Introduction

For my Community Connections assignment, I decided to interview Amy Leong. Amy is a Real Estate Agent/Advisor located in Vancouver, she helps people find their dream homes as well as teaches people how to intelligently invest in the real estate market while looking at the investing trends. I came across Amy on the social media platform Instagram. I saw her profile and I quickly realized how amazing her accomplishments are as well as seeing that she was located not too far from here, and I decided to dm her, a couple of hours later she responded to my surprise. A couple of years ago I realized that I wanted to become a Real Estate agent (specifically commercial.) This interview taught me the essential moves and mentality in order for me to become a successful Real Estate Agent in the future, such as to thoroughly studying Real Estate investments and the market. Additionally, if I make smart decisions throughout my career there would be no restrictions to my success. Furthermore, here is the interview.

Questions

1. Can you explain your roles and responsibilities with your current position? 

“I currently work as my own boss and have a team so my roles are to create strategic ways to find more business and have business coming to myself and my team. I act as a business manager and I am constantly working on the back end (website, lead generation, client relationships, birthdays, market updates, email marketing, newsletter, investor relations, pre-construction opportunities and ensuring current deals are going smoothly.)”

2. What obstacles have you faced to get where you are today?

“Starting when I was 30 as a realtor may sound old enough but I looked quite young and still do. I thought that was a disadvantage but I used it to arm myself with untouchable knowledge in the field of real estate so clients of all age groups and demographics would listen to me as their advisor and choose me over 14,000+ agents”

3. What advice would you pass on to someone interested in what you are doing?

“If you are a go-getter and want to be in a career where there are no limits to your success, this is a wonderful career. Very rewarding monetarily if you are willing to work hard. It’s not for someone who wants to work part-time or someone who likes the same thing. The real estate market is constantly moving and it takes a lot of education and studying to understand why things are priced the way they are. Why one property will make money, and why another won’t.”
“I would advise on owning real estate yourself first before becoming an agent so you go through the experience and can speak confidently. I would also advise on studying investment real estate inside and out.”

4. Why are you passionate about your job or role?

5. What has been something that motivates you that has helped you become successful?

“I have had people in my life say I couldn’t make more than $100,000 per year and I didn’t want to listen, it only motivated me more to find investment groups and surround myself with people achieving great things and taking real action. I also left home at age 18 and had to support myself through university and working full time. And I thought to myself, I’m going to do something that most women will not do. I’m going to own 3 properties by 30 years old and 10 properties by 40. I’m happy to say that happened 🥳💓”

6. What would you say is your biggest accomplishment throughout your career.

“My biggest accomplishment is achieving Top 25 agents in North America and Mexico for all of Engel & Volkers America’s out of 8,000 agents. It was not easy. And also achieving Top 100 agents in Greater 𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐕𝐄𝐑. Very proud of myself and my partner Ally Ballam. We call ourselves the energizer bunnies 🐰.”

End statement

With this online interview, I think that it oppend up lots of more oppurtunities for me. First off, I saw the different persepctives that this career brought. Although this job comes with lots of responsibilites and hard work, in return it can be a lot of fun and extremley rewarding. It also gave me the oppurtunity to be able to get more in-depth insight into any questions because Amy was kind enough to offer advice when I need it even on her busy schedule. This interview was very opening in the aspect of the explinations of the real estate agent and working the way up from the bottom. I would like to say thank you to Amy for his time and help with this assignment.