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I need help with my first listing appointment
Elena Marsh
Listings · Negotiation · Growth
4.9 (128)
$40 / 60 min
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I need help with my first listing appointment
Elena MarshListing presentations$45 / 30 min
Maria AlvarezPricing and comps$60 / 45 min
Step 1. Say what you are stuck on, and find an agent who has already done it.
The session
RECStep 2. Talk it through live and one to one. Not a course, not a group call.
Winning feedback
Maria AlvarezRecordingYou came in with
“I need help with my first listing appointment.”
You left with
“Price against the closed comps, not the active ones. The photos are the problem before the price is.”
Saved to your library
Step 3. You keep the write-up in your library, plus the video from room sessions.
Ongoing advisor access
One membership.
Your sessions are covered.
A membership is with one advisor, never with RealAly. Book from their calendar, message in between sessions, and keep getting guidance without paying per session every time.
Find an advisor who offers membershipsThis month with MariaYour real estate advisor$0 per session- Comps for the Elm Street fileUpcoming · Wed 10:00 AM$0
- Quick question on the counterAnswered · Fri 8:12 AMIncluded
- Listing appointment prepCompleted · Thu 4:00 PM$0
- Pricing a listing that has satCompleted · Tue 9:00 AM$0
Your own advisor
The same person month after month, so nobody is starting from the beginning again.
Messages in between
Ask the quick thing without booking an hour for it. The thread stays open as long as the membership does.
Cancel any time
It runs to the end of the month you paid for and then stops. No notice period, no fee.
The RealAly trust standard
Advice without the agenda.
The person you book works somewhere else. That is exactly why their answer is worth having, and it is also the thing that makes people hesitate. Four of these are conditions of being listed here. The third is the one piece of advice we would give you.
No recruiting
Every advisor confirms, before they are listed, that they will not use RealAly to recruit you to their brokerage or their team. We collect where they work in order to check it, and we keep it off their profile: you are choosing a person, not a logo.
No pitching
The hour is not a sales call. Advisors confirm they will not use one to sell you their coaching, their course, their tools or their services. Pointing you at something genuinely useful is part of the job. Turning your question into a funnel is not.
Protect the transaction
Describe the situation, not the client. You never need to hand over names, contact details, financials, unredacted contracts or anything your brokerage has not cleared. Every question worth asking can be asked without any of it, and the sharpest ones usually are.
Your call, not ours to police
Advisors advise, and that is all
They bring the experience and the conversation they have had fifty times. They are not your managing broker, your attorney or your compliance officer, and they confirm they will not give legal, tax or compliance advice beyond what their license permits. Anything needing formal approval goes to your brokerage.
Vetted, and removable
We check the license against the issuing state before anybody is listed, and review the brokerage and the experience behind it. Not everyone who applies becomes an advisor. If one breaks these rules, tell us: a removed advisor loses the profile and the calendar at the same time, and stops being bookable at all.
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And the money is covered too. Cancel more than 24 hours ahead for a full refund, and if the first session you pay for was not useful, tell us within 24 hours and we refund it. RealAly absorbs that, not the advisor.
Before you book
What agents ask before their first session.
What does a session cost?
The advisor sets it. You see the price and the length on their profile before you book anything, and the price you see is the price you pay. There is nothing to join first and nothing that renews.
How soon can I be on a call?
You book out of the advisor’s own calendar, so the soonest time is whichever hour they have open. Their profile shows the next one before you click anything.
How do I know which advisor to pick?
Their profile carries the things that decide it: how long they have been in the business, what they work on, what a session costs and how long it runs, and what other agents said afterwards. Where they work is deliberately not there. You are choosing a person, not a brokerage.
Do I have to be an experienced agent to book one?
No. Advisors are the experienced ones, and agents book them at every stage. The usual reason is one specific problem rather than a general lack of experience.
What if I am not sure how to explain what I am stuck on?
Say it the way you would say it to somebody in the car on the way back from a showing. Working out what the real question is takes the first five minutes, and doing that quickly is a large part of what an experienced agent is for.
What if my situation is very specific?
That is the argument for booking one rather than against it. A general answer is the thing you already have. You are picking somebody who has closed that kind of deal, in that kind of market, with that kind of client on the other side of it.
Why not just ask an AI?
An AI is genuinely good at the average answer, and the average answer is the one you have already read. It has never sat across a table from your seller. The other half of the reason is closer to home: the agents who know your market best are competing with you in it, and the person you book here is not.
Can I hire an advisor to do the work for me?
No, and they will not offer. They advise, and that is the whole job. Before they are listed they confirm they will not use a session to recruit you, to sell you their coaching or their tools, or to give legal, tax or compliance advice beyond what their license allows.
Where does the session happen?
In the RealAly room in your browser, on the advisor’s Zoom, or in person if you are both local. The advisor chooses which of those they offer and you see it before you book.
Is the session recorded?
In the RealAly room, yes, every time, and both of you agree to that at the door before either camera is on. Either of you can stop it while it is running. Only the two of you can watch it back, there is no download anywhere, and we look at one only if somebody raises a dispute. A session on Zoom or across a desk is not recorded by us at all.
What do I have after it ends?
Your advisor can write the session up, and that write-up stays on your shelf for good, searchable by what was in it. It is theirs to write rather than homework attached to getting paid, so treat it as the bonus it is. If the session was in the RealAly room, the recording sits in the same place.
Can I keep working with the same advisor?
That is what a membership is. You pay that advisor monthly at a price they set, book from their normal availability one session at a time up to thirty days ahead, and message them in between. Cancel whenever you like and it runs to the end of the month you have paid for.
How do I cancel? What about refunds?
Cancel a session more than 24 hours ahead and you are refunded in full. If the advisor cancels, you are refunded whenever it happens. And if the first session you ever pay for here was not useful, tell us within 24 hours and we refund that one too. RealAly absorbs it rather than the advisor, and it applies once.
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