Anytime a new model disrupts the real estate industry, agents and business owners feel threatened. The latest model to do this is iBuyers. How does the model work, and how is it solving the pain points of home sellers? Are there any opportunities for real estate agents within this model? What is the long-term strategy of models like iBuyer? On this episode, we are joined by Long Doan to talk about why we shouldn’t feel threatened by the iBuyer business model.
Anytime a new model disrupts the real estate industry, agents and business owners feel threatened. The latest model to do this is iBuyers. How does the model work, and how is it solving the pain points of home sellers? Are there any opportunities for real estate agents within this model? What is the long-term strategy of models like iBuyer? On this episode, we are joined by Long Doan to talk about why we shouldn’t feel threatened by the iBuyer business model.
You are the CEO of your own company, and there are only 3 activities you should be doing. Innovation, quantification and orchestration. -Long Doan
Resources:
- Join the Club Wealth Real Estate Agent Mastermind Facebook Group
- Get info on the Listing Agent Boot Camp, April 24th - 27th in San Antonio, TX
Three Things We Learned From This Episode
- How the iBuyer model actually works
The iBuyer concept has actually been around forever. It’s just real estate investors going in to offer cash to buy a home but using more technology to do it. An iBuyer is a real estate investor that uses a proprietary model to come up with a value so they can make a cash offer within minutes to buy the home and close quickly.
- The pain points iBuyers are solving
iBuyer programs are succeeding because they are solving the pain points of sellers. One of the biggest of these is that some real estate agents just aren’t good, and the iBuyers allow sellers to skip the process of working with an agent. The other pain points are the various hassles and stressors that sellers deal with during the transaction.
- What business owners should be focusing on
There are three things every business owner should be doing. Innovation is learning everything you need to know to grow your business and implementing it. Quantification is tracking and documenting everything. The third thing is orchestration, which is putting people, systems and processes in place to run our businesses well.
As the market shifts and changes, we’re going to see a lot more iBuyer programs. As business leaders we can either feel threatened into inaction, or we can try to find the opportunities. The truth is, iBuyers still need to work with agents in many ways, and that means we can partner up with them to our benefit. If we’re really good at providing value, we’ll always come out on top.
Guest Bio
Long Doan is a real estate coach and broker/CEO of the Long Doan team at RG Realty Group.
He has been in the real estate industry for 25 years. As the top 1% Agent in Minnesota and in the country, he has a proven track record. His company is one of the fastest growing real estate brokerages in Minnesota, providing a full-service real estate brokerage where they handle all types of real estate transactions, ranging from Traditional to Luxury, Short Sales to Bank Owned, Investments to Non-Performing Notes acquisition, Property Management to Rentals, and Commercial to Businesses. Go to https://longdoan.realtygroupmn.com for more information.
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