figure out how to get a response form someone and I'll be off and running. Thanks

Uh... you need to go to the "forum" level of things (this is a thread in the Agents and Brokers forum). Do that by scrolling to the top of this page and look for the >>'s, and click "Agents and Brokers". Then, in the upper left, there will be a "new topic" button. That will start a new topic for you.

-jeff

Our office is small. Good agents are paid between 70-80%. No desk fees, no copy fees, no this fee or that fee. We have a broker/owner and an owner/sales asso. who are available 24/7. The agents mostly work from their home offices and they must keep the office informed on all deals.

As Jello put it "we hustle our own business", hence the high commission. All phone leads, sign leads, etc. are emailed to the agent who listed the property. The broker/owners never keep leads that come in from ads -- they are given out among the agents.

New agents and part-timers are paid either 50 or 60%.

You're at a Weichert office? And is it "corporate owned" or a "franchise?"

I really like my office so far. The owners are really great and seem to have a lot of positive energy.

That is where you top out at??? Yuck.

Most of our agents (f/t and p/t) have been with us for about 18 yrs. The agents are treated extremely well. I'm not going to go into all of the details here but I'd like to say one thing re your "yuck."

Who are you kidding? Considering your entire real estate "career" consists of 2 active listings (one of which was previously withdrawn twice) I'd say if you're being paid over 30% you should kiss your broker.