New member- Columbia, SC

[Chris DeTreville]

I jumped the gun a bit and started a thread in the "starting out" forum but anyway, I have lurked long enough and decided to get vocal.
I am 29, and have been in real estate for 6 years. I suffered through a few years of new home sales as I started out...and I am thankful for the experience but glad I am in a new position. A year and a half ago I was hired as a leasing agent for a property management company. I came to the company with the intention to start and head a sales division(calling it a division makes it sound professional, but really we just joined MLS and I set the company up for sales with the help of my broker), and as fate may have it I closed on my first house with the new company today. While most of my job is servicing rentals and working for our owners...I am loving the ability to take on some listings and make some sales. We get a lot of owners who want to sell so in the future I believe most of our sales will be investment properties.

I also fully intend to become a real estate investor myself, and I have taken some preliminary steps toward that goal. That is why I'm here.

Anyway, enough about me. Thanks for the opportunity to share my thoughts and questions (there will be a ton).