REAL ESTATE SERVICES
ACROSS LOS ANGELES

The year is 1998, four years after graduating from high school (LA High - Olympic and Rimpau - Go Romans) I still did not know what to do for the rest of my life. Until one day, I walk into my local Thrifty's store for my favorite french vanilla ice scream cone. Back then, a single ice scream scoop was just thirty five cents. For the price of today's single scoop, I could of gotten a banana split. A dollar went a long way. As I was licking my ice scream, I walked over to the magazine section of the store and the first thing I saw was Los Angeles magazine special real estate issue (January 1998 - I still have the magazine today in mint condition). I open the magazine and there it was, page 44 "The Sky's The Limit". It felt like a lighting bolt was hitting my body. As I read through the pages, I was getting excited and more excited. I was like "UREKA", this is it, I'm going to become a real estate agent.

Becoming a real estate agent in Los Angeles became my dream. A dream that took me 14 years to realize. A funny thing happens when you try to accomplish something, life. Something stupid always comes up unexpected. I guess it was preparing me for my real estate career; aka contingencies.

Is true what they say about jobs, they give you a salary to forget about your dreams. Never the less, I push through, I wasn't getting any younger and #1 on my bucket list was to become a real estate agent. For some reason I accomplish the last things on my bucket list first, raising a family. I don't know what I would of done with my life if I wasn't a parent. I would probably be smoking weed at Venice Beach every day with no care in the world. How do you become a man? The answer is simple, you become a man when you start being responsible for others.

I failed the real estate exam twice and got it on the third tried. I took the exam once a year. The first two times was on a scan tran, were it took three months to know your test results. The third time it was on a computer that gave you an instant fail or pass notification. You just had to pick up your test results in the reception area. Has I pick up my results, the receptionist tells me 'congratulations for taking the exam please don't open til your out the building, other people are still testing". Right away I thought I failed again and the receptionist does not want to give me the bad news. As I get inside my toyota corolla (you don't need a fancy car to be in real estate, I picked up cash buyers from Los Angeles airport in it) I open the envelope and to my surprise it said I pass. It was January 2012, I didnt scream of joy, I cried and cried, initialising a life long dream that began 14 years ago, I was 36 years old.

Today 2026, I get to wake up every day and go up against the best titans in the real estate industry. In 2026 I am going to run my first Marathon, where I get to accomplish my #3 in my bucket list. Us real estate agents we dont retire, we expire (die). I'm going to cut and paste the above and shorten it using chat gpt, but since your still readig this - what for?

If you're a real estate agent send me a text and let me know what you have going on before you put it in the mls, I might just have a buyer for it. I wll see you in the field