Giving Advice to New Members

In looking back, TRREB Members love to give advice to new incoming professionals. When asked, Past President Ron Abraham stated: “It’s a good career choice. It’s a nice clean business. It’s, you know, challenging certainly, but yeah, be prepared to do some work, because a lot of people think all you do is drive people around in your car and they buy a house and you make $20,000. That’s not the way the real estate business is. Well, you’ve got to be prepared for work and you got to be prepared to have thick skin because sometimes people – I guess, they treat you like you’re just out there for the money and all you do is drive me around and show me houses, but they have to – I think they don’t understand like the learning that goes on in the industry, the attention to the code of ethics.”