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From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 16:55 David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate writes: > Er, no. Instead of blowing so much hot air, just research the median > salary. Sure, a top-earning realtor will earn a lot- but they are the > exception. Someone in charge of a big plumbing business earns a lot too. > > Most realtors aren't top-earners. It depends on their market and the state of the economy. The main reason why everyone in real estate isn't rich is that there are so many people in real estate trying to get rich. Nevertheless, it's possible to do very well with relatively little work, if you choose your market well. Even the low earners are making a lot more than their services really justify. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 16:56 David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate writes: > Look up the median wage for a realtor and a plumber in any western > country, then get back to me, numbnuts. Plumbing is hard work. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 2 Aug 2006 17:06 Gregory Morrow writes: > If it were that easy to do, then everybody would be selling real estate. Everybody is, almost. And it is easy to do. That's why the profits are spread thinner than they might otherwise be. > It often takes quite a long time to become "established" in the field. There isn't any time left, as the Internet will be replacing most real-estate agents soon. > I've > known beginning real estate agents who took six months or longer to make > their first sales -- in the meantime they had no other income coming in and > had to rely on savings, etc. for their living expenses. Life is tough. How much did they make on that first sale? > The money can be good but it has a lot to do with sheer luck and > timing...you can go a long time between sales and thus have no regular > income during those periods. You have to "keep up appearances", e.g. have a > decent car, nice clothes, maintain office equipment, etc. so you have those > fixed business expenses. And then there's the Internet, which may eventually put you out of business, anyway. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 2 Aug 2006 17:07 Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and > deansgate writes: > > > Are you good at anything? > > Yes. What? -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org
From: David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate on 2 Aug 2006 17:07
Gregory Morrow <gregorymorrowIMPLEMENTPLAN9!@earthlink.net> wrote: > David Horne wrote: > > > Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > barney2(a)cix.compulink.co.uk writes: > > > > > > > Just two messages ago it was a few /weeks'/ work... > > > > > > It can be either, depending on the property, the market, etc. Even > > > for a few weeks' work, $18,000 is pretty good. > > > > For the average realtor, that's half a year's wage. > > > If it were that easy to do, then everybody would be selling real estate. It > often takes quite a long time to become "established" in the field. I've > known beginning real estate agents who took six months or longer to make > their first sales -- in the meantime they had no other income coming in and > had to rely on savings, etc. for their living expenses. Then to get hired > by a realty agent is another hurdle... > > The money can be good but it has a lot to do with sheer luck and > timing...you can go a long time between sales and thus have no regular > income during those periods. You have to "keep up appearances", e.g. have a > decent car, nice clothes, maintain office equipment, etc. so you have those > fixed business expenses. The people I know in that field in the US are on average wages. A lot of them are part-time, and not because they 'earn enough' that they take the rest of the year off from their earnings! -- David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org |