Frequently Asked Questions
1. What does Dark Horse Commercial do?
In a nutshell, what we do is we teach agents how to list and sell commercial properties. We can teach you how to work with leases, we can teach you how to work with buyers, but if you really want to get to the top of the earnings pyramid as quickly as possible, the fastest way to do that is working with sellers.
2. What makes Dark Horse Commercial Training different?
3. How do we get results?
4. Do I need to change brokerages?
No, I do not use this as a way of recruiting agents to my brokerage, but merely a way of training them properly. You can stay Wherever you are as long as they allow you to handle commercial transactions.
5. Will you provide me with leads?
6. Do I have to give Dark Horse a percentage of all my deals going forward?
No, what we do is teach you how to take listings, that is all.
7. What kind of success can I expect after starting the program?
8. Can I pay you once I get my first deal?
As much as I would like to help absolutely everybody, what I have found over time is that human nature always prevails. Meaning if you have skin in the game, you are 10 times more likely to do the things necessary, instead of the reverse when you have no skin in the game you don’t do what’s necessary for success, it’s that simple.
9. Can I need to wait till my next deal closes and then I will join?
There are two types of thinking in this world, “front of the pack thinking” and “back of the pack thinking”. Instead of waiting until you have all of the money you should consider what resources you have available. Oftentimes we find it’s not a question of having the resources, it’s a question of how resourceful you are willing to be.
There’s a very good chance that if you looked around, you would be able to find the money instead of waiting until the next deal. Over and over again, we hear people say “I want to wait till my next deal closes and then I will have the money to join”… That’s like a med school student saying “I’m going to go DO a brain surgery first, so I can make the money to pay for med school to learn how to do brain surgery”. You see the flaw in that logic?
What winds up happening, is that next deal never comes soon enough, you never are able to put enough money aside, and chances are you struggle until you go back to a nine to five job…
So doesn’t it make sense to tighten your belt a little bit and get resourceful? The price of what we do is equivalent to about a semester or two of community college, but how many Community College educations can have you earning multiple six figures within a year or two? The answer: Zero.
10. When does your next class begin?
11. How do you deliver the classes?
We deliver the course classes in group Zoom format, the Tuesday classes are taught in three, 30 minute, segments with the first segment is dedicated to Q&A, bring all your questions about your deals, your negotiations, your prospecting, your research Etc and we will answer them for you at that time. The next 30 minutes is dedicated to teaching different parts of the nine step process to listings, and the final 30 minutes on Tuesdays is dedicated to roleplay.
We get you sharper at your scripts, so that you take more meetings, so that you take more listings, so that you make more money. But it all starts with having your scripts dialed in.
12. What is the best business model in Commercial Real Estate?
Far and Away the best business model and Commercial Real Estate is going after and taking listings, because it give you the highest probability of getting paid…Think about it, the only thing that has to happen is you or a thousand other agents in your market have to find a buyer for that property as opposed to working with a buyer who might be looking for a property that literally doesn’t even exist, we call these “unicorn properties” in the business. Not only do you have control of your business, you have control of your schedule and he or she who controls their time, controls their income. Remember we only have two things to sell in this business, that’s our time, and our knowledge and the more we are efficient with those resources, the more money we make. It’s just that simple.
13. Do I have to leave my company and go to a commercial company?
No, absolutely not. If you are at a brokerage that sells residential properties, all you have to do is make sure that they allow you to do commercial transactions
14. Why are you doing this? if you're so good why aren't you just out doing deals?
I got to a point in my career where I had enough food at my table, and I realized when you have enough food at your table, invite more people to it. This is a very very difficult business to break into. The failure rate for commercial agents in the first two years is 97% Which means you have a 3% chance of succeeding without the proper guidanc.e If you just use the typical resources that are available to you you have a 3% chance of making it past 24 months. To put it another way, you have a 97% chance of spending a big chunk of your savings, going into debt, and still winding up back at that nine to five job that you hate. It’s my mission to make it a little bit easier for those that are willing to put in the work that’s why I do what I do.
15. What happens after 6 months?
16. Will you show us how to close deals?
17. Do I need access to the MLS?
18. What if I need to book a call with Christian?
What we find is that if you bring all your questions to class, you’ll have more than enough support. It’s not a question of having more resources; it’s a question of how resourceful you can be. If you ever took any college courses, I’m sure you found that you probably never had one-on-one training with your instructor, but rather, you asked all the questions you needed to in class. That’s what we encourage our students to do: think like entrepreneurs and be very resourceful, utilizing all of the resources at their disposal.
19. What if I need to pause my program?
In the event of an emergency family health, or otherwise, we can on a case-by-case basis pause your program one time for a period of time not to exceed 90 days
20. Do I need to get my CCIM designation first?
No, this is a question we get quite a bit, and the reality is that the CCIM designation is more appropriate much further down the road. What we teach you are the fundamentals of how to build and grow your commercial real estate business. If you want to get a high-level certification after three, four, or maybe five years, by all means, pursue it. But what we teach you first is the tactical, practical side of the business.