Why Giving Back To The Community Is A Real Estate Agent’s Best Marketing Strategy • Learning With A Lender • Joel Schaub

Welcome to the March episode of Learn With A Lender with Joel Schaub of Guaranteed Rate! In this episode Joel discusses why giving back to the community is one of the most important things you can do and how this helps you in building your brand and business. Next, Joel talks about the importance of partnerships and how good partnerships bring better results. Last, Joel talks about lending rates and what’s happening in the loan market at the moment. If you’d prefer to watch this interview, click here to view on YouTube! Joel can be reached at [email protected] and 773.654.2049. Transcript D.J. Paris 0:00This episode of Keeping it real is brought to you by gogos bootcamp Are you a real estate agent looking for the very best media training program on the planet? Gogo Beth key is considered the top Instagram Realtor in the country. And her step by step training program will take your social media game to the next level, keeping it real listeners receive a special discount. So please visit Gogo podcast.com That's Gee oh gee Oh podcast.com for your special discount and now on with the show Okay, welcome to another episode of Keeping it real, the largest podcast made by real estate agents and for real estate agents. My name is DJ Faris, I am your guide and host through the show. And today, once again, is our monthly series called Learn with a lender with Joel shop from guaranteed rate. Now Joel is the vice president of lending at 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, Joel gave back over almost $300,000 in closing costs to buyers who worked with him and that puts Joe's volume at the top 1/10 of 1% of all lenders nationwide. out of 400,000 loan officers in the country. Joel is currently ranked number 137. Last year to date, he closed over 535 transactions, his highest amount ever full for one year. With that was almost $200 million in loans. Already this year. Joel has closed 151 transactions for over 56 million. He's actually going to break his record this year and last from last year. And if you're looking to work with a loan officer, we could not more highly recommend Joel he's the very best we've ever worked with. He actually helped me with my loan that just closed my transaction and he was amazing. I know lots of people that he's helped as well. So if you're looking to work with a great, great loan officer Joel is our highest recommendation, you can find him or reach him rather at his email address, which is Joel J [email protected]. Again, [email protected]. Or shoot him a text message or call him at 773-654-2049. Let's say hello to the biggest Cubs fan. I know Joel Schaub welcome Joel, Joel Schaub 2:34a DJ, thanks so much for having me on. And all those numbers are great, but I really like coming back and just giving and sharing with the audience how they can grow to the next level as well. And so it's really fun to take this time each and every single month. And you get to this level by giving. It's not about what you can get, it's what you can give. And that's been the theme almost every time we're on and I'm excited to go through some of that with yo...