Imagine going to your doctor tomorrow for a check-up. When you get there, she greets you at the window and checks you in. Then, she comes around from behind the desk, takes your weight, temperature and blood pressure and puts you in the exam room. After a while, she does her examinations, gives you the results and then sends you to the front desk to schedule your next appointment. At that point, she meets you at the front desk, gives you any prescriptions you need and puts you in the schedule for your next visit.

How many patients would she be able to see every day? How long of a wait would it be for you to get service when you went for a visit? What's worse, how long would you have to wait for your next visit? It's safe to say that if the entire process is manned by one person, the process wouldn't be very efficient and many things would suffer, including customer service.

The same issues would crop up in any business where there are many moving parts that need to be handled and they were only being handled by one person. This includes the real estate industry. Most AFA's are single practitioners that do everything themselves. Unfortunately. when you do everything yourself in a job where there's so many things going on, something is bound to fall through the cracks. The question is, do you want something falling through the cracks when you're making your biggest investment (especially if it could cost you thousands)? Were guessing the answer is no.

An Expert Advisor has a team of specialists working with him/her to provide you with the highest level at every turn during your real estate transaction. As a result of this true team effort, you get better service, higher accountability and a relatively painless (if not completely painless) transaction on your way to closing.

Included in the suite of services available to you when you work with an Expert Advisor are:

· Timely Handling of Paperwork - Team members are charged with ensuring that your paperwork gets to the right people at the right time to make sure things are handled properly from A to Z and everywhere in between.

· Closing and Settlement Preparation - Your closing coordination works with you, the seller, the seller's agent, the title company, the lender and any other service provider along the way to make sure your closing goes off without a hitch.

· Avoidance of Potential Deal Killers - More than one set of eyes is on your transaction at all times, which means that potential deal killers are identified and avoided long before they rear their ugly head.

· Negotiation of Repairs - You get excellent customer service from your agent while the specialists working behind the scenes keeps things moving, including negotiating great results for you on your home inspection.

· Adherence to a Proper Timeline - Missing one milestone in a closing could cost you thousands. The team works closely with each other to make sure the timeline is strictly adhered to.

Doing everything yourself will surely lead to career suicide in the next 12 to 18 months. The needs of real estate consumers are bigger and more involved than they've ever been and a one-person operation just can't do the job. Expert Advisors and their teams will be the standard bearer for how real estate transactions are handled for well into the future.