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An Audacious South Orange County Realtor

That is Part II of a Two Part Blog.

Orange County’s buyers and sellers are looking for audacity in their real estate brokerage, helping to realize fast-paced equity building that is intended for this market, but end up settling for average low-risk solutions 95% of the time. With so many like homes for sale here in Orange County, how can a Realtor not be bold, willing to take risks?

Audacity in Orange County real estate allows BanCorp Realty to see beyond what other Realtor’s see, and requires an underlying confidence in the face of possible failure, criticism from other real estate companies around us and even possible financial loss to BanCorp Real Estate Group. Certainly not a conservative approach. The reason that other Orange County real estate companies don’t get their clients the financial returns that BanCorp does is that they are not audacious enough, they try to be just like everyone else, accepting the status-quo, and stand way back from the leading edge – where BanCorp is used to leading from. Usually these real estate companies mistake arrogance for audacity and adopt a “we can’t fail because we know everything” mentality. Audacity in real estate is walking the fine line between crazy and lazy.

Success in Orange County real estate in 2014 and the years to come is all about exercising audacity and confidence in the face of failure. BanCorp Realty possesses all the ingredients of a successful Orange County real estate agency: desire, hunger for success, ideas that work, and capital that is aggressive getting less conservative and more audacity. 

From The Desk of BanCorp Realty C.E.O. Greg Steinaker

Orange County Realtor | Orange County Homes For Sale: BanCorp Realty is an Audacious Real Estate Brokerage

This is Part 1 of a Two Part Blog:

BanCorp Realty is an Audacious Orange County Real Estate Brokerage. It’s incredibly easy to think outside the box when you have no idea what the parameters of the box are.

Audacity is required to build an innovative Orange County real estate company, or to do things other real estate companies say you can’t do. BanCorp Real Estate Group’s management team truly believes that we could find a better way to boil water, if we just wanted to set our minds to it. Orange County needs many more audacious real estate companies like BanCorp Realty in its local ecosystem and is a perfect environment for bold risk-taking in the buying and selling of residential real estate.

Audacity in Orange County real estate is different from intelligence, experience or brilliance, but any excellent real estate company could possess them all; it’s a unique form of energy, effort and effectiveness that is the tipping point of an incredible Orange County real estate agency. Audacity is usually more important than any other attribute when it comes to making the impossible possible. If you look at the best, most profitable Orange County real estate transaction over the last 10, 15 or 20 years they have either been accidents (probably by a large National Realtor who lucked out) or by major audacity by a real estate agency such as BanCorp Realty.

In the Orange County real estate ecosystem, most of the real estate companies that have been launched over the last two decades have been “safe” evolutionary extensions of old business models developed pre-internet to enhance existing business ideas. You see many cool new twists, new dog-and-pony shows, but not much in the way of revolutionary new ideas that actually succeed in the Orange County real estate market. If seems kind of strange since we live in one of the most dynamic, most sought-after real estate markets in the United States.

From the desk of CEO Greg Steinaker 

Why is BanCorp not in the Orange County real estate market?

You know why BanCorp is in the Orange County real estate market, but do you know why they are not in the Orange County real estate market?

• Because achieving anything that is not truly in alignment with our company’s hearts and passions is not living, it is simply existing. If the pursuit of profit for BanCorp Realty or the increasing incomes of our team-member’s is the sole motivating factor for management’s showing up at the office each day, the results of such a pursuit would be a vain, day-to-day existence lacking passion, meaning or happiness. Certainly not the way that God intended for people to live their lives. 
• Because BanCorp is not doing this to be an average, close-minded company that will do or say whatever it takes to make a sale, get a listing, or make it to the top – driven by fear rather than integrity and authentic in all we say, and more importantly what we do.
• Because our BanCorp realty will never put the pursuit of profit in front of our team, clients, vendors or communities that we serve in.

Greg Steinaker “Business is way too hard to work at something just for money. Winning at business at times requires that we exhaust every ounce of spiritual, emotional and physical energy we have, every single day. We won’t put that effort in day in and day out, year in and year out, just for money. Money is great, but it is ultimately an empty goal. Bigger homes, bigger-faster cars, and even more giving is just not a big enough goal to keep us creative and energized throughout our life. We have to have a passion, a higher calling, to what we engage in. If the “Why” is right, the; money, homes, giving… will take care of itself in the end. This is what a purpose driven career looks like. This is what a purpose driven company looks like.”

BanCorp Real Estate Group is committed to Truth in Lending which we realize through our Commitment to Service Excellence. We are the only real estate company in Orange County that has issued at 20-Point Service Guarantee, which we stand behind for each client that we represent. BanCorp is the Orange County Real Estate Zephyr™.

From The Desk of C.E.O. Greg Steinaker

BanCorp Realty named best Irvine Realtor | Top 5 Real Estate Company in Orange County, CA

BanCorp Real Estate Group is listed  as one of the Best Orange County Realtor's | Top 1% of all Orange County Real Estate Companies 

The management of BanCorp Real Estate Group is pleased to announce that it was named in a report released by the Irvine Holding Co. on January 19, 2014 to be within the Top 5 Realtor’s in all of Orange County, CA. You can review full press release here http://www.prlog.org/12270100-irvine-holding-co-releases-list-of-top-5-orange-county-realtors-top-1-realtors Besides listing BanCorp as one of the top Realtor’s in Orange County the report also stated that BanCorp Realty was considered to be a Top 1% Orange County Realtor, meaning if a client were to interview 100 different Orange County real estate companies they would chose BanCorp Realty 99% of the time! Although the report is not a surprise to BanCorp, the management team is obviously pleased with the filing of the list of the Top 5 Realtors in Orange County.

C.E.O. Greg Steinaker was quoted: “BanCorp Realty has been serving Orange County Real estate since 1995, but we feel like we are 19-year old start-up. We have just recently made the decision to cover the entire Orange County marketplace with an aggressive marketing model, but holding true to our purpose-driven, commonsense approach to real estate”. BanCorp Realty was established in 1995 and is a full service bundled-service real estate provider, with sister companies; UBC Direct and Insight Escrow complimenting their real estate agency. BanCorp’s make marketing slogan that is widely known across Orange County is; easier and faster™ Orange County real estate. Greg Steinaker went on to say; “one of the things that many people are not aware of is that BanCorp Realty has closed well over 1,000 real estate transactions since our inception and we have an unblemished track-record with the California Bureau of Real Estate. BanCorp buys and sells real estate faster than any other Orange County real estate brokerage.”

BanCorp Realty is currently hiring passionate Realtor’s who are able to remained focused and intense for extended periods of time, the firm is more interested in the professional’s character than what is in their real estate pipeline or how much sale volume they can close for the company. The way BanCorp’s management sees it, winners hang out with winners, and average hangs out with average. Anyone who joins BanCorp can expect to be part of an excellent organization that puts people in front of profit, a firm that is audacious, always trying new approaches to real estate, willing to take corporate risk when there is the opportunity to benefit a team-member, client or community we serve in. BanCorp Realty has the best marketing team on the planet and each Realtor has direct access to the companies CTO.

To learn more about BanCorp Realty please visit us at www.bancorprealty.com. If you would like to contact BanCorp Realty direct please call 800-936-BANC | 949-207-9999 or email us at admin@bancorprealty.com to learn more about why BanCorp is one of the best real estate companies in Orange County, CA.

BanCorp Realty: We Buy and Sell Orange County Real Estate faster than any other Orange County Realtor

The business that communicates together stays together.

BanCorp Realty puts people before profit

People that come to work at BanCorp Realty end up staying here, normally for quite a while. BanCorp’sbusiness is a party and we have invited all of our existing and future team-members to the party. BanCorp’s management team knows that when it gives its team-members really good directions, everyone will have a great time at the party. Communication in business is the map to the party.

Most real estate companies in Orange County are awful at the art of giving directions and their only communication is poor communication. Lack of communication is caused mainly by two things:

·       * Companies don’t make communication a priority.

·      *   Leadership is so arrogant or fearful that they intentionally under communicate.

It is the opinion of BanCorp’s management team that the majority of real estate companies in Orange County use “mushroom communication” with their team: Keep them in the dark and feed them manure.

·       This is the reason for the atrocious turnover elsewhere in the Orange County real estate industry and inability to keep the best most excellent talent. There is a direct correlation between high turnover and faulty client service.

·       BanCorp has and will continue to have great parties. If we want to create a company that is fun to work for, where productivity and creativity are HUGE, we will maintain a culture of open communication at all times with each and every team-member!

Greg Steinaker, CEO: “If our team-members don’t know what is going on with the company they are by definition not a team, so we end up with employees, (Definition of Employee: “An employee is someone who comes in late, leaves early, and steals (time) while they are there.”) not team-members. When the team doesn’t know what is going on, fear and anger set in. When people don’t know the truth they generally will grow a huge pile of negative garbage in their minds that is 10 times worse than reality.”

Most people assume the worst times 10 when management hasn’t built trust with them by telling them the whole truth. Fear, frustration, anger, and distrust become the company culture when there is poor communication. This all leads to a culture of secrets, gossip and tons of missed opportunities. Greg Steinaker: “…a culture of secrets, gossip and tons of missed opportunities” That is a definition of 95% of Real Estate companies that BanCorp Realty is competing against.

BanCorp RealEstate Group is in the process of hiring excellent Realtor’s. The company is more interested in character and integrity than a professional’s real estate pipeline or projected sales for the next 6 months. BanCorp Realty puts people before profit because it is a purpose-driven company that uses a commonsense approach to real estate. “Why” BanCorp does real estate is much more important than “What” or “How” BanCorp does real estate. To learn more about BanCorpRealty visit us at: www.bancorprealty.com or call 949.207.9999 ask to speak with Greg Steinaker.

“Psssst Hey we can get you a lot more for your home than that other Realtor, oh and by the way we just opened our new regional real estate office in Tijuana”

Here is some good unsolicited advice to consider when you are choosing a Realtor and deciding what strategic price point you want to set for your home as you come out of the gate and open up bidding on your home. When you sign your listing agreement, unless there is already a pre-arranged buyer in place to close within minutes of the home appearing on the Orange County MLS (a smart marketing tool to the listing agent if a buyer was secured without the need of marketing on the internet, publicly) no one knows what the home will eventually sell for – no one. If a real estate claims that “I can definitely get you ‘this much’ or ‘that much’” when ‘that much’ is not significantly below prevailing market rates – they are not telling you the truth.

What is the fair market value of an Orange County home? I am glad you asked! It is the amount that the buyer and seller agree that it is (I could throw in a lot of big words and stuff like that but it is not more complicated than this). Since the Realtor is not You nor the Seller, how can “They” tell You how much the home will eventually sell for? Are they the ones who are making the final decision in this real estate transaction? Any Realtor making claims to being able to secure a certain amount of market value – again if this amount is not below current market values – is not a straight shooter, playing financial Russian roulette with your family’s home equity. Put another way: Can a stock broker predict what the market value of a stock will be in 30 days? How about 60 days? If they claimed that they could the Feds would probably throw them in the can. If a seasoned stock broker with a series 7, 63 and whatever other licenses they are required to carry these days can’t predict a blue-chip stock like Apple over the next 30 days, how can a Realtor figure out the final sales price of your home? They can’t, only you can, you and the buyer.

What is the point of this article? When you are ready to sell your home, you want to be in and out of the transaction as fast as possible – at the best possible price. The phrase time is money is hyper-sensitive here in Orange County real estate, more so here than anywhere else in the United States. BanCorp Realty buys and sells real estate faster than any other Orange County Realtor, and you need to have the home priced well to start with, but if it is not perfect don’t fret. You could spend weeks going through the “on your mark, get set…” “on your mark, get set…” never making it to “Go” because you and you were so concerned with pricing the home perfectly from the start.

In my opinion, the most important thing is to make sure you are working with a master marketing real estate company – this is where you really make value in your home. If you Realtor is able to get new eyes on your home that other Realtors can’t, you are way ahead of the game. More views on your home should translate into more offers leading to increasing demand on your home which can only drive up prices. Remember, only you and the buyer will finalize the true market value of the home. You could price your home 100,000 over market or 100,000 under market to start with – it really doesn’t matter, eventually at sale it will close at a price close to prevailing market rates at exact final selling price agreed upon by You and the Seller.

BanCorp Realty buys and sells real estate faster than any other Orange County real estate agency. That is why our trademark is easier and faster™ real estate. BanCorp Realty has been serving Orange County Real Estate since 1995 and serves each local Orange County Neighborhood.

BanCorp’s Momentum Theory of Business: Orange County Real Estate

Focused Intensity over Time multiplied by God equals unstoppable Momentum

FOCUS: There are two primary reasons management loses their focus. The 1st is fear. The 2nd is greed.

• Fear will cause a company to lose its focus every time because they are looking at all the potentials for failure instead of concentrating on success.

When a company gets greedy they are taking their eyes off the good of their client and lose focus. Greed will take a company out of the moment and into a sense of celebrating victories that have not yet been earned.

INTENSITY: Some people don’t think of themselves as intense until they find something that they care deeply about. They make the mistake of being intense for the wrong things (ever get cut off in traffic?).

• BanCorp’s management is intentional in our intensity. Our intensity is purposefully directed at things that really matters and purposefully not directed at things that don’t.

TIME: Most people can focus if they concentrate. And most people can be intense for a while. Focused intensity at some level can be achieved by most people if and when they care enough about a certain outcome. However, few people can add the next element of the formula for very long – Time. BanCorp’s management has proven able to maintain focused intensity for long periods of time.

As a team at BanCorp we work our rear-ends off for 3 years and all of a sudden we are “an overnight success”. Amazing how these things happen. If we bust our humps for 3 year we probably are going to get “lucky” quite a bit.

GOD:  We are all finite. Our skills, abilities and talents have a limit. Wouldn’t our limited efforts as humans be multiplied by an infinite God?

• If faith was added to the equation, wouldn’t it seem natural that our comparatively puny efforts as humans could literally explode with even an ounce of faith?

• As a good lesson for life and for business, if we are trying to gain momentum in marketing, business, in our marriage,  in our physical condition, in our parenting… we take our best focused intensity over time and multiply it by God for unstoppable momentum.

BanCorp’s Theory of Momentum in Business: Focused Intensity over Time multiplied by God equals unstoppable  Momentum.

BanCorp Realty - Ethics in Orange County Real Estate

As management of BanCorp Real Estate Group a well-defined code of ethics makes decision making easier, faster and more efficient. The simple principal this organization is based upon. Is to ask if, when making this decision, the move causes us to lie or hide the truth (which is a type of lying), if the answer is yes, we know what the decision is to be made and it is a really easy decision.

 

This may seem very obvious, but when under large or stressful situation that can be made to go away by sweeping it under the rug, it is tempting to do so, even for those within the firm with the highest integrity and ethics. But if we hold true to this principle and all leaders and management hold each other accountable with these Guiding Values, we will not fail. It is all about doing the right thing in real estate

Another guiding value That BanCorp Realty’s management follows is the Real Golden Rule “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” As management we must always ask ourselves, if the tables were turned, if we were walking in the other guy’s shoes, how would we want to be treated?

  

Reverse Real Gold Rule As a firm we strive to operate by the Golden Rule. Be thoughtful of others. However, we aren’t wimps either. We are playing the game to win. This is business. The business of business is business. If we are going to do unto others as we would have them do unto us… We feel that this is a two way street. As management we should expect the same from our competition and our vendors. We will not repay evil with evil.  However, if our best, most reliable vendor steals one of our employees we’ll cut them off in a second.

BanCorp Realty: People before profit.

From the desk of C.E.O. Greg Steinaker

 

One Passion. New Perspectives. Epic Possibilities.

An encompassing statement from BanCorp Realty’s C-Suite Management:

“The real estate industry is begging… pleading! for a new adapted, intelligent, quantum step away from its present antiquated marketing model, consisting of high-tech leads passed on to mostly uniformed sales agents representing impassionate, visionless corporate entities. Bancorp Real Estate Group believes that actions speak louder than words and refuses to conform to the exceedingly decreasing expectations that homeowners now have in their real estate companies.”

“The Irvine Holding Company through: Bancorp Real Estate Group, provides and administers superior real estate products and services. At surpassing levels we will diligently strive to be the customer’s first choice in the marketplace. We will succeed by treating our clients, vendors, and the communities we serve exactly as we would wish to be treated, with care, courtesy and respect. We will insure our stakeholder’s continuous sharing in the rewards of our success through maintaining a companywide atmosphere of excellence and integrity. Our achievements are realized through our commitment to O.N.E.™ purpose driven resolve - Truth in Real Estate.”

One Passion

New Perspectives

Epic Possibilities

BanCorp Realty is the Orange County Real Estate Zephyr™

From The Desk of Greg Steinaker, CEO

BanCorp’s management team leads from the front

Why BanCorp can be different and better in the Orange County real estate market at the same time:

The Bible says: “…a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

In other words; a real estate professional who can’t make up their mind or make a decision is unstable, unpredictable and can cause ruin to the real estate transaction. A double minded Orange County real estate agent will not last long within the real estate community. BanCorp Real Estate Group’s Management will never allow our decisions to be swayed or be based on fear or intimidation.

If we are doing anything that really matters in the Orange County real estate marketplace, meaning we are making a difference in our company, with our team-members, in our communities:  influencing the direction of our company we can absolutely count on criticism, because we are leading from the front, and we aren’t afraid of it – because it comes with the territory. Winner’s get criticized - talking trash in Orange County real estate is common

 

At the end of the day – when all is said and done, fear of the gripes and complaints from do-nothing real estate people, with shallow responses from the opposition can’t keep BanCorp’s management from making the tough call - the decision. Right or wrong, and then standing behind it. If fear and gripes from do-nothing people shake us – we are no longer real estate leaders, and we are no longer being audacious in the Orange County real estate market.

 

BanCorp Realty: The Orange County Real Estate Zephyr

 

From the desk of CEO Greg Steinaker

It’s not about words: It is action and attitude

BanCorp Realty is Orange County’s Buyers Agent – Buyers Agent Direct

Each local Orange County BanCorp Realtor® will answer each question you have, provide you with expert Orange County real estate knowledge and advice and show your family every home that meets your own unique criteria. As an Orange County Buyers Agent we will also quickly rule out homes that don’t meet your qualifications, helping you find your dream home easier and faster™ saving you a whole lot of time and making the search for your next Orange County home so much more effective, less worrisome and free of frustration.

As Orange County’s best buyers agent we know how valuable your time is and we know how disappointing it is when a Realtor® takes forty-five minutes of your time to drive to a home that you immediately rule out at first site. If they simply had taken the time to carefully listen to your family’s needs and requirements in the first place these mistakes would not occur. In Orange County in can take 45 minutes to drive from Newport Beach to Coto De Caza, when there is no traffic, having a BanCorp Realtor® that knows exactly what you are looking for, can screen properties and do advanced walk-through’s for you saves you time and lot’s of headaches.

This is why BanCorp Realty is the Orange County real estateZephyr: this is why BanCorp Realty makes buying and selling homes in Orange County easier and faster™.

From the desk of CEO Greg Steinaker 

The Orange County Zephyr®: Official Orange County BanCorp Real Estate Blog,

BanCorp Real Estate Group is a full service Orange County, CA real estate brokerage specializing in South Orange County. Visit our site to instantly see all available Orange County homes for sale and get immediate access to complete Orange County real estate data – including multiple property photos, interactive Orange County maps and detailed Orange County neighborhood statistics and information and much more (we are a purpose-driven real estate company and present an outstanding website for our clients to view). BanCorp Realty makes Orange County real estate easier and faster™ and we love to share all of the relevant real estate knowledge that we have acquired since 1995 – from key Orange County market data to distinct and unique advice, available in an easy to read format. This BanCorp real estate blog is a way to connect you to the Orange County real estate market and community; that means that whether you are a home buyer or a home seller; or just someone interested in the Orange County  real estate market – this blog will be interesting for both you and your family.

BanCorp Realty is audacious in the Orange County, CA real estate market

We will not suffer from Analysis Paralysis

BanCorp Real Estate Group refuses to suffer from “analysis paralysis”, worrying about every conceivable outcome, taking risks means taking a “screw-it, lets-do-it mentality” and this is why we are not an ordinary Orange County real estate brokerage. If we fall flat on our face, which we have been known to do, we pick ourselves back up, dust ourselves off and keep on keeping on… 

If we haven’t failed it means we haven’t tried!

When we have set seemingly impossible challenges we make what people believe impossible possible: This is why BanCorp Realty is called the Orange County Real Estate Zephyr. Can BanCorp lower the average close of escrow from forty-five days down to 30-days? We are determined to try.

From the desk of BanCorp CEO Greg Steinaker

BanCorp Real Estate Group is a full service Orange County, CA real estate brokerage specializing in South Orange County. Visit our site to instantly see all available Orange County homes for sale and get immediate access to complete Orange County real estate data – including multiple property photos, interactive Orange County maps and detailed Orange County neighborhood statistics and information and much more (we are a purpose-driven real estate company and present an outstanding website for our clients to view). BanCorp Realty makes Orange County real estate easier and faster™ and we love to share all of the relevant real estate knowledge that we have acquired since 1995 – from key Orange County market data to distinct and unique advice, available in an easy to read format. This BanCorp real estate blog is a way to connect you to the Orange County real estate market and community; that means that whether you are a home buyer or a home seller; or just someone interested in the Orange County  real estate market – this blog will be interesting for both you and your family.