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Part of running a real estate brokerage means that you are paying expenses for your agents so they can go out and earn commission income. This can be everything from advertising expenses to franchise fees or photocopies. Everything that you pay on behalf of your agents or supply to them costs you money. To ensure that you are covered for the funds you are laying out, you need to be reviewing the Uncovered Expense Report (8.6.6) on a weekly basis.

With this powerful report in hand, you will know not only what your agents owe you, but what future commissions they have coming in that can cover what they owe. Remember, an agent who owes you $2,000 but has $10,000 in closings is not your bad debt problem, the agent who owes you $500 with no closings poses the real problem.

Most brokers don't deal with the bad debt issue until it is a crisis. This normally means that the agent has left, and not in a good way. So, do you put the agent in collections? Probably not! You should deal with this proactively by identifying the agents whose bills are getting ahead of their ability to pay them. Counsel the agent long before it becomes the crisis that we all dread. And if nothing else, stop the bleeding by getting rid of a bad agent sooner rather than later.

Another way of looking at the agent bad debt issue is to review an Agent Production Report (8.5.P). Knowing what an agent has done in the past, what deals are in the pipeline, what listings they are holding, are all ways of getting a view of whether an agent is working and productive or is on their way to being your bad debt problem!

Join us and learn more at our next webinar:

Bad Debt: Figure out who/what they are and what to do with them! (http://ilinc.globalwolfweb.com/iLinc/register/pvbrh)
Audience: Brokers, Administrators & Regional Developers
Date: Apr 16, 12:00pm MST
Lone Wolf's expert team will show you how to identify and manage your bad debts from your
agents. In this session you will learn to:

  • Identify Bad debts
  • What to do with bad debts
  • How to eliminate bad debts, before they happen

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