As a business owner, it is natural to look for ways to increase your bottom line and reduce costs. In our last blog on 8 Ways to Reduce Costs for Start-Up Real Estate Agencies we discussed various ways start-up agencies can minimise costs. This included shopping around on items like software, insurance and considering a virtual office as opposed to bricks ... read more >>
Working like a boss on holidays. Working and holiday are generally two words that should never go together in the same sentence. Unfortunately, as many Real Estate agency owners know, finding that right work/life balance can often prove difficult. As discussed in our earlier months blog 'Being a Licensee & Taking Holidays', good planning and modern technology make working remotely a ... read more >>
Being Licensee & holidays...Is it really possible? Being a Licensee or Officer in Effective Control and taking a long-awaited holiday may seem like two terms that just don’t go together. If you are a Licensees who hasn’t seen the inside of your travel luggage for a good 5, 10 or perhaps even 15 years, then you are not alone. But ... read more >>
Are You Guilty of These Trust Accounting Mistakes? We understand in life, mistakes happen. Like leaving an open tin of milo in the house unsupervised or leaving your washing out on a rainy day. Yep – those are passable mistakes. Unfortunately, the mistakes we see on a daily basis with agents and their trust accounts are not on this list. ... read more >>
There is nothing worse than having a pearler of a stress-free month without any unforeseen hiccups to then finding yourself smack bang in the middle of End of Month with no prior preparation or planning. You wouldn’t expect a pro boxer to jump in the ring without any prior training and sparring right? Be prepared or prepare to fail. Harsh, ... read more >>
We have come into contact with many agencies. One thing that stands out is the variety of processes in place from agency to agency when dealing with client accounts. From our experience, we have witnessed two common operational systems that agencies generally fall into. CATEGORY A – THE ORGANISERS Agencies falling into Category A tend to have clear and concise ... read more >>
There has been lots of discussion over the past 12-18 months regarding the need to overhaul the Property Services industry. We all agree that there are areas that are crying out for an overhaul, in particular in the areas of training requirements. We have read, digested and rummaged through the points made by the NSW Fair Trading and have summarised what ... read more >>
New changes to the Residential Tenancy Act 2010 are coming into effect as of the 30th January 2017 that it is now mandatory for all private landlords and agents to be registered with Rental Bonds Online and must now invite tenants to lodge their rental bonds using the system. Rental Bonds Online is an online service from the NSW Department ... read more >>
Retaining good people is essential in business. No matter how good you are or your product or service may be, without key personnel, they are worth nada. Which brings us to the topic of staff retention. Your first thoughts on staff retention strategies may drift initially to your key sales staff. Those who bring in the bread and butter to ... read more >>
We understand that by mid December, part of you may check out. Or be on the way the way to checking out. Focus turns from end of month reporting and reconciliations to Christmas parties and fun with friends and colleagues. After a hard year’s work we can see how this can happen… Yet, it is best to not let the ... read more >>
