What was your answer to the interview question "Why Real Estate?" or "Why Commercial Real Estate"
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[{"id": "i2gslhw", "text": "My answer for that question was \"Real estate is living and breathing which keeps it exciting. I love that it is always changing for the benefit of communities and I want to be apart of that change.\"\n\nHope that this helps.", "replies": [{"id": "i2h83nz", "text": "Love this answer.\n\nOP just say absolutely anything honest about why you want to be in the industry other than \u201cit\u2019s tangible\u201d, which is the most boring boilerplate answer and 50% of interviewees will respond with.\n\nI spoke about my family\u2019s history in the industry from a personal investment property perspective and how I used to go around to the different properties with my dad, checking in on contractors and the like, and how that pushed me towards the field.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2gvztm", "text": "Real estate is tangible, combines the upside of securities appreciation with cash flow of fixed-income products, is analytical but naturally relationship based, and i had family work on personal investments that sowed an interested early.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2h0198", "text": "I can make as much money as I want and set my own schedule. I want to sell and have a career into my 70\u2019s.", "replies": [{"id": "i2iddxz", "text": "So true! I\u2019m glad to not be aged out like in tech. I left that and know I can be working for a long time!", "replies": [{"id": "i2jq6me", "text": "Do people get shed out in tech? Please explain?", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2hk3p3", "text": "Because the guy who owns the real estate wins every argument.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2hoqd9", "text": "\u201cPeople are always gonna need somewhere to work and live.\u201d Industry isn\u2019t going anywhere. They love that answer. I also love buildings and construction, so that\u2019s a plus.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2hoqlz", "text": "\"Its tangible af and I am not smart enough to work with abstract ideas\" works every time", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2hr3vo", "text": "This is the best way to learn how to buy, sell, finance, and develop\u2026. And make enough to be a principal at 35 not 55.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2hwouc", "text": "Because it makes money. Simple.", "replies": [{"id": "i2hwptx", "text": "Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.\n\nI have checked 674,896,164 comments, and only 136,694 of them were in alphabetical order.", "replies": [{"id": "i2ie4a1", "text": "Good bot", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2hxdry", "text": "I started my career working for an older, self-made owner / developer, and he\u2019d say this thing that always stuck with me: that real estate is simply a conduit for human activity. Real estate\u2019s value is measured by its usefulness to other people. Sure, it can build wealth and the working lifestyle has its benefits, but it\u2019s like magic when you get to turn a place into something better, that other people find value in, whether that\u2019s a place to live, work, be social, etc. There aren\u2019t a lot of jobs like that!  That\u2019s what I find the most fulfilling.", "replies": [{"id": "i2ibx2f", "text": "Love this answer", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2ibmkl", "text": "For me it was about building a place, a love of the city itself. The urban environment is how people interact with the world around them, and real estate allows you to *literally* shape the world and affect people\u2019s lives. I think it\u2019s super cool.", "replies": [{"id": "i2iif4b", "text": "My last interview was over a decade ago, but I think my answer was something like this.  \n\nI don't do anything that builds and shapes lives, but it's pretty neat to drive around the city and be able to point out all the buildings I've worked on in my career.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2ie9d3", "text": "you should be able to answer this question. And if you can't, perhaps real estate is not your true interest.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2igxdb", "text": "I chose real estate because each transaction is unique which keeps things exciting.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2kemai", "text": "As someone who interviews agents I need to hear something along the lines of it\u2019s my passion or I always wanted to be in real estate or anything close to that. So many people come through with lame responses like I know a guy that does it and is making a lot of $ so I wanted to try it out\u2026 gtfooh\u2026. Haha never actually said that but that\u2019s what I\u2019m thinking when it happens.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i2kjbsj", "text": "In one of the courses that really stuck with me from university and got me interested in CRE in the first place, we read some Robert Park (urban sociologist) and I regularly paraphrase this quote to answer the 'why did you get into CRE' question. \n\n\"The city is man's most consistent and on the whole, his most successful attempt to remake the world he lives in more after his heart's desire. But if the city is the world which man created, it is the world in which he is henceforth condemned to live. Thus, indirectly, and without any clear sense of the nature of his task,  in making the city man has remade himself.'\n\nThe causal loop between the development/redevelopment of urban spaces and the evolution or perpetuation of culture is what fascinates me about CRE. We are where we live, and where we live can reflect who we are, or who we want to be.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "i3vs67m", "text": "Commercial real estate can be an effective diversifier to an existing investment portfolio with appropriate planning and execution. Real estate is desirable to investors because of its appealing properties, such as capital preservation, income production, and inflation hedging.\n\nTo know more about [why should invest in real estate](https://appleswaygroup.com/why-invest-in-multifamily/) follow Applesway group.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]