What made you choose real estate as a career?

Honestly, it came from a pretty raw place. I lost my home to foreclosure. The person who bought it was a real estate agent, and my first reaction was just - asshole. Then I found out that same agent became my landlord. He bought my house, and now I was renting it from him. That sat with me. I was frustrated, yeah, but I was also genuinely curious. How did he do that? What did he know that I didn't? I wanted to understand the mechanics of it, the whole thing. So that's really where it started. Not from some lifelong dream or a family business or anything like that. It started from losing something and wanting to understand how the person on the other side of that transaction operated. I figured if I could learn what he knew, I could stop being the person things happened to and start being the person who understood how it all worked. I'm not going to pretend it came from a noble place. It came from being angry and curious at the same time, and that combination pushed me to actually figure it out. The more I learned, the more I realized there was a lot most people don't know about how real estate moves, especially when someone is in a distressed situation. That experience shapes how I think about this work. I know what it feels like to be on the other end of it, and that's not something I forget.