"Inventory is 60% lower than in previous years. I'm struggling to find enough homes to sell."
The historically-low inventory is not going away soon. It takes years to develop land and months and months to build new homes. This inventory shortage is going to weed out the agents that don't figure out how to get their unfair share of the available market. The Upstream Model helps agents do exactly that.
Another challenge that this model helps to solve is this: "My kids are growing up so fast. I wish I could spend less time finding my next deal and more time enjoying them."
Most well-paid, service-based professionals like real estate agents, mortgage loan officers, insurance agents and financial advisors spend a lot of time and expense cultivating a large database of clients and personal sphere in order to get the business you need and want.
You even take time away from more important family and other personal relationships to try and make it work.
You do what the experts say and expect the referrals to roll in.
Unfortunately for so many, those referrals don’t come at the consistency nor the frequency that you need or want.
To remedy this, you spend even more money and more time away from loved ones, pouring into a large database of people, hoping that it produces the business you need and want.
When that doesn’t work, we are faced with the big question of: “Should I buy leads from the big tech platforms in order to even out my production and income?”
Yet you don’t like chasing cold-market internet leads nor do you like funding these big tech portals that are already becoming your competition.
You ask the question, “Justin, if cold market methods like online leads is not the answer, and warm market methods aren’t keeping up with my ambitions, nor with my needs, what is the answer?”