Dave Homyak
Dave Homyak has been a guest on Collecting Keys, the real estate investing podcast hosted by Mike DeHaan, Dan Austin and Dylan Koch.
How to Find & Train VAs for Your Real Estate Business w/ Dave Homyak
Dan Austin talks with Dave Homyak of The Rockstar VAs about how to source, vet, train and manage virtual assistants in a real estate business. Dave explains the screening tests and job-description tricks he uses, why hiring a VA with management experience matters, and what a staffing company does that a DIY hire on onlinejobs.ph or Upwork does not. They also cover cold-calling VAs, using Loom or Zoom Clips to build training libraries, and why most people wait too long to hire.
Key takeaways
- Screen candidates with a simple test that has an easy, a medium and a hard question, and bury an instruction in the job description (for example, put "strawberry" in the subject line) to eliminate applicants who don't read.
- Consider making your first hire a VA with management experience so they can do quality control on later hires instead of you. Dave's lead cold caller listens to three calls a day from new hires and caught one failing to ask sellers about other properties.
- Write the job description for six months from now, not today. Ask what you'd hand off if the person crushes it, and list those skills (HubSpot, transaction coordination, property management) up front. Bookkeeping and social media are better given to specialists.
- Record every repeated task in Loom (or Zoom Clips) as you do it. Within a month you have a training library new hires can work through in their downtime, and a manager can point future hires to the same videos.