My life as a Realtor®

Wanted to start my Blog but was so busy with my work as a Realtor®. Now is a Sunday and the family is watching "Mulan" (again-- this is one my eldest daughter's favorites). The computer is also in the living room, and as they watch the video I browse the internet and now I'm blogging.

So what's it's like to be a Realtor®? I must say it's challenging, demanding, rewarding, frustrating, tiring, exhilirating. A mixture of emotions. Attended seminar on real estate just to familiarize myself about this business and took and passed the real estate broker's exam in November 2001 but has been an in-house broker for a new developer and I was on my own. Basically I got my training in sales through self-study-- through common sense, by reading, associating with people who have the experience, and through trial and error. And this was not easy having no mentor at all when you are just starting on a new field.
I joined my local real estate board about just a year ago, and from being just a real estate broker, I am now called Realtor® -- a label that I am proud to use, because only PAREB members have the legal right to use it, because it is patented. Since joining my local board, I realized that the life as a Realtor® is truly exciting and rewarding. I started attending seminars and tried to absorb and apply what I learn everytime, because in my previous employment in real estate, I was "alone", haha! Having been in a far different field since after college, this is relatively a new to me, and I'm trying to catch up on what I have to know. So when there's an opportunity I try to learn, and there is, everytime, that opportunity. As much as possible I try to attend seminars, especially those sponsored by reliable real estate developers. I read on real estate topics and also through my associations from other brokers Realtors® I learn more on my field.

Being surrounded by seasoned Realtors® who have been in this field for decades was (and still is) stressful for me, at the start, because I am overwhelmed by what they already know (and what they don't, after all these years). I know I am still practically a novice in this field and I want to be like most of them right here right now. I stretch my mind to try to learn as much from them as possible.

Now after a year as a Realtor® I kind of feel that I am not that "left out" at the least-- that somehow "I belong". In my board there a lot of real nice people around. It's nice meeting fellow Realtors®-- talking to them, learning from them, making new friends. Now I look forward to our General Membership meetings when I'll meet my colleagues again.