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I was this close to quitting real estate. Not metaphorically. Literally one month away from walking out and never looking back. And what I didn’t realize at the time was this: I wasn’t failing because real estate didn’t work. I was just three feet from gold. That phrase comes from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, where he tells the story of a miner who gives up drilling for gold—only to discover that the richest vein was just three feet beyond where he stopped digg

I started my real estate journey in my mid-20's—young, eager, and wildly underqualified… at least on paper. When I first inquired with a real estate office, I asked the broker a simple question: "How much does the average agent earn?" He him-hawed around and never really gave me a straight answer. He mumbled something about how an agent should earn more than a salaried position because there was "more risk." It wasn’t until years later that I fully understood why he dodged t