How do you recruit new agents to your firm?  We really need to ramp up our general real estate activities and create an additional revenue stream for our company, plus we are sitting on site for clients and need to have a general real estate agent available to work those buyers who are outside of the price range of the community in which we are selling. 

For years I have worked in the home building industry and I have been more focused on recruiting site agents, so putting together a general real estate team is something new to me. I don't think that people that we would be most interested in having join us will be looking in the classifieds for their next great place to work.  I have mentioned the opportunity to a few Realtor acquaintances, and I was able to successfully hire a new site agent through word of mouth, but I have yet to find a general real estate agent. 

So, fellow brokers (and agents), any ideas would really help.  We are a small company with a limited budget for recruiting, but have a great work environment and can offer tremendous support to the right person.  We have a terrific business plan that the bank just loves, we just need to get the people in place to make it happen.

Hope that you can help us,

Happy Selling!