Why Service Workers Make Excellent Realtors

This article was first published on Real Estate Therapy and has long been one of our standout favorites. We’re delighted to bring it back on the Kindred SF Homes blog so a new audience can enjoy it.

Guest Meryl Bennan and Cynthia agree that some of their best training for real estate came from their work in the food industry. As young adults, they both catered, cooked, waited tables, tended bar and served cocktails. Meryl, in the 90s, introduced people who were new to California cuisine to goat cheese and sun-dried tomatoes. Whereas a few years earlier, Cynthia was making crepes and showering with geese. To learn more about how this relates to residential real estate sales, tune in!

🎯 Episode Highlights:

• No job experience is better than food industry work for a real estate career 

• “We work for tips” and the idea that while it’s not mandatory to pay your Realtor, it is customary!

• The most likely characters to die in a horror movie are often Realtors

• Real estate agents were among the first to be deemed essential workers during pandemic, but among the last to be vaccinated

• The Realtor job is to serve and educate – not to sell!

• We help our client switch so many different things, and a lot of it is like therapy.

• Multi-tasking skills are essential for successful real estate agents (and waiters)

• People don’t know what they don’t know, and it’s our job to educate them

• We introduce our buyers to many new neighborhoods or types of properties; we offer alternatives while withholding our personal opinion

Watch the video in a new tab on YouTube here.