FROM INMAN NEWS – If you’re on the fence about hiring an assistant, we are about to make your life a whole like easier.
I’ve been in the real estate arena for 13 years now, and early on, I realized that if I wanted to achieve the levels of success I had envisioned, I would not be able to do it alone.
When I graduated college, I started working as a commercial underwriter (which only lasted about six months before I was fired) and joined another company as a financial controller. The new job was great. I was a recent college graduate, and I had an assistant right away. I wasn’t exactly sure how to navigate that relationship, and I often had her fetching me coffee, filing and faxing documents for me. At the time, that’s what I thought assistants did.
I was at that job for about a year and a half, but there were limits that came with working for someone else, at least at that organization. I needed to be free to think, explore and experiment with my own ideas and my own business. I needed to be in control of my life. So I did what every sane person would not do in late 2006, during one of the biggest, if not the biggest, real estate bubbles in history: I quit my job, became a Realtor and started building a real estate team.
