What Unlicensed Real Estate Virtual Assistants Can Do In Washington

Everyone associates the work of a real estate agent or broker with showing properties and convincing people to buy or sell them. Few realize that, behind these activities, there are many more other tedious tasks, like tens of phone calls made and received every day, research, appointments, advertising and, why not, some bookkeeping.

For any professional in this field, the chance to delegate some of these tasks is a blessing, and that is how real estate assistants have appeared. Things have reached such an extent that the Real Estate Commission within Washington State Department of Licensing  issued its own regulations regarding the tasks that an unlicensed real estate assistant can undertake.

Here are the most important of them:

• Provide information about the terms of a certain transaction, but only if that information was already approved or released by a licensed professional.
• Do market research and collect public information of interest to the licensee.
• Make appointments, schedule meetings with potential buyers and/or sellers, showing tours, etc.
• Duplicate keys and order signs for the properties handled by the licensee.
• Help the licensee organize open house presentations, prepare informative flyers and brochures, advertise for the event.
• Make and take phone calls on behalf of the licensee, prospecting the market, reaching out to potential clients or arranging meetings.

Here are some of the tasks a real estate assistant is not allowed to undertake:

• Negotiate the terms of a real estate transaction;
• Show properties to potential buyers (it is out of the question for virtual assistants anyway);
• Discuss more information than what the licensee has already approved or published.
• Interpret information about contracts, financing, closing, titles, etc.

Many real estate virtual assistance companies offer free trial packages, so take advantage and see how much you can benefit from such services.