Terri L Juvan-Hubert

Full Service Real Estate Inc Metro Brokers

Lafayette Office

107 South Public Road

Lafayette, CO 80026

Office: 303-665-5525

Mobile: 303-332-4853

Fax: 303-661-0036

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Mary Hannen

Hannen Real Estate Metro Brokers

Lafayette Office

107 South Public Road

Lafayette, CO 80026

Office: 303-665-5525

Direct: 303-910-4204

Alternate No: 303-635-6995

Mobile: 303-910-4204

Fax: 303-665-3342

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Kathy Soltero:  Welcome to Metro Brokers TV, I am Kathy Soltero.  Today we have the distinct pleasure of having Greg Hinkson with us today from Metro Brokers Hinkson and Company and Greg, tell me a little bit about your company first of all.

Greg Hinkson:  I started off with Metro Brokers; I started underneath my mother who had been with Metro Brokers for 30 plus years.  She has been an agent since I was five years old and I came on with her, started working underneath her, and got all my training with here and with Metro Brokers and have since taken over she has retired and I have taken over the business and continued on working in the Denver Metro Area as well as where I grew up which was Northglenn, Colorado.

Interviewer:  And your specific location she started up in Northglenn?

Greg Hinkson:  She started up in Northglenn where I was born and raised.  I still do up 40% of my business up there, but I have since moved down to Denver and specialized a lot in the older Curtis Park, Park Hill neighborhoods, neighborhoods around Denver.

Interviewer:  Now you have really kind of a unique situation since you took over your mother's Metro Brokers Company, tell us a little bit about that.

Greg Hinkson:  Well I think I am different in the fact that most people will start off with a larger company and try to get some training that way and move on then potentially to somebody like Metro Brokers.  I started with Metro Brokers underneath my mother.  The one thing I would say I believe it's not such a watered down version of real estate.  You kind of start and learn in the trenches you really understand you are not, you are learning more one on one, you are not getting a classroom training, you have somebody that you actually go to the field with, learn as it goes.  So I think you get a real perspective of how real estate is and are better and more you know better equipped to handle real estate as you grow in your business.

Interviewer:  Obviously when you are starting out real estate its kind of intimidating to think, oh, I don't want to go it alone, I don't want to go into one of these companies that you know its only one or two people in there I want to maybe be with a few others that sort of thing, but I think Metro Brokers actually offers a larger group of people too.

Greg Hinkson:  Absolutely.  In my office for instance in Northglenn we have many agents that I can communicate with, we bump questions off each other certain situations.  Its just like being another agents, larger agents except if you are not relying on one broker you have many brokers with as much experience as that one broker and some of your larger companies and you can bounce it off of numerous people like that and get a very good answer solid way to handle things in that point forward if you have a sticky situation or something that comes up.

Interviewer:  Now you said that your mother's business is 30 years or so you took over after 30 years with Metro, she was about 30 years with Metro Brokers and she mostly focused in Northglenn and up in that area and now you say you've moved down here quite a bit too?

Greg Hinkson:  Yes I have years ago about an old Victorian down in Curtis Park and because I live in the neighborhood, watched the neighborhood and grown some in the neighborhood, I started to specialize down there as well it's a new place that I love and plan to continue living.  So I have moved a lot of my business there but I still handle a whole lot in Northglenn, Thornton because I again was a native born and raised and know it like the back of my hand.

Interviewer:  Absolutely that's great.  Well what can you tell other brokers if they are considering moving over to Metro Brokers, why should they do it?

Greg Hinkson:  Experience, its I don't think you can go to any other company at least in Colorado and get the experience in one office that you can into Metro Brokers.  You have numerous employing brokers in some cases, independent brokers, the years involved in an office of real estate experience into Metro Brokers I think far exceeds any of that I have heard of anyway and you are not relying on one person for their answer you can get a pool of people with a ton of experience and get an answer from all of them.

Interviewer:  All right oh Greg I am sure you have got tons of experience especially with your mom's experience behind you and all that sort of thing, how much did that translate as far as her clientele coming over to you?

Greg Hinkson:  It's more than you think it's really, it's hard to gauge exactly but you know because you will get one client which offers three more clients which of those offer three more clients.  So it really does trickle down I think a lot of people expect to gain 30 deals in a year and it doesn't really work that way you get some deals as it goes five years down the road all of sudden somebody calls and says I worked with your mother 20 years ago and my daughter now wants to buy this and that, very hard thing to track but I think if you really did track you would understand it's a whole lot of things that progress and grow over the years just like any other referral.

Interviewer:  Right well Greg thank you very much for joining us.

Greg Hinkson:  Thank you.

Interviewer:  Metro Brokers Hinkson and Associates on Metro Brokers, TV have a great day.

Greg Hinkson:  Thank you, you too. 

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Kathy Soltero: Hi, I am Kathy Soltero with Metro Brokers TV. Today we have the distinct pleasure of having Patrick Armbrust with us from Metro Brokers Southridge Realty, as well as Armbrust Real Estate Institute, thanks so much for coming in with us today and talking to us.

Patrick Armbrust: My pleasure.

Kathy Soltero: One of the things that we are going to talking about today and the most important thing is becoming or upgrading your broker associate license to becoming an independent broker.

Patrick Armbrust: Yes.

Kathy Soltero: Or an employing broker and there is so much confusion about this Patrick so.../

Patrick Armbrust: Yes there is.

Kathy Soltero: Explain that to me, why is there so much confusion?

Patrick Armbrust: Well I think it goes back to the law changes Kathy in 1997. Prior to those years people were either sales persons or brokers in Colorado and everyone in 1997 had to upgrade to a broker at that time and the existing sales people had two choices then. They could either complete the broker transition course or pass the state portion of the exam. Well now today people that have most folks chose the transition course that was the easier path and now today as so many people are joining Metro Brokers who are licensed prior to 1997 and completed the transition course, they are being told now that they have to pass the state portion of the exam to upgrade themselves to an independent broker or an employing broker.

Kathy Soltero: Okay so if I get this straight, if you are a licensed prior to 1997...?

Patrick Armbrust: Correct.

Kathy Soltero: And you just took that one exam or that one the transition course...?

Patrick Armbrust: The transition course, yes.

Kathy Soltero: You could be a broker then?

Patrick Armbrust: You would upgrade at that point to a broker associates.

Kathy Soltero: Okay.

Patrick Armbrust: And then later upgrading to independent broker or employing broker as so many people are joining Metro Brokers as independent or employing now they have to take that state exam.

Kathy Soltero: What made this all happen?

Patrick Armbrust: Well I think it was the opinion of the real estate commission that they wanted to raise the bar in real estate and provide the public a higher level of competency. Prior to 1997 it was relatively easy to get your real estate license I believe it was 90 hours of education. Since 1997 its a 168 hours, those people by the way have come into the business since 1997 with two years as an active licensee, then they can go ahead and upgrade to independent for a 24 hour course and they can upgrade to employing, so its very easy if you are licensed after 1997, the confusion comes for those that were licensed before that time.

Kathy Soltero: So it's all of us before because we kind of all after that we all were instructed what it would take.

Patrick Armbrust: Agreed yeah.

Kathy Soltero: Okay so what happens to the folk's post 97, if for instance they missed some of the classes and that sort of thing, I mean why is that make that any more difficult than [Voice Crossover]?

Patrick Armbrust: That's another big issue that we are seeing today Kathy is the real estate commission wants all current licensees in Colorado to complete the four hour commission update course each year. They feel that doing that will keep us all up to date on forms changes, law changes and so a couple of years ago of the 24 hours that we were used to completing in our three year cycle, now 12 hours of that has to be the commission update course taken once each year in a different version of that course each year. Well if a licensee misses a year, then the choice is to renew your license become much more difficult, they go back to taking the state portion of the exam to renew a broker's administration course which his the course that you would be required to be an employing broker.

Kathy Soltero: Right.

Patrick Armbrust: You could, you could complete that course but only once in your career. So often we have exhausted that possibility in our last licensing cycle and so that leaves us to either as I said the state exam or 72 hours of pre licensing education. So I think its very important that our current licensees remember to take that commission update course once each year and we recommend about the same time each year that way you know you are getting a different version each time and you are going to fulfill that portion of the requirement and then you take 12 hours of qualifying elective continuing education and we don't have a proper renewing your license.

Kathy Soltero: Okay is there any distinct difference between becoming an independent broker or an employing broker as far as what the requirements are?

Patrick Armbrust: Well I think the only difference is the brokerage administration course. To go independent with two years active and presuming the state exam has been completed either prior to 1997 or today to go independent is a simple matter making application to the state and paying a fee. To employ and supervise licensees then you do have to complete the 24 hour brokerage administration course.

Kathy Soltero: And that's post 97 or...?

Patrick Armbrust: Anyone.

Kathy Soltero: Anyone?

Patrick Armbrust: Yes.

Kathy Soltero: Who wants to be an employing broker period?

Patrick Armbrust: Yes and I think brokers today they, if there is any question at all they can call an institution like ourselves they can look up their records on the commission's database, there is opportunity to call the real estate commission and they can pull up the records and then identify if a brokerage administration course is needed for instance or identify that state exam component, but typically most brokers went through that transition course post, pre 1997 and probably have to complete their state exam today to move forward.

Kathy Soltero: Well and the CREC is the requirement that we need to take to though I mean we have only been doing that probably well for the last nine years?

Patrick Armbrust: Well its been sometime but the rules have changed in terms of the frequency, the Colorado Real Estate Commission update course is what you refer to and that's, that's that four hour course that you want to make sure to take every single year.

Kathy Soltero: Right. Okay so bottom line, is it difficult for us to do this it just seems like we call the real estate commission we can't figure out what do we do?

Patrick Armbrust: I don't think so, once we understand the rules we can play the game.

Kathy Soltero: Okay.

Patrick Armbrust: So really the biggest question that I have to do with day to day counseling people in this issue, is when would if you were licensed before 1997 how did you transition from a sales person to an associate broker? If the answer was the broker transition course, then to move forward to independent and employing we just have to get you ready to pass that state exam. If you are licensed after 1997, or took the state exam as you are transitioned, then it's very, very easy.

Kathy Soltero: All right well Patrick hopefully we have clarified some of this...?

Patrick Armbrust: I hope so.

Kathy Soltero: For so many people out there who are maybe thinking of joining Metro Brokers and...?

Patrick Armbrust: Absolutely.

Kathy Soltero: And having their own business as a broker manager or is an independent broker themselves?

Patrick Armbrust: Either one yeah.

Kathy Soltero: Thank you so much for joining us two on Metro Brokers TV.

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Rob Horton:  Hi, I am Rob Horton of Absolute Real Estate Services, a Metro Brokers company.  I started real estate 21 years ago, with a major firm and 16 years ago, I started Absolute Real Estate services.  After two years of floundering in the market place, I joined Metro Brokers and my business took off 40% to 60% the next year.  It also led me into leadership, I am a past President of Metro Broker, a past Director on the Denver Board of Realtors and just been elected to the Colorado Association of Realtors Board of Directors, please go to metrobrokersonline.com and see what benefits it can have for you.

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