Apartment Locator (Licensed Real Estate Agent)

START YOUR REAL ESTATE CAREER.

Become an apartment locator! No real estate license? No problem. We'll walk you through the entire process so you'll be licensed by your start date.

The Apartment Locator role is an Inside Sales position with a Real Estate brokerage that specializes in finding apartments for renters. This pipeline-building career makes for a great introduction to residential 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!

Who are we?

Smart City is an 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 have more leads than we know what to do with, so we’re eager to hire more awesome humans to our Sales Team who are ready to grow with the company, work hard, and win big! We operate in Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Denver, Atlanta, and Chicago.

What do we do?

We help people find the best deals on apartments! How do we do it? It’s pretty simple:

• Our marketing and customer experience teams generate qualified leads, aka our clients. Check us out on on Instagram and TikTok: @SmartCityApts, @SmartCityAtlanta, @SmartCityATX, @SmartCityChicago, @SmartCityDenver, @SmartCityFortWorth, @SmartCityHTX, @SmartCitySATX
• You get to tour apartments all over the city! You will manage client relationships by chatting to get to know what they're looking for, and then connect them with the best places in the city.
• The client pays their rent, the apartment complex pays Smart City, and Smart City pays you! Win-win-win!

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 personalized list of available units
• Work directly with property partners, schedule and attend tours
• Earn commissions for leasing clients

Let’s talk comp:

This role is paid by real estate commissions from helping your client lease an apartment.

• Based on full-time effort with an average of 10-14 leased clients per month, compensation ranges between $70K-110K+ per year.
• We never cap commissions, so top performers can (and do) earn $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 the renter is ready to buy a home and the locator is ready to take a new step in their career, the locator now has a residential client.
• Flexibility with an asterisk*: This is not a 9-5 desk job. Your schedule is built around when your clients are looking for apartments, likely a mix of days, evenings and weekends. But it means having control over your vacation and time off. It means not feeling guilty for sleeping in, heading to the gym in the middle of the day, and certainly not having to ask for permission to schedule a doctor’s appointment.
• Advanced Pay Program: Where other brokerages only pay you after receiving checks from your leases, we pay you 30% of the invoice amount once move-in is confirmed, which means you get paid 60-90 days sooner than all other real estate brokerages.
• 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

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

Licensed: License: You don’t need to be licensed at the time you apply, but you must be licensed in order to start with our brokerage. But don't worry—we’ll walk you through the process! You’ll need to finish your coursework within the specified time frame of being offered a position:

• Texas: 6 weeks
• Colorado: 6 weeks
• Georgia: 4 weeks
• Illinois: 2 weeks

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.

Any questions?

• What do our agents think about working at Smart City? Watch here
• What's a Day in the Life of an Agent look like? Watch here
• Listen to our agents featured on the Career Contessa podcast interview, How to Become an Apartment Locator, on Apple or Spotify.
• What are our clients are saying? Read our Google Reviews!
• Send us an email at [email protected] and we'll be happy to answer any of your questions!

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.