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Should I take the risk of being a real estate agent?

For the past couple of years I've had no idea on what I would like my career to be but once I got to thinking about things I love doing I somehow ended up at real estate. My only worry is that it's very risky financially and I would like to not have to worry every month on how to pay the bills. Should I take the risk for something I love or play it safe and keep searching? #real-estate

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Carlos’s Answer

There are ways to mitigate this risk such as working with someone for a salary, not every person working in real estate is a sales person working on its own for a commision, for example you can work with a REIT tend to be large corporations in the real estate business, and most employees have a salary, I have a good friend that does property management and acquisition for an investment group he also has a salary, or in my case I have a master in real estate and another on in accounting and work with a public accounting company on the real estate clients. This is a decision on whether you want to be an entrepreneur and work on your own, or you want to be an employee, you can do both in the real estate world.
Thank you comment icon Adding on to Carlo’s answer, when you say “Real Estate” you need to ask yourself if you mean residential (buying and selling homes with individuals) or Commerical (working on Office, Retail, Industrial, and other commercial real estate). I have been working in commercial real estate even before graduating college and have always had a salary (plus bonus plus stock at the three REITs I have worked at). If you like real estate, commercial real estate can be a great career choice. John Hendrickson
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khushhal’s Answer

there is no risk to do what you love. and when you love something you always give your 100% and in real estate it is very important to person must have interest in knowing properties and knowledge of external environment factors which impacts the property prices.
and most importantly you are responsible to make or influence your clients most expensive life time investment decision. which is grate responsibility.

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