The company is a trap of super low pay & fake promises
Pros
Saff and management will pretend to be super nice while you there and only stab you in the back once they find out you are leaving and are no longer useful. The job is very easy to master a five-year-old could be an estate agent. Two/three weeks and there is nothing else to learn. Some people work for 20 years saying same things over and over again. So if you got no skills, no education, no social life, no family and still live at your parents home and drive mums car, this job is for you. Losing weight as you skip lunch every day.
Cons
The pay is lower than cleaners wages. On top of that, you have to use your own car and do an extreme amount of miles on it daily + mileage pay is ridiculously small. You will be selling expensive properties and get paid less commission then you would working in retail. You will be at work for 9,5 hours a day and every single Saturday 9-5. You are entitled to unpaid lunch legally, but you will never be allowed to take it. So you will work 1 free hour every day. This accounts for 240 a year of unpaid work. Your car will get filthy from constant use and you will not get any money from the company to keep it clean. The team in the company will be changing every 2/3 weeks, max 3/4 months. There will be no decent kitchen or staff room to have lunch in as you will be expected to work not to eat. There will constantly pressure to sell properties, but there will no rush to pay you commission immediately. Do not expect to make any commission in your first 6/7 months. Even if you do make sure you understand how little you will get from those sales, then ask yourself: Is it worth it? The company will have a large number of listed properties but sell very little. Expect a lot of jealousy, competition and gossip behind your back. Expect to work with people who either are young and leave fast or are older (over 40/50 & desperate ) and stays there for many years just because they believe this is the only job they are any good at and are too scared to try anything else. Expect a lot of two-faced people pressuring you to make them money. Expect senior staff coming to work first and taking all the best enquiries. You will only get crapy ones for at least first 6 months. Socially the company is dead & they don't celebrate Christmas. So no Christmas spirit over the festive season. Your clothing and footwear will get ruined very fast because you will run around dirty houses and gardens. You will be expected to clean the office as they don't have cleaners. Most offices are filthy as no one has time to clean it. You will have to take part of your holiday in December. You will do 1000's of miles on your own car and will not get your tiny mileage cover paid to you until the following month. (you will spean over £100/£150 of your own money on fuel alone). You will not be given any security alarm as a female when showing around properties and will be expected to conduct viewings to male applicants, deal with drunk vendors, conduct viewings in dirty, dark, cold and scary properties completely alone, sometimes in the locations without any phone reception. You will be expected to perform sometimes over 10 tasks at one time + pick up the phone within first 3 rings. Most days you will feel so tired and so exhausted and so hungry that you will only be able to sleep. Including Saturdays. (Saturdays you can be scheduled to conduct over 8 viewings a day). So forget about your social life. You will be monitored where ever you go, just in case you decide to stop for a wee between the viewings. You will be conducting viewings for other colleagues, who are too lazy to do it themselves, all the time and never get any commission from that. You will use your own car to conduct those viewings on top of that. A large amount of all of your sales agreed will fall through. As well as offers received will be declined by vendors as most properties are overpriced and therefore very hard to sell. You will waste 1 hour every morning on Morning meetings that are absolutely useless, instead of dealing with a long list of tasks that has to be completed that day.