Why You Should First Work On Consistency • Learning With A Lender • Joel Schaub

Welcome to the August episode of Learn with a Lender with Joel Schaub of Guaranteed Rate! In this episode, Joel discusses why educating new agents in real estate business is crucial and how growing positivity will help them handle stress. Joel also talks about work ethics and the importance of having consistency, setting priorities and discipline and how they lead agents to good relationships with their clients. 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 is brought to you by Real Geeks. Transcript D.J. Paris 0:00We're approaching our 500th episode. And I just wanted to say that the number one characteristic that I've learned from all of the agents that we've had on our show of top producers has been consistency. We're going to dive into that today. Stay tuned. This 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 keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Harris, I am your guide and host through the show 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. He's been doing loans at a high level since 2003. 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. In fact, last year alone, Joe gave back over $300,000 in closing costs to buyers who worked with him and that puts Joe's volume in the top 1/10 of 1% of all lenders nationwide. In fact, there's actually 400,000 loan officers in this in the United States. And Joel is currently ranked number 137. Now this year alone, he's closed. Oh my gosh, I just screwed something up. Joel. My numbers just got screwy. So could you please tell us your numbers? I apologize. My eye numbers are screwy too. It's crazy. I know. Yeah, right now, I mean, we're lucky enough to be just under $75 million clos...