CRE Brokers who invest: tell me the opportunities and pitfalls
Brokers have great access to the market but they also owe a duty to buyers/sellers/tenants/landlords. So I have two questions for the CRE brokers and salespeople out there who actively invest. 

1. Does your work as a broker provide you with investment opportunities? 
2. How do you navigate any conflicts of interest? How do you maintain a professional duty to your clients while still actively investing. 

As a hypothetical, say you represent a tenant looking for retail spaces in shopping centers. If you own a space that seems like a good fit do you show it to him and make a pitch? Or do you avoid the potential conflict of interest?
[{"id": "emgbwj3", "text": "Buy/sell from/to people who aren\u2019t your clients. When you have an interest, be upfront. The assumption is everyone in CRE is a big boy and doesn\u2019t need handholding.  Just don\u2019t be deceptive and you\u2019re fine.", "replies": [{"id": "emhv682", "text": "Can you hire me", "replies": [{"id": "emhwrm8", "text": "I\u2019m working on retiring, but I guarantee if you are willing to work with learning as your main payment, you can find someone who will teach you.  For some reason REI has a lot of people who are happy to share their knowledge.   I took a massive pay cut to work with someone I knew I could learn a lot from. Within two years I had made my first million.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "emghovg", "text": "Lol conflict of interest. Most (not all) agents only represent their own interest.   I represent an investor. We once had our agents parter outbid us on an asset. They closed the deal without even asking us for a best and final. Needless to say they were fired.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "emhhzps", "text": "I have done this and the only answer is:\n\nDisclose, Disclose and disclose.\n\nas a rule of thumb if I have interest in a property personally I would first take it to my signed clients as they are who you owe fiduciary responsibility to.\n\nif they pass then I would proceed.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "eoekbt1", "text": "I've seen some very suspicious transactions by agents purchasing properties they had listed. As an appraiser I would always try to get to the bottom of the\"conditions\" of the transaction at what appeared to be below market value. But they would ignore me, not answer the questions or lie. This has only happened about 6 times in my 13 years, but it was always there same two brokerages.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]