Real Estate Virtual Assistant (VA) FAQ

The real estate VA is a vocation that has been produced by the large and powerful real estate industry. The real estate VA vocation is growing into quite a powerful industry of its own and is becoming more familiar to other real estate industry professionals.

If you are not yet all that familiar with the real estate VA you may have several questions about what a real estate VA is and what kind of work do they do.

 A real estate VA is a professional, independent service provider. Because the real estate VA is an independent service provider, they are considered contract workers and not salaried employees of the real estate agents who choose to contract services from them. The employee regulations that must be adhered to with salaried employees can be quite cost inhibitive, and are absent with an independently contracted real estate VA.

 The work that a real estate VA most commonly performs is the same as a salaried office assistant most commonly performs. From telemarketing, customer relations, record management, promotions, lead gathering, website development and SEO, banking, data and more specialized services as customer database management and online transaction coordination. 

 A real estate VA is a wise and affordable choice for real estate agents beyond the considerable savings of not having the cost responsibilities of a salaried employee. Most real estate virtual assistants opt to become certified in the areas of real estate work that they do. This translates into less training that a real estate agent would have to provide to the newly contracted independent worker. This also means that the work that a real estate agent out-sources is completed expertly in a more timely manner, and we all know that time is money in business. If you are not happy with the services of the real estate VA you have contracted with, you can terminate the contract without the usual hassles you would have with your employees.

 The real estate VA is responsible for providing themselves with the materials they need in order to perform their work, regardless of what or how expensive those materials are. There is no expectation that the real estate agent supply the real estate VA with these materials. It is also the responsibility of the real estate VA to carry the certification needed to work with real estate activity such as OTC so that the real estate agent is not in violation of any state or industry regulations.

 The real estate VA handles the work you need them to within the time frames you set forth. This ensures that your deadlines will be met so as not to interfere with the successful conducting of your business. Additionally, a real estate VA is not on the clock when not performing a particular work task for you so overtime and the expense of that is not present.

 Managing your time for generating leads, sales, and saving on costs have a powerful impact on your level of success as a realtor. A real estate VA is an integral component to accomplishing this. The real estate VA assists you with the work that you do not have time for. This lets you get down to the business of following up with leads before they go cold so that you can make even more sales. Your mind will also be free to concentrate on connecting with your contacts instead of worrying about how the work piling up on your desk is going to get done.

 More and more real estate agents are coming to rely upon the independently contracted real estate VA for superb, expert, cost effective real estate assistance.

Sarah Reiter is president of Creative Agent Solutions, an Arizona based online marketing company that specializes in virtual real estate services.  Sarah Reiter is an ethics checked Certified Real Estate Support Specialist (CRESS) with the International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA), a Professional Real Estate Virtual Assistant (PREVA) with the Real Estate Virtual Assistant (REVA) Network, a CyberStarVA Member, an affiliate of the Southeast Valley Regional Association of Realtors (SEVRAR), Scottsdale Association of Realtors in Arizona (SAAR), and Arizona Small Business Association (ASBA), as well as a Certified Virtual Assistant (CVA) with the Settlement Room ™. 

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