WHEN IT’S
TIME TO TEAM UP BY MELANIE ROBITAILLE, SR. STAFF WRITER & GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Perhaps the saying, “two heads are better than one” is this thinking behind why so many form real estate teams; a movement on a serious uptick over the last several years. Learn how Broker/Owner, Maggie Tessier, has transferred her individual success into an award-winning, 12-agent lineup, including her son, in Ottawa, ON where the name of the game is all about teams.
You can achieve a level of success with a team or without.” MAGGIE TESSIER BROKER/OWNER
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A MATTER OF NEED Need is something Maggie reminds all agents to weigh in their decision to collaborate, admitting that even an accomplished professional like herself feels the pressures of business. “I think you can achieve a level of success with a team or without, it really does depend on what your goals are,” she explained. “I find with the arrival and speed of social media, and how everybody communicates, that one person alone has trouble managing it all. I feel it’s going so fast and creating so much anxiety that the more people you have around you, the more everybody can go home at a certain time and rest. That’s what really pushed me to build a team. When you start losing leads written on the back of your mail underneath the seat of your car, you know it’s time.” LEADING WITH LOVE Established in 2016, the Tessier Team has since graced the ranks of EXIT’s top teams consistently. Maggie credits EXIT’s business model as a way to organically build a team, but keeping one going these days is all about caring, she says. “We have a system where if someone leaves and another does business for them, they don’t want any referrals or any payout, and the other does the same. I feel this encourages people to go on vacation, relax, and recharge their batteries,” she explained of how many agents need precisely that after the past two years. “It’s a hard market to be working in, and you don’t have the energy you had in 2021. We kind of came out of 2020 thinking that [COVID] would be over, but it wasn’t, so everybody pushed through a whole other year, but everybody’s exhausted now. I feel the agents, staff, and everyone needs
