What exactly do you do in real estate, if you don't mind me asking? Do you buy/renovate/sell, build from scratch, do you do residential/commercial, etc? And how did you get into it?
Buy, rehab, rent, refinance distressed residential property. I also manage two commercial properties.
I was born into it, but then didn't want to do it after college. I got back into it because I saw an opportunity that was too good to miss and I took it, now I'm hooked and expanding.
Some of the reasons I stayed away have changed. Just one example, paints used to be fairly heavily laden with VOCs and breathing that stuff is terrible for you for a number o reasons. Now zero/low-voc paint is really good and cheap. I wouldn't have wanted to paint an entire interior of a house with that stuff back then, now I am like Michaelangelo and the house I am working on is like my Sistine Chapel :)
I was born into it, but then didn't want to do it after college. I got back into it because I saw an opportunity that was too good to miss and I took it, now I'm hooked and expanding.
Some of the reasons I stayed away have changed. Just one example, paints used to be fairly heavily laden with VOCs and breathing that stuff is terrible for you for a number o reasons. Now zero/low-voc paint is really good and cheap. I wouldn't have wanted to paint an entire interior of a house with that stuff back then, now I am like Michaelangelo and the house I am working on is like my Sistine Chapel :)