Summary: <br> Welcome to the March episode of Learn With A Lender with Joel Schaub of Guaranteed Rate!<br> <br> <br> <br> In this episode <a href="https://www.rate.com/loan-expert/joelschaub" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Joel </a>and DJ discuss the activities Joel’s team organizes and how it helps build and grow a brand. Joel also shares tips on how to make your offer stand out in the market right now and also what should agent tell their clients about the increase in the rates. Last, Joel discusses the mortgage rates at the moment.<br> <br> <br> <br> If you’d prefer to watch this interview, <a href="https://youtu.be/oS0TbYqfRGI" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here to view on YouTube!</a><br> <br> <br> <br> Joel can be reached at <a href="mailto:joel@rate.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">joel@rate.com</a> and <a href="tel:7736542049" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">773.654.2049.</a><br> <br> <br> <br> This episode was brought to you by <a href="http://www.realgeeks.com/keepingitrealpod" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Real Geeks.</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.rate.com/loan-expert/joelschaub" target="_blank" rel="noopener"></a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Transcript<br> <br> <br> <br> D.J. Paris 0:00As a realtor, how do you grow your brand? We’re going to talk about that today. Stay tuned. This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by real geeks. How many homes are you going to sell this year? Do you have the right tools? Is your website turning soft leads and interested buyers? Are you spending money on leads that aren’t converting? Well real geeks is your solution. Find out why agents across the country choose real geeks as their technology partner. Real geeks was created by an agent for agents. They pride themselves on delivering a sales and marketing solution so that you can easily generate more business. Their agent websites are fast and built for lead conversion with a smooth search experience for your visitors. Real geeks also includes an easy to use agent CRM. So once a lead signs up on your website, you can track their interest and have great follow up conversations. Real geeks is loaded with a ton of marketing tools to nurture your leads and increase brand awareness visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod and find out why Realtors come to real geeks to generate more business again, visit real geeks.com forward slash keeping it real pod. And now on to our show.<br> <br> <br> <br> Welcome to another episode of thinking of real the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Parris. I’m your guide and host through the show. And today, once again is our monthly series called Learn with a lender with Joel Schaub from guaranteed rate. Now, Joel is the vice president of lending guaranteed rate, and he’s been doing loans at a high level since 2003. And he’s got to that level because of what he does specifically for agents, which is he gives back part of his commission to the buyer on every transaction. Last year alone, Joe gave back almost $300,000 in closing costs to buyers who worked with him and that puts Joe’s volume at in the top 1/10 of 1% of lenders nationwide. So there’s actually over 400,000 loan officers in the United States. And Joel is currently ranked number number 137. And last year, he closed for his record year it was 619 transactions. And that was for just shy of $250 million to 49 million. And already this year, Joel has closed 70 transactions for $27 million. By the way, 25 and a half million of the 27 million that he’s already done this year, were purchases not refi. So he has not seen a slowdown at all. But if you are looking for a loan officer who can do loans at a high level to close for your clients,
