All Forum Posts by: Adam Macias

Who determines the price of a house?

It's always the buyers.

Always. Always.

It's not the Realtor.

It's not the Seller.

It's not the Appraiser.

It's not Zillow.

It's not the News.

Only the buyer.

Doesn't matter if it's 70% of it's ARV.

Or if it's $100k over asking.

So having the right buyers is the

most vital piece of a successful RE career.

It took me a while to completely understand this but the buyer ultimately determines the price of a home because they are the ones making the offer. Doesn't matter if it's 70% of ARV, or $70,000 over asking, it's all up to the buyers and there's so many different buy boxes!

Thanks for the comment Michael!

"There's no good deals in my market."

Honestly, I live for this.

When someone has the mentality of there being

no deals in any market, it just means less competition

for us that have a different mindset.

And really, understanding of what happens in real estate.

Firstly, "good deal" is SO freaking vague.

What's a good deal?

Different strokes for different folks.

Not every buyer is the same.

So your opinion as a real estate agent is not

the fact of the marketplace.

It's better to sell buyers what they want...

rather than what you have.

Read that again.

It's a good idea to sell buyers what they WANT,

meaning it's not up to you to determine what a deal is,

just shop for them,

that's all you got to do.

So that what you HAVE isn't a waste of time

because you could've been running the

numbers wrong anyway.

Cheers.

You're one buyer backing out of a deal before..

going back to a regular job you don't like.

Don't you want to be in real estate FULL time?

Or is real estate just a hobby?

Without the right buyers in Q4, 2026 will be exactly that.

No, you're brother in law is not going to get you rich.

We don't like when someone we know in network marketing approaches us with a new "opportunity"

so why are you doing the same thing with your friends and family?

With the current state of the economy, now is not the time to depend on SOI alone.

Otherwise, you'll be at a bar one day for happy hour at this job you don't like saying:

"Oh, I tried that real estate thing, it's a tough racket."

Marketing > Sales

Because without people knowing you exist,

there's no conversation to begin with.

The only work around is working with a trusted brand who has already done all the work.

Which is the main leverage point real estate agents experience on our Agent Finder with BiggerPockets.

Imagine getting your license today...

But having the trust of 20 years of experience tomorrow.

How would that help you?

I mean, I know how it'll help, I just want you to imagine.

If you're a real estate agent reading this and want to leverage our platform to find more active clients looking for you,

leave a comment down below or send me a DM!

Happy Investing.

As a Featured Real Estate Agent on BiggerPockets, you get clients that are ready to buy today.

In a sea of people complaining about rates...

In a market where people are scared...

In an investing world where people are waiting for a crash..

It's time to imagine a different way.

No need to twiddle one's thumbs after a getting a listing, just hoping someone will make an offer.

Have you been in that situation? Yeah, not cool.

With BiggerPockets, we cure that problem for you... and more.

Message me or leave a comment below to learn what all the hype is about in being a Featured Agent with us.

In July 2024, the median listing time for U.S. homes stretched to 35 days, up from 30 days in July 2023 and just 22 days in July 2022—marking the slowest movement in housing inventory in ten years.

In some markets, it's MUCH longer. This is just national numbers.

This slowdown reflects a meaningful shift in market dynamics: elevated mortgage rates, detached pricing expectations, and diminished buyer urgency are contributing to substantially slower cycles.

For real estate professionals, builders, and investors, this could signal opportunities to recalibrate pricing strategies, marketing approaches, and sales timelines to align with evolving buyer behaviors.

The best buying behavior to be apart of is the investor network.

For the simple reason that they will continue to buy with no emotional escrow.

They don't go by trends, just if the numbers work for today.

That's what I love about seeing with Featured Agents on BiggerPockets.

They get to tap into the network of BiggerPockets clients right when they are ready to buy...

or looking for an agent today to help them acquire more.

Here we are, it's going to be Autumn soon. Are you ready to for the slow down by working with retail buyers...

Or are you going to dominate the season through winter by connecting with the RIGHT buyers?

 Yes exactly! That's the beauty of working with investors that can execute! More consistency, more reputation, more opportunity to scale!

As a real estate agent, you don't know what an investor is.

You truly don't. But it's not your fault.

In a world of online gurus, unfortunately I've been seeing a staggering amount of "coaches" teaching a method that is ruining the reality of real estate investing as we know it...

It's called "Agent Outreach".

This is a method being used by thousands of people to try and find wholesale deals, properties needing work typically below 70% of the ARV, in order to make an assignment fee.

There's nothing inherently wrong with wholesaling.

But this type of method to find deals is horribly misleading agents.

I wish it didn't exist, and truly wish there were more regulation around requirements for wholesalers to just be licensed.

The good news is, we at BiggerPockets teach what real estate investing truly is.

Therefore, if an agent decides to advertise themselves on our Agent Finder, we know they'll get qualified and active investors that buy rentals, STR, house hack or even fix and flip but at least they're not wholesalers.

The biggest compliment we get from our Agent Finder professionals is the repeat business and long term relationships driven from it.

You can get 1 client that buys 6 deals from you between August and December.

How would 1 client like that change your life?

Only investors buy more than one deal. But they must be an actual buyer.

Otherwise, it's smoke and mirrors.

There's three reasons for this:

1. You're stuck in a 2020 mindset.
2. You don't know how to COMP
3. You don't have the right buyers list.