When I was a little girl, I lived in a city not too big and not too small. I loved to decorate our apartment, and I loved to see how other people decorated their homes and apartments, too. Since I was 5 years old, I played piano and adored a ballet. Those two passions seriously affected my imagination - I was always imagining the fairy tales and at the same time was thinking about the real people's stories behind the scene and behind the curtains. Real Estate at that time translated into art and creativity for me. And I loved it.
Decoration and style were the scene, and people were acting in their unique manner, and their relationships were not simple, and it was a complicated world, which I wholeheartedly wanted to make a better place.
I studied a Western Philosophy and Psychology in a great city of Moscow and was never even thinking about anything better than a brilliant academic career for me:).
As I mentioned before, the world was complicated, and the country where I was born disappeared, vanished. There was no USSR on the map any more. Instead, there was a new beautiful world of opportunities to harmonize the world and to do business in an intelligent, humanitarian manner. At that point Real Estate translated into investment for me. And I loved it.
Then our family moved to the United States, and we are lucky to live in beautiful Moreland Hills, near Cleveland, OH. I needed to translate all my experience and knowledge into a new career. Real Estate became my new career, and my passion, and my life.
It's a miraculous business of Real Estate where artistic creativity and sensitivity to other people's feelings and thoughts, where academic knowledge and research skills, where business intuition and investment experience are part of the Real Estate agent's job description.
It's an every day opportunity to meet new local people, and to connect with wonderful people from all over the world. Thanks to new technologies, we have Active Rain of Real Estate, and our clients benefit from our new connections and from Rain of knowledge, and support, and winning attitude.
Real Estate translates into a business of making the world a better place. Home to home. Person to person. Heart to heart.
And I love it!
Happy Valentine's Day to all my clients, colleagues and friends!
Isn't it interesting the different ways people get into real estate...and how that affects them. Thanks for the post. Made me think.
Cheryl - that's truly a benefit of our profession that we all come here from different backgrounds. It makes it more rich and interesting. Thanks for reading my post!
Svetlana, with such an incredible attitude you have, I can easily see why everyday would be Valentines Day for the fortunate buyers and sellers who have you for their Realtor.
What a wonderefully written story. Thank you so much for sharing it with us. And... even though it is March 5th... Happy Valentine's Day to You !
Thanks you, Karen Anne! What a good idea to make every day a Valentine's Day. Be Happy!
For as long as I remember, I always wanted to be a professional photographer. We didn't have enough money for all the film and developing costs back then.