Facts and current market trends that present obstacles to real estate sales and agent success:
- Low housing inventory and high interest rates continue to keep prices high, making home ownership unaffordable for many consumers.
- There are over 18,000 licensed real estate agents in the State of CT and less than 11,000 active residential listings on the MLS!
- Due to the high cost of housing, many homeowners are opting to remain in their homes and renovate instead of upsizing or downsizing.
Realtors who expect to succeed in today’s challenging Real Estate market must adapt to the current market conditions and seek new strategies to distinguish themselves in the markets they serve by demonstrating their value to homeowners, whether they choose to RENOVATE OR RELOCATE.
How can you succeed in Connecticut’s challenging real estate market?
Creating Sustainable Communities LLC (CSC) is a real estate-focused business that is designed to promote Realtors by offering them opportunities to facilitate sustainability initiatives that benefit consumers AND build strong, resilient communities, one home at a time. Our model provides agents with strategies to stand out in the communities they serve by engaging in CSC’s innovative sustainability initiatives and practices. CSC provides personalized promotional marketing opportunities for CSC agent subscribers on multiple social media platforms and on our website for the sustainability services they provide.
CSC’S Complimentary Promotional Marketing Is Based Solely The Sustainable Services Provided And Agent Awards Received And Not On Sales Productivity!!!
LEARN how becoming a CSC subscriber for just $25 per month and signing up to take our FREE in-depth Sustainability Course for just $25 per month and receiving your 2025 Certified Sustainability Agent Certificate (CSA) can provide you with an opportunity to boost your client base by offering services of value while making a positive impact on the environment in the communities you serve. Go to csacertification.com to subscribe!
FIND OUT how your CSC Subscription provides multiple promotional benefits for your eco-conscious stewardship and the sustainability services you provide.
LEVERAGE Your sustainability knowledge and expertise from our in depth sustainability course to increase your competitive edge! RECEIVE COMPLIMENTARY showcase marketing on CSC’s website with your NAME, BROKERAGE, PHOTO, and CONTACT INFORMATION!! Some of the benefits of becoming a CSC Certified Sustainability Agent (CSA) and CSC subscriber that are designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to stand out in your market include:
- Marketing yourself as a Sustainability Specialist so you can better serve your clients and community as a leader and influencer in the Sustainability movement.
- GENERATING and CONTROLLING your OWN LEADS!!! (We offer CSC subscriber’s personalized promotional flyers with your NAME, PHOTO & CONTACT INFORMATION to distribute to homeowners of YOUR choice. The flyers include an offer of a CSC Gift Card Voucher (see info below) of up to $500, post-closing, for home sellers to be used for energy saving audits and services in their new home. )
- Providing potential clients with valuable services, including access to CSC’s trademarked “Cleanouts with a Conscience,” service which helps homeowners purge their unwanted items in an environmentally friendly manner. There is NO OBLIGATION for homeowners to list their homes with the CSC subscriber who connects them with The Junkluggers, our approved moving vendor. CSC has a licensing agreement with the Junkluggers to use CSC’s trademarked name.
- Possessing the expertise to help homeowners reduce their energy costs and carbon emissions by connecting them with Energy Efficiency Companies for Home Energy Audits and connecting them to Energy Efficiency Companies.
- Understanding how to help homeowners navigate tax incentives and rebates for the energy-saving features they install in their homes.
- Having the knowledge and expertise to help buyer clients understand the benefits of energy-saving features in the homes they consider purchasing.
Position Yourself As The Agent Consumers Choose To Contact
Whether RENOVATING OR RELOCATING, homeowners need expert advice, home preparation services and guidance to help them explore their options so they can make informed choices and smart investment decisions. With the knowledge you possess as a Realtor and Sustainability Specialist, you can offer valuable advice to homeowners whether they choose to move or stay put.
Demonstrate Your Value And Increase Your Client Base
Many homeowners who aren’t sure whether they want to RENOVATE or RELOCATE. Demonstrate to homeowners the importance of the valuable advice and services you can offer whether they decide to move on or stay put.
How Can YOUR CSA/CSC Subscription Increase YOUR Competitive Edge?
BECOME A TRUSTED ADVISOR For homeowners who want good, solid, unbiased real estate advice and guidance, they need a TRUSTED ADVISOR who can provide the following Real Estate Services of VALUE to assist them with the decision making process:
- Facilitating the purging of a homeowner’s unwanted household items using CSC’s “Cleanouts with a Conscience” trademarked service & connecting homeowners to CSC’s approved staging/design professionals for consultations on what household items to keep for home staging, repurposing, or redesign.
- Performing a competitive market analysis of their current home value and the projected value if improvements, updates, or renovations are made.
- Analyzing the feasibility and cost/benefit analysis of the desired improvements to their home based on the location and the infrastructure of the home’s interior design and architecture.
- Connecting the homeowner to your list of trusted contractors to provide plans, designs, and estimates for desired renovations so they can explore that option.
- Advising them on ways they can save money and make their current home more energy efficient and connecting them to Energy Efficiency Professionals to provide Home Energy Audits and Energy Saving Services.
- Discussing the option of adding an Accessory Home Dwelling (ADU)** to their property if the town zoning allows it and their lot meets the acreage requirements and complies with other planning and zoning restrictions.
- Showing homeowners available homes on the market that meet their needs or properties that may accommodate an Accessory Home Dwelling Unit, providing the town zoning allows it.
**CSC has partnered with BIOS Homes to offer homeowners Accessory Home Dwelling Unit options. See information below about how you can refer homeowners to Bios Homes for the construction of an ADU and get paid a referral fee!
CSC Gift Card Vouchers
Homeowners who work with a CSC Agent Subscriber who choose to RELOCATE and list and sell their home with the CSC Agent OR an Agent/Broker the Agent refers the client to may be eligible to receive a CSC GIFT CARD VOUCHER*** post-closing of up to $500 for energy-saving products and services to make their new home more energy efficient!
Payment for the gift card voucher is the responsibility of the agent/broker who offers it and is paid after the closing on the home the client purchases.. Payment may also come from referral fees paid to the referring agent/Broker, if the agent who offers the gift card voucher refers the homeowner to another agent/broker. to purchase a home.
After CSC receives payment from the CSC subscribing Agent or the CSC agent’s Broker, CSC issues the gift cards to the homeowner. Gift cards may only be used for approved energy saving products and services and are transferable.
The CSC real estate agent who offers a Gift Card Voucher to the client must have broker approval.
Bios Homes
CSC is proud to be a strategic partner of BIOS Homes, a broker of energy efficient ADU homes that use cutting edge energy efficiency technology to build ADU’s.
The model for Bios Homes is innovative and creative and provides a timely response to the current trend of homeowners who are choosing to remain in their existing homes and either renovate or build an ADU on their properties. Bios Homes also fills the need for more units of affordable housing, The business model of BIOS homes is in direct alignment with the mission of Creating Sustainable Communities, LLC
- ADU (Accessory Dwelling Units)
- After receiving their CSA certification and becoming CSC subscribers, agents will take a webinar to learn how BIOS homes offer excellent alternative housing options.
- For eco conscious homeowners seeking an affordable and innovative option to their housing needs, an ADU on their existing property OR a newly purchased home, may offer the right choice.
- CSC Subscribing Agents can help homeowners explore whether the ADU option on their existing property is a viable choice, providing the lot meets zoning and other requirements and the town allows ADU’s OR help the homeowner purchase another property that will accommodate
ADU Referral Payments
CSC Agents who work with homeowners interested in having an ADU added to their existing property or a property they purchase, may refer homeowners to Real Estate Broker and Developer of BIOS homes, Steve Schappert. If the homeowner chooses to build an ADU on their existing lot or a lot they purchase,, the fee that is paid by the BIOS Homes developer to the agent is negotiated directly between the ADU developer and the agent. (Since ADU’s do not involve the sale of Real Property, they DO NOT require Brokerage involvement).
More Info. About Benefits For Subscribers
If you would like to learn more about the specific benefits of becoming a CSC Agent Subscriber, you can review the please or have any questions please feel free to email info@creatingsustainablecommunities.org.