Why Smart Real Estate Agents Never Waste Time on $15 Tasks 🧠

23 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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A YouTube monologue advising real estate agents to invest time up front building a system to automate or delegate low-value administrative tasks (printing, stamping, mailing). The speaker contrasts high hourly value of system-building with low hourly cost of daily execution, and gives concrete cost examples for hiring an admin to run the system (weekly, quarterly, annual figures).

Questions this video answers

$1,000 per hour

Approximately $12–$20 per hour (speaker uses $15 and $20 examples)

$100 per week (based on a $20/hour, ~1 hour/day estimate)

$1,300 for a quarter (13 weeks × $100/week)

$5,200 per year (4 quarters × $1,300)

My struggles to actually get the letter sent. It's a lot of work and for me would often get pushed. The building of the system is thousand dollar an hour work. The building of the system is one thousand dollars an hour. Doing the daily work of sending out letters and putting stamps on and the high resolution copies and that is $15 an hour work, $12 an hour work. You know, you could probably pay a neighborhood kid to, to get those done. You want them done first thing in the morning. So that's the only challenge. But you, you should. Once the system is built, the only reason you would be sending out letters is if you didn't quite yet have the cash to be able to afford for 90 days to pay someone else to do it. The activity in most markets is less than an hour a day. So let's say it was $20 per hour. It would cost you $100 per week to hire someone to do to run this system for you. You build the system, they run it for you. So $100 per week in 13 weeks, that's a full quarter. You will have some listings and you will probably have an under contract. So you're going to spend $1300 to have an admin run the system that you built. And that's the power of this thing. All in the admin to run this entire system for the year is $1300 times four, $5200. And there's paper, there's postage and there's a little bit of technology. But we build this system and then we hand it off.