Houston Apartment Locator

The Apartment Locator role is an Inside Sales - Real Estate position at Smart City Locating.

Smart City is a human-centered apartment locating service that saves renters time and money when searching for a new place to live. We’re on a mission to help people find a space to be themselves, both in an apartment and a place to work. We’re eager to add more awesome humans to our Sales Team who are ready to grow with the company, work hard, and win big!

Are you?

• Empathetic, compassionate, and intuitive
• Social and outgoing
• Self driven, extremely goal oriented, and ready to learn
• Always sees the silver lining and able to have a good laugh at yourself
• A multitasking genius, whether it’s because you’re a perfectionist, slightly anxious, or hyper focused, being impatient is a virtue and moving quickly is your superpower
• Accessible and a follow-up ninja, not necessarily detail oriented but organized in your own way

What will you do?

Ultimately, your job is to find your clients apartments. On the daily, you’ll:

• Manage the client relationship from lead to lease
• Chat with clients via text, phone, and email
• Put together a hyper-personalized list of available apartment units
• Work directly with property partners, schedule and attend tours

Let’s talk comp:

• This is a full-time position with an expectation of 10-14 clients leased per month. Commission ranges between $70K-100K+ per year, and top performers make $100K+.

Why Smart City?

• Company Generated Leads : More than we know what to do with. Everyone needs help finding an apartment, and we HATE cold calling. People are calling us non-stop and we need your help to find them apartments!
• Pipeline to Residential Real Estate : This pipeline-building process makes for a great introduction to residential leasing real estate—when renters are ready to buy a home and you’re ready to take a new step in your career, you now have a pipeline of potential residential clients! This is THE easiest, least risky way to enter into residential real estate.
• Tenure is rewarded : Commission percentages increase the longer you’re here.
• Grow with a growing company : We are big fans of promoting from within. 90% of people on our executive leadership team started as Smart City agents.

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Real Estate License : You’ll need to finish your coursework towards your Texas Real Estate License within 6 weeks of being offered a position. But don't worry—we’ll walk you through the process!
• Local Travel Required : Local travel around the city to tour with your clients.
• Laptop Required : Having a laptop is crucial to being successful in this role. The expectation is that we are shockingly accessible to our clients, sometimes on short notice. Being tied down to running a search from only one location could limit the level of service you're able to provide your clients. You'll also want to make sure your laptop is set up for video calls, when the need arises!
• iPhone Required : The mobile version of our custom CRM only operates on iOS.

Smart City is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, gender, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law, in connection with any aspect of employment at Smart City Locating.