How is starting out in M&amp;M?
I have a somewhat unique situation in that I can currently live with my parents indefinitely. I got a call from M&amp;M and they would like to interview...but I've heard some interesting things. Can anyone tell me what it's like with them? 
[{"id": "coy6hml", "text": "It's a great place to sink your roots and learn as much as you can. You'll have access to a tremendous amount of information most agents don't have starting out. Aside from that, almost all of the research/data is chewed up and given to you in easy little soundbytes you can use over and over again with your clients. If you're an \"outside-the-box thinker\", you're going to have a bad time. \n\n\n", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "coyaouk", "text": "I interviewed with them and both of my bosses at CBRE were from there. The first manager (who hired me at CB) was cool and no non sense type. His management style was great because he would let everyone do their thing and be there only as support. The second manager was straight out of M&amp;M and he was a very in your face, pushy manager. I was in industrial and all of (or most of) M&amp;M focuses on retail and multi-family *investments*. That means that if you call someone and they are leasing their building you hang up the phone and keep calling until you find someone who is selling their building. So at M&amp;M cold calling is very important, you can't just walk into retail buildings because the owner is likely never there. In industrial and especially industrial leasing it is important to do a lot of walk ins because a lot of the time the owner is on site. So the new manager had very little experience in industrial leasing and wanted me to follow the same goals set at M&amp;M, even though I was an industrial agent at CBRE.\n\nAt M&amp;M they will hire almost anyone. With that said they will fire almost anyone too. As soon as you don't hit your goals you are out of there. They have a program called the pace setter program. You have 16 weeks to get 2 listings, 10 meetings, 250 calls per week and some other goal I can't recall at the moment. \n\nAt CBRE when I was hired I was told that they didn't really care so much about numbers, they wanted their brokers to have good relationships with their clients and to know the market extremely well.  \n\nAlso, you should know that most other brokers and owners think very little of M&amp;M. I have had numerous clients tell me they won't work with them. Even this post has negative votes at the moment. Nobody really likes M&amp;M lol.\n\nedit: I should also add that it is very cutthroat at M&amp;M, they eat their own. They have no boundaries on markets so you will be constantly stepping on other broker's toes and your clients will get hit up by other brokers in your own office, if you work there you should probably keep your CRM or list of clients under lock and key. At CB you have a designated market and there is a list of CB brokers and their clients you can refer to to make sure you are not pissing anyone off. This helps the company because we don't have a bunch of agents from the same office cold calling the same owners &amp; tenants. ", "replies": [{"id": "cp0aax1", "text": "this sounds spot on to me.  I've never worked for M&amp;M but have (attempted hah) transactions on their listings.  my buyers and myself have always found them very difficult to deal with and they pretty much want to make sure they always get both sides.  pursueing a m&amp;m property is very different than a cbre, colliers, svn etc listing from my point of view.  People I know that have worked there all indicate there is very little pressure to serve clients and they pretty much give two shits about them,  its all production", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "coyph7b", "text": "It sucks. But you'll learn a shit load if you can manage to make it a year or two without quitting. ", "replies": [{"id": "cozdw9q", "text": "Agreed, I started at M&amp;M and hated it but I stuck it out and it's well worth it.  ", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "cp3bzj8", "text": "I work at M&amp;M... Fast learning pace, access to best market info... M&amp;M does more investment sales than anyone else. If you want to do investment sales 3-10 million $ commercial real estate then thats where you want to be. ", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]