10 Tips for Success in Real Estate

What does it take to be successful in Real Estate?

1) Believe when others doubt
2) Learn while others loaf
3) Decide while others delay
4) Begin while others procrastinate
5) Work while others wish
6) Save while others spend
7) Listen while others talk
8) Smile while others scowl
9) Commend while others criticize
10) Persist when others quit

Keller Williams Realty Cary, located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir., Cary, NC 27511 has 202 real estate professionals. If you are interested in starting your real estate career or want to build your real estate business to the next level, visit our website today!

Happy Thanksgiving from Keller Williams Realty Cary!

As the holiday season officially begins, Keller Williams Realty Cary wants to wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving! We hope that your holiday celebrations are full of family, laughter, and most importantly, fun!

At Keller Williams Realty Cary, each year, we celebrate Thanksgiving with a potluck in our office where we gather together and share a meal with our KW Family. This year, we were proud to celebrate Thanksgiving by giving back to our community. Through the generosity of our community, the Fashion Victim Ball and our Silent Auction, we were able to present a check for over $17 Thousand to Meg's Smile Foundation. 

Keller Williams Realty Cary located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir, Cary, NC 27511 has 189 real estate professionals. If you are interested in starting your real estate career or want to build your real estate business to the next level, visit our website today!

Keller Williams Realty Cary Agents Outpace Their Local Market!

Agents at Keller Williams Realty Cary are outpacing their local market! This means their customers are selling their homes quickly for more money, and their buyers are finding their dream homes. Is there any wonder why agent partners have chosen to join Keller Williams?

Keller Williams Realty Cary located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir, Cary, NC 27511 has 189 real estate professionals. If you are interested in starting your real estate career or want to build your real estate business to the next level, visit our website today!

How to Choose My Niche as a New Real Estate Agent

As a new real estate agent, one of the hardest parts of the business is deciding what you are going to focus on that will set you apart from any other real estate agent in the market. Many real estate professionals identify a specific buyer/seller niche that they will cater to. Choose what you know, what you love, and what you dream about. If you are passionate, it will translate into your every day interactions with buyers and sellers!

When you are passionate about helping buyers find their dream home and helping sellers move into their next dream home, it is important to not be a jack of all trades. The first step is to break your real estate business into three categories:

1. What do you know best?
2. What are you most passionate about?
3. What do you dream of doing?

By answering these three questions, you will quickly find three niches that you can build your real estate business on, and watch your business succeed.

Niche #1: Stick to What You Know

If you're a new agent or have some experience under your belt and are still struggling to identify a niche market you can be successful in, think about what part of real estate you had the most knowledge of before coming into the business. Perhaps first time home buyers, senior housing, divorcing couples, historic homes, ect. Once you have identified the are of real estate that you already know about, make that your first niche.

Niche #2: Do What You Love

Your passion may be something different from what you already know, but when you love something, you'll put your all into it. If you are an outdoor enthusiast, homes with a lot of acreage might appeal to you. If you love to be on the water, homes with water access or waterfront properties might be just the ticket. With the heart of a student, once you find what you love, it's time to hit the books. Study maps, weather patterns, what type of person buys or sells that type of property, talk to other professionals already in that field and ask for help and information. You will be surprised at the information others are willing to share if you only ask. You need to know who buys that type of property and how to reach them. It's all about placing yourself and your marketing in the proper places to find the buyer and seller that is the right fit for you.

Niche #3: Dream Big

Your third niche will be the most difficult to break into, but you could likely take it over with the right mindset. It should be your dream - the part of real estate that you never thought you could be involved in. It could be luxury, commercial, or global real estate. By dreaming big and going after that dream, you will have to work hard, overcome challenges, and grow both professionally and personally. In the end, by working towards your goal, the reward can be huge.

Tips for Making Your Niches Successful

Be Brave and listen for cues

Don't be afraid to be the new guy nobody has heard of. As long as you are working as hard as you can, staying focused on your goal, listening to what your buyers and sellers are looking for, you will have success.

Get Involved

Join organizations that your ideal buyers and sellers are involved in. This is the best way to meet the clients you want. Show them that you have common interests, that you are committed to giving back to the community and they will want to work with you.

Use Tools you have at your disposal

All companies have them, weather it is a program, database management system, scripts, or a marketing suite, the most successful people and companies have systems in place and use them regularly. If you are constantly re-inventing the wheel instead of customizing the wheel that is there, you will quickly fall behind.

Keller Williams Realty Cary located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir, Cary, NC 27511 has 189 real estate professionals. If you are interested in starting your real estate career or want to build your real estate business to the next level, visit our website today!

Keller Williams Realty is Featured on Franchise Times Top 200 for 2014!

Three real estate companies are featured on Franchise Times' Top 200 list for 2014. This list ranks the nation's largest franchise systems based on worldwide sales and growth of various business sectors. 

Keller Williams Realty landed the number 28 spot, posting a 30.2 percent sales growth. In the latest report, much of the growth in the largest franchises were due to moving more locations abroad. Franchise Times reports that the number of international locations operated or franchised by companies on the Franchise Times Top 200 grew by 10.3 percent in 2013. By comparison, domestic growth was just 1.3 percent.  

To be eligible for the Top 200 franchise list, a franchise must have a sizable presence in the United States and own at least 15 percent of the system's units. The Top 200 list is compiled using companies' own submissions and publicly available information from the SEC and franchises' disclosure documents. 

Keller Williams Realty Cary, located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir. #101, Cary, NC 27511 has 186 associates who specialize in Residential, Commercial, and Luxury real estate. If you are interested in a career in real estate, or looking to grow your real estate business, contact Team Leader, Bill Middleton, Jr. at 919-882-3229 or visit our website today!

You're Invited... Cary, NC Fashion Victim Ball!

At Keller Williams Realty Cary, we believe in serving the communities where we live. Our real estate agents choose local charities to support every year and do so by volunteering their time as well as participating in fundraising events.

Our Fashion Victim Ball is an opportunity for us to reach out to the entire Triangle Area, raise funds for great causes and have an incredibly FUN evening. This year we have chosen Meg's Smile Foundation, a charitable organization that provides gifts/smiles to children affected by serious illnesses who are treated in North Carolina hospitals. In addition a 10% tithe will go to KW Cares, a 501(c)(3) public charity created to support Keller Williams associates and their families with hardships as a result of a sudden emergency.

On Thursday, October 9th, we will dress in bad fashion for a great cause! If you go through your closet and find mismatched clothes, or you go all out and dress in truly bad fashion, this is going to be an evening full of fun, music and laughter. This is our third Fashion Victim Ball and we hope you will share this experience with us by sponsoring a table, purchasing tickets and/or donating silent auction items.

Past recipients of this fabulous event have been April's Angels and The Center for Volunteer Care Giving.

We would love for you to come out and show your support for Meg's Smile Foundation!

11 Things Happy Small Business Owners Do Differently

Being a business owner can be stressful. Happiness in your business requires controlling those stress levels and creating a work environment that is a good mix between business and fun. Here are a few things happy small business owners do differently.

1. Focus on the Motivations for Your Actions

Focus on the 'why', not the 'what'. Know the goals you’re trying to reach with every action, and they will help push you forward. 

2. Choose Acceptance and Compromise, not Resistance

Be open to change. The world is an evolving place, and in order to stay on top, you must grow and adapt along with it. Resisting change can cost you both financially and personally.

3. Focus Less on Fear and More on Love

Have a positive outlook. With a different outlook you can view things you face in your business not as obstacles but tools that will help propel you forward. Look at others not as enemies but allies.

4. Respect and Trust

Treat all with dignity and respect. The happiest business owners are able to make each person they meet feel unique and trusted.

5. See Problems as Opportunities

Don’t let problems intimidate you. Use them to explore new ways of thinking and problem solving, and instead of hindering you, they can help you to expand and grow.

6. Choose Selflessness over Selfishness

Look for ways to give back to your community. The idea of giving back is a way to help make others happy, and it feels good to do it.

8. “Dream No Small Dreams”

Dream Big. If you set a goal and then you reach it, you weren't thinking big enough. By dreaming big, you are giving yourself a goal that will force you to grow along the way of achieving it.

9. Recognize the Power of Kindness

Being kind to yourself and others is key. Happy people are able to understand that forgiveness, love, and acceptance is for themselves and others.

10. Express Gratitude with a Simple Thank You

A simple ‘thank you’ can go a long way, and you might be surprised what a hand written thank you letter can do.

11. A Positive Outlook

Keeping a positive, glass-half-full outlook can do wonders. When an obsticle arises, address the problem, fix it, then shake it off.

Keller Williams Realty Cary, located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir. #101, Cary, NC 27511 has 186 real estate associates who specialize in residential, commercial and luxury properties. 

If you are looking to begin a career in real estate, or are looking for an opportunity to grow your real estate business to the next level, visit our website today!

How to Be Successful in Any Business!

Mark Spain, the number one real estate agent in Keller Williams Realty, sat down with our Team Leader, Bill Middleton, jr. Mark shared his insight on how to be successful in any business!





Three things to remember:

1. No business is perfect, make sure you have developed systems to make sure you can handle anything that comes at you!
2. Bigger is not always more complicated! Thing Big, Dream Big, Believe Big!
3. The people that you hang out with, and the books you read are the two things that will change the trajectory of your business!

Keller Williams Realty Cary, located at 201 Shannon Oaks Cir. #101, Cary, NC has 176 agents who specialize in residential, luxury and commercial real estate. If you are interested in buying your dream home, or selling your home for the most value, call us today at 919-882-3200.

If you are looking for a career in Real Estate or looking to grow your real estate business, call Team Leader, Bill Middleton for a free, confidential consultation today at 919-882-3229 or for more information, visit our website today!

Drones in Real Estate... Legal or Not?

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is targeting the real estate industry, as the agency begins to come down on the growing popularity of using drones for taking listing photos and videos.

The FAA is beginning by targeting several brokerages in New York City that use drones, delivering subpoenas in a widespread move to learn more about how real estate professionals use the technology to advance their businesses. 

This is the FAA's interpretation of lawful model aircraft use.

The FAA does not condone the use of drones for commercial purposes but is expected to reveal proposed rules for such use next year. Hobbyists For now, practitioners who use drones for their business can be fined — and that's exactly what will happen to a handful of NYC's largest brokerages if they don't stop their drone use immediately, FAA sources told the New York Post.

"We have a mandate to protect the American public in the air and on the ground, and the public expects us to carry out the mission," FAA administrator Michael Huerta wrote in a memo, according to the Post.

It speaks to the risk real estate professionals take when using drones for their listings. The National Association of REALTORS® has long warned that practitioners should steer clear of using drones for their business until the FAA releases solid rules on such use, which is expected by September 2015.

4 Trends in Real Estate Right Now

The 48th annual conference for the National Association of Real Estate Editors, held recently in Houston, provided a snapshot of emerging trends in the real estate market. 

1.      With obesity an ever-growing problem in the United States, access to fitness facilities and outdoor recreation is taking on increasing importance. According to Will Holder of Trendmaker Homes, buyers now favor communities that have trails winding through them over golf-course developments. 

2.    In the multifamily niche, more and more projects are accommodating occupants' desire for parks, grooming, and sitting services for their pets. 

3.    There's a growing tendency for young people discouraged by tight underwriting standards to stick with renting instead of buying.

4.    Current home owners are increasingly keeping and renting out properties with ultra-low mortgage rates rather than put them up for sale when they are ready to buy another house.

If you are interested in buying your dream home, or selling your home for the most value, Keller Williams Realty Cary has 176 agents who specialize in residential, luxury and commercial real estate.

If you are looking for a career in Real Estate or looking to grow your real estate business, call Team Leader, Bill Middleton for a free, confidential consultation today at 919-882-3229 or for more information, visit our website today!

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6 Reasons to Move to Raleigh!

Raleigh, North Caronlina’s state capital is known to residents as the "City of Oaks," a name that is apparent when you visit downtown. Oak trees line the streets and sidewalks, offering pleasant shady spots for window shopping, coffee drinking and patio dining. Traveling east of Raleigh, you’ll find North Carolina’s beautiful coastal regions, and traveling west, you’ll find the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains. Beyond the city's natural beauty and convenient location, here are six more reasons to move to the Raleigh area.

1.    Urban Living, Southern Flair: Folks often move to Raleigh looking for urban living with a Southern touch. The neighborhoods surrounding downtown Raleigh make it easy for residents to bike to farmers markets packed with local produce, walk to a new restaurant or bar, or visit the State Capitol Building. With apartments, condos and many other housing options, the Glenwood South neighborhood is a good fit if you want all that downtown offers right at your doorstep.

2.    Delicious Food: When it comes to good food, the Raleigh region offers many options. For example, a favorite in the Boylan Heights neighborhood is The Irregardless Cafe, a small, environmentally friendly cafe catering to diverse dietary preferences, including those who are vegan or vegetarian. It's an excellent choice for treating someone special to an evening of exquisite food.

3.    First Friday: Remember to mark your calendars for the First Friday Gallery Walk in downtown Raleigh. On the first Friday of every month, local galleries, studios and museums keep their doors open late. Galleries display new artworks, artists talk about their latest creations, and you can find handcrafted gifts for family and friends.

4.    Great Neighboring Towns: When it comes to where you live, good neighbors make a big difference. Raleigh has two neighboring cities, Durham and Chapel Hill, and they are both listed among Livability’s Top 100 Best Places to Live. In fact, Durham is even ranked among the top five best places to live.

5.    Don’t-Miss Restaurant: Speaking of Durham, it's worth a drive if for nothing else but to visit Piedmont, a restaurant that's cozy and big on recommendations for a true taste of North Carolina flavor. Local farm-grown ingredients are a Piedmont specialty, and its ever-changing seasonal menu means there's always something new and delicious to try.

6.    Educational Opportunities: Many folks move to the Raleigh region for educational opportunities.North Carolina State University is the largest four-year university in the state, and it is nationally renowned for programs in engineering, biology and agriculture. Duke University is located in Durham, and it is a prestigious private research institution known for its medical school and medical center. And of course, there's the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, best known for its programs in business, government, law and public health. 

If you are looking to move to the Raleigh area, Keller Williams Realty Cary, opened in 2003 has 176 agents who specialize in residential, luxury and commercial properties. 

If you are looking for a career in real estate or are currently a licensed real estate agent looking to grow your business, call Team Leader, Bill Middleton at 919-882-3229 or visit our website today!