Is Real Estate for Me?

Well your off to good start by posting on Active Rain!

Sounds like real estate is for you! Gaining the trust of our customers amd peers is what will make the difference. 

Hello Jeff, I hope you had a great 4th of July.  Welcome to  ActiveRain!

I completely understand. I, too, switched careers from having a masters on science engineering, to also become a realtor. Loving what I do, I don't regret one bit having done so. Wishing you a successfull journey as a realtor! 

Watching your father, you probably learned a lot. For someone who is just starting from 0 understanding is not easy. It is easy to become a Realtor, but to stay in this profession and being <wanted> Realtor is much more difficult. Takes a lot of persistence and actually... work.

Jeff, welcome to AR! The very best thing you could have done for yourself you have already done.  You found your way here.  This is an amazing groups of real estate related professionals all ready willing and able to help you! Congrats on your first featured post!

Best of luck to you Jeff and with your great attitude you will surely be successful.  You will find active rain to be a great help to your business and make many new friends here.

Jeff: Welcome aboard Active Rain. You know, you can't be a firefighter forever and you already enjoy helping others, so real estate is a great fit. Good Luck!

Jeff, your excitement about your new career is a great stepping stone to get you started.  Working with a successful team is a blessing and can put you on the fast track.  One of the best things about being new in real estate is you don't know what "won't work," therefore, you'll be willing to try anything with an expectation that it will work.  So many people in this industry cut themselves off at the knees with their negative beliefs.

BTW, you'll be putting out lots of fires in this business, so you'll feel right at home.  Best of luck and keep blogging!

Hi Jeff -- I'm originally from Tulsa -- Nice to meet you.  You don't have to sell anyone anything they don't want.  Just give them the information to make informed decisions that will help them reach their individual objectives.

Sounds like you have got lots of background. Good Luck in your future endeavors. Can be a great career but certainly takes lots of hard work.

 I would say to shadow someone--an agent you know to guide you into this. It's very unique. You might find this test run helpful.

Love and light,

Welcome to AR. The one piece of advice I give anyone who is cotemplating going into real estate is that they need to be fully commited and that "trying" it part-time will probably never work.

Jeff welcome to the wild world of real estate and also welcome to the "Rain".  I feel blessed to be able to make a living doing something that I love.  You seem well suited because a lot of what we do is "put out fires".  Find some good mentors and follow people who interest you.

Hi Jeff - welcome to AR!  Please ask lots of questions if you wish to incorporate blogging as a regular marketing strategy (which I highly recommend).  It sounds like you have made a great career choice.  Having spent time working in the industry, you have good experience to determine if it's for you.

Jeff, welcome to Active Rain - and this is good tool to help you along in your real estate career. 

I came back to this  to see how it's going. Stay the course!

Hello Jeff, and welcome! Of course one doesn't want to talk someone into buying a house they don't want-you move on until the house they do want shows it's face, and then you're ready to help bring it about.