Opening Real Estate Office - Phone System Suggestions

**longtrail23** · 12-06-2007, 12:17 AM

Hello All,

I have been a licensed broker for 7 years, and have been very successful, but now I am opening my own brokerage. I would like to know if any of you have a suggestion for an efficient & cost effective phone system on the market. Some of the features that I had in mind were call forwarding, internet voicemail, and multiple lines.

I appreciate any and all feedback.

Regards

Brian

**jr429** · 12-15-2007, 08:19 PM

I got my last phone system on Ebay for about $600. Basically a Lucent / Avaya phone system, had all the capabilities you mentioned. It's upgradable too, similar to this:

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Basically it has a few multi-line phones with a central upgradable processor module.

In terms of call volume we were a retail business with 4 lines ringing off the hook pretty much all the time, so it worked out pretty well.

**Jim Olenbush** · 12-19-2007, 02:54 PM

I use an NEC system with 6 lines. I paid a ton for phones, wiring, setup. I think it just one of those rip off (but necessary) expenses of opening a new brokerage.