Traveling to the west coast has been such an amazing and humbling experience, which all started with an email about a QU in LA seminar taking place during a semester during my freshman year. I would have never expected that one email would send me on a three yearlong journey that would change everything. Since freshman year on I had been trying to get into the QU in LA program. I was able to get into the QU in LA program and with the help of the programs director during my sophomore year; I was able to land an internship with Chris Kito at Coldwell banker. Coldwell Banker is an American real estate franchise under the ownership of Realogy, a publicly owned Real estate company providing relocation services and real estate to families all over …show more content…
I’ve been able to connect with many people that worked at Coldwell Banker and have been able to network with individuals in different sectors, forming strong connections and both in and out of the work place. I feel as though that this experience has helped show me where I want to go with my career and my future. Interning with Mr. Kito has taught me a valuable lesion in patience. In real estate patience’s is a necessity. When dealing with many channels of communication I realized that patience, organization, time management along with persistence is key when in the residential real estate market. I learned that there are many moving parts, sometimes requiring the cooperation of another party and to be patient when an issue occurs and to not worry so much on the fact that it did happen but to use that energy to focus on a …show more content…
Originally, I came to Los Angeles to learn as much as I could about residential real estate but found myself questioning weather or not the residential market was right for me. Over time I found myself utilizing commercial real estate knowledge I had gained from my past and realized how excited I would get talking about it. I found myself leaning more and more towards the commercial side of real estate, and constantly applying economics into my understanding of real estate and markets out here. I have learned the residential side of real estate is geared more towards the marketing side of business than I had anticipated. I was able to combine the teachings from CIS and marketing that I have gained from Quinnipiac and constructed pricing sheets, newsletters, contact forms and archived items for a clients catalog. Although this may not have been my majors focal point, but I found myself taking advantage of this newfound skill I had in marketing. I found many new weaknesses along with my strengths and found that my indecisiveness was holding me back from succeeding. I found that as much I liked doing these marketing projects I often found myself not being confident enough in my work. Which would increase my delivery time on some projects; further adding stress and uncertainty in myself. Interning at Coldwell Banker has