Part-time Driving – An Additional Income Stream for Property Agents

By GrabCar (guest contributor)

With autonomy and flexibility in both jobs, property agents can turn to rising demand for part-time hire services to improve their monthly income

Cars are an essential tool for property agents as they allowing agents to scurry across the island to meet a variety of clients and to ferry them clients for viewings. However, owning a car can be expensivewhen you take into account costs such as fuel, insurance, ERP charges and parking fees.Worse, property viewings are often scheduled during weekday nights and weekends, with the vehicle left idle during the day.

Benefit #1 – Earn more while optimizing the usage of your vehicle

To optimize the usage of their vehicles and potentially meet new clients, many entrepreneurial property agents have begun to turn to private hire vehicle services by third party appssuch as GrabTaxi’s private hire arm GrabCarto maximize their time, resources and supplement their income on the side by being part-time drivers. In this way, agents are able to grow their incomes by riding on the increasing number of passengers who are turning to private hire vehicles for their daily commute.

Data from GrabCarshows full-time drivers are able to earnup to S$6,000 a month, while working flexible hours. However a large proportion of drivers still offer their services for hire on a part-time basis to supplement their main occupation or help pay-off the instalments on their vehicle.

Becoming a part-time driver should not interfere with an agent’s job even if they have to meet their property clients at short notice.This provides them with a sustainable method to improve their monthly income, while maintaining a relatively flexible working schedule managing both jobs.

Benefit #2 – Meet high potential clients

As a sizeable number of passengers requesting private hire vehiclesare business executives and expatriates, whoare also often in the middle to upper income bracket, agents turned part-time drivers have the opportunity to expand their potential client network andinteract with passengers who fall into their target demographic.

Agents also have the option of advertising their listings or allowing passengers to pick up a flyer of their available listings from the back seat of the car without paying any additional marketing costs.

According to GrabCar’s website, becoming a part-time driver isn’t a complicated process. Interested parties only need to meet criteria such as having a valid driving license, and a suitably licensed and insured vehicle. Once they meet these criteria, services such as GrabCarwill help them get set up so they have access to a large network of passengers who book their rides.

Astransaction volumes in the property sector have been slowing down recently, having a second income stream is a boonfor agents who are willing to rev up their engines and have a go at getting more out of their time, abilities and resources.

To find out more about driving part-time for GrabCar, please visit their site at http://sg.grabcar.com/partners/join/