Residential vs commercial real estate. What route is better?
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[{"id": "i3fezlh", "text": "Go sell SaaS and make a lot of money. Then use that money to invest in RE. Whether commercial or residential is up to you.", "replies": [{"id": "i3fjdl5", "text": "What is Saas", "replies": [{"id": "i3frb7a", "text": "Software as a service. And if you weren't able to google that, you're not off to a great start.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i3fkoy9", "text": "It\u2019s more sophisticated assets and clients. You are dealing with land, office, retail, industrial or multi family. You are helping investors buy assets, helping businesses find real estate to buy or lease for business use or find properties for developers. The deals take longer to get done and involve more steps. \n\nLittle more traditional hours but definitely can work the same amount of hours if not more. Not many people in my experience ask to go see properties on weekends but you\u2019ll certainly do administrative stuff on the weekends. \n\nAs for pay 100% commission based from my experience. \n\nWhich you should choose really depends on long term goals are.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i3fo8zs", "text": "Honestly agree with the guy up on top about doing tech sales. If you don't go that path, do commercial. Start at a large firm when coming out of college as it gets you better training and deal experience. My recommendation would be starting at a shop like CBRE, JLL, Eastdil, Cushman, Newmark, and Colliers or an institutional real estate investment firm (check out top 50 firms by PERE).", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]