The 612,000 folks who comply with Tyler Lockett on Instagram know his two very completely different sides: One is the record-breaking Seattle Seahawks extensive receiver, highlighted by his feed of game-day motion photographs and customized cleat pics. The opposite is the deeply non secular 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 price $69.2 million). However he is already serious about his passions past the sphere—and when his taking part in days are completed.
“It was one thing I sort of all the time wished to do the final couple of years,” Lockett says of his foray into actual property, noting his penchant for HGTV. “I assumed it would be an amazing thought to do it now whereas I am nonetheless taking part in soccer fairly than making an attempt to attend, as a result of typically if you’re completed taking part in soccer, folks simply say, ‘Thanks for what you are doing, and good luck to your subsequent endeavors.’ I would fairly be capable of begin my second profession whereas I am nonetheless taking part in.”
Actual property, he provides, is a “wonderful means to have the ability to make a distinction within the lives of individuals.”
On March 31, in the future 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 document, no, it wasn’t Russell Wilson’s Bellevue mansion.)
By April 7, the five-bedroom, $3.25 million home in Sammamish was pending. “Not everyone begins off with their first itemizing being over $3 million, so for me to have the ability to begin off with that may be a blessing.”
Lockett does not do something small. He plans to construct and increase Liv N Serve groups in Washington, Texas, Oklahoma, and possibly 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 isn’t about you profitable, but it surely’s about your shopper profitable”—and likewise about listening to and studying from his purchasers. “Generally we expect 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 together with his budding profession in actual property, nicely, he does not see it as an issue. Staging, advertising, inspections—when you solidify these preliminary connections and get into knowledgeable routine, he says, it isn’t tough to maintain issues rolling. Even residence showings might be completed just about, Lockett notes, with him having the ability to have conversations with purchasers and negotiations with different brokers over the cellphone or through textual content.
He sees every part he does in actual property proper now as an addition, basis setting for when he is completed taking part in soccer. And, most undoubtedly, a defying of expectations.
“You might need some individuals who could also be upset or might really feel some sort of approach as a result of, you recognize, as an athlete, you’re entering into an entire different profession path the place folks may really feel such as you’re stepping on their toes,” Lockett says. “However on the finish of the day, I am simply making an attempt to be my finest self, and making an attempt to be nice at every part that I have been blessed to have…so I am unable to get caught up within the constructive and damaging suggestions.”