Episode Summary:
In today’s episode, Stacy and Danielle dive into the art of resume writing with a real estate twist! Whether you're a seasoned real estate professional or transitioning into the industry, your resume should showcase your skills, experience, and unique value. We’ll share expert tips on how to structure your resume, highlight key achievements, and make it stand out in a competitive market.

What You’ll Learn:
✅ The must-have sections of a real estate resume
✅ How to frame your experience for maximum impact
✅ Key skills that real estate professionals should highlight
✅ How to tailor your resume for different levels of experience

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  Welcome back to The Be Blessed in Real Estate Podcast, where we share insights, strategies, and stories to help you succeed in real estate. We’re Stacy and Danielle, your hosts, and today we’re diving into one of the most crucial steps in the home-selling process—the listing appointment! Whether you’re a seasoned agent or just getting started, mastering the listing appointment is key to winning business and serving your clients well. So, let’s get started!

  
  

  First, you need to be prepared! Even over prepared. You can always shorten your presentation but it is more difficult to expound on an item your seller is interested in if you have not done the prep work in advance. One recommendation from us would be to make sure you have listened to these episodes:

  Episode 4 - Sandboxes are Good for Business and

  Episode 17 - Getting to Know Ourselves

  After preparation, ask key questions beforehand. Find out why they’re selling, their timeline, and any concerns they might have. The more you know, the better you can tailor your presentation. Not every seller is excited to sell their home, there are some instances where leaving the home is not their first choice but a circumstance out of their control or comfort zone.

  
  

  What is in the Listing Presentation?

  1. Resume

  2. Sales Process Timeline

  3. 1. Research

     2. Listing (we almost always have professional photographs)

     3. Marketing

     4. Closing (I always mentioned my preferred title company as a great team member here)

  4. Listing Agreement Cover

  5. County Appraisal District Report (property taxes)

  6. Quick CMA

  7. RPR Report (Real Property Resources)

  8. CMA - Comparative Market Analysis

  9. Staging Tips (we recommend a third party)

  10. Listing Documents

• One other item you might like to include in your Listing Presentation is a “discussion place holder” This is the place for the biggies that the seller needs to accomplish before the listing can go live, most likely even before professional pictures can be taken.

  
  

• The listing appointment is your opportunity to build trust, showcase your expertise, and ultimately win the listing. Sellers want to know four things: Can they trust you? Can you get their home sold? Will you make the process smooth for them? And will you get them the best price for their home?

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• Technology has transformed the real estate industry, making it easier than ever for professionals, buyers, and investors to streamline their processes. In today’s episode, we’re diving into the best apps that can help us stay organized, improve efficiency, and ultimately close more deals. Whether we’re real estate agents, homebuyers, or seasoned investors, we’ve got something for everyone.

  Join us as we share our favorite real estate tools, personal experiences, and pro tips on how to integrate these apps into our workflow. Plus, stay tuned for a little humor about our love (and sometimes frustration) with technology!

  Apps Mentioned in This Episode:

  ✨For Real Estate Professionals:

  • Authentisign – Digital signing made simple

  • Showing Time & Broker Bay – Scheduling showings with ease

  • RPR Mobile – MLS access on the go

  • Transaction Desk – Keeping paperwork in check

  • Supra Key App – Secure access to properties

  • KV Open House – Streamlining open house management

  • Title Company Apps – Estimating payments and closing costs

  • Dropbox & Google Drive – File management for contracts and marketing materials

  • Mileage Apps – Tracking business miles effortlessly

  ✨For Homebuyers:

  • Zillow & Realtor.com – Searching for homes with real-time alerts

  • Mortgage Calculator Plus & Rocket Mortgage – Estimating home loan payments

  • Nextdoor – Connecting with potential neighborhoods and communities

  • Google Maps – Checking commute times and amenities

  ✨For Real Estate Investors:

  • Stessa – Tracking rental property cash flow and expenses

  • Land ID – Mapping out investment opportunities

  • FOREWARN & Whitepages – Researching property history and neighborhood safety

This is our third and final episode in our Faith and Real Estate mini-series that we are calling Building a Foundation that Lasts

As Christian real estate agents our guiding principles of faith and family are deeply rooted in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We use many biblical examples to run our businesses and that is what led the two of us to start a podcast that would encourage other real estate agents. We know we are not the only agents who feel this way and we want it to become commonplace to allow your spiritual strength to be openly and honestly communicated.

We hope, yes pray, that this mini-series sets the stage not only for your 2025 year but beyond. As we have mentioned, we do lift up each episode in prayer and we want to share that moment with you.

There would be no need for the “Code of Ethics” course if every agent allowed their Christian faith to guide them. Living out your faith can influence business practices, like honesty in transactions, transparency with clients, and treating all parties with respect. With that, we are going to revisit an acronym that is very common to us as real estate licensees:

0LD CAR -

Obedience

Loyalty

Disclosure

Confidentiality

Accounting

Reasonable Care (Due Diligence)

Our main purpose of beginning this podcast was to help real estate professionals to use their guiding principles of faith and family to be successful. As our introduction to this series suggests, it was time to take our purpose to the next level and share how we feel our faith is a strong force. We wanted to be “ethical” and put our faith in full view.

When we consider serving over just selling we really put our faith into practice. As real estate agents, we do a lot of “selling”, whether working with a buyer, a seller, or reminding our family why we aren’t home every evening or weekend. When we truly see our vocation as one of service, we can make better decisions about our time and boundaries. When our family sees our business as the benefit it is for them and for others, they will be understanding and blessed. Ha, they may even recommend us!

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This is our second episode in our Faith and Real Estate mini-series that we are calling Building a Foundation that Lasts. Our first episode aired last week and we encourage you to go back and listen to The Parallels between Faith and Real Estate.

As Christian real estate agents our guiding principles of faith and family are deeply rooted in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We use many biblical examples to run our businesses and that is what led the two of us to start a podcast that would encourage other real estate agents. We know we are not the only agents who feel this way and we want it to become \ to allow your spiritual strength to be openly and honestly communicated.

We hope, yes pray, that this mini-series sets the stage not only for your 2025 year but beyond.

Faith In Real Estate Decisions - We are FIRED UP!

We discuss the process of making decisions in our Real Estate Business with this acronym:

Pause before you make a major decision.

Reflect on where or when have you felt the “nudge” from the Holy Spirit about your decision.

Affirm - you got this, with the Holy Spirit’s help. So, receive the affirmation that you are making the right decision. Pause and Reflect until you feel affirmed.

Yield - Remember who really owns your business and yield to the Lord's way.

As Christian real estate agents our guiding principles of faith and family are deeply rooted in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We use many biblical examples to run our businesses and that is what led the two of us to start a podcast that would encourage other real estate agents. We know we are not the only agents who feel this way and we want it to become commonplace to allow your spiritual strength to be openly and honestly communicated.

That is why we are starting 2025 with a mini-series on Faith in Real Estate and this is the first episode. We hope, yes pray, that this mini-series sets the stage not only for this new year but beyond.

Stacy mentions a book she is reading on faith based business by Larry Burkett, Business by the Book.

For more verses to help with your spiritual goals for your business you can check out this link to WealthBuilders.

In a conversation with a godly women and author, Devi Titus, I heard the phrase, "Home is where the heart is formed" and that has impacted my decisions regarding family and business.

As always you can message on our Facebook page.

Thank you for listening and we would ask that you pray for us as we take our podcast to a deeper level and seek to honor the Lord with it.

Most Podcasts don’t wait until episode 17 to introduce themselves, but that is what we are doing in this episode of self discovery. We think that as one year closes and one begins, it is a good time to take a break and get to know yourself.

We will be using the VARK model of learning styles to determine how we absorb information best and then we will expand that knowledge into how it can make us better real estate agents.

The acronym VARK stands for the four VARK modalities – Visual, Auditory, Read/write, and Kinesthetic – sensory modalities that are used for learning information.

According to the VARK website: VARK tells you something about yourself that you may or may not know. It can be used to understand your boss, your colleagues, your parents, your workmates, your partner, your customers, your teacher, your relatives, your clients, and yourself. It is a short, simple inventory that has been well-received because its dimensions are intuitively understood and its applications are practical.

You can take the VARK questionnaire here.

As you begin to make your goals for 2025, we hope this exercise in self discovery will help you set more realistic goals and to document them in a way that will encourage and motivate you to have a great year!

Please share your results with us on our FaceBook Page.

Stacy mentioned the GrowthDay App and you can find it here.

Brenden Burchard is a best-selling motivational coach.

Our prayer is that this episode will encourage you to get to know yourself and learn how you can become an even better real estate agent. You will also learn how to communicate with your clients according to their sensory modality.

Be Blessed in Real Estate!

Our prayer for you this Christmas season is that you find blessing in the break from the normal flow of business. We recorded this brief episode to share the blessing of Christmas and to encourage you to take a breath to enjoy the Bliss of the busyness.

A few of the encouraging tips will include subtle changes like changing your voicemail greeting to be a blessing but to also set a boundary for you to be free from the phone on Christmas Day.

Merry Christmas from Stacy and Danielle!

Let us know how you change your boundaries to make time for Christmas cheer with a comment on our Facebook Page.