Real estate runs on chaos. Loans fall apart, appraisals come in low, buyers back out, and offers show up out of nowhere. You can't control any of that. You can control how organized you are when it happens, and that's what separates a lot of top agents from everyone else.

In this episode, Scott Nadler walks through three ways to control the controllables:

1. Be honest about whether your system is working. Look at the results, not your feelings. A comedian friend's warning: your brain lies with confidence.
2. Templatize the repetitive. Write down your answers to the questions you get every week, the way a great waiter knows the menu cold when they're suddenly covering 40 tables.
3. Outsource what doesn't need to be you. Why 80% as good beats 100% perfect, and how much of a board package someone else can put together.

Plus the 15-minute buffer Scott's team builds in after every call, using voice notes so nothing slips, and why he didn't cut a single corner when a top referral agent bought her own co-op.

What's the one organizational method that works for you? Email scottnadlerteam@ccm.com. The best answers get featured in the newsletter.

Chapters:
0:00 Not having a system is creating a ceiling
0:15 Organization: the hidden cost in real estate
1:00 Controlling the controllables
2:10 Three offers due and a $5M buyer calls
2:34 Way #1: Is your system actually working?
3:21 "Your brain lies with confidence"
5:18 Way #2: Templatize the repetitive
6:30 The waiter who goes from 20 tables to 40
8:27 Scripting the first buyer conversation
9:23 The board package debate
11:25 Way #3: Outsource what doesn't need to be you
13:35 A 15-minute buffer after every call
14:55 When an agent buys her own co-op
16:17 Share your organizational method

Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/YyWY3CGK2yE
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