A Career in Massachusetts Real Estate - What you need to know

A real estate career provides flexibility and the freedom to set your own hours. Income directly reflects your efforts, with no limits on what astute, hard-working agents can earn. Successful people in real estate are goal-oriented, persevering, self-motivated, ambitious, and people-oriented. The rewards of a real estate career are the potential for high earnings, status in the community, autonomy, time freedom, helping people, intellectual challenge, and satisfaction from those accomplishments.

Working in real estate allows for independence and choices of environment in which to work, such as affiliation with a large or small firm as a listed salesperson. With more experience and upon passing of an additional exam, becoming a real estate broker is the next step. Brokers can own their own businesses and employ other salespeople.

There are many reasons why people get their real estate license. Some people are sick of the 9-5 schedule. Others can’t stand working for demanding bosses while doing unfulfilling work. Whatever the case, there are numerous benefits to working as an agent.

• Real estate agents work for themselves. They’re the ones who choose the clients they want, the leads they generate, how they market themselves, and pretty much anything that has to do with their business. If you want to be the one in charge and are sick of the rat race of working a corporate job, real estate could be perfect for you.

• Your real estate career is your business. They are synonymous. How well you do directly correlates to your business’s success. Now, some parts of the business, like accounting and marketing, make some agents feel queasy due to a lack of experience or necessary skills. That’s okay. Here are two options that many agents have found success with.

• For most full-time employees, your yearly salary is fixed. Any extra time spent working on time-sensitive projects for your boss yields zero extra dollars for you. Meanwhile, working extra time as a real estate agent can directly lead to more money. It’s you and you alone who controls the money that comes in. And that power may be what’s most enticing about joining the real estate industry. According to Indeed.com, the average real estate agent in a major city makes 35-40% more than the average American job.

• The responsibilities of a real estate agent are many, but the most important might just be what you give back to your community. Will you be in it for the money or to help your local town? Working as a real estate agent makes you a local expert “matchmaker” who helps people find their perfect home in an area that has exactly what they need. These needs could be things like living in an A+ School District or having a large amount of green space for outdoor activities. Helping people and their families find their next perfect home can be the most gratifying part of the job. 

• Stuck at a strictly vertical hierarchy at work that requires having the same last name or incriminating photos of the CEO to climb the corporate ladder? As an agent, you don’t have to worry about promotions because you’re already at the top. You alone determine how successful you’re going to be, and will not have to depend on an antiquated structure that limits your growth.

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