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Residential Property Manager: Best Referral Sources

Who should be sending you clients, and the rooms they are already sitting in. Tell us where you are and we will send the list.

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The rooms for residential property managers, the next meeting dates, and who to ask for when you walk in.

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Your one-page action plan

Five partners, what starts the work for each one, and the three rooms to be in. Print it and keep it in the car.

Networking plan: Property Manager (Residential)

The five people who should be sending you clients

  1. Insurance Property & Casualty (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  2. Attorney Real Estate (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  3. Title Company (They send you work)
    Shared trigger: somebody buys a house
  4. Facility Manager (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working
  5. Commercial Property Manager (Two-way)
    Shared trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working

The three rooms to be in

  1. Your local Realtor board or association: Your partners are in this room: real estate attorneys, title companies, and residential real estate agents.
  2. Local mortgage bankers or brokers association: Your partners are in this room: title companies, mortgage brokers, and home inspectors.
  3. Land title association: Your partners are in this room: real estate attorneys and title companies.

Don't confuse this with networking: IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management). Learning and supplier access, not referrals.

The people

Who should be sending you clients

Ranked by what starts the job, not by who sounds close to your trade. When something happens that makes people need residential property managers, who else gets a call that same week?

Match strength is how much of your work starts from the same event as theirs, scored out of 100. Higher means you are more often called into the same job in the same week.

  1. 1 Insurance Property & Casualty They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 75 match strength out of 100
  2. 2 Attorney Real Estate They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 73 match strength out of 100
  3. 3 Title Company They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 71 match strength out of 100
  4. 4 Facility Manager Two-way Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 68 match strength out of 100
  5. 5 Commercial Property Manager Two-way Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 64 match strength out of 100
  6. 6 Plumber Two-way Trigger: the AC dies, a pipe fails, or something in the building stops working 63 match strength out of 100
  7. 7 Real Estate Agent (Residential) They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 63 match strength out of 100
  8. 8 Mental Health Therapist They send you work Trigger: somebody dies and an estate has to be settled 63 match strength out of 100
  9. 9 Mortgage Broker / Loan Officer They send you work Trigger: somebody buys a house 60 match strength out of 100
  10. 10 Home Inspector Two-way Trigger: somebody buys a house 59 match strength out of 100

Knowing the names is half of it. We will send the list with what to say to each one. Send me my list ↑

The rooms

Where those people actually are

Ranked by how many of your best partners are in the room, and how much work each one can send you. Give someone nine choices and they pick none, so we have marked the one to start with.

  1. 1 Your local Realtor board or association Your pick Your partners are in this room: real estate attorneys, title companies, and residential real estate agents. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  2. 2 Local mortgage bankers or brokers association Your partners are in this room: title companies, mortgage brokers, and home inspectors. Your partners' association · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  3. 3 Land title association Your partners are in this room: real estate attorneys and title companies. Your partners' association · Quarterly · Under $500/yr · ~2 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  4. 4 Your city or county chamber of commerce Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, title companies, and commercial property managers. Chamber of commerce · Monthly · Under $500/yr · ~4 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  5. 5 LinkedIn groups & local B2B communities Your partners are in this room: P&C insurance agents, facility managers, and residential real estate agents. Online community · Always on · Free · ~3 hrs/month Chapter finder →
  6. 6 BNI One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~8 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  7. 7 LeTip International One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Weekly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~7 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
  8. 8 Network In Action One seat per category, so your competitors are excluded by rule and the seats around you are the partners above. Structured referral group · Monthly · $500–$2,000/yr · ~3 hrs/month · One seat per category Chapter finder →
The competitor trap

IREM (Institute of Real Estate Management)

Most residential property managers join this room first. It is also the one most likely to be the wrong pick. Everyone in it does what you do. Join it for the training, the licenses, and the ties to manufacturers. Do not join it for referrals, and do not join it instead of the rooms above.

Let us be straight with you. For residential property managers, a weekly referral group is not the best pick. Your partners gather in professional groups instead, so spend your time there. We would rather say that than sell you a seat you do not need.

These rooms meet on real dates. We will send you the next ones for your area. Send me the dates ↑

Your seat

Is your seat open?

Prime Time takes one Property Manager (Residential) per chapter. Put a South Florida ZIP into the form above and we will show you which seats are open.

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Want this as a list you can act on?

Send it to yourself: the partners above, the rooms ranked for residential property managers, and the next meeting dates for your area.

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