Real Estate

A few weeks ago my parents came to dallas to visit me. My Dads good friend, David, came along with them. One night I went out to dinner with them and began talking to David about his career path. Not only is he an inspiration to me as I learned about his determination and will to succeed in the business but he is also a role model for many children who have dreams to be successful in business. He exaplained that he worked his way up from basically nothing. David is in the commercial real-estate business. David owns and manages commercial and industrial real-estate buildings in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. He graduated from Georgetown and began his career. He said that he got where he is today because of his motivation, ambition and the mentality to never give up. The real-estate business has its ups and downs he began to explain to me. When the economy is good, business is great, however, when the economy is bad, business is terrible. When the economy is good people want to buy office spaces and invest but when the economy is bad people have trouble keeping their office rent and no one wants to buy office spaces. After he told me about the affects the economy has on his business he began to tell me all the hard work put into it. He told me about his hours at work, which are a typical five-day week at the office, but sometimes he finds time to work at home. He works from usually eight until six or seven at night!! He told me that the business is very competitive so to be successful in that line of work, you not only have to love what you do, but you also have to be very ambitious and want to be the best. If you do not take responsibility for yourself and do not take action, he explained, you would get nowhere just because of the competitiveness of the career. Fortunately for David, he absolutely loves his career. I found this career and his ambitious work ethic very interesting and was surprised at how little I knew about real estate. I was unaware at how much the economy plays a role in the real-estate business. The economy’s position is the difference between life and death in the real-estate world. Although I was preached to about this when I was younger, I re-learned the value of hard work and the driving will to be successful. David’s last words were “If I can make it in the real world so can you.” Those were very comforting words to here as I am essentially about to enter the real world.