What Unlicensed Real Estate Virtual Assistants Can Do in North Dakota

North Dakota Real Estate CommissionAs a real estate broker in North Dakota, you have a lot on your plate: you already have to deal with clients, organize open houses and showing tours and handle the tedious paperwork that every transaction involves. These take a lot of your time already, so having someone to deal with the office work in your place can considerably help you improve your business.

Virtual assistance services give you the chance to delegate the simplest and most tedious tasks to unlicensed partners, on the condition that they follow the regulations imposed by the North Dakota Real Estate Commission regarding the activities that can be performed by unlicensed personnel and those that fall under the sole responsibility of the licensee.

What is a virtual assistant allowed to do for you in North Dakota?

  • Answer calls and transfer them to you or take messages;
  • Update multiple listing services for you;
  • Track down eventual loan commitments after a contract is closed;
  • Gather and organize documents after a closing;
  • Obtain needed information and documents from public institutions;
  • Order keys for eventual listings;
  • Make deposits and trust monies and keep a record of them;
  • Type offers, contracts and leases under your supervision;
  • Keep track of your license and files;
  • Keep track of your business’s operating bank accounts and write commission checks;
  • Place and remove signs from the properties you are selling;
  • Be in charge of eventual repairs, under your supervision and approval;
  • Deliver paperwork and keys;
  • Establish meetings for you;
  • Measure an offered property, under your supervision;
  • Create and distribute or publish promotional materials;
  • Act as a promoter for you on open houses or other similar events

Although these tasks are mentioned by almost any real estate assistant job description, you are still the one in charge of your purchases and business. North Dakota Law does not allow the virtual assistant to negotiate property prices, provide specific information or make promotional related decisions.