What Unlicensed Real Estate Virtual Assistants Can Do in Oregon

Oregon’s real estate market is quite challenging, especially since the number of real estate transactions registered starting with this year has increased considerably. The competition is high, so every professional needs to find new ways to improve their services and make more time for their customers.

Here is where virtual assistant services come in: a trained unlicensed assistant can take over many administrative and secretariat activities and allow the licensee to attend to more customers or invest more time in other important activities. Oregon law allows real estate assistants to fulfill activities such as:

• Answering and making phone calls and taking messages on behalf of the licensee;
• Making appointments on behalf of the licensee with the sellers and potential buyers of the properties they are interested in selling;
• Placing and removing signs on the listed properties, according to the licensee’s directions;
• Creating and distributing promotional materials, with the licensee’s approval and under their surveillance;
• Placing promotional messages in classified ads columns;
• Participating in open house events and distributing advertising materials on behalf of the agent;
• Receiving, delivering and archiving documents from buyers, sellers and the licensee;
• Arranging for minor repair jobs on the units under the guidance and approval of the licensee;
• Typing all sorts of documents demanded by the licensee;
• Supervising the post-closing process, seeing if there are any loans committed after the sale.

All of the activities mentioned above must take place under the strict supervision of the licensee. Since only few of them require the actual presence of the assistant, licensees have the possibility to hire a virtual assistant and get almost the same type of work done, but at a price lower than half of the amount that setting up a physical office and hiring a full time assistant would involve.