Lyon Real Estate Reviews

1) Below average tools. 2) spotty existing agent training and expensive new agent training. 3) High fees. 4) One of the lower per agent productivity numbers of any large company. 5) They advertise the company name a lot but not the agent. 6) The continuing Mike Lyon mess and the client questions it brings up. It is no longer a family run business. The new corporate leadership bills their adoption of the latest tech as a selling point but never mentions that in most cases their off the shelf changes can be purchased by any person/agent for a few dollars a month (much less than the high tech fees would indicate).. That means monthly roll out programs of technology which is time consuming to learn and implement and is often less effective than the previous technology. Their technology might be current but is much cheaper than the quality tools typically of the companies family run agent first history.

Don't go there if you are new. You are charged the same to work for Lyon's as they charged their employees during the boom. You literally pay them to work there, and since many agents there have affiliations with other programs that rule the roost here in Sacramento, they force you to join and pay in to Realtor, PCAR, SAR, anything they can get you to fund-and it's not an option. Other companies offer far better deals. Most of the good leads seem to filter their way to the seasoned people (of course right?), including the internet which funnels exactly where they want it to go. There is little incentive to work for Lyon's, and they only make a token attempt at keeping up with new tech. Lot's of older people working there (very old). If you speak out against this company it's sure to haunt you in this market and everyone knows it. Time for a change. You also feel pressured to use their loan company-every week is an attempt at capturing your loyalty for the loan company. When you get around the loan people aside from the show-they don't seem that wonderful. If you did have something bad to say about the business (shhhh!) then you feel you would be ostracized, and you probably would be. Emperor's new clothes.