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Are You Sure This Business is For You?
Lynn Friedman urged me to share my story on AR for the Contest "Advice for New Agents" - I originally posted this on Quora 1/30/2018
 
Be a real estate agent, they said. It will be fun, they said. Haha. The life of a real estate agent; being your own boss. Doing what you want, when you want, and then getting the big, ol’ fat paycheck at the end of a closing. Sounds great, right? That’s exactly what I thought when I got out of the retail world and decided to be a real estate agent. I mean, I didn’t have to keep the 9 to 5 hours, I could work from home, being a new mom, I could spend more time with my son. It all sounded great, until I actually did it.
No one tells you that as soon as you become a real estate agent you don’t automatically have business. I don’t know why I assumed that as soon as I got my license, business would just come flooding in. And, this was back in 2004 when the market was great and homes were flying off the market. There were millions of home buyers, thousands of sellers, full asking price offers, and yet, ... more

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