September 30, 2024 • 26 mins
VVC student and realtor Daniel Ramirez is attending Victor Valley College, again. This time, he wants to take his education to the next level. Hear his story about how he overcame mental blocks from family to selling homes as a career. Also, enjoy our "Realtor Rumble" segment on this episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY TO RAMPLIFI to hear more powerful stories! 🎧
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
This is I've always wanted to do this, Like literally,
I like, I've always wanted to make podcasts videos.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, well, why don't you mean personally?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The reason why I wouldn't Well, and this is the
thing with self doubt. You know, self doubt is really
big upon a lot of people, I would say, within
our generation, because we have so many standards that we
have to hit. You know, our parents, you know, want
so much out of us. Yet we want to we
don't have that really that guidance. They say, hey, just
do it, but like, okay, well how do I do it?
(00:34):
You know, when you when you're a real estate agent,
you know, nobody teaches you how you build your clientsele,
you know, how how do you market yourself? How do
you advertise? That's just really something we have to learn ourselves.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Many moons ago, I U when I was doing acting
and stuff. A lot of my friends that I started
with music and acting, they if they weren't from California
and they moved back home, they eventually got out of
the business, they got burned out. And I'm not making
this up. I would say eighty to ninety percent of
them became real estate agents. Yeah, just the other ten
(01:06):
percent became personal fitness trainers. Yeah, but I thought to
myself after I started seeing this trend, like, I guess
that's a good crossover because you're still having to sell
your still sell yourself, market yourself. Instead of getting paid
for a gig, you get paid for each house you sell.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So I thought, well.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
That's you know, if I fail in life, I could
just sell houses. I don't want to sell houses, don't
get me wrong, but I mean, yeah, there's something to
say about people that you know, can sell a car
or sell a house. I mean that is a skill.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know, it takes a lot of a lot of
push for that, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, I have these questions.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I've been surfing the internet and TikTok and every other
social media platform I can to find the most stupid
questions you get asked as a real estate agent, and
these are these are the most popular ones that to
me don't seem far fetched. But I'm going to see
if anyone has ever asked you these questions. Okay, okay,
all right, he has not seen these up until this point,
(02:10):
so this this should be kind of interesting. All right,
have you ever asked, or have you ever been asked?
Can my dog come see the house?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wow, that that's happened before. That's it. Oh no, honestly,
I would in doubt if people would be like that,
you know, because they even have their own little strollers
and yeah and everything.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Fun fact, last year more pet strollers were sold in
South Korea than baby strollers. You guys can fact check
me on that, but that is a fact. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's crazy? Well, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Right, okay, here's one. I feel like you've been told
you've been asked this. Okay, can we come back and
see the place at night?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Honestly? Yeah, I don't know why I've had that question before.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well that's because you see all the crazy stuff happened
in the neighborhood at night. You gotta see what crime
is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I've had that before, and I'm like, h like, wait
a minute, that's kind of weird. So I had someone
go with me.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know, I'm like, oh, stranger, danger, literally because you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Just met the person like you want to come at
night side? You know?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All right, I can't believe someone would ask this question.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
All right, do you have anything on sale, like like
a deal a discount?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh yeah, no, like, oh, would they take like they've
asked like if would they take like one hundred grand less?
And I'm like, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, no. That
was like the first time when I first became an
agent and obviously I was trying to learn everything and
which a straight face, Oh yeah, would they take like
one hundred thousand dollars less than the asking price? I'm like,
I was like, we can see, and I'm like, but
(03:36):
that's not a guarantee because that's very low.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So what happened when you came back and said no.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh no, Honestly, I was like, I can let you know,
and they were like as soon as I said I'll
let you know, they were just like okay, and they
literally just walked right out.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah. Uh has this house been scanned by paranormal activity?
Or also has anyone died in this house?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah, So we have had those ones before. Because
a lot of people don't like it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You have to disclose that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's the law, right, Okay, So if they passed away
within three.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Years when you want to buy a house, this is
what you ask.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's a good thing to know because if they passed
away within three years, they are required. However, if it
happened after three years, they don't have to tell you anything.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let's get let's get to the dirt. Okay. Do you
have to tell them how they died?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Technically, if it happened with the three years, within three years,
the sellers will disclose that and then that's how they'll
find out.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Me personally, I've had a lot of clients where they
find out someone passed away, even if it's of natural causes.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The useful towns is yeah, somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Does you know? And they they didn't like that. They're like,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, there's a lot you have to do.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You have to burn the sage to get rid of
the bad juju or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Go on. Me personally, I know, even if it's a
natural causes, I would just feel very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how
to feel about that.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Okay, all right, Well, when you're buying your house, yeah,
did you say, Hey, I'm selling this house to myself.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Did anyone die here?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So I didn't ask that question, So you can have
some ghosts yeah in your hallway and wouldn't even know it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's the scary part about it, you know. But it
was a great home, so I couldn't let.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It go, all right until like the plates and the
cups are floating around as you're trying to find the remote. Okay,
do you think the homeowner would give me the house
without a down payment?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That face.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Like whoa, yeah, I don't know about that. Un less
they're getting a graph for it. But good luck with
that because down payments required, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And my favorite one, can you lower your commission?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Ooh, that's a fun one. That's a fun way. Even
with listings, you know, they'll go and try, oh, well,
can you lower the commission? So what you have to
what we do is we also have to educate the
seller you know about that because we put money into
investing in their property so that I can sell faster. So,
for example, for our listings, will offer professional photography. It's
(06:01):
easily like four hundred dollars, you know, depending on the
photographer that you use. We'll offer them a moving package
so has like large boxes, medium small scotch tape, wrapping paper, everything,
So that's like five hundred dollars, and then we also
pay a marketing lady and she does our a marketing
for our social media and everything. I personally like to
use my own stuff because I'm just very you know,
I'm a control freak.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So you go home and get your stuff and then
bring it and yeah, fill the house.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So yeah, like staging stuff and all that will stage
and all that. So we put a lot into it.
So we also have to think about, Okay, well we're
investing this much. You know a lot of other agents
don't do what we do, so that's the only reason
why we're doing at this commission. Maybe we can drop
the like half a percent, you know, to work with you,
but you also have to see all the stuff that
we're putting into it, sure, you know, to make it work. Well.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Lastly, Daniel, before we wrap here with you, we'll have
to do this again. You're a fun talk What can
you say to a VVC student that may have an
interest in real estate, you know, like from your own
personal experience, because you know, you're trying to move on
to something outside of that, right, Yeah, But for those
that are kind of just starting their pasts and stuff,
(07:06):
what can you tell them about real estate and what
they could look forward to.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, So me personally, my biggest advice is all that
I say to all the students, you know, even when
I cause I made the like I said, I made
the Ram's Real Estate Club here. So I come and
show up to classes as a guest speaker to educate
the students, and I always let them know you're in
the class right now. But the class is different than
in person. It's different on the field. You'll learn everything
on the field. And if you go and you shadow
someone mentor somebody, go see how it is, you know,
(07:32):
because some agents will go and they'll be like, you
know what, I really don't like this, you know, it's
not for me. And some people be like, hey, I
love this. Let me keep showing up. I'll call you
see what your days like. So get a mentor go
get it or shadow somebody you know, spend a couple
of days with them, Go on a weekend, go to
an open house, go to a listing, you know, go
to appraisals, do home inspections, see how the flow is,
see how the paperwork is it at And honestly, I
(07:55):
I'm like a sponge. So it's literally not really rocket science.
It really isn't. It just takes the effort to want
to learn, and it's and it's nice, you know, and
you know you're making a really big impact for that individual,
and you're also making a pretty you know, substantial amount
of money to be able to do something like that.
You know. So if you have that passion to want
to help people and you love helping people, get out
(08:16):
there and try it out. That that's my main advice,
you know, for anybody in real estate.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
All right, hey, thanks for joining us on ramplifying. Huh,
and you'all take care. We'll see you on the next
one Ramplify. The podcast is filmed. They're recorded in vict
This is I've always wanted to do this, Like literally,
I like, I've always wanted to make podcasts videos.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Well, well, why don't you mean personally?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The reason why I wouldn't Well, and this is the
thing with self doubt. You know, self doubt is really
big upon a lot of people, I would say, within
our generation, because we have so many standards that we
have to hit. You know, our parents, you know, want
so much out of us. Yet we want to we
don't have that really that guidance. They say, hey, just
do it, but like, okay, well how do I do it?
(00:34):
You know, when you when you're a real estate agent,
you know, nobody teaches you how you build your clientsele,
you know, how how do you market yourself? How do
you advertise? That's just really something we have to learn ourselves.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
You know.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Many moons ago, I U when I was doing acting
and stuff. A lot of my friends that I started
with music and acting, they if they weren't from California
and they moved back home, they eventually got out of
the business, they got burned out. And I'm not making
this up. I would say eighty to ninety percent of
them became real estate agents. Yeah, just the other ten
(01:06):
percent became personal fitness trainers. Yeah, but I thought to
myself after I started seeing this trend, like, I guess
that's a good crossover because you're still having to sell
your still sell yourself, market yourself. Instead of getting paid
for a gig, you get paid for each house you sell.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
So I thought, well.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
That's you know, if I fail in life, I could
just sell houses. I don't want to sell houses, don't
get me wrong, but I mean, yeah, there's something to
say about people that you know, can sell a car
or sell a house. I mean that is a skill.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yeah, it really is.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
You know, it takes a lot of a lot of
push for that, for sure.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Okay, I have these questions.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
I've been surfing the internet and TikTok and every other
social media platform I can to find the most stupid
questions you get asked as a real estate agent, and
these are these are the most popular ones that to
me don't seem far fetched. But I'm going to see
if anyone has ever asked you these questions. Okay, okay,
all right, he has not seen these up until this point,
(02:10):
so this this should be kind of interesting. All right,
have you ever asked, or have you ever been asked?
Can my dog come see the house?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Wow, that that's happened before. That's it. Oh no, honestly,
I would in doubt if people would be like that,
you know, because they even have their own little strollers
and yeah and everything.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Fun fact, last year more pet strollers were sold in
South Korea than baby strollers. You guys can fact check
me on that, but that is a fact. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
That's crazy? Well, okay, all.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Right, okay, here's one. I feel like you've been told
you've been asked this. Okay, can we come back and
see the place at night?
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Honestly? Yeah, I don't know why I've had that question before.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Well that's because you see all the crazy stuff happened
in the neighborhood at night. You gotta see what crime
is going on.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
I've had that before, and I'm like, h like, wait
a minute, that's kind of weird. So I had someone
go with me.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
You know, I'm like, oh, stranger, danger, literally because you.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Just met the person like you want to come at
night side? You know?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
All right, I can't believe someone would ask this question.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
All right, do you have anything on sale, like like
a deal a discount?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Oh yeah, no, like, oh, would they take like they've
asked like if would they take like one hundred grand less?
And I'm like, I'm like, oh yeah, yeah, no. That
was like the first time when I first became an
agent and obviously I was trying to learn everything and
which a straight face, Oh yeah, would they take like
one hundred thousand dollars less than the asking price? I'm like,
I was like, we can see, and I'm like, but
(03:36):
that's not a guarantee because that's very low.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
So what happened when you came back and said no.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh no, Honestly, I was like, I can let you know,
and they were like as soon as I said I'll
let you know, they were just like okay, and they
literally just walked right out.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Oh wow.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yeah. Uh has this house been scanned by paranormal activity?
Or also has anyone died in this house?
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Oh yeah, So we have had those ones before. Because
a lot of people don't like it.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You have to disclose that.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
That's the law, right, Okay, So if they passed away
within three.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Years when you want to buy a house, this is
what you ask.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
It's a good thing to know because if they passed
away within three years, they are required. However, if it
happened after three years, they don't have to tell you anything.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Let's get let's get to the dirt. Okay. Do you
have to tell them how they died?
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Technically, if it happened with the three years, within three years,
the sellers will disclose that and then that's how they'll
find out.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Me personally, I've had a lot of clients where they
find out someone passed away, even if it's of natural causes.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
The useful towns is yeah, somebody.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
Does you know? And they they didn't like that. They're like,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Well, there's a lot you have to do.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
You have to burn the sage to get rid of
the bad juju or whatever.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Go on. Me personally, I know, even if it's a
natural causes, I would just feel very uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
I don't know, I don't know. I don't know how
to feel about that.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Okay, all right, Well, when you're buying your house, yeah,
did you say, Hey, I'm selling this house to myself.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Did anyone die here?
Speaker 1 (05:04):
So I didn't ask that question, So you can have
some ghosts yeah in your hallway and wouldn't even know it.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
That's the scary part about it, you know. But it
was a great home, so I couldn't let.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
It go, all right until like the plates and the
cups are floating around as you're trying to find the remote. Okay,
do you think the homeowner would give me the house
without a down payment?
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That face.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
Like whoa, yeah, I don't know about that. Un less
they're getting a graph for it. But good luck with
that because down payments required, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
And my favorite one, can you lower your commission?
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Ooh, that's a fun one. That's a fun way. Even
with listings, you know, they'll go and try, oh, well,
can you lower the commission? So what you have to
what we do is we also have to educate the
seller you know about that because we put money into
investing in their property so that I can sell faster. So,
for example, for our listings, will offer professional photography. It's
(06:01):
easily like four hundred dollars, you know, depending on the
photographer that you use. We'll offer them a moving package
so has like large boxes, medium small scotch tape, wrapping paper, everything,
So that's like five hundred dollars, and then we also
pay a marketing lady and she does our a marketing
for our social media and everything. I personally like to
use my own stuff because I'm just very you know,
I'm a control freak.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
So you go home and get your stuff and then
bring it and yeah, fill the house.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
So yeah, like staging stuff and all that will stage
and all that. So we put a lot into it.
So we also have to think about, Okay, well we're
investing this much. You know a lot of other agents
don't do what we do, so that's the only reason
why we're doing at this commission. Maybe we can drop
the like half a percent, you know, to work with you,
but you also have to see all the stuff that
we're putting into it, sure, you know, to make it work. Well.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Lastly, Daniel, before we wrap here with you, we'll have
to do this again. You're a fun talk What can
you say to a VVC student that may have an
interest in real estate, you know, like from your own
personal experience, because you know, you're trying to move on
to something outside of that, right, Yeah, But for those
that are kind of just starting their pasts and stuff,
(07:06):
what can you tell them about real estate and what
they could look forward to.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Okay, So me personally, my biggest advice is all that
I say to all the students, you know, even when
I cause I made the like I said, I made
the Ram's Real Estate Club here. So I come and
show up to classes as a guest speaker to educate
the students, and I always let them know you're in
the class right now. But the class is different than
in person. It's different on the field. You'll learn everything
on the field. And if you go and you shadow
someone mentor somebody, go see how it is, you know,
(07:32):
because some agents will go and they'll be like, you
know what, I really don't like this, you know, it's
not for me. And some people be like, hey, I
love this. Let me keep showing up. I'll call you
see what your days like. So get a mentor go
get it or shadow somebody you know, spend a couple
of days with them, Go on a weekend, go to
an open house, go to a listing, you know, go
to appraisals, do home inspections, see how the flow is,
see how the paperwork is it at And honestly, I
(07:55):
I'm like a sponge. So it's literally not really rocket science.
It really isn't. It just takes the effort to want
to learn, and it's and it's nice, you know, and
you know you're making a really big impact for that individual,
and you're also making a pretty you know, substantial amount
of money to be able to do something like that.
You know. So if you have that passion to want
to help people and you love helping people, get out
(08:16):
there and try it out. That that's my main advice,
you know, for anybody in real estate.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
All right, hey, thanks for joining us on ramplifying. Huh,
and you'all take care. We'll see you on the next
one Ramplify. The podcast is filmed. They're recorded in vict
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