Frequently Asked Questions

Assistant Skill Set

Do I get my own dedicated assistant or is this shared?

Your assistant is assigned specifically to you and is 100% dedicated to your company. You are not sharing the assistant with anyone else.

Yes. Your assistant already has experience working as a virtual assistant for American  companies. In fact, they already have experience working for an American real estate company. All of our agents have been trained and worked with our sister company Prosper Real Estate based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Yes. All of our assistants have some sort of secondary education after High School.

  • Chatting with Prospects on your website
  • Giving your small agency a more professional image
  • Notifying tenants and home owners of showings
  • Creating Listing Presentations
  • Finding Comparable Homes for sale
  • Finding Home Buyers homes that fit into their budget and desired specifications
  • Sending out Marketing Reports to Owner Clients
  • “Bumping” Social Media Ads
  • Answering Guest Cards
  • Scheduling Showings
  • Responding to Facebook Messages
  • Posting Rental/For Sale Ads
  • Responding to Rental/For Sale Ads
  • Following up with Showings

Yes, all of our virtual assistants have been trained to take incoming phone calls and listen to tenant issues and take accurate notes. They will then delegate the issue to the appropriate member of your team. However, we do not recommend they answer your phones until after they have worked with you for several months. Putting your assistant in a situation where they need to answer quickly without getting verification if their response is correct does not put them in a position to succeed for you. 

English is spoken as an official language of the Philippines. All of our assistants speak fluent english, they do however have a distinguishable accent that is much different than an American accent.

All of our assistants are equipped and educated on how to use Google applications including GMAIL, Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Drive and Google Hangouts. They are also well versed in Microsoft Office products. They have been trained using Appfolio for property management software. Jivochat for chatting on websites, and Ring Central for talking on the phone. They can be trained to use any other software for real estate property management companies before they start to work directly for you such as, Rent Manager, Yardi and Buildium.

It is a 14 hour time difference between Cebu City, in the Philippines and Central Standard Time Zone in Chicago, Illinois. The assistant is 14 hours ahead (13 in the summer when it is not daylight savings time). The assistant will work whenever they are needed for your business, 5 days a week and up to 9 hours a day with a 1 hour break.

Yes, All of our assistants are trained on clocking in and out with their client each via email and also sending emails to delegate issues that need to be addressed for your company. Google for business is provided by Prosper Real Estate so our assistants have access to all of the Google office products and a cloud storage system for documents to share. 

The easiest way to communicate with your assistant is through email for items that do not need to be addressed quickly, google hangouts for chatting and receiving quick responses, and using the file storage system Google Drive to share documents. They can also send text messages from their telephone number.

Yes, all of our virtual assistants attend training sessions gathering, organizing, and verifying financial data from various sources for analysis, reporting, or decision-making.

  • Tenant coordination
  • Routine property checks
  • Organizing maintenance requests
  • Ensuring timely service completion
  • Compiling Compliance Transaction files for brokerage
  • Filling out MLS information
  • Completing Landlord Verifications
  • Reviewing Time sheets for Accuracy
  • Replicating Documents
  • Data Entry
  • Answering Telephones
  • Answering Emails
  • Responding to Website Chat
  • Bookkeeping and Data Entry
  • Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR)
  • Financial Reporting
  • Tax Preparation Support
  • Expense Tracking and Reimbursement
  • Payroll Assistance
  • Client Billing and Account Management
  • Software and System Management
  • Financial Analysis Support

Perhaps, better than asking what an assistant is capable of is asking what they are not capable of. Prosper has seen that an assistant can be trained on almost any task but it depends on how much time the owner is willing to invest into training the assistant. Prosper does not recommend having any assistants handle any company funds, transfer money in any facet for the business nor have access to rental application data such as social security numbers. Prosper is not responsible if an owner client allows their virtual assistant to handle any financial matters for the company. We also do not recommend having any Prosper assistants send out leases of draft any legal contracts creating a relationship between yourself and a 3rd party. Prosper will not be held responsible for any legal contracts that are drafted without their permission.

Many of our assistants help with reconciling payroll, timesheets and mileage reimbursements. We do not recommend allowing assistants to have the ability to handle money on behalf of your company and Prosper does not accept any liability if  the owner decides to give their assistant this privilege.

Because of sensitive data on  financial service applications, Prosper does not recommend having assistants review private information about clients. This includes the sharing of social security numbers. Prosper is not liable for any damages if owners decide to give their assistants this privilege. They may however check documents and data. Having your assistant do credit checks is not advised.