Age: 28
Home: Brooklyn Park
Job title: Partner of BF Schaffer. I am a property owner.
What do you do? I take tax records of building owners and call on them to see if they are interested in buying or selling buildings. I create income by buying and selling properties.
Salary: It depends on the market. Typically above $150,000.
Education: High school
Typical day: I try to make 25 to 50 calls a day and read a lot about anything from the Asian real estate market to the U.S. real estate market.
How did you get your job? I went to a small private school and was a teacher's aide for a kindergarten teacher whose husband was in the mortgage and real estate business. A woman who did business with the school owned the company that the teacher's husband worked for. Eight months after I graduated they asked if I was interested in pursuing a career in the mortgage/real estate business. I worked there for five years. There was a gentleman who ... was leaving his father's business to start his own and, over a 12-month period, I probably called him once a week asking if he needed help. About eight months later, he asked if I wanted to start a small property management company together and do real estate on the side. He figured we would make $35,000 a year. I worked both jobs and eventually started working exclusively with him, working for free for the first year. ... The company grew exponentially as we started doing condo developments. Four years later, I started my own company with another guy.
