REALTOR magazine has selected a Baton Rouge realtor as one of 50 finalists for its 2016 30 Under 30 class.
Alissa Allphin Jenkins, 27, of CJ Brown Realtors is competing against other successful young realtors from cities such as Dallas, San Francisco and Chicago, among other places, for a spot in the national real estate trade publication’s 2016 class.
Jenkins attributes her success thus far in the national, numbers-driven competition to her work ethic, organizational skills and her ability to work paperless, as well as her production volume.
Jenkins says her sales volume when she applied to be considered for this year’s 30 Under 30 class was roughly $13.6 million and her average sale price per house is roughly $207,000.
“I think that my production volume for my age is pretty rare just with the number of houses that I’ve sold,” she says.
The magazine also considers community involvement, innovation and leadership.
A realtor of five years, Jenkins has spent her entire career in real estate with C.J. Brown. She says she knew that going into the real estate field would not be easy—she comes from a family of realtors.
Jenkins says using online tools such as DropBox and Gmail has enabled her to work paperless and ultimately to do more for herself and her clients.
“Anywhere I am, no matter where I am, I have all my files on my phone,” she says.
Jenkins isn’t oblivious to the fact that she is competing in the magazine’s national competition against realtors in bigger and more expensive markets.
“That has been mind blowing to me,” she says. “I think that’s why when I did apply I wasn’t having expectations of getting anything.”
Jenkins says she first learned about REALTOR magazine’s 30 Under 30 competition about two years into her career. At the time, she had an estimated sales volume of $6.7 million and figured that was pretty impressive.
She made a YouTube video and submitted it but wasn’t named a finalist. Jenkins says after doing some research she realized the realtors who won had individual sales volumes as high as $10 million or above.
She reapplied for REALTOR magazine’s 30 Under 30 once she hit $13 million.
“It’s taken me a lot of transactions and a lot of clients to reach the big numbers,” says Jenkins, who made a new YouTube video to submit to the magazine.
Judges will pick 29 of the 30 winners of REALTOR’s 30 Under 30 honor. The public, via an online vote, will chose one person to be part of the class.
Starting at noon on Friday, March 18 through noon on March 25, the public can vote for their favorite finalist online. People can cast a vote for each candidate once per day, the magazine says.
Get more information on REALTOR magazine’s 2016 30 Under 30 finalists, and find out more about the competition. REALTOR magazine is the official magazine of the National Association of Realtors.
—Alexandria Burris
