If you work in commercial real estate leasing, it will be critical if not essential that you know plenty of tenants in your location. Look at your database now, and understand the relevance of that list to your prospecting and commission activities. (NB – you can get plenty of commercial real estate leasing ideas in our free Snapshot program here)
- How involved are you with your database list currently?
- How accurate is that list?
- Are you building some pipeline of contact with all the people in your list?
Contact Activities
The secret to finding and converting more commercial real estate tenants will always be in your canvassing and prospecting activities as a broker or an agent; those are the specific activities that you activate and deploy every day into the local business community and or the tenants in your location. Landlords and tenants will be critical to the growth requirements that you have in commercial real estate leasing. Grow your contact model, and grow your real estate business.
Consider these questions:
- How many new tenants to contact each and every day?
- Understanding your town or your city, and the local businesses to you connect with regularly each 90 days?
- If you were to show the landlord your database to impress them as part of the property leasing presentation, how impressive with your database be, and would it attract the landlord to your services?
Ratios and Results
There is a ratio to know and respect here, particularly as part of this leasing and investment property process. The number of listings that you convert exclusively over time will be influenced greatly by the number of landlords that you know personally and connect with regularly. Focus on building trust and confidence with the landlords that you work for. Provide regular updates of the leasing market together with comments leading to market rentals, incentives, and lease strategies.
Audio Program about Tenant Attraction
In this audio program, john Highman shares some of the proven strategies and ideas that can help you find better quality tenants and better landlords to work for. Honing your prospecting activities with a bias towards quality and ongoing contact will always be a valuable strategy to deploy. Connect with the landlords and tenants using relevant local information and local market knowledge. Connect with landlords and tenants at least once every 90 days.
Here is the audio program:
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