Makeover 2 Takeover

Team Tex-La

Lia Carter-Mentor & Josh Lazaro-Apprentice

Joshua Lazaro-Apprentice Liz Carter -Mentor...above & below water...literally!

Now that I figured out how to get on this official site to post our pictures and a little about us...Look Out World...we are Unbeatable! Unstoppable! Committed! Focused! Winners!

Oh yea, we have to do the contest first, not to worry our fearless leader as I now refer to Rich has issued our fist challenge. Let's see what was it? Oh yea, Database! How appropriate that our fist challenge is the very foundation of a successful real estate business, period! There is no way to become truly successful and build a business without one. Your data base is the only true asset you have.

If you wanted to sell you Real Estate business how much do you think it is worth? Honestly ask yourself, "What would someone be willing to pay me for my company?" You are your company, you are a business, which is one of the problems with most real estate agents, they do not think of themselves as "business people", they think of themselves as "independent contractors". OK I can hear it now; "Who does she think she is? , "That's the silliest thing I ever heard of" , "I'm a top producer", etc. Well, it's not, and I know many Realtors who have sold their company, themselves, for a ton of money...could you? To give you another point of view, Insurance salespeople call it "selling their book of business", it's their data base. Of course they also refer to themselves as sales people and prospect for business...do you?

If you answered no, then you are in the right place, so get ready to grow your business and learn. Active Rain has presented you with a very large gift, you could even say a large check, so thank you Active Rain, and our fearless Leader, Rich for assembling some of the finest Realtors on Active Rain to teach you what they know. Do you realize what it would cost you to find out what they are laying out for you for FREE? I hope so, and I also hope that everyone on Active Rain will pay attention, even those "Top Producers" "Multi Million Dollar Agents" out there as Bryant Tutas put it so hysterically in the video on his post he did, if you missed it check out Makeover to Takeover. The best protege ever!!!, too funny, and soooooo true. So let's ALL GET OUR EGO'S OUT OF THE WAY, and have some fun and lean a lot! Fair enough? Just to peak your attention that agent I know that sold her company...she got 1.2 MILLION, that's, $1,200,000., that's a lot of zero's! When you remove the E from ego it spells GO!

Thanks for the opportunity I plan on taking really good notes myself, because there is a ton I don't know!

A little background on Team Tex-La. Josh is from Metairie, LA and I am from Katy, TX...hence our name :), we have adjoining state borders, so we are not too far geographically, we met on Active Rain. Josh is a very nice young man who has just finished his first year in real estate with 9 transactions. He's embarrassed about that, but he shouldn't be considering the average agent only sells 2-3 homes a year. Josh however is not your average agent and jumped on the chance this contest offered him. When I ask about his data base...well index cards do not count! Sorry Josh don't get mad at me for telling your secretes, we are all here to learn and from reading some of the comments you are not alone. Josh is not married and when I ask about friends, etc. that we could start adding to his data base (once he gets one...not telling which one yet) he said, "Well most all of my friends and people I knew left after hurricane Katerina" ! Yes we have our work to do and already have our plan (not telling that either, yet). So your apprentice on Tex-La is male, young, inexperienced, an analytical and eager to learn. Now for me, I got my real estate licence in 1976, and have been selling every since. I just had my 60th birthday, I'm married, I'm a scuba diver, and I have a red poodle I adore, Rhett Butler. My highest year was 248 homes sold in one year. So your Mentor on Team Tex-La is female, "old", experienced, a driver and eager to learn.

Please help cheer us on, along with all the other of the great teams Active Rain and Rich Jacobson has put at your doorstop!

"Where there is no risk, there is no achievement...where there is no achievement there is no happiness."