I am currently working as an unlicensed TC. However, I have had my real estate license in Florida since 2010, and had them in Iowa 2016-22 and Illinois 2019-22 (recently going inactive to expand my TC business). My background is in the legal field where I was a paralegal for almost 20 years. I originally had my license for my hobby in Florida, flipping houses. I did a handful of transactions for friends and family, but basically just used it for myself to buy and sell without paying commissions. In 2019, I decided to quit my day job and go into real estate full-time.
I quickly found out that even though I knew how to buy and sell real estate, I didn’t know how to sell myself. I had a really hard time convincing strangers to use me as their Realtor instead of using someone with much more experience than me, or even someone they knew. Well, don’t worry! I found my niche!
Remember all of that paralegal experience? It made me the perfect fit for transaction management. I found that I don’t mind sitting and staring at the computer screen all day, keeping track of all the details that keep a transaction moving. I also found that most Realtors really don’t enjoy that part. Not even a little bit!
So now, I’ve been doing this for about two years. I’ve handled over 300 transactions for my agents. I would count that as some pretty good experience! I bet some of you reading this right now may not have handled that many transactions yourself yet?
So yes, you have other options. But I bet you don’t have BETTER options!
