Next Level Agents: The Kevin & Fred Show - Interviews with the best and brightest minds in the real estate industry

Privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac The Trump administration released its long-awaited plan to reform the nation’s housing finance system and privatize Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, calling it the "last unfinished business of the financial crisis." The recommendations include: "simplifying" the Qualified Mortgage rule and eliminating the so-called QM patch that allows Fannie and Freddie to sidestep...

About the Episode On this episode, I’m joined by real estate team owner, coach and someone who is equally a student and a master of our industry and our craft, Matt Fetick. He already knows a lot, but has never put continued learning on the backburner for himself and his agents. He has built a real estate and business empire that doesn’t just span states, it stretches to England too! He focuses on...

What’s the difference between a commitment and a goal?  Is there a difference to you?  There is a huge a difference to me us and we’d like to share why with you in this quick episode.

On this week's episode of Industry Headlines with Kevin and Fred we discuss:  Redfin to publicly display buyer's agent commissions on its listings Opendoor is now a mortgage lender, launches Opendoor Home Loans Amazon dives into home sales with new $105K property AS of January 1, 2020, VA Loans No Cap Guaranty

In today’s episode, we’re talking to Kenny Klaus, a successful real estate team owner, entrepreneur, and co-founder of iRealEstate Pro. After working at FedEx, he started his real estate career as a side-hustle and then levelled up to full-time. He started with the goal of getting out of debt, which he succeeded and exceeded by eventually starting his own highly successful team. With over 20 years...

Ok, so now I have my sphere, what the heck do I do with it? And more importantly, how do I grow it? I know this sounds crazy, because everyone things they’ve got it under control Yet… What I know from coaching agents from all over the country is that very few of us have an effective plan to 1. Communicate with them 2. Grow the number of them.. Listen to this quick episode for some tips on doing th...

Appraisals may soon not be required on certain home sales of $400,000 and under. This change could have a sizable impact on the real estate market, as according to the OCC, the new rules would apply to approximately 40% of home sales. The average U.S. rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to another three-year low this week, according to the latest Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Fred...

Kash-Wayne Campbell On Turning His Real Estate Job Into a Thriving Business    Intro  On this episode, I talk to life-long entrepreneur, team leader and broker, Kash-Wayne Campbell. He is a seasoned real estate professional, who manages to not just balance a sales team and brokerage responsibilities, but to run all his businesses smoothly and efficiently. He achieved the amazing feat of starting a...

❓How is your sphere of influence ? ❓Could it be better?  ✅ Maybe you’re like me and need some help This week’s business tip is part 1 of a 2 part focus on helping you to provide value to the people who know you best.

This week on Industry Headlines we cover:     Offerpad to finance Keller Williams' home-buying operation   kW and TPI Cloud Hosting  find themselves in a legal dispute   New iBuyer course aims to help agents navigate new terrain   One of the fastest-growing digital mortgage companies has closed on $160 million of Series C funding.

How Shelby DiBiase Took Her Repeat and Referral Business From 10% to 50% in 3 Years    About the Episode On today’s episode, I talk to Shelby DiBiase, a team leader who started her real estate career in 1997, and built on her foundation of high customer service skills from 7 years of waitressing. She actually got into real estate after being encouraged to do it by regular customers at the restaura...

What are you committed to getting better at? If you’re going to move the needle in your business learning this is a must! I see so many agents who say things like- I want to take more listings - I want to sign more buyers - I want to start doing better at open houses The list goes on and on… And the one that actually get better do this one simple thing I discuss in this video….

Nevermind the rough start to our new series Industry Headlines with Kevin and Fred... After the first few minutes, we got into the groove of things... Topics covered this week: * Coldwell Banker's top agent is heading to Compass amid lawsuit between the two companies. * The sweep of massive profits from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the US Treasury continue (but for how long) *Housing flipping sta...

New Agent Builds Massive Business By Focusing On Her Niche  About the Episode On today’s episode, I talk to REALTOR, marketing strategist, philanthropist and Gig Harbor’s local connector and agent of choice, Paige Schulte. In just 2 years and 4 months, she went from new agent in a new area, to running a $3 million dollar business as a solo agent. She has developed really deep roots in the communit...

Why is Fred on a rant? Why do gurus always say dumb shit ?  Here is the deal, if you don’t think for yourself and learn the truth, you’ll be left in the dust 😉

  About the Episode In today’s episode, we’re talking to Dan Noma, a highly-successful Institutional real estate and iBuyer expert. He is the broker/owner of VentureREI, an award-winning, Arizona-based real estate brokerage and advisory firm specializing in the purchase, sale, rental, and marketing of select residential developments and commercial investment properties. With five locations across...

Distraction  Distraction  Distraction... Here’s is a life hack to help you do Something about those 😉

MARGARET SMITH and KEVIN KAUFFMAN Margaret Smith is a phenom in the world of Real Estate Team Operations where she is employed by Pickett Street Properties in the Seattle WA area. She is an experienced operations guru with a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Washington. She has taken her background in social work and art degree and applied it the real estate industry over the l...

Are you even ready for 2020?   Have you forgotten that what you do today doesn’t hurt or help you much right now?   But 90-180 days from now the results or consequences will come.....

We got such great feedback from our episode last week of Ben Kinney from our chat at NLA Live 2019, we decided to release one more chat, which is with a previous guest, Leo Pareja. Leo is the co-founder of Remine, the real estate tech start up designed to help agents. He’s also the former number one agent in all of Keller Williams. This dude does it all. Leo is simply one of the smartest guys I've...

The single biggest marketing mistake I see agents make time and time again is simply: They don’t change their marketing message. No one wants to hear your tired, played out Marketing. ✅It’s not good enough to sell it quickly (the market most likely does that work for you anyway) ✅ so what if you’re a neighborhood expert. ✅ No one cares how many houses you sold last year, last month, last week.....

What’s up with all the RoboCalls and Spam Callers?

  Willie Miranda has more than 27 years of experience in the real estate and insurance industry. He and his team have sold well over 8,000 homes for over a billion and a half dollars in real estate sales. Willie’s business belief lies in a Back to Basics service-based business model. Back to Basics Employ the Power of the Personal Note. Meet new people. Treat people how you want to be treated. Ser...

Months ago we handed out permission slips... And today we’re handing out more.. but these aren’t just any old permission slips. If you accept this one: ✅ you could find yourself more joyful than ever ✅ you could find your business growing to new heights.. Yep... you read that right... Check out this video to see how.