Nurses targeted for real estate agents?

[Brian]

I found got this postcard in the mail today targeting nurses, saying that they would make good real estate agents. I've never seen this marketing angle before.

Front of postcard:

Back of postcard:

Have any of you gotten anything like this in the mail? What do you think about it?

[klone, MSN, RN]

many successful real estate nurses :)

A real estate nurse, huh? "Would you like 205 with the great view of the heliport? Or perhaps 207, with the shower that has the detachable sprayer?"

[pedicurn, LPN, RN]

A real estate nurse, huh? "Would you like 205 with the great view of the heliport? Or perhaps 207, with the shower that has the detachable sprayer?"

hahaha

and ... '505 the big city location that never sleeps'

and ... '702 non-stop entertainment 24/7'

[JenniferSews]

I bet if you were to respond you would get a reply on how they could train you (for a fee). Most likely some diploma mill. This would have to be about the worst time to be a real-estate agent. They probably have one for just about every profession.

I totally agree! In every profession there are burned out people looking to make a change. Real estate has always held the promise of autonomy, good money, easy hours. It's not that at all, but that's how it looks from the outside. Since that is how nursing often looks to the rest of the world, maybe they are selling the same dream to the same people?

[chorkle]

Essentially this reply (it's been edited a bit) was PM'd to a member who suggested it might be worthwhile as a general response.

In a former lifetime, I was a CPA trying to grow my own little tax practice. When I just couldn't stand it any more, I up & walked away from it, setting out to become a paramedic. On my own, I had became a R/E agent, thinking this could be an additional service to my tax & accounting clients.

It was easy becoming associated with a large local R/E broker--in retrospect, I realized that what he saw coming in was an established "book of business" he could exploit for R/E sales & listings. Eventually, I realized R/E & a tax practice are together a large conflict of interest.

Yes, I did a lot of R/E-related accounting & tax analyses work for existing clients--who realized instantaneously what took me a while longer: An accountant gets paid when he performs a service; a R/E agent gets paid when he has a closing. Many clients asked me to perform some sort of R/E-related accounting work, and then when they got my bill, said, "Oh, no, this was R/E work, not accounting work. We don't owe you anything," & refused to pay. (ALL of them refused to pay anything.)

Earl Nightingale said smth. along these lines: Society rewards, by relative level of pay, the rarity of the professional (difficulty of qualifying in the field), and by how difficult it is to replace one (length of training). R/E is one of the easiest fields to qualify to enter; insurance is another. One indicator of this is how many yellow pages ads there are for R/E & insurance agents. But it takes a certain sort of person(ality) to succeed well in either of these fields. Thus, R/E & insurance recruit constantly.

Perhaps this will have been useful.

[singleumm]

I got a call from a insurance company telling me that the have positions with their company and that I should come to one of their information sessions. lol.

[tokmom, BSN, RN]

Hmmm, I'm trying to sell my house at the present. Maybe I'll ditch my RE agent and try to sell it myself. Maybe I will do a better job.

[chorkle]

As I recall from my limited R/E engagement, some folks become R/E agents solely to sell their own house, thus "saving commission." This is heavily frowned upon by state regulatory bodies, so I was told.

But one of life's adult-level lessons is the apparent attitude, perhaps especially in healthcare-related areas, that well, those rules obviously don't apply to me, because . . .