Posts by reneeisorym

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

find myself about 33 and still with the desire to have 3 kids
thanks - that's me and I still have so much living to do before children - but I do get broody.

I should have mentioned that my husband is 36. If I am 33, he will be 43. I know plenty of women who have kids later in life but 33 is pushing it for me more than most because my husband is older than me. I just want all of the kids grown before he's ready to retire. If I start having babies at 33, it will be at LEAST 37 before the last one is born and that puts him at 67 when they leave the house. That is pushing it for me.

Renee, I have several friends that passed their real estate exam and also know of 2 very established realtors....None of them are making money in this market. They see no relief in the future. One of the girls and her husband became millionaires in Chicago. He did the rehabs she did the purchasing.........they eventually had to file for Bankruptcy.....tried to start up here in Florida with all the foreclosures again and are not making a go of it. Keep in mind these are two very talented individuals.

I have really taken this kind of stuff into consideration. I don't know how the market will be doing in 2/3 years when I'm ready to get started. I also don't know how things are different where I live. I know from house shopping last year that housing prices haven't changed very much. I am sure that in California and Florida the housing prices change much more than they change here. I need to examine the local market.

I also have a great advantage that my husband can pay all of the bills by himself. We do not need my income to survive. My income just gives us cash to go out to eat/shopping/save for that vacation/add that deck we've been talking about .. you know ...

Thanks .. I still have so much to consider.

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Text Message I Just Received From An Old Witness Friend

by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

this is a text message i just received from a guy who was in my old congregation.

(ps, no there was no shenanigans going on there, i wasn't interested in this guy in that way...even though he was possibly the best friend i had ever had within jws).. "hi rob.

please come back to the truth.

reneeisorym

Conditional friendships might not be worth having but it doesn't mean that you aren't supposed to miss him. It's hard. I miss so many people that were close to me. Maybe one day he'll come out of the org. It happens even when we don't expect it. He might really need you one day.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

The greatest book on getting into the real estate game you can find.Magic bullets http://www.sendspace.com/file/mdyydx
Robert G. Allen - The Road to Wealth.pdf http://www.sendspace.com/file/kfmdrb

Thanks a lot for those links! They are awesome.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

If you don't live near an air-port

I seriously live 5 minutes from an airport. I think those planes are going to land in my back yard half of the time.

That's not a bad idea. Wouldn't you have to be away from home a lot of nights? I'm not sure my husband would be crazy about that.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

I wouldn't have thought that real estate would be a wise move the way the market is in your country at the moment.
Paul

That was my first thought but I also am not going to be making a change for another two years. Things are likely to be different then -- either on the upside or a complete bust. But I read somewhere that agents who get into it during a slump and make it get used to doing hard work. When the market picks up, they enjoy it. The ones who start when it's easy give up when it gets hard.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

One evening at work I just asked myself, "If I could change my life and do one thing I'd really enjoy, what would it be?"

That's kinda how this came to be.

I just stopped and asked myself, "What do I like to do?" And I decided that I like to research, do detail oriented things, and am very nurturing to people. I do not like routine or having a fixed 9-5 schedule with no wiggle room. (I do have an office job now but my boss will let me go out to eat lunch with people and leave early here and there. .. The last job I had required a written form to be filled out and sent in to the president just to leave early for a doctor's visit .. I hated that!) I also do not like greet people and talk with them for less than a minute and be expected to have great customer service in that time (a lot of sales jobs are like that). I like to have a relationship with my customers.

Thanks for the advice. I am also interested to see how technology changes the real estate hunt and transactions.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

Sales have always been were the money is. Question... how do you handle rejection? Real estate agents get turned down often... listings, folks who dont show at closings etc.

I was a JW for how many years? I think I can handle rejection .. LOL ...

From those I know of who are good at realestate I see a real ability to organize and work every day.

I am very organized. I think the hardest part for me would be resisting the urge to sleep until 9 and then work all night.

Travel agent? I have to ask, can anyone in your town afford to travel? I'd think that online tickets and such have made it hard for traditional travel agents to make money... especially in low and middle income areas.

There are quite a lot of travel agents already here. I don't know if that means there are too many and there is no need for them or if there is really a big demand.

I'm a licensed loan officer. Most of the people who jumped in the last 5 years are gone. The older wiser and more experience guys are still in it. I got in 3 years ago and I'm fine. I'm in California.

Loan officers don't get calls at all hours like agents do. They really have no life of their own. I get occasional calls on the weekends.

I did try being a loan processor for a bank. I did enjoy to it an extent. I liked being busy. I liked experiencing that nervous joy of closing on their homes. I have to admit that sitting behind a desk staring at legal paperwork all day got old. Working on weekends and late nights was the only time I could get ininterruped peaceful work done.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

I sold real estate for a year. I did well, but as I worked I looked around the office and seeing people who had been doing it for 20 years working just as hard as I was to make a go of it. On call 24/7 wasn't for me so I gave it up. Prepare to give up your life if that's they way you're going to go.

That's the kind of stuff I need to know. I need to make an informed choice.

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Real Estate/Travel Agent

by reneeisorym in

jw
friends

i'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time.

you guys just always give the best advice.

you understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a jw until i was 23.. so i'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

reneeisorym

I'm sorry to aggrivate you about my life choices all of the time. You guys just always give the best advice. You understand and don't look down on me for being a little behind in my career due to being a JW until I was 23.

So I'm like the rest of you with a high school diploma only because of that stupid religion.

I am not in a position to go back to school for several reasons -- the main one is that the colleges in town are private and have huge tuitions. Their scholarships require you to live on campus and I can't do that either. I hate debt and can't imagine borrowing money to go either. (To the tune of 100k for 4 years) I can't move because my husband has a great job here. The other is that financially I can't be out of work for the next 4 years. The last is that I need to get something going because my biological clock is ticking. (I don't want to go to school for 4, start a career, and then wait until the career is settled and find myself about 33 and still with the desire to have 3 kids). I know that technically any of these obsitcles could be overcome but it just seems to be too much for me.

So I found out that my job has ceased retirement for those who have not begun to contribute yet (been with the company less than 5 years). I know now that I have to change jobs. I am thinking that I might as well make it big. I've had some thoughts.

Real Estate. If I save for the next 2 years, I could have a good 10k saved to help make the first year of being a real estate agent not so bad. I'm hoping that the market will get better in two years. If not, I'll still have 10k in the bank and I can't see how that's bad.

I've thought about being travel agent as well. I love to travel and I especially love to research things. I like detail oriented, self motiving jobs.

I'm asking this: Does anyone have any experience with being a real estate agent or a travel agent they could share?

Thank you guys so much for your help in the past.

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Gas Prices In Your Area?

by sacolton in

$3.69 in oklahoma city, ok ... and going up!.

even though the new book study arrangement starts january 2009 - i wonder how many witnesses will begin to stop going this year to save on their gas budget?

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reneeisorym

Diesel is 4.09 here.