My apologies – not sure how I missed your comment.

The reader's digest version is that I owned and operated a landscape business called the Lawn Ranger which exposed to me to a number of real estate agents in my market place. I happened across one that offered me a job managing 18 units for him. That quickly gave way to managing other buildings and eventually a residential sales license and ownership in a few deals. Then I got the wild idea to go back and finish my college degree in a different city so I sold everything and went for it.
I got a job as a leasing consultant for EPT management company and learned everything I could about the business – in short, I went about falling in love with the business. I never did finish my college degree but rather poured my heart and soul into meeting all the right people, fostering great relationships with them and graduated through the ranks. Today – roughly 15 years later I have lived and worked with some over the top amazing people in Texas, Seattle, Portland and as of late Saint Louis.

In short:

1. Get humble and don't forget your family along the way
2. Learn everything – and, get the understanding that the more you learn the more you don't know
3. Practice everything and fail fast – do more of what works and less of what does not
4. Become a servant – give without expecting in return
5. Foster amazing relationships – understand that you become like the seven people you hang around most and the things you read and watch – take inventory often
6. Work for love not money – the money will come in relation to the love that you give
7. Enjoy every step of the journey as you cannot take one moment of it back

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