Marion if you are looking for a way to possibly supplement your income you may want to consider real estate as something you can do at your own pace when you have time. If you are looking at it as a full time service then I would pass on it. I work alot. Between my engineering work and real estate I put in 60 hours easy in a normal work week. When it gets busy for me in the spring and summer that number goes up.

Alot of realtors who have established relationships with lenders are doing very well. They get all the listings without having to deal with sellers. What can be better. Also as always, realtors who are doing work such as open houses, going out and meeting people, marketting themselves, (which for some reason, people on piggington frown on that) and working hard will have the best chance of getting business.

How long has your friend been in the business? Who does he work for? Has he had alot of transactions?

BTW Powayseller who used to post here all the time is now a realtor. Also she just send me an email that she and Bob Casagrande are having a seminar in Carmel Valley about buying foreclosures!

Personally, I am on my 5th year and it is not bad. Again, I wouldn’t recommend it full time but that is just my choice.

SD Realtor

Marion if you are looking for a way to possibly supplement your income you may want to consider real estate as something you can do at your own pace when you have time. If you are looking at it as a full time service then I would pass on it. I work alot. Between my engineering work and real estate I put in 60 hours easy in a normal work week. When it gets busy for me in the spring and summer that number goes up.

Alot of realtors who have established relationships with lenders are doing very well. They get all the listings without having to deal with sellers. What can be better. Also as always, realtors who are doing work such as open houses, going out and meeting people, marketting themselves, (which for some reason, people on piggington frown on that) and working hard will have the best chance of getting business.

How long has your friend been in the business? Who does he work for? Has he had alot of transactions?

BTW Powayseller who used to post here all the time is now a realtor. Also she just send me an email that she and Bob Casagrande are having a seminar in Carmel Valley about buying foreclosures!

Personally, I am on my 5th year and it is not bad. Again, I wouldn’t recommend it full time but that is just my choice.

SD Realtor

Hey, SD. Thanks for replying. If I consider doing this, it wouldn’t be a full-time thing for me. I went to school a lot of years for the career I’m currently focused on. Although If I tried this and became a millionare, I’d switch to full-time. Haha. I don’t even know if I’m interested, but I’m interested enough to look into it a bit.

This guy works at Tarbell Realtors on Hwy 79 south (Temecula). From what I gleaned from the convo, it sounds like he started around this past Dec. He talked about how well Tarbell trains their people, allows them use the office facilites for personal business tools (copies, etc). Then he talked about the benefits of having his own business and how he writes off everything, gas for his vehicle, lunches, faxes, etc. Another thing he talked about was how he just got this good deal on a SFR for himself, insider deal (whatever that means, I didn’t probe). I would think he meant that realtors get notice of properties and can put in a bid before the general public if they want the property?

In any event, he urged me to go to one of Tarbell’s informational meetings. I may attend.

P.S. I’m going to send this guy an e-mail and verify when he started and how many houses he has sold thus far. If he mentioned it today, I missed it. Although he did talk about a 12k commission check.

Hey, SD. Thanks for replying. If I consider doing this, it wouldn’t be a full-time thing for me. I went to school a lot of years for the career I’m currently focused on. Although If I tried this and became a millionare, I’d switch to full-time. Haha. I don’t even know if I’m interested, but I’m interested enough to look into it a bit.

This guy works at Tarbell Realtors on Hwy 79 south (Temecula). From what I gleaned from the convo, it sounds like he started around this past Dec. He talked about how well Tarbell trains their people, allows them use the office facilites for personal business tools (copies, etc). Then he talked about the benefits of having his own business and how he writes off everything, gas for his vehicle, lunches, faxes, etc. Another thing he talked about was how he just got this good deal on a SFR for himself, insider deal (whatever that means, I didn’t probe). I would think he meant that realtors get notice of properties and can put in a bid before the general public if they want the property?

In any event, he urged me to go to one of Tarbell’s informational meetings. I may attend.

P.S. I’m going to send this guy an e-mail and verify when he started and how many houses he has sold thus far. If he mentioned it today, I missed it. Although he did talk about a 12k commission check.

Hey, SD. Thanks for replying. If I consider doing this, it wouldn’t be a full-time thing for me. I went to school a lot of years for the career I’m currently focused on. Although If I tried this and became a millionare, I’d switch to full-time. Haha. I don’t even know if I’m interested, but I’m interested enough to look into it a bit.

This guy works at Tarbell Realtors on Hwy 79 south (Temecula). From what I gleaned from the convo, it sounds like he started around this past Dec. He talked about how well Tarbell trains their people, allows them use the office facilites for personal business tools (copies, etc). Then he talked about the benefits of having his own business and how he writes off everything, gas for his vehicle, lunches, faxes, etc. Another thing he talked about was how he just got this good deal on a SFR for himself, insider deal (whatever that means, I didn’t probe). I would think he meant that realtors get notice of properties and can put in a bid before the general public if they want the property?

In any event, he urged me to go to one of Tarbell’s informational meetings. I may attend.

P.S. I’m going to send this guy an e-mail and verify when he started and how many houses he has sold thus far. If he mentioned it today, I missed it. Although he did talk about a 12k commission check.

Powayseller a realtor? Wow!

A realtor? C’mon seriously?

Powayseller a realtor? Wow!

A realtor? C’mon seriously?