All Forum Posts by: Account Closed

Wow!

Hey! Guys, I just found out my NY Real Estate Agent License doesn't expire until 8/2017.  Great!  I will now "PARK" my license until I can figure out what I'm going to do and until I have funds coming in from wholesaling.  Wholesaling is all new to me and I want to give it all I got to see how my NY Real Estate Agent's license will be an asset to my wholesaling business.  I don't know what I was think of, but I thought my license would expire next month 8/2016.  I'm a H-A-P-P-Y camper.  Have a great day!

Hi Michael T.

Well, I wanted to specialize in only "Commercial" properties rental and sales; however, I found out after I went to work for a company that paid for my course that I had to (1) Complete their "Academy" training (2) Start out as a "Rental" agent for apartments only and work my way up to commercial.  I became discouraged and did not like the fact that I had to show only rentals to customers who either couldn't afford what they wanted, then show the same customer rental 5 or 6 times and after that they still haven't made up their mind to buy.  I felt the company had just sabotage my career.  After going through all the schooling and getting my license, who has the right to dictate to me where I should start.  I had done months of research on commercial real estate sales and rental.  As a real estate agent, I wanted to specialize in commercial sales of high rise office building, malls, multi-family units, etc.  Well, I became frustrated and left the industry.  I'm so tired of people in various walks of the world of business trying to use someone else's expertise to benefit themselves for whatever reason.  Michael I'm just tired and want to own my own business that does not involve others getting in my way.  I want to FOCUS as a laser beam on nothing but wholesaling real estate to grow my business and then at some point when I have generated enough revenues, start investing for long-term hold in commercial office buildings and multi-family properties.

Hi Brett Snodgrass,

I highly value your advice being that you've "been there, done that."  I thought about not letting my license go, but I haven't kept up my continuing education.  I only have next month and can't do continue ed by then, so I have no other choice but to let it go.  Got any tips on what I should do?

Hi! My name is Amy and I'm just getting started in real estate investing.  I look forward to starting out in wholesaling single family residents.  I believe this will be a great successful opportunity for me and I hope by joining the BiggerPockets Community I can learn some tips that will work great for me, or learn what not to do from someone else's mistake.  Let me confess that I am a work-a-holic and find it sometime hard to make myself stop.  I want success so bad to the point that I really don't have a life outside of working.  When success doesn't come the way I expect it to,  I keep starting over, and over until I get it right.  

Partly the blame for my not having success is due to the fact that I never had a mentor to turn to.  So I believe everything will change now, because I have my BiggerPockets Community to turn to.  People who are traveling down the same road, but taking different approaches to make it to the same goal in real estate success.  We're all like minded individuals with the same aspiration; therefore, I can now say, "I am not alone."  Now, when I'm not working I enjoy playing computerized chess and relaxing to classical music to calm down from all the information I have been bombarded with during my working hours.

 Oh, about my past, I am a former Wall Street Stockbroker who left the industry several years ago due to unethical practices. In August 2014 I got my NY State Real Estate Agent License and did not like the fact that I have to hit the pavements to show properties here and there. Bottom line, I'm letting my license expire next month.  So I finally found something I believe I will be really, really successful at working from the convenience of my own home and outsourcing whatever I feel that is taking up too much of my time.  At last, I can be in the driver's seat and take control of my destiny. 

Now, there it is: My Introduction.