From Texas REALTORS®: Supportive Broker Helped Leverage Experience

Jordan Burks had a window into the real estate world before getting her license. She worked at a title company for six years and was active in her local REALTOR® association. “But it’s not until you have that first tangible contract that you really can learn by doing.”

Burks is grateful to her broker, who helped her not to get overwhelmed when her existing contacts started her business off faster than she had expected. “It was 2021; everything was crazy,” she says. “Thank goodness for my amazing broker who was there with all of my calls and questions and shenanigans because I didn’t have my systems in place.”

Now that the market has slowed, Burks has time to focus on nurturing the relationships that bring her referrals. “With all of the changes that are happening right now, it can cause people to get into a tizzy,” she says, but she encourages her fellow agents to “give yourself grace and not to compare yourself to other agents.”

Burks plans to “control the controllables” and stay flexible. “I think that’s also what I love about real estate-it’s not stagnant. It’s ever changing. It keeps me on my toes.”