 | BE CAREFUL!
My mother and her boyfriend were realtors. Life sucked for me as a child because of it. These so called "choose your own hour" careers very quickly turn into 24 hours a day, at the beck and call of your client, kind of days. Real estate is such a competitive market with cut throat "co-workers". You will find trusting anyone will be a difficulty. It is an extremely high stress career. We are now approaching the winter season, and any veteran realtor will tell you that selling houses in the winter is like pulling a camel through the eye of a needle. So, in order to make any money in real estate (or to even break even) you have to work your butt off in the summer while people are moving. Just working your butt off doesn't cut the mustard, you also have to save that money for the months you can't sell ice water to people in hell (there will be plenty of those months)
Knowing real estate as much as I do (and I rarely claim expertise in any area) I would very much discourage this as a "side-job" or "at-home" job or "part-time" job to ANY mother! It is hell for you and hell for your kids. Inevitably they will be carted around to appointments, doing their homework in the back of the car, fussing at each other because they are so irritated, hungry because it is lunch/dinner time and these clients can't make up their mind. You will being suckered into "lending" money you don't have in order to recieve a commission.
I'm telling you, avoid this career if you can. There is A LOT of money to be made in this field if you give what it takes. Unfortuantly, as a mother, you have already committed "what it takes" to your family.
Think this through completely. I have learned the hard way that "not all that glitters is gold," and "if it seems too good to be true, it is!" Learn from someone else's mistakes. |
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