A Young Mind

10/30/23

Rejection

After relentless messages through LinkedIn and Email, I transitioned my method of contact. None of my messages were being seen so I switched to the Cold-Calling process and hoped to find responses. Mr. Douglass, a real estate agent in California, was the second person I called until I received a response on the other end. I had emailed Mr. Douglass before, but I didn't receive a response, so that's why I scoured through the internet, yearning to find his phone number. I contacted him and someone had picked up the call. I felt joyous as I got a response, but the person who had picked up was his assistant manager. She told me he was busy with a meeting and was currently unavailable.

Persistence

Next, I called Mr. Jay, another real estate agent. The calling process has taught me a lot in all: persistency and the face of rejection. I had learned that rejection wasn't a downside in the process of Cold-Calling but a sense of reinvigoration that would uplift me to striving to contact others. Additionally, I left my comfort zone after transitioning for messaging professionals to actually calling them, which assisted me to get some progress on finding professionals to interview. Mr. Jay had answered and we even booked a time in the future, the next week, to have a interview. Little did I know that he would cut me off afterwards and we didn't end up even having the interview, but it was an important experience to receive rejection and neglectance.

A Reply

Finally, someone near my age had replied: Mr. Xin, a 22 year-old male who was also a real estate agent. I booked an interview through his website and attended it. I learned a lot from it since he helped be clarify my doubts of the differences between real estate investing and agency, flipping houses, and a broker's responsibility when dealing with houses. He built the foundation of my knowledge of real estate and I took note of everything he had said, hoping it will benefit me in the future.