Pros
No particular order below: 1.Great money 2. You get to pick what 2 days off you want for the week 3. Marketing freedom to market with your own style 4. Strong management that doesn't micro manage unless needed 5. No realtor lisc needed in Ohio 6. If you have been in sales for 3 plus years used to selling to the public and are okay working second shift and weekend and you are honestly a top 10% performer then this will be a good fit. 7. Hard training but its good training, the best I have ever had. 8. Fun relationship with customers you get to be with them for 6 months as they build their dream home. 9. You own your community and thats fun, and you will randomly get moved to other local communities. For me I love moving to change it up and prevent burn out. 10. Fun trips and they are light on meetings. 11. Strong support system from co workers and back office staff. 12. Gas and expenses are reimbursed. 13. Good benefits this is a W2 real estate job *very rare! 14. Company laptop provided. 15. Job security NVR is one of Americas largest home builders and probably Americas most financially sound home builders and we plan for market downturns to protect the company and our jobs. 16. We team sell so if 2 people are in one community you both get paid for a sale. Your not splitting the sale you just get a bit of a higher quota at the beginning of the month. You and your sales partner share that quota. (This is region specific some areas do not do team sales.) 17. You get company stock yearly. 18. I thought I would get bored being in a model by myself. NOPE you will not and if you are something is wrong. There is never enough time in the day. I have worked in sales all my life I am a millennial without a college degree. I made over six figures my first full year and pacing to double my first year amount for 2019. I work about 50 hours a week counting at home activity. 19. Good safety in the models for your protection. If you are okay with sales hours and working weekends, tough skinned and are not a complainer, can handle change well, your positive and super trainable look here. 20. Bonus is no longer based on customer survey THANK YOU! =) 21. You get 3 weeks vacation to help offset your only one weekend a month. 22. Selection are limited and dont take much time for a customer to pick out what they want. 23. We offer in house financing and it makes the buying proccess fast AND EASY which is super helpful for us sales reps.
Cons
No company is perfect and I get why they do some of the things to make it a con. Either way you have to know these things coming into the business. My biggest con is no paid vacation yes you get vacation 3+ weeks but its not paid and your quota is not lowered for it. If you are in a community by yourself that can be a bad thing. Here are some others not big cons but just things that come with the job in no order. 1. Pay is based off quota and not a percentage unlike other builders who pay off a percentage. 2. Quota changes but now with a yearly snapshot its more predictable so not as bad. 3. Some communities can be hard to sell in but there inst a unsalable community as long as you are positioned correctly, priced correctly and are actively selling the way you have been taught. Make sure your manager gives you one on one time if you are struggling so you can re position correctly. 4. 401k match is low 5. Stress can be very high dealing with a customers new home can be challenging. You have to set the right expectations up front that building isnt perfect but it will still happen. But you wouldnt be making good money if the stress wasnt high some times. 7. Mistakes happen and unfortunately sometimes its your fault other times its others fault when its others fault you are probably going to get the brunt of it from your customer and you have to take it and apologize. If it was your fault Management can come down hard on you, but they will give you a warning before writing you up if its a big mistake. Take my advice just OWN IT and move on. 6. Can not cross sale into other communities. 7. Software systems are outdated and clunky which can lead to huge mistakes by mis typing a wrong number while trying to close a deal with 3 screaming kids a fighting couple in front of you and a new customer who just walked in the door while your by yourself.. This should be easily automated by now but it has not been. 8. You only get 2 weekend days off a month but its new home sales people buy houses on the weekend if you cant handle it Im not going to sugar cote it you have to work those weekends, you will miss sporting events for your kids and time with friends. But you get your2 weekend days off a month and you can pick those so you can make it to some games. 9. Non standard requests from customers like to move a wall etc are very hard to get if not impossible. However they do that because those non standards take alot of energy and money to make happen. 10. Training is hard VERY hard you will be broken of bad sales habits and trained the right way. If you dont do it the Ryan way you will fail. Be prepared for a very hard first 6 months and then it gets easier. Training pay is okay.