Real Estate...... Let's see we need brokers to be able to sell real estate, but hey we are independent contractors, we have the choice of being good Realtors or bad Realtors. We do create our own little Real Estate Worlds. 

I love the business and I loved selling real estate.  Yes I took some training here and there.  I didn't want to join a network group or be active in my board.  No way, I hate the politics, way to cliquey, I was too busy with my own life and I wasn't going to waste my time. 

Oh, yes, I sold lots of real estate but there were things happening in my real estate world that I did not like. Maybe I made the wrong decision.  Where are the company policies that I was accustomed to that Corporate America had in place?  Dealing with unethical Realtors, mls rules I didn't care for, unwarranted board dues increases, I could go on and on...  It's the things we all complain about every day! 

Can't say what exactly happened but it must have been big!  I joined the Affordable Housing Committee and the MLS Committee in the same year!  I really like the benefits of the Affordable Housing Committee but it was short lived when they cancelled the committee. It wasn't long before I was tired of attending the boring MLS Committe meetings that I quit.

When I relocated to Daytona Beach, I didn't think I was going to join the board.  Life happens and I did.   Coming from South Florida,  Daytona was such a small town to know no one!  Once again I decided to be on the MLS Committee and once again I was tired of attending the boring meetings, I quit, yup I did it again!  

Sounds bad doesn't it?   I am not trashing the MLS Committee, I realized the problem was not the boring meetings, it was me.  I really had no interesting in contributing to the MLS, whatever the board decided I was willing to accept!  When I think back I should have joined committee's that I was interested in!  I was trying to be in someone else's real estate world, it bored me, I tried to be open to it but it didn't work for me.  It was obvious if it did not work for me, it wasn't going to benefit the committee or it's members.

Well, some things changed!  I feel fortunate since joining Century 21 Sundance Realty, the ladies are so full of wisdom.   You know the saying, "Great Minds Think Alike!" Ok, if  you know us, we all think very differently, it's with a twist.  "Great Minds Think Alike!  NOT!  We know at the end we will find a solution and then we will!"

I think you know what happened, the Ladies convinced me to just give it a try and see if I like it! They told me, "You have a voice! Use it!"  They challenged me, I think now you understand.  I decided, I'll do it! But its going to have to be my way, my committees, what interests me and what will the membership gain by my point of view.  

I decided because of my interested and the committees available to me I would be on the Education committee. That Committee opened the door for me with the Technology Committee.  Something shocking happened, I really love it!  Why because I decided, my way, my committee's and I was not about to be bored in someone else's real estate world. 

What an honor!  I personally contribute to each and every member of our board.  It amazes me I help select the education the members get the opportunity to take at our board. I view it as a priveledge, I take it serious, their knowledge is in my hands.

I am just as proud of being part of the technology committee, we too have the priveledge of assisting realtors to be technically sound.

  "Great Minds Think Alike!  NOT! We know at the end we will find a solution and then we will!"  If you are not happy the direction the Real Estate Profession is going.  Get involved, use your voice!