Uncontrollable costs push Bryant from Prestige Realty Group to Metro Brokers

by: Mark.Eibner - View Profile on 2008-06-25 @ 5.50:42 am Leave a comment »

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MetroBrokersTV : Hi. I am Scott Shields and I am here today with MetroBrokersTV.com, sitting down with Matt Bryant, who is one of our newest members to Metro Brokers. Matt, thanks for coming down to the studio today and talking with us.

Matt Bryant: Scott, thanks very much. Uncontrollable

MetroBrokersTV : Great for you to be here. Tell us about yourself. How did you get involved with real estate or what were you doing before real estate? <watch video>

Matt Bryant: I started in real estate about six years ago. Before that, I was a baseball player and in the off season, to make ends meet, because I was a very poorly paid baseball player, I would... I would clean apartments, manage apartments, do some leasing here and there for a very good friend of my father's, so when I retired from baseball and got into the real estate business, I had that knowledge, that experience behind me, but I needed to go somewhere and learn a little bit about the real estate contracts, the protocol.

MetroBrokersTV : Where did you start out in [Inaudible]?

Matt Bryant: I started with Coldwell Banker [phonetic]. I was there for two-and-a-half years. I moved to Prestige Real Estate group and moved to Metro Brokers in October of 2007.

MetroBrokersTV : And what made you to come over to Metro Brokers? Why did you pick Metro Brokers out of all the other companies out there?

Matt Bryant: The most instrumental piece in that was a realtor by the name of Joe Bingham, who is a broker over at... in the Marina Square office in the DTC area. He has been with Metro Brokers for a number of years. He is one of the originals I believe; I could be wrong, but I know he has 25 plus years of real estate experience behind him. I have been using him for my whole career, my six years, asking him for advice and it has always been very good really, real world advice and it has been... I have been going to him more than anybody else, so, when it really came time for me to kind of question the business model that some of these other big companies had been using, he was right there for me. He did mention Metro Brokers, never really pushed me into it, but did tell me that your money is your money to spend, you are your own company, you set this... set the tone, you go in any direction you want, and since October 2007, I have been over here and he is right... he has been right and it has been great.

MetroBrokersTV : So are you finding at Metro Brokers that you are utilizing or taking advantage of that you didn't have before?

Matt Bryant: They have got a lot of great tools in Metro Brokers. My $80 a month, which is very minimal comparatively to what I had been spending, my $80 a month gives me CTM eContracts, which has been great. I utilize that a lot. It is really actually pretty neat.

MetroBrokersTV : I am sure you are loving that electronic signature?

Matt Bryant: Yeah, [laughs]. That is actually really neat for me, but the main thing is, again, my business model is a small group investors that I... buy multifamily units for them and then manage them for them and then they use me to sell them and I have got a great group of investors and they are able to really talk to somebody else about me and using the website, the Metro Brokers website, gives me name recognition.

MetroBrokersTV : Well, thanks Matt Bryant with Bryant and Company.

Matt Bryant: Yeah.

MetroBrokersTV : Well, thank you for coming down today and this is Matt Bryant on MetroBrokersTV.com. Pleasure.

Matt Bryant: Thanks for having me.