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Mark Spain Real Estate

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Mark Spain Real Estate reviews

3.4

56% would recommend to a friend

(298 total reviews)
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Mark Spain

61% approve of CEO

60% positive business outlook

Mark Spain Real Estate has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 298 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Mark Spain Real Estate employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Real Estate industry (3.6 stars).

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298 reviews
1.0
Jan 26, 2018

RE Agent

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Management that will lie cheat and steal to make the company look good. Just like these glowing reviews! Maybe that will help the company grow??

Cons

You work incredibly hard for tiny paychecks You are only a number to Management, but they do a good job of making you feel like you’re so much more (you make them millions of dollars) Other agents in the industry not at MSRE do not like us because of our managements reputation The leads will fly in initially and then suddenly halt and not come for weeks/months A $3,000 commission will be split as follows. $2450 management $550 you even though you do all the work. They simply create the lead.

1.0
Sep 13, 2017

Lousy training!

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Pros

Other agents were great and super helpful

Cons

I was there about two months, and they sent me terrible leads that were very small (some even as low as $45k). Most of them were under $100k and the buyers were not serious and didn't get back to me no matter how much I contacted them. MSRE stopped sending me leads at about 1-1/2 months in. I went from getting a lead every 2 to 3 days to going 2 weeks without one new lead. I really do believe they set me up for failure, and they used the excuse that I wasn't around much for those 2 weeks to say they had a problem with me. After the first week of no leads I reached out and told them how discouraged I was, that I was willing to do whatever they wanted me to do like take another class, or to go back to Atlanta for training, and all they suggested was changing my criteria with the Call Center, which they said they did but I don't believe that, and maybe some more "role-playing". They told me not to be discouraged. They told me when I started that they would not let me flounder, but for some reason they just wanted me out. Then they was upset because I was teaching one class this semester at the University of Georgia, which I had to do since there was no money coming in with MSRE and none apparently on the horizon. Thank God I took that small adjunct position or I would be making nothing for months! I was new as a realtor and I was promised great training, which is normally done in their main office in Atlanta, but I was told that I could be trained near me in Bogart. I had probably 2-3 days of training, which was really just setting up all my accounts, etc. So then they were unhappy with me because I wasn't doing what they thought I should be doing, but that they had never told me to do. Then they did not even give me one opportunity to do what they wanted. The training in Bogart was REALLY lacking and unprofessional!

1.0
Oct 14, 2019

Not a good place to work

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Pros

Co workers were nice. This company is good at hiring nice hard working people.

Cons

There is no opportunity here for anyone other than the owners. The commission earned as an agent here is a small fraction of what similar companies pay. Their entire marketing plan is built on a bait and switch promise to buy your home if it doesn’t sell, but they don’t do that. When I was hired I was told they were phasing that out, but in the 2 years I was there this type of marketing only increased. It was really embarrassing going on listing appointments where people beloved Mark was going to give them an offer and buy their home and we were instructed to dance around the subject and to never discuss via email or in writing. It’s hard to sell something when your entire relationship with the seller is built on a lie. Also When I worked there they actually reduced the amount of commission and hired so many new people that they had to decrease the number of leads given out. I felt very unappreciated and taken advantage of. When I tried to discuss this with management they said maybe I wasn’t the right fit for them. So basically they felt they had enough leverage to decrease my pay and they didn’t care at all because agents are disposable to them.

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Mark Spain Real Estate Response
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We are a high-performance sales team so we certainly aren't for everyone! In addition, we have actually raised commission opportunities in the last year for high performers. - John Makarewicz
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