The dash between For Sale and Sold. SECRET of a Real Estate AGENT.
This is my first blog and I don’t know what will be next but I know that I have something to say – something you haven’t heard before.
This is my 30 year anniversary of working in the Real Estate industry! Thirty years! I can hardly believe it.
Recently, I talked to one our associates about his career in real estate:
“O.K. Harv, I know how I got into real estate and when I got in – but how we get out?”
I’m 56 years old -( yikes! that looks worse than I thought it would in print) – so you can do the math.
Harv’s retort was: “I promised my wife that would retire in 14 years, no matter what.”
“How old are you now, Harv?”
Harv: “Eighty-six.”
It has been some journey with so many stories along the way and I want to tell some of those stories. I am not talking about what you should do or shouldn’t do. I am telling you about what people did or didn’t do and throwing in some of what they should or shouldn’t have done.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science from the University of Western Ontario. My plan: Become a Social Worker and save at least a part of the world. Also move out of the house, party and meet girls.
The Result: I became a capitalist, went into retail sales and decided to let someone else save the world. Oh…and I met a girl and married her.
I moved on from that and there to different vocations and different cities. In 1982, having moved from my hometown of Belleville, to a lovely suburb of Kingston, I completed and activated my real estate license. I had no idea that the next decade was going to change my life in such challenging and interesting ways.
In the blogs to come, I will share some of those challenging stories, mostly as they relate to real estate. You may have heard this interpretation of the dash(-) on the cemetery headstone between the date a person was born and the date they died. The important part of that equation is the dash between birth and death. How do we live our dash?
I will share my dash where it fits between 1982-2012. I will also share the dash between when you see a property for sale and some of what happens before it achieves its sold status.
I hope to make this a compelling, insightful and perhaps humourous perspective on the dash between.
– Mark H. Albert
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