Thursday, January 16, 2014
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
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.
Monday, January 13, 2014
Why BanCorp does Orange County real estate is more important than what we do.
What we do?
In the capacity of an Orange County
Real Estate Agency: Bancorp Real Estate
Group
BanCorpReal Estate Group represents homeowners looking to sell their existing Orange
County: home, condominium, or rental property on the open market, wishing to
engage the expertise of professional real estate agency, expecting results
consistent with those promised and executed at the onset of the listing
agreement, acting in the capacity of a seller or dual agent.
BanCorpRealty represents homebuyers, assisting in financing when requested, who have
recently sold, or previously sold their existing home (or is in the process of
being sold, demonstrated through an ‘open escrow’) and are in the process of
searching for their next home which may or may not be listed on the open
market, acting in the capacity of a buyer or dual agent.
BanCorp
Realtor® Bankers Group represents first time homebuyers, assisting with
financing when requested, seeking to purchase their first home, condominium or
rental property, which may or may not be listed on the open market, acting in
the capacity of a buyer’s agent.
Why we do it?
·
Because each BanCorp Realtor® wants to
be “on fire” and “passionate” in what we do, and we believe that each of us
wants to make a positive difference in not only our lives but the lives of our
families, and the communities that we serve in.
·
Because BanCorp knows that the real
estate industry is ready to start hearing fresh new words revolving around acts
of, gratitude, patience, loyalty, kindness and goodness: not gossip,
back-biting, self-centered, do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-to-the-top, thinking.
·
Because BanCorp Real Estate Group
believes that the real estate industry is begging, pleading! for a new a new
adapted, intelligent quantum step away from its present antiquated marketing
model, consisting of high-tech leads passed on to uniformed sales agents
representing impassionate, vision less corporate entities.
·
Because BanCorp wants to give the
glory to God, by serving others, treating each other exactly as we would like
to be treated, we care, courtesy and respect.
·
Because BanCorp Real Estate Group knows
that a company culture that promotes learning, creativity and risk-taking is a
much prone for success than a company that uses a fear-based approach to
business. We all want to acquire more knowledge, and as human beings we all
want to excel and be the best we that we can be.
·
Because all of us should be doing this
because we want to, not because we have to.
·
Because if we are all building up
lives that we don’t feel that we need to escape from, we won’t spend all of our
time worrying about our next vacation.
Because
BanCorp Realtor® Bankers Group know that people will occasionally do business
with someone because of “what they do” and sometimes they
will do so because of “how they do it” but when they
understand “why they do it” that company will most likely have a client
for life.
From the
desk of Greg Steinaker
BanCorp Realty: Orange County Realtor - We listen more than we talk
God gave us two
ears and one mouth for a reason
Every
rookie-poorly trained real estate agent feels the need to jump into every
pregnant pause and add some not-so-brilliant insights. To ask a question from
an existing or potential client and then add some more unsolicited information
before the question is answered is not only rude, it is completely
unprofessional. If you see this embarrassing character flaw in your existing
realtor, this should be throwing up red flags all over the place. BanCorp RealEstate Group believes that when a person talks too much and listens too little,
what they are doing is communicating to others that they think that their ideas
are much more important than other people’s – in other words they are being
egotistical. Who wants to do business with an egotistical Orange County
Realtor?
Whatever you
focus on – pulls you. Whatever you focus on – gets your attention. So when BanCorpRealty focuses our attention on our client and all of their needs, wants and
concerns – instead of our own, we will lead them through the process, going
through any obstacle, circumstance, trouble or headache head-on, not trying to
navigate around it by pushing our client but rather by pulling our client
through it in a position of influence, determination and authority.
BanCorp Realty is
a group of real estate professionals who leads a client. A winner who sets the
pace, determining the environment that the process will operate in is not a
natural skill that we are born with and it took a lot of practice to develop
this talent. We can’t control every circumstance (and it would be insane to
even try to) and we can’t always control the way we feel about the other
parties to the transaction – good or bad. But we can control the way we think
about it by managing the process as a decisive, credible leader who has won our
client’s confidence and assurance from the start – by listening more than we
talk we know what are clients ultimate goal are and we are able to get them
there – easier and faster™.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Orange County Real Estate, BanCorp Realty Leads the Way
A Humble Plug For BanCorp Real Estate Group
BanCorp Realty was created to be an excellent
real estate company. Superior in all we do demonstrated not through arrogance
or pride, but rather through a sense of humility shown by our service to others
instead of selves. Our determination lies not in conforming to the expectations
of the existing Orange County real estate market, but rather in redefining how
a homeowner interacts with their real estate firm, from start to finish, from
top to bottom, from leading-edge technology to authenticity in customer service.
BanCorp knows that we miss out on 100% opportunities
we might have had because of the risk we didn’t take. We also know
that risk taking is inherently subject to frustration, even failure. Otherwise,
it would be called sure-thing-taking. BanCorp REG is not here to continue in the
status quo framework which is all too present within the Orange County real
estate market. Instead we have decided to lead from the front by affecting
change to a market that which has quietly been begging, even pleading for a
truly entrepreneurial business model for years, even decades. BanCorp Real Estate Group is a business in action, a business in motion that is making a
difference with everyone that we have the opportunity to come across on our
separate, yet mutual paths.
A model designed first and foremost to allow the homeowner and
home-buyer to share in the rewards of their success in home ownership. Allowing
technology to drive the fundamentals of the real estate sales process is the
building block which almost every real estate company is founded upon. BanCorp REG is committed to making this technology even easier and faster™. Once the
technology has reached its limit in the real estate process, BanCorp believes
that people doing business with people will never change. Integrity behind the
‘glitz and glamour’ is everything. Where a simple ‘yes’ means ‘yes’, and a ‘no’
means ‘no’, a company must be able to be taken for its word.
Integrity is BanCorp's strategic
advantage. Where others in the real estate industry may act with integrity most
times, or act with integrity in most way, We will stand alone at the top by
acting with integrity at all times and in all ways. Integrity means
walking our talk, honoring our commitments, telling the truth as fast as we
can, leading from the front, under promising and over delivering, paying
attention to details, giving back, and treating good people with kindness,
consideration and care.
We realize that there must be a balance
between our company’s pursuit of possibilities with the fulfillment of our
corporate responsibility in each action we take, each word that we speak.
Reaching the lofty goals set by this organization will only occur through
treating each step in the real estate process with equal attention and
enthusiasm, big or small. Every detail in the real estate method requires
action not passivity. Purpose-driven action motivated by a functional,
people-driven plan, not perpetual trial and error.
We believe that if you are prepared as a company and you are willing to
put every ounce of energy that you have to a purpose-driven effort, willing to
do what it takes, it is not a risk! We just have to figure out how to get
there: At BanCorp, there is always a way to get there. If we want to stand out
in the real estate industry we can either be different, or we can be excellent
– we choose both.
Monday, September 2, 2013
Orange County Real Estate - It Is Always Something!
I.I.A.S.
One of the great lessons that people learn while going through
the process of a home search or selling a home, is that everything is broken.
And because everything is broken, we can usually break things down into four
simple words “It Is Always Something”. This is also a great lesson for our lives, our
relationships and for business. Nothing in this world goes the way it is
supposed to… Everything is messed up and people, machines, businesses and
everything else you can think of are always making mistakes or breaking down. Let’s
face it we are all a bunch of knuckleheads! Everything is broken!
If you think about it, there is a great
deal of truth in this statement. Our economy is broken, our ecosystem is
broken, the United Nations is broken, heck, my bathroom shower is broken.
Nothing is perfect, and if we take this back to a real estate related article, when
you in the process of buying or preparing to list your home, if you are presently
speaking with an agent that you have even the slightest question in, integrity,
character or capability this “It Is Always Something” reality
might lightly be a big headache later on, even though they might make good
promises and have great smiles.
If you have had your home listed for a
while now and find yourself muttering “It Is Always Something”
(or something similar to that) all too frequently, it might be time to part
ways. It is never a fun experience, but most likely this is your largest asset,
a bruised feeling is okay. “It It Always Something” will never go away (sorry).
However, the “It Is Always Something” in a real
estate transaction should never be because of no, or lack of offers, or if
buying, no acceptance of offers.
If you are looking for a home on your
own, or if you have listed your home, for sale by owner, I highly suggest you
contact a BanCorp Realtor® to list your property. In the grand scheme of
things, there is too much at stake to save you a wimpy 3%. You see if you are
searching on your own by bouncing around between open houses you are searching
by ‘Trial and Error”.
And when you search by ‘trial and error’
your “It Is Always Something” become much more
frequent, as you simply aren’t seeing the whole market, and are missing out on
other massive amounts of information. Your search will likely become extended
and frustrating. This is quite the opposite of easier and faster.
So, how do you eliminate the “It Is Always
Something” in a home
search? I believe the first way is for the person to make the conscious
decision to start with a plan with agent they decide to work with, and then
‘run the race’ under the rules that they determine together, not the rules and
expectations set by someone else (the entire real estate market with all its
personalities and moving parts). Just as a simple example: You set your criteria at; maximum purchase
price $800,000, detached, full or partial ocean view, minimum 12,000 sq. ft
lot, deferred maintenance is okay-you are an excellent handyman).
You and your agent agree to stay to plan.
You find the home that meets your criteria (it isn’t perfect, but it meets your
requirements). It is a single family, detached, single-story home, with a pool
on a quarter-acre lot with a decent view of
the ocean - it needs some repairs. You set the offer at $750,000 and decided
you will not budge. You will purchase the home ‘as is’ and will place $40,000
into escrow today. If the seller won’t accept you offer within 72 hours, you
will pull your offer, and there will be no counter-offers (you make sure that
your agent lets there agent aware of this). Now that is a specific goal – a
person could be even more specific.
In this very generic example, the key is
staying with your resolve, sticking to your guns, not flinching. Playing the
games under your rules, not the rules and expectations set by someone else.
At BanCorp Real Estate Group our home buyer has clear goals because we work with them in setting them
because our experience shows that when we do this goal setting (maybe 20-30
minutes) they will save time and they will save money because they are
comparing ‘apples to apples’. Since they know the type of home they want along
with other amenities, each home should resemble the other – as it relates to
price and amenity. Goal setting by creating a set game plan, before we jump
into the market, eliminates the ‘trial and error’
of buying or selling of a home.
By eliminating ‘trial
and error’ real estate, we are also greatly reducing the “It Is Always Something” factor in real estate. BanCorp offers an industry unique
open-ended right to cancel to each of our clients. If at any time – any - a
client feels that they are being, underserved, overlooked or simply change
their minds about moving forward with the transaction – they can cancel their
contract*. BanCorp REG takes a stand against
agencies that will say anything or do anything to get or save a listing.
So, in life there will always be “It Is Always Something” because we don’t live in a
perfect world. When you work BanCorp, we certainly won’t
tell you whatever you want to hear so we can get the listing, if we believe you
are buying more of a house than you can afford, we’ll say so. What you will find is a company with a
time-tested track record of consistency, perseverance and reliability, dating
back to 1996, all here locally in South Orange County. The “It Is Always Something” will never disappear in real
estate we just hope to bring down to a different, much more manageable level
without surprises or disappointments.
we
did. so you can. let’s.
Greg Steinaker is the C.E.O of BanCorp Real Estate Group
*prior to acceptance
receipt or acceptance of offer.
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