Why do the top Real Estate Agents partner with North Star?
Because we protect their relationships with their clients and we lease homes the way they sell homes.

A lot of our business comes from Real Estate agents who refer their clients to us. By giving their owners an alternative to selling in this down market, these agents provide them the ability to generate cash flow while waiting for the market to improve. This not only allows the owners to realize a higher equity gain, but allows the agents to market the property at a time when there is a better chance of procuring a sale. In this tough market, owners are frustrated and tend to change agents in hope of selling their home. We allow Real Estate agents to keep and improve their client relationships, deferring instead of losing income while proving that they put their customer needs first.

North Star is focused on cultivating and maintaining agent relationships with sellers and buyers as they temporarily become landlords and tenants. Here is how we do it:

• Our agreements with your sellers state that at the termination of the tenancy, if the home goes to the market, the referring agent will be the selling agent.
• For your buyer relationships, we help facilitate buyer broker agreements on your behalf. Many tenants are buyers who have been transferred here, yet they cannot sell the home where they are moving from, so they rent from us. If this tenant is your future buyer, a buyer broker agreement will solidify your relationship.
• We do our best to have leases expire in the spring to allow you to market the home in the best possible selling season.
• We call you two months before the lease expiration to see if you recommend going to the sale market, or renewing the lease.
• We pay twice the normal referral fee for owner referrals.
• We make sure that your clients understand that by referring us, you are placing their needs before your own. This not only solidifies your relationship with your client, but increases your referral base from this client.
• If the home is currently for sale, we recommend co-marketing the home with you, us on the lease side and you on the sale side, as many times we will procure a tenant wanting to perform a lease option.
• We understand that the main goal of the majority of our owners is to sell, not rent. We help facilitate the eventual sale in any way that we can, including giving our pictures and virtual tours to you.

North Star thanks the growing list of Real Estate agents for their trust, referrals and continued support.

Please feel free to contact us at 503-636-2232 or info@northstarproperties.com.