01/24/2024
2023 was not an easy year, but let’s face it, no year really is.
Ve finished #1 in:
Volume
Overall transactions
Buy Side Transactions
Sell side Transactions
Reviews
Finishing in the top spot has been a goal of mine since I was 2 or 3 years old.
Since I was a little kid, I would say I want to be the best real estate agent of all time.
Teachers would laugh at me. They wouldnt get it. They thought I was nuts. (which we know | am)
But it was something I was always determined to do.
When I first got my license in 2006 it seemed like it would be easy to be successful.
I thought how most people thought, it would be easy.
3 months in I had a totally different view. Although I prepared my whole life to be in the business, I didn't understand how difficult it would be until I actually started to sell.
My first 3 years, I made less than minimum wage.
I was defeated.
The real estate market went to crap, and being in the business was nothing more than the butt end of a joke.
I was living at home & broke.
Those were the lowest moments of my life.
But those low moments made me who I am today.
It's in those darkest hours that you realize what you are really made of.
You can either quit
or
keep moving forward.
That's it.
And although I wanted to quit every day, I would still wake up the next day like a man on a mission.
I had a motto "If I cant get rich in money, I will get rich in knowledge" I figured the best thing I could do is learn everything I can, so that when the market turned, I would know everything one could know about the business.
And over those years, I started to get addicted to getting knocked down.
Because I wanted to prove to myself that no matter what happens, I can be stronger than the market.
I wanted to prove that it's not the market that makes the person, but the person that makes the market.
No excuses. Just results.
Flash forward to today, I have used these life memories to build one of the best teams in Chicago. I hold my team accountable to be the best version of themselves, every day.
I may push them hard, but the harder I push, the stronger they get.
I couldn’t be more proud of this team
This is just the beginning of our story 💪😎