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