Zoom Call 9.05.23 Gail Hartnett Transitioning a Real Estate Business and life!
The Zoom call for this week was presented by Gail Hartnett as she offered her insights on relocating to an unknown area to forge a new career and learn the area at the same time.
Gail is originally from Long Island, but her life travels have led her around the country.
She started working in Ft Lauderdale as her husband was going to law school in Miami. She supplemented income working as a Tupperware salesperson. She grew that business to being a franchisee which gave her management as well as sales experience.
Her husband called her one day and asked her if she was willing to move to Boise, Idaho. She then went to the one resource available to her, a 1969 encyclopedia, a written version.
Being 1987, she was being asked to move to an area with a population of app 145,000 from an area of over 2,000,000 people.
She started her Tupperware business in Boise, again as a distributor.
She was taken with the area as there was so much to do with golf courses, skiing, and just the beautiful Boise Mountains.
She worked with Tupperware from 1987 to 1992. When her husband wanted to resume his law practice, she needed to do something else.
She got her real estate license, and questioned where her business was to come from and realized her sales and people exposure to her past customers was the entry, she needed to be successful with real estate, and the way to get clients was very similar to how she sold plastic.
She started her real estate career with Coldwell Banker as she was looking for a brand that would give her the mentoring, she felt she needed. this came about through a referral from a family member.
She left Coldwell for a boutique agency that held prime position in the market.
She was with them for 7 years and then went to Keller Williams.
She went from not knowing anything about the area and feeling she had relocated to heaven,
She spoke of talking to her sister who still lived in Long Island, while looking up to the mountains and telling her they would be skiing there later in the day once her sons came home from baseball practice. That was less than an hour away.
It took her 30 years before they got their first taste of heavy snow.
In 2006, she became president of the Women's council of Realtors and will soon have the honor of passing that title along to her daughter in 2024.
She had a lively presentation and even reacquainted herself with people from her past.
She answered all the simple questions with long detailed answers and was smiling throughout.
Zoom Call 9.05.23 Gail Hartnett Transitioning a Real Estate Business and life!
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