Trying to Make a Difference and Dreams Come to Reality
The business of real estate is unique as it is one of people facilitating others with making some of the largest investments of their lives. It is done with the hope that the agent they select is qualified and will do their best to get them a quality purchase, or when selling the sale that will offer no regrets.
Many people in the business came here by way of family involvement in the business, either as investors or established real estate brokers.
Others got into the business as a way of reorganizing their lives to get away from a stress-filled career seeking better time management.
For me it was just another change in direction. I remember calling my wife on a Monday morning and telling her that I quite my job. This was right after a very relaxing vacation. I stopped just short of the lyrics of the song in telling my then boss what he could do with the job.
Having a great deal of common sense, and a mind that seldom accepted anything less than doing a job right, I embarked on the next phase of my journey through life.
As I worked my job, with a business card that had a balloon on it, I took advantage of the learning, and wanting to know more always took extra CE classes just because.
Along the way, I became known for doing it right and even had other no real estate professionals referring their friends to me as a person that would take care of them, and would do it right. 
As I now approach what will be the final stages of my working life, I do so with a few regrets for some of the people that were not able to get their dreams answered, but not necessarily due to a failure on my part to give them all I had.
I am far more selective with what I now do but only because of the reality that life just doesn't allow us to do the same as we once did, but not for the lack of wanting and referring to someone I trust.
This post is a submission into the February Challenge sponsored by Debe Maxwell, CRS and Pat Starnes-Front Gate Realty
Trying to Make a Difference and Dreams Come to Reality
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