Staffing

What do you need to pay to attract and retain good Property Management staff in Queensland? Real Estate Dynamics (RED) are in the enviable position of working with a multitude of Agencies across [...]

Hands up those that ‘fell into’ Property Management. I can honestly tell you that when I was in grade 12 contemplating my life’s direction, property management was not in that picture. After ten [...]

One of the things we find when we work as a Real Estate Dynamics Coach with Rent Roll businesses, is that routine inspections are in a huge mess. Some of the evidence for this includes: [...]

The rental market is ever-changing and is often wrongly aligned with the sales market. The expectation is that if interest rates are low, the property market is booming and therefore the rental [...]

When we speak with Property Managers about which part of their jobs they don’t like doing, most of them say “vacates”. This is quickly followed by “dealing with conflict”. In many Property [...]

Businesses are spending time, resources, energy and funds on more and more creative business building strategies, yet at the same time are losing managements.  Consistently, I meet BDMs who are [...]

The age old question of ‘Task-based’ or ‘Portfolio-based’ Property Management to me reflects an ‘old-world’ approach to managing the staffing resources of a modern rent roll. Contemporary Human [...]

Every week at Real Estate Dynamics we are asked, ‘How can I grow my Rent Roll Business?’ In a recent article, Rent Roll Growth Inside Your 4 Walls, we talked about some of the ‘warmer’ and easier [...]

At Real Estate Dynamics, I think we have seen almost every combination of salary and bonus incentives for BDM’s that has ever been drafted or attempted. We are often asked, ‘How much do I pay a [...]

Are you always putting out fires in your Real Estate Agency? Are you relying on experienced Property Managers to deliver their own level of service? If your team members were individually asked, [...]

Are you causing your people to leave? Property Management is full of headaches! It’s a tough job that doesn’t suit everyone! Good Property Managers are hard to find and harder to keep! I’m sure [...]

When an experienced staff member suddenly quits your business do you download all of their knowledge before they go so that you can upload it in to the replacement staff member? And how do your [...]

  Recruitment requires evaluation of potential Candidates.  And, we all know that evaluation of any person is highly subjective – someone who is compelling and interesting to one person can [...]

Early onset Alzheimers can have devastating consequences and be very hard to identify and even more difficult to broach as a subject. Some of the signs may include: An employee becoming [...]

Throughout my career there have been moments where I have needed to make the call to terminate a staff member’s employment.  It’s something universally hated by Managers and no matter who you [...]