Even though Homes for Heroes Real Estate Specialist, Kim Roark, comes from a small town, she hasn't let that stop her from becoming a top producing real estate agent. Kim Roark joins us on this episode to share how she repeatedly she came up against a 3 million dollar ceiling early on in her career and how she eventually broke through it. Now she is doubling her business by truly specializing and getting back to her WHY of serving others. Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: Visit: Like: Follow: Tweet: Connect:

This week on R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes, we are joined by a long standing top producing mortgage specialist, Jamie Harrington, who has achieved success by finding stability in a fluid real estate industry. With 25+ years of experience in the industry this top producing mortgage professional has a wealth of career lessons she’s learned along the way that can help anyone from a newbie real estate or mortgage professional to a seasoned pro either succeeding or even struggling. Jamie Harrington, the #4 HFH Mortgage Specialist in the nation joins us to share the things she’s learned along the way, the lessons she’s been taught having to restart after having a wildly successful business and the success strategies she now uses that have earned her the status of being a top producing mortgage professional in the industry.   Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: Visit: Like: Follow: Tweet: Connect:

Homes for Heroes Real Estate Specialist, Andrea shares how a wise tip early on from her pre-licensing instructor propelled her real estate career quickly. She’ll also share with you her no-nonsense, “keep it simple” way of doing business that has helped her close nearly 200 hero clients and 300 transactions total all by herself in just 3.5 years. No big marketing expenses, no lead gen expenses, just working her SOI, focusing on making her clients feel like they’re the most important and turning them into her little foot soldiers that keep spreading her name and growing her business. Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: https://bit.ly/360EULy Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect:

Joanne’s been an affiliate for 7+ years and has closed hundreds of heroes. She has also helped us in delivering 2-3 of our Foundation Grants in the local DC metro area. She has a heart of gold and a passion for helping others. Her strengths she filled in were: Authenticity,  Ongoing Communication, Genuine care for others. This will be a lot about heart, about serving not selling, about genuinely showing up to help others and about ensuring your clients are well informed, well educated and well cared for with open lines of communication. Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: https://bit.ly/32Cj7rC Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect:

On this week's episode, we are joined by a husband and wife team who really hit the ground running in the real estate business by committing to consistently market, lead generate and learn. As a stay at home mom and a full-time sales manager they both got their real estate licenses with plans of opening their own brokerage as soon as they possibly could. Kirk and Amanda Gaskin have learned a lot in a short period of time. But with their hunger for knowledge and an unbelievably complimentary set of skills they have certainly succeeded along the journey.   Tune in and hear how they discovered a way to differentiate themselves by having a unique value proposition very early on in their careers has helped catapult them quickly and continue to succeed over the years. And with his sales and training background Kirk also shares a few tips about scripts and letting the silence do the heavy lifting for you in perfectly placed pauses. They’ll also give you an insiders look about the systems and tools they’re using to expand their lead generation reach and increase their conversion rate. Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: https://bit.ly/3bH1v0w Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect:

Thinking he could do things better, Caleb Shaw got into the real estate industry after a personal real estate transaction gone wrong. From a brand new agent to now a successful broker owner of his own thriving brokerage, Caleb certainly has proven that he can in fact do things better. In fact Shaw takes the approach of not only doing things better by his clients but doing things differently too in helping enhance and elevate the community that he helps his clients buy and sell homes in. It’s all about thinking outside the box, challenging the status quo and leaving a positive impact on not only the lives you do business with but on the community you serve as a whole. That approach has helped Shaw grow to becoming the #4 Homes for Heroes Real Estate Team in the nation and one that helps him grow in transactions and in agents year over year.    Guest Bio  Using tomorrow’s technology combined with old fashioned values, Caleb’s goal is to meet the current needs of all his customers and clients. Customer satisfaction is the foundation upon which Shaw Realty was founded, and Caleb strives to help build upon that. Most people have forgotten that buying their first new home is supposed to be an exciting time, and if that went sour, the thought of doing it over again can be downright depressing, Caleb intends to change that perception, one satisfied customer at a time. Care, loyalty, integrity, confidentiality…just a few of the things any client deserves, but undoubtedly enjoy. Caleb is a member of the Victoria Board of Realtors, the Texas Association of Realtors, and the National Association of Realtors.  Additionally, Caleb is one of only five Victoria, TX Realtors to have earned the Texas Affordable Housing Specialist award, signifying his desire to help more Texans achieve their dreams of homeownership. Caleb has been a proud member of Homes for Heroes for over 5 years. By becoming an affiliate of this program Caleb is able to bring the excellent benefits to Victoria County Heroes.  As a veteran, Caleb knows firsthand the sacrifices made by heroes in all the different career fields.   Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: https://bit.ly/3lRAqwv Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect:

This week’s show has a fresh and unique perspective from a top producer in the real estate industry on how to apply skills from previous careers to create new success in real estate. Nikki Moore, now a top producing real estate agent, started her professional life out as a cop with ambitions to become the Deputy Chief of Police. When her family dynamics changed with new kiddos at home so did her career path. On this week's show Nikki shares the lessons she learned in law enforcement and how she’s been able to apply those to her successful real estate career. Having also been a negotiator in law enforcement she shares tips on how to connect with others, how to manage potentially unrealistic expectations and how to bring color, not make things so black and white, with both clients and agents on the other side of the transaction to help win negotiations. She also gets super candid with her struggle to find a work and family life balance and the steps she has taken that now allow her to be more present at home. Plus she’ll share exactly how she’s grown her team, some of the missteps she had early on and the things she’s done to adapt through it all to become the incredibly successful yet powerfully genuine and humble person she is today. Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here:   JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: https://bit.ly/34A4jLr Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect:

By mastering her local marketing efforts, Homes for Heroes Mortgage Specialist, Angie Turley has been able to achieve so much more success than she ever imagined. Immersing her business into her local community has allowed Angie to grow her database and create a steady flow of business. But more importantly, it has led to Angie quadrupling her business and moving over 100 transactions in one year. Tune in to this episode of R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes Angie Turley shares her secrets on how she has leveraged community events and other local marketing tactics to become one of Homes for Heroes top producing Mortgage Specialists. JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers: https://bit.ly/2Q8lAmn Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect:

By pursuing his purpose in real estate, Homes for Heroes Real Estate Specialist, Jim McKinnies, has been able to accomplish so much more than applying meaning to his career. For Jim McKinnies, his purpose is at the core of his business and is what drives his success. Jim has doubled his business year over year using a go-giver attitude to enrich the lives of those around him. And by focusing on the lives of those he serves, Jim has taken his business from a two person real estate team into a thriving and successful brokerage that ranks #2 in the nation among Homes for Heroes Real Estate Specialist Teams. And now he joins us on R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes to share the meaningful actions he takes everyday, to fulfill his purpose and achieve success with his real estate business.

George and Julie Green, husband and wife, as well as top producing real estate agents join R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes to share how they built their successful real estate business through a wealth of referrals. When the Green’s grew tired of paying for leads, they discovered their life mission of giving to others could actually make them more successful than they ever thought possible. Shifting their focus from leads and new business to the experience and service they provide their clients has led to an overwhelming amount of referral business. It has also provided the Green’s the opportunity to earn the #9 top producing Homes for Heroes real estate specialists nationwide and Homes for Heroes Circle of Giving award.   George and Julie Green’s Bio George and Julie Green are a husband/wife real estate team from Louisville, KY who believe that giving back to the community is not only a duty but an honor. They both come from families of heroes themselves and understand the hard work and sacrifices that come from choosing those career paths which is one reason why they were so honored to be chosen as partner affiliates with Homes for Heroes. George and Julie have a combined 17 years of real estate experience and opened up their own real estate company in 2009. In 2015, they merged that company with their current brokerage, Exit Realty Crutcher, where they also lead a real estate team called the 502 Realty Group. During their careers, they have earned several awards and recognitions, including George being awarded “Agent of the Year” for Kentucky in 2016 by Exit Realty Corporation. Other awards received include 1st place in sales volume, 1st place in commissions earned, and 1st place in closed ends in 2016. Prior to real estate, Julie was also a licensed clinical social worker and worked in a hospital setting for several years, not only working alongside heroes but also helping other heroes to find services that would better their lives.  Both George and Julie pride themselves on not just being your realtor for a transaction, but becoming your realtor for life and they believe in forming lasting friendships with every client they have. They are so excited to be able to extend these values in the work that they do and love being able to give back even more through the Homes for Heroes program. Join the R.E.A.L. Talk with Homes for Heroes live virtual audience in future episodes here: JOIN HOMES FOR HEROES IN SERVING HEROES AS A REAL ESTATE OR MORTGAGE SPECIALIST Join over 3,000 active real estate agents and mortgage lenders across the nation in serving their community heroes and providing the most hero savings of any nationwide program. Sign up here to speak with one of our account managers https://bit.ly/2XakKcJ Visit:   Like:   Follow:   Tweet:   Connect: