Motivated Seller or Interested Homeowner Real Estate Sales Trainer and Coach

There's a huge difference between being interested and being motivated. Let me explain. This is your first day in real estate and I am your real estate sales trainer and coach James Festini, and this is the program that's gonna teach you how to sell more real estate in less time. I've got a huge lead problem.
I've got a lot of leads. I've got about 2000 leads as I went through my database earlier. I'm in lead hell right now because leads are easy. Especially if you're willing to pick up the phone and prospect or knock on doors, you're gonna generate a lot of leads. If you buy inquiries from the internet and you are actually following up on those inquiries and you have filtered them and identify them as a lead, and you spend a lot of money getting that, you have a lead problem too.
You've found a lot of leads in your database, but you just can't seem to filter them. What is this? What do we do when we have so many leads? I've discovered a solution to that. The solution is to identify interest versus motivation. You see a parrott, I would say a monkey, but monkeys can't talk. So let's say a parrot could close a motivated lead, but a skilled closer.
It closes that same lead. A skilled closer knows when they're motivated. A skilled closer knows when they're not. So I know that there's people out there who think they can sell ice to Eskimo, but if they don't need ice, you're. I basically scamming them, right? If they don't need ice, why would you sell ice to Eskimo?
See, I want to find people who are motivated that have a purpose so that when I provide them my service, residential real estate, help them buy or sell that when that transaction begins, because that transaction is much faster than buying a bag of ice. It's 30 day escrow, sometimes six months worth of worth of searching.
Or marketing time, right? You wanna make sure that they are totally convinced that the decision that they're making is the right thing. How do you get them to do that? They have to be motivated. You see if they're interested and you close them so many times, man, I'm a good clo. Oh, that's, I actually, like, I, I stopped being such a good closer because back in the day, I would literally be so good at closing people.
I'll never forget this one where I got a listing agreement, right? And then the sign showed up and the homeowner called and says, why is there a sign in my front yard? And I'm like, because we listed. He goes, well, yeah, but I'm not ready to sell yet. I'm like, well, what about the contract? Like we said, he goes, yeah, but I thought that.
I'm like, no. You know what? Uh, clearly I used my talent, my knowledge for evil because you're not ready old man. So I took the sign down and, you know, it actually was probably about six months before he was truly motivated to sell. You can have someone who's very interested. I mean, we're talking like hot, hot, hot, like level 10, hot one through 10, level 10.
Uh, level nine, level 10 would be hot. But there's these varying degrees of motivation. So right now I'm going to be working, or I have been working with, uh, it's not enough to say hot, warm, cold. To identify motivation, we have to have a motivation scale, some sort of data set, some. Points of reference, some key triggers, words or actions, behaviors, conversations that have to happen with a potential client to say, you know what?
They're ready. Let's just naturally close. You've heard that before. A closing is a natural ending to a good presentation. Right. When you are with a motivated seller and you sit down and you talk over price and terms, there's this moment where there's like, so what do you think Mr. Seller? And they're like, yeah, oh, great.
Let's pull out the paperwork. Let's sign the contract. Let's, let's get this started. Let's rock and roll. Whatever your closing buffers are, you know, they're motivated. It just happens no matter if you puke on the table. And you clean it up, you could still get the listing, even i