How did you find your top buyer/seller?
[{"id": "d074cat", "text": "Mentor had a lease listing with a business within the building that served a special function. The city actually rezoned the building and the adjacent buildings. People would find out online or somehow that the building had the now \"grandfathered\" business in there. We would have to tell them the building was rezoned and try couldn't get in. I told 2 of them I'd look for a space that met their zoning needs. Took me literally 8 months and searching the entire bay area to find a place because of the requirements. \n\nAfter a bunch of referrals, I now placed 5 of those businesses within the building. The landlord liked how I went about doing business (negotiated with him directly). He hired me as his agent. \n\nTurned out he regularly buys 2 to 6 million dollar buildings for his business. I now get sales commission and leasing commission consistently from 1 guy through the east and south bay.\n\n2 small tenants that no one, from my mentor to anyone in my office, would waste any time on, led to a series of events that landed me my first big investor.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "d075yab", "text": "Plain old cold calling. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]