Looking to break into real estate as a leasing agent...
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[{"id": "frv6u7c", "text": "Don't sleep on property management gig's if one pops up in your area. I would not recommend multifamily, but everything else (retail, industrial, etc.) will expose you to leasing,  while having a more steady income per month. Also a good way to get experience early in your career.  It does not have to be your forever job.", "replies": [{"id": "frv8u2f", "text": "Any particular reason you would not recommend multifmaily? As someone potentially moving into multifamily sales, I was hoping diversify income sources by leasing. Any other way you'd recommend generating income other than selling?", "replies": [{"id": "frv99on", "text": "Well, with multifamily you are dealing with people, and not business, so it's just a different path. If you goal is to lease commercial space, it's experience, but not really the same.\n\nBut if you want your niche to be multifamily sales/deals, it's not a bad idea. People make a ton of money doing that.", "replies": [{"id": "frvcvrw", "text": "thanks!", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}, {"id": "frvphei", "text": "multifamily also seems to pay less.  I agree with everything TPM319 said but wanted to point that out.  If you want to do multifamily sales it helps to have an understanding of ops for sure though.  As someone who has a lot of history in multi family management, I would not recommend it as a long term thing.  I personally am all sales now and would never even consider doing management unless I absolutely needed to in order to get a listing or something.  (that use to be a thing with banks).\n\nThe issues that come up in mf management are mainly tenant related and frankly not that complicated.  Shit breaks, tenant calls, you fix it, they pay their rent, or don't, and you evict etc.  There is very little you actually have to figure out once you get the basics.\n\nCommercial management is going to have you interacting with business owners, brokers, architects/gc's etc.  Everything is highly custom and negotiated.  You will learn a lot about what all these people do and you will need that experience as a broker since your job there is basically to tie all that together and make sure a deal gets past the finish line.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "frv6xxo", "text": "Hey hey. Bonafides - I've been leasing office, industrial, medical, and retail for 12 years. \n\nReally simple - Go to the commercial real estate section of your local newspaper. Read the last few months or weeks. Find a few names that stand out. Call them (find one of their flyers on LoopNet and you'll see their phone number) and ask if you could perform cold calls for them for one week in exchange for letting you shadow them for the same amount of time. \n\nYou're doing a few things here during shadowing. One, seeing which product class is the most FUN for you. Two, starting your networking. Three, seeing these professionals best practices (e.g. which software they're using, how they interact with clients, etc). \n\nMost importantly: ask the stupid questions. You'll be giving the person answering a chance to realize how far they've come and you get to have assisted discovery instead of just reading about it in a book.\n\nYou'll do great. You'll be broke for 2 years. But the other side is a great career.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]