{"id":488,"date":"2020-02-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/3-way-to-jumpstart-your-new-real-estate-career\/"},"modified":"2025-03-13T02:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T02:03:52","slug":"3-way-to-jumpstart-your-new-real-estate-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/3-way-to-jumpstart-your-new-real-estate-career\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Way to Jumpstart Your New Real Estate Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Tirado Jr., of the Tirado Group in San Antonio shows that he knows how to achieve early success in real estate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been in real estate for less than two years, but 28-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.remax.com\/real-estate-agents\/martin-tirado-san-antonio-tx\/101980218\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Martin Tirado, Jr.,<\/a> has already been recognized by the RE\/MAX Hall of Fame and received the RE\/MAX Titan Club Award, the latter of which honors agents who earned more than $750,000 in commissions during the previous year.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2021\/01\/MainPhoto_orig.jpg\" alt=\"martin tirado Jr.\" width=\"318\" style=\"width: 318px; display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"><\/p>\n<p>A real estate agent with RE\/MAX North-San Antonio, Tirado came into the industry after talking to a loan officer about the opportunity. \u201cMy whole family is involved in real estate in some capacity, but with different companies,\u201d says Tirado, who formed a team in 2017. Today, two administrative employees handle the company\u2019s day-to-day business, a marketing director manages relationships with new construction companies, and three licensed agents work with buyers and sellers.<\/p>\n<p>Tirado is the #2 producer for all RE\/MAX offices in the San Antonio area and is also on the <a href=\"https:\/\/nahrep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals\u2019 Top 10<\/a> agent list for the city. Here are his three tips for jumpstarting a new real estate career:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Find a mentor\u2026fast. <\/strong>\u201cReal estate isn\u2019t a hobby,\u201d says Tirado. \u201cIf you want to create a business, you need to have an accountable partner.\u201d Tirado\u2019s mentor showed him that real estate was less about sales and more about connections, and also reinforced the value of work-life balance. \u201cHe showed me how to count the money and the leads,\u201d he says, \u201cand how to push myself to be someone other than just another real estate agent.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carve out a niche.<\/strong> Don\u2019t try to be everything to everyone. Tirado\u2019s team works with a lot of military veterans, for example, and two members are former military (or, have spouses who are still active in the military). Having a niche also helps agents create more targeted, purposeful market approaches. \u201cI see a lot of \u2018let\u2019s send out a thousand fliers,\u2019\u201d says Tirado, \u201cwhen there\u2019s really no purpose behind it.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Give back as much as you can.<\/strong> Once you start generating commissions in real estate, don\u2019t forget to give back to the communities, groups, and individuals that support your efforts as an agent. For example, Tirado gives back by organizing a school supply drive and donating 500 backpacks filled with school supplies to local schools. He also started a scholarship fund for high school seniors and donates to the Children\u2019s Miracle Network and Victoria\u2019s Visionaries, a non-profit for teens aging out of the foster care system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cGod provides us with the ability to help families enter a new chapter in their lives. We do not take any transaction, no matter how big or small, for granted and work to deliver a world-class experience for every single client,\u201d Tirado says. \u201cOur success is based on this mission statement that I instill in my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Tirado Jr., of the Tirado Group in San Antonio shows that he knows how to achieve early success in real estate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15802,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3255],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 Way to Jumpstart Your New Real Estate Career<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"28-year-old Martin Tirado, Jr., knows how to jumpstart his real estate career.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/3-way-to-jumpstart-your-new-real-estate-career\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Way to Jumpstart Your New Real Estate Career\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"28-year-old Martin Tirado, Jr., knows how to jumpstart his real estate career.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/17\/3-way-to-jumpstart-your-new-real-estate-career\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"RealTrends - 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