Senior Market Specialist / Real Estate Acquisitions – Second Avenue

Second Avenue is an alternative, investor driven, privately owned real estate firm focused on solving solutions for single-family residential investors. Second Avenue is a full-service platform offering innovative results to institutional grade owners and investors. Our experienced management team, unparalleled market density and proprietary technology deliver best-in-class client experiences.

We offer a positive culture and professional work environment. Please visit our website for additional background on our business platform – www.secondavenue.com .

Job Description

There are various facets to this role- all revolving around the acquisition of residential investment properties on behalf of our investors. The candidate for this role must be able to analyze a property value through standard comparable analysis and create a renovation strategy to optimize profit. Alternatively, the candidate must be comfortable working at optimizing profitability through selling to local and national real estate investment groups.

Candidate will coordinate with our management team as we establish operations in the market, primarily focused on the acquisition of a large quantity of homes for a rental portfolio. Candidate is responsible for implementing consistent and standardized processes for leads and acquisitions in market.

As Second Avenue establishes a buying program in the market, candidate will be involved in helping to evaluate and acquire properties through lead management and conversion of leads into property acquisitions and possible dispositions.

Candidate must be a self-starter and comfortable working from a remote location away from headquarters and the executive team.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Comply with operational standards to ensure that all leads created are called, distributed, worked and updated.
• Prevent any delays that impact the home acquisition process for the Company and our sellers and buyers.
• Implement and maintain policies and procedures, detailing operational methods, and working to maximize closings.
• Foster and maintain superior business relationships with other agents, partners, investors and corporate teams.
• Monitor operational work flow on closings to ensure optimum compliance, accuracy and efficiency.

Skills and Specialized Knowledge

• Prior experience in the acquisition, valuation, or marketing of single-family investment properties.
• Must have strong sales and negotiating skills.
• Comfortable calculating profitability analysis.
• Comfortable creating appropriate rehab strategy for marketing investment properties.
• Able to manage high volume portfolio in various phases of the purchase/selling cycle.
• Understand brokerage compliance.
• Comfortable with RE purchase contracts.
• Must be organized and a self-starter.
• Experienced in underwriting and/or investment property valuation.
• Knowledge of real estate sales transaction processes, closing and title clearance processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to use PC and widely used software packages, e.g., spreadsheets/Excel, word processing/Word, and learn new software packages as necessary.
• Able to meet deadlines, plan and coordinate multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must possess good organizational skills, have the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and demonstrate good communication and customer service skills.

Requirements

• Licensed Real Estate Agent, Broker Assistant or Broker
• Associate’s Degree or higher

Compensation

Compensation: Full-time, Salaried Exempt – plus significant monthly bonus potential

Benefits: Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, 401k, Paid Vacation, and Paid Holidays