Creative Ways To Get Buyer Offers Accepted • Learning With A Lender • Joel Schaub

Welcome to the February episode of Learn With A Lender with Joel Schaub of Guaranteed Rate! In this episode Joel talks strategies on how to come up with offers that are designed to win in a market where inventory is in all-time low. Joel and D.J. discuss the advantages these strategies will provide for buyers in this market and how knowing the right people will help you provide the best service and standing apart from your competition. Joel discusses what the raise in the rates by FED means and how this situation should be managed by agents. Last, Joel and D.J. discuss the weekly market update Joel sends out by email. If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube! Joel can be reached at [email protected] and 773.654.2049. This episode was brought to you by Real Geeks. Transcript D.J. Paris 0:00This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by real geeks. How many homes are you going to sell this year? Do you have the right tools? Is your website turning soft leads and interested buyers? Are you spending money on leads that aren't converting? Well real geeks is your solution. Find out why agents across the country choose real geeks as their technology partner. Real geeks was created by an agent for agents. They pride themselves on delivering a sales and marketing solution so that you can easily generate more business. Their agent websites are fast and built for lead conversion with a smooth search experience for your visitors. Real geeks also includes an easy to use agent CRM. So once a lead signs up on your website, you can track their interest and have great follow up conversations. Real geeks is loaded with a ton of marketing tools to nurture your leads and increase brand awareness visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod and find out why Realtors come to real geeks to generate more business again, visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod. And now on to our show. Welcome to another episode of Keeping it real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Parris, I'm your guide, and hosts through the show. And today, once again, is our monthly series called Learn with a lender with Joel shop from guaranteed rate. Now Joel is the vice president of lending at guaranteed rate. And he's been doing loans at a very high level since 2003. And he's got to that level because of what he does specifically for agents, which is he gives back part of his commission to the buyer on every transaction, he makes agents look like heroes. Now last year alone, Joel gave back over 291,000 and closing costs. In fact, I think he gave more that's probably an old number. So he'll correct us in a moment. But he's gives back a lot and that's the people who work with him. And that puts Joel's volume in the top 1/10 of 1% of all lenders nationwide. In fact, out of over 400,000 loan officers in the country. Joel is currently ranked number 137. Last year for his best year ever. He did 620 transactions, his highest amount ever for the year of almost $250 million in loans. Now if you're looking for a loan officer, we cannot more highly recommend Joel he's the very best we ever worke...