A short YouTube transcript excerpt from episode 47 of Real Estate Team OS where Sean Getty warns new team leaders against hiring an agent first. He recommends hiring a transaction coordinator (TC) or virtual assistant to handle hourly/admin tasks so founders can focus on commission-driving work, and recounts multiple failed early-team attempts.
This is super important for anybody who's starting a team. Please take this advice, please. Because I didn't. I did everything the worst and hardest way possible. I got overwhelmed and was doing way too much business. And I think this is how most team starts. And they're like, okay, well, now I have to hire my first person. Everybody will tell you to hire an admin as your first person. So I said, why would I pay money when I could just hire an agent to hire, take care of my spare business, right? So I brought in an agent before I brought in a tc and that agent wanted training. I had no time to train them. It was the worst decision I possibly could have made. Your first hire should 100% be a transaction coordinator and a min or something where they could take your hourly tasks off your hand and you could focus on the commission driving tasks. So 11 months in, I started my first team. Failed miserably at that one. I had seven more versions. Sorry, six more versions. So seven times I built up agents and lost them. Built up agents and lost them until this version of the team.
Sean Getty shares what worked and what didn't as he 12x agent count on episode 47 of Real Estate Team OS.
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