Brokerage Ownership is a Marker of Success

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Every career that is worthwhile to invest your time and energy into comes with an entry level position and culminates with a pinnacle of achievement and the real estate industry is no different.

While some may argue that the entry point to start as a real estate salesperson is low, the effort and self-confidence required for someone to be self-employed with no guaranteed paycheck, and with immediate expenses due, is the first barrier to overcome when choosing real estate as your ...

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Scared to Open a Brokerage

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If You Change Brokerages Will Your Sales Success Continue?

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Exploring the value of the “big brokerage name” and your own individual real estate sales success.

The debate of the value of working under the umbrella of a big name brokerage or opening your own brokerage under a “boutique” name is as old as when the first broker negotiated a plot of land for two sheep and a goat, taking home wool and goat milk as the commission.

On one hand the brand recognition value of a large real estate franchise cannot ...

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Feasibility of Running a Brokerage

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Building a Brokerage on a Budget

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Entrepreneurship is the leading cause of success.

Ask anyone that has experienced business success through the ownership of their own company and you’ll hear about the joy of nurturing a business through its various stages of growth, of tackling problems head-on and creating solutions where none existed before.

The real estate industry in Ontario has its own particular measurement for success: brokerage ownership.

But quite frankly this isn’t a step many brokers take because of the amount of cold hard cash needed to ...

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Cost Feasibility

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