Listen In: Real Talk With GCAAR

GCAAR’s new podcast, Real Talk With GCAAR, explores a wide variety of topics—including conducting business more efficiently, navigating the home-buying and selling-process, real-life success stories, avoiding pitfalls, adhering to rules and regulations, and much more!

Real Talk is produced by GCAAR members, for GCAAR members—and real estate professional colleagues everywhere. Episodes are released every other Monday morning on GCAAR.com, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, and Spotify. Each one is a quick dive into an important topic in the real estate world. As a 12,000-member association, GCAAR has a wealth of knowledge among its membership. On the show, GCAAR members lend their expertise to the program as we help unravel important questions from the listing to the closing table and everything in between. Intrigued? Here’s a sneak preview of the first few episodes.

Episode 1: Selling to Millennials Real Talk With GCAAR opens with REALTOR ® and GCAAR Board member Harrison Beacher, who shares insights on working with millennial buyers and sellers in the D.C. metro area.

Episode 2: Breathe: Smoke Detectors, Carbon Monoxide, and Radon In this episode, we talk with Montgomery County Fire Chief Scott Goldstein, who shares ways to keep your home safe and discusses the new smoke detector law in Montgomery County, which GCAAR was instrumental in helping to pass.

Episode 3: Cover Your Asset: Properly Insuring One of Your Greatest Investments Managing risk and protecting yourself and your client is one of the most important parts of being a real estate professional. REALTOR ® Christina Koch-Garcia talks with Bryan Aguirre of Capital Insurance Partners about the importance of being properly and adequately insured.

Episode 4: 10 Ways to Get More Business Developing new strategies to create new business for yourself and your team can be a tall order. Tune in as REALTORS ® Christina Koch-Garcia and Daniel Goldstein engage in a lively roundtable session about ways to generate more business.

Episode 5: Explaining the 2018 Tax Reform Legislation GCAAR instructor Linda de Marlor, founder and owner of Tax-Masters, Inc., dissects the recent changes in the tax code from the 2018 passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and explains how it will impact you both personally and professionally.

Episode 6: Agent Value: Defining and Validating the Benefit of Your Services In 2020, with a growing number of online listing websites, it is more important than ever to be able to define your value as an agent. So how do you validate the benefit of your professional services? Listen to REALTOR ® Cynthia Press discuss ways to define the value you bring to your clients.

Upcoming episodes include Fair Housing, Mold and Its Effect on Real Estate, D.C.’s Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act (TOPA), the REALTOR ® Code of Ethics, Working With Hoarder Homes, and more. Subscribe, rate, review, and stay tuned for more Real Talk With GCAAR! If you have any topic ideas or suggestions for the show send them to us at communications@gcaar.com.