Property Point

Anyone who plays a particular sport well knows that technique is a crucial element. If your technique is not up to scratch, you will not achieve at a higher level.

My summer sport was cricket and batting was my main thing.

There is nothing random about batting in cricket. You can have the best eye and the most competitive spirit but if your technique isn’t right you are doomed to failure.

There is only one way to hit a front foot cover drive:  Front foot forward and slightly inside the line of a pitched-up ball outside of off stump, head over the ball, front elbow up so that the angle of the bat hits the ball along the ground and all this done as your weight transfers to the slightly bent front leg as you hit through the ball.

You might fluke a successful cover drive once or twice with a poor technique, but you’ll soon be found out. Same goes for a square cut, a pull shot and a hook shot … there’s a technique and if you don’t do it properly you will soon be walking back to the pavilion.

I’m no golfer but, from my limited experience, I can see that technique is everything. My technique is crap and that is reflected with absolute clarity in how I play.  

I played AFL footy and, no matter how fast or strong or brave or competitive you are, if you don’t have the right technique for kicking a drop punt you are going to look like a fool.

Rugby league requires strength, pace, courage and general athletic ability but if you don’t have the right technique, whether that is passing, tackling, catching or goal kicking, you will not play at a high level.

Sport teaches us a lot about life and work.  It teaches us that effort is vital. Winners put in the effort. They work harder than those they defeat. The hard worker gets in the team and the hard-working team wins the comp.

But sport also teaches us that you also have to develop skills. You have to work on your technique, over and over again to elevate your performance to the highest level.

It’s the same in real estate. The hard worker makes more phone calls back to buyers and makes sure no stone is left unturned in finding buyers for your property.

But skills, or technique, also play a crucial role. How does the agent create a write-up? Is it engaging? Does it connect with buyers and attract the right ones to the property … the ones who will see the value and pay for it?

What’s the agent’s technique at open homes and private inspections? Has the agent got the skills you need to get the best result? There’s a lot more to being a good agent than giving you a price for what they think they can get for your property.

It’s worth asking a few questions about technique before signing with an agent who has given you a price you like for your property.

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