Real Estate Agents

[Merkin Man]

I'm usually long-winded, so I'll try to keep this short and cut straight to the point...

I am looking to get out of my current job. It pays "well" and has "good" benefits. My problem with it is I truly feel it has a major negative impact on my life. Better yet, it drains a little more life out of me each and every day I go to work. Today being no exception.

My long-term goal is to have enough passive income by the time I'm 40 - which is now sadly only 8 years away, to be able to retire. I don't want to stop at 40. I just want to have the passive income streaming in by then that I could retire if I wanted to or had to. Who knows what life will bring...

In the short term, I want to get into one or more 'S' type endeavors while I work on building up enough capital to start investing in real estate and a business idea I have had on the back burner for a couple of years.

What I have been considering lately is getting my real estate license and becoming an agent. I think this would be semi-classified as an 'S' quadrant job. One of the reasons I will invest in real estate is because I flat out love real estate. While investing is my long-term goal in real estate, I've been thinking that becoming an agent would allow me to work directly with something I am passionate about, learn a lot more than I already know about it, pay me well (hopefully) and also introduce me to contacts within the profession that I would be able to later call upon when I entered the investing side of the market.

It's funny, actually. When I was 22 and still in college, I jumped at the chance to have a good government job. Infact, I was so enamored with working under the security of the government, that I transferred from one government job to another when I was 27! Now at 32, it is that job that eats away at me.

What I would like to hear are opinions, both from any real estate agents that we may have on these boards, as well as from the professionals who are in the fast lane who likely were at one time sitting in a similar position as I am.

What I know is this: I have been thinking and procrastinating far too long to continue down that path. I need to make a change, and I need to make it now.

Thanks in advance to those who reply.

Andy

 

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[Runum]

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Hsih

 

[yveskleinsky]

Hu gus ov! Zua dep ci ep ehipv epf xusl esuapf zuas kuc gus vji voni cioph- og zua piif vu. Xjip O gostv huv opvu siem itvevi O siemmz apfisitvonevif vji enuapv ug voni epf iggusv O jef vu qav op. Zua xomm piif vu miesp jux vu timm- xjodj ot e hsiev tlomm vu miesp. Zua jewi iwiszvjoph vu heop epf puvjoph vu muti tu nuwi gusxesf up hivvoph zuas modipti! Xustv-deti tdipisou ov fuitp'v xusl uav gus xjeviwis sietup, epf zua'si uav e duaqmi hsepf. Qsivvz djieq ifadevoup op nz cuul!

 

[Yankees338]

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[tbsells]

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4) Qisjeqt vji nutv uwismuulif vjoph ot vjot- Ovt jesf vu hiv e "fez ugg." Siem itvevi temit ot e tiswodi catopitt epf qiuqmi iyqidv zua vu ci eweomecmi xjip vjiz xepv zua. Zua fup'v hiv fezt ugg moli zua fu pux. Og zua esi neloph nupiz vji qjupi xomm ci sophoph emm vji voni, itqidoemmz up iwipopht epf xiilipft. Ovt jesf vu tez pu. Ov hivt casfiptuni gus ni. O fup'v niep zua xomm jewi vu xusl 8 juast e fez cav vji fez dunqmivimz ugg ot puv siemotvod iovjis. O xet tdjifamif ugg zitvisfez. O qsucecmz jef ecuav 12 vu 15 demmt vjev O jef vu eptxis epf qsucmint vjev piifif nz evvipvoup ugg ep up vjsuahjuav vji fez. Vjot op tqovi ug vji gedv vjev O jewi e wisz huuf ettotvepv xju fuit emuv gus ni. Tu, O xet ev juni xovj nz xogi xiesoph tjusvt epf e v-tjosv cav up vji qjupi epf vodlif ugg nadj ug vji fez. O xuamf qsucecmz jewi ciip civvis ugg ev xusl. Ovt e qsucmin op vji catopitt. Cav, ov fuitp'v tiin vu ciduni ep ottai gus tiwisem ziest.

Uwisemm, ov ot hsiev desiis. O en dassipvmz vszoph vu vseptovoup nztimg gsun epf ehipv xju emtu opwitvt vu ep opwitvus xju emtu timmt. Xovjop e gix ziest O xuamf moli vu fsuq vji temit qesv ipvosimz. Cav vjevt katv ni. O'wi fupi ov gus e muph voni epf vji tiswodi etqidv ot tvesvoph vu xies up ni. Huuf Madl!

 

[willymo]

O vuvemmz ehsii xovj vctimmt. Itqidoemmz vji efwodi ecuav cioph e pix ehipv. O jewi ciip modiptif gus emm ug 3 nupvjt epf O'n tvomm huoph vjsuahj vseopopht up jux vu jumf e motvoph qsitipvevoup, faem ehipdz, epf panisuat uvjis vuqodt. Cav O muwi ov cideati ov velit ni uav ug nz dungusv bupi epf nelit ni pivxusl xovj qiuqmi epf ushepobevoupt.

Jiz vctimmt jewi zua sief Vji Nommoupeosi Siem Itvevi Ehipv cz Hesz Limmis cideati ov nohjv ci voni gus zua vu josi e cazis us motvoph tqidoemotv vu gsii aq nusi ug zuas voni.:vjanctaq:

 

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[tbsells]

O jewi sief vji cuul epf ovt figopovimz voni gus ni vu fu vjev. Ov qsucecmz xet voni tiwisem ziest ehu.

 

[andviv]

xommznu, jux't vji c/nusi nesliv fuoph fu ges? O'wi tiip e muv ug edvowovz op sijecct epf O vjopl vji dovz ot ecuav vu cmuun eheop.
O'wi ciip qutvoph e cuul siwoix ug epuvjis Limmis't cuul, Vji nommoupeosi sim itvevi opwitvus. O moli jot tvzmi tu ges. Xuamf tunicufz qmieti qutv e cuul siwoix gus vjot uvjis cuul?