How I Started In Real Estate

Just Ask Mom:

I’ll never forget how it happened. I had been going to school for several years, pursuing several different majors and one hopefully gay man named Mark.

I liked psychology, law, interior design and architecture. I was a very good student, all A’s, and I was very interested in all four subjects and Mark.

I pursued all four majors, only to find out that I didn’t like something about each of them. I still liked Mark and I found out he was definitely gay. It was driving me crazy, the school thing not the gay thing.

I was complaining to my mom about it one day and she said to me; “Tony, You’ve always worked in sales and you’ve always been good at sales. You’re great with people. You’re also great in school. The problem is, if you could you would be a professional student. Why don’t you try real estate? It has everything you like, sales, people, psychology, law, design and architecture.”

It really annoyed me. I went home thinking she was encouraging me to quit school and I really did love school. I also loved my soon to be, first, gay boyfriend, Mark. He just didn’t know it yet.

The following day I woke up, called a real estate school to find out what it would take to become a Realtor in Tucson, Arizona. Thankfully the light bulb must have lit up sometime in my sleep. And, like most of the time, Mom was right.

So I gave up my first gay relationship and I quit school. Mark and I never met, so I thought it would be kind of weird to tell him we had to break up.

That was 1994 and I am still selling real estate, full time, in Tucson, Arizona.

Ironically, I am still going to school. As a Realtor, I had to go to real estate school to get my state license.

The state of Arizona requires that I renew my real estate license every two years by taking 24 hours of continuing education classes.

And me, loving school like I do, I’ve taken several more years of real estate school and have three accreditations: ABR, CRS, and GRI.

I love Tucson and I love real estate and I get to go to school. Who would have thought? Okay, yes, you mom.  Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

Always here to help,
Tony Ray

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