Chapter 17

Leaping into a Commercial Real Estate Career

In This Chapter

bullet Helping others buy and sell commercial property

bullet Managing commercial property as a career

bullet Lending money to commercial real estate investors

bullet Appraising commercial property

Entrepreneurs live a life of action and risk and can be rewarded handsomely for it. A good portion of us who make a living in the commercial real estate business have been afforded great lifestyles because of the risk we took at some point in our lives. We invite you to do the same.

Leaping into a commercial real estate career is exciting because you can venture into so many different areas. It doesn’t matter your personality type, background, and most times, even your education. It’s a wide-open field of opportunity. Of all the successful people we know and work with in commercial real estate, we see three success traits in every one of them: integrity, perseverance, and understanding the value of relationships.

In this chapter, we discuss the many career choices in commercial real estate, from starting out as a commercial sales agent, to ...

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