{"id":768,"date":"2006-12-15T19:02:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T02:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=768"},"modified":"2007-04-20T16:04:40","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T23:04:40","slug":"how-much-is-an-excellent-assistant-worth-are-you-kidding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/768\/how-much-is-an-excellent-assistant-worth-are-you-kidding\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Is An Excellent Assistant Worth? Are You Kidding?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My company is a two horse operation. And one of the horses has just been cleared to take on riders. Although in the past I’ve had several assistants, I’ve found that when it’s all boiled down, my business is built on the foundation of — homework. In the past my assistants were trainees on their way to becoming full time investment agents. So as soon as they became really good at being an assistant, they were allowed access to the next level. And I’d be back at square one — again.<\/p>\n

It’s about to happen for the last time as my son has finished two years of training. He’s been my right hand, assistant, TC, ‘road guy’, and general doer of those things we’d all rather avoid. And now I have to figure out how to replace the irreplaceable. The cost to train and retain long term, an employee as effective as Josh would literally be unaffordable. How do you find someone who can solve problems, keep clients happy, snap the whip, and million other things? And on top of all that care as much as I do about the results? You probably don’t.<\/p>\n

Enter Becky Bethke. Calling her a diamond in the rough would be damning her with faint praise. We’ve done about 20 transactions in the general Boise region in the last two quarters this year. Not a tremendous number, but enough to test the local supporting cast. I’ve gone through two escrows, two title companies, three lenders, two property inspectors, and a partridge in a pear tree. And one Transaction Coordinator. Though calling her a TC is an undeserved compliment to TC’s everywhere.<\/p>\n

I won’t bore you with the details, but outside of delivering pizza and beer when escrows close, Becky does everything else. She calls her company The Closing Source<\/a>. She calls herself a Transaction Coordinator. Trust me, she’s not a TC, not even close. My mom was an executive secretary back when that’s what they called executive assistants. In her prime she wouldn’t be a better assistant than Becky.<\/p>\n

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