Agents in California, Brokers in Florida; travel back and forth as business demands.

I am the sellers manager, coach, and complaince person for our brokerage.

I'm a sales manager and have a team, also....

Investor, Appraiser, and Manager of Forestland properties.

good morning Roxanna.  I'm the broker for our agency and I love it.  

Owner, Qualifying Broker, REALTOR®

So many ways to get involved. TRUE

So many compensation models. TRUE, you can work for tips (agent) or for profits (investor), referring buinsess, lead generation, middleware, service provider, wholeseller, builder, or broker.

What's your job? I don't have a job, I am self employed. If you are looking for a job, you are in real trouble already.

What do I do? Provide solutions. I am in the solutions business. Those solutions tend to orbit around buying and selling real estate, but not entirely. I have come to find the ability to respond to non-real estate issues will lead to real estate opportunity.

There are three stages to a real estate sale on both the buyer and seller side.

1. Getting the client (marketing)

2. Preparing the listing for sale

3. Negotiation and closing the transaction

EACH of these stages can be compared to a wagon with 100 wheels. If any one of those 100 wheels fail, you and the other agent can not get paid. So the reality is 300 wheels must stay attached, turn in the same direction, at the same speed and end up at the same destination at the right time. Many of these are rogue wheels which you have no control. Some look like inspectors, other like appraisers, owner, buyers, their representatives and the lending officer, weather, city codes, diversity lending and never overlook the disgruntled neighbor down the street.

When the wheels start to wobble, the real estate professional MUST have a solution or they quickly go out of business.

Many of these 300 wheels are defined by the business model of each agent or REALTOR, meaning our wagons are not identical.  That means what works for Shawn may not work at all for Able. 

Some models are intensely 'dialing for dollars' while others are intensly about hiring suragates to snare low quality prospects. Your business will be neither of those but will exist in the context of person to person propogation.

That is the BEAUTY and MAGIC of real estate. It is everything you can IMAGINE.

Your "JOB" is to find a problem that needs a solution then promote your solution. How you do that with the greatest fullfillment depends on discovering your uniuqe genius.

I'm a sales associate.

Associate Broker

Chief Operating Officer of a Mega Team

The quick answer is agent and I do it all.  Intern with a large national brokerage.