Tyler Lockett Is Seattle’s Newest Real Estate Agent

The 612,000 individuals who observe Tyler Lockett on Instagram know his two very totally different sides: One is the record-breaking Seattle Seahawks broad receiver, highlighted by his feed of game-day motion pictures and customized cleat pics. The opposite is the deeply religious 29-year-old who quotes Bible verses and posts poetry. 

However on March 30, Lockett launched his Instagram followers—and 210,300 Twitter followers—to a brand-new persona: Tyler Lockett, actual property agent. 

To be clear, Lockett continues to be very a lot devoted to his soccer profession (in spite of everything, he signed a four-year contract extension with the Seahawks final yr value $69.2 million). However he is already enthusiastic about his passions past the sphere—and when his enjoying days are achieved.

“It was one thing I type of all the time needed to do the final couple of years,” Lockett says of his foray into actual property, noting his penchant for HGTV. “I assumed it might be an amazing thought to do it now whereas I am nonetheless enjoying soccer relatively than attempting to attend, as a result of generally if you’re achieved enjoying soccer, individuals simply say, ‘Thanks for what you are doing, and good luck to your subsequent endeavors.’ I would relatively be capable of begin my second profession whereas I am nonetheless enjoying.”

Actual property, he provides, is a “smart way to have the ability to make a distinction within the lives of individuals.”

On March 31, sooner or later after he introduced he’d accomplished the 90-hour actual property agent coursework and handed his nationwide and Washington state licensing exams, Lockett posted his first residence itemizing on his web site, Liv N Serve Actual Property. (For the report, no, it wasn’t Russell Wilson’s Bellevue mansion.)

By April 7, the five-bedroom, $3.25 million home in Sammamish was pending. “Not all people begins off with their first itemizing being over $3 million, so for me to have the ability to begin off with that could be a blessing.”

Lockett would not do something small. He plans to construct and broaden Liv N Serve groups in Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, and perhaps even Arizona. Texas actual property courses (180 hours of them) are up subsequent.

Till then, Lockett says he is dedicated to rising in his second occupation. His first itemizing taught him the artwork of negotiation—”it is not about you profitable, nevertheless it’s about your shopper profitable”—and likewise about listening to and studying from his purchasers. “Typically we predict they care about all these different issues that will include a home, and all they actually care about is having a realtor ask them about their wants.”

As for simply how Lockett plans to juggle his intense, travel-heavy job as an athlete along with his budding profession in actual property, properly, he would not see it as an issue. Staging, advertising, inspections—when you solidify these preliminary connections and get into an expert routine, he says, it is not troublesome to maintain issues rolling. Even residence showings might be achieved just about, Lockett notes, with him having the ability to have conversations with purchasers and negotiations with different brokers over the telephone or through textual content.

He sees all the pieces he does in actual property proper now as an addition, basis setting for when he is achieved enjoying soccer. And, most undoubtedly, a defying of expectations.

“You might need some individuals who could also be upset or could really feel some sort of manner as a result of, you already know, as an athlete, you’re moving into a complete different profession path the place individuals may really feel such as you’re stepping on their toes,” Lockett says. “However on the finish of the day, I am simply attempting to be my greatest self, and attempting to be nice at all the pieces that I have been blessed to have…so I can not get caught up within the constructive and detrimental suggestions.”