What Teaching & Real Estate Have in Common!: Why is Real Estate a caring profession like Teaching?

Parallels to Teaching and being a Real Estate Realtor

One day, when I was sitting at my desk, I thought about how teaching and real estate have wonderful similarities. Then I just started writing the similarities and saw a beautiful pattern within their associations.

Teaching is a wonderful profession, because it demands very broad knowledge of the subject matter, curriculum & standards, enthusiasm, a caring attitude & a love of learning. With teaching, you have to have clear and written-out objectives and know who (grade & age) you are teaching to.

In Real Estate, it demands you be well versed in your subject matter. You must know the laws of the real estate business inside & out. You also have to be aware of your market and who you are marketing to. You technically have transitioned from students to adults and are walking them through a constantly changing environment.

In teaching, you need discipline and classroom management techniques and a desire to make a difference in the lives of young people. You also have high expectations for your students and you never give up on them doing their best performance. You have to build a trust between your students and yourself, and have their best interest at heart.

As a Real Estate Realtor, you must be disciplined and organized to keep appointments, making cold & warm calls, and following through on sales & listings. You must be good with people, patient, understanding, compassionate, amiable and honest. As a good Realtor, you can easily establish a relationship built on trust between you and the perspective buyer or seller. You have to be an advocate to your client and always have the best interests of your client at hand.

With both teaching and real estate you have to engage people and get them to look at issues in a variety of ways. Form strong relationships and show that you care about them as people.

Do you agree or do you disagree? State your position and why?

What Teaching & Real Estate Have in Common!

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Why is Real Estate a caring profession like Teaching?

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