![]() ![]() We set up a time to talk more about the Real Estate licensing process and ask a million questions. The next morning, everything came rushing back, and I realized my time down the real estate rabbit hole the night before hadn’t been a dream when got a call from an awesome gal named Mindy from Executive Programs. I did a little poking around on their website and - I never do this - filled out a form to be contacted with more information. It was late, my boyfriend was out of town for a month shooting a movie, I was revved up about changing my life, who knows what I was thinking?!) about an online Real Estate School called Executive Programs. In the wee hours, I stumbled onto a Craigslist post (I know, I know. I spent all that night researching what the life of a Real Estate Agent was like and what it would take to become one. I’d be making a difference in people’s lives. And even better, it seemed to me that the crux of a Realtor’s job was helping people. So, BINGO, it seemed at least flexible enough that I’d be able to continue my Acting Career, uninterrupted. I had enough sense to assume that being a Realtor wouldn’t be just like it looked on TV, but the one thing I did know about the real lives of agents was that the ones I knew were women … who had kids … and who managed to pick up those kids from school everyday at 3:00pm. But then – and this is truly embarrassing – one day it dawned on me while watching HGTV that I had never considered looking into becoming a Real Estate Agent. I laughed at myself, I thought it was so impossible. I was determined to figure out a Concurrent Career instead – something I found fulfilling and intellectually stimulating, paid more than peanuts, and would never require me to give up Acting if I didn’t want to. Coming off the high of that booking, I just wanted to run away and hide from the less-than-inspiring “survival jobs” I’d been stringing together. I had a blast on the job, shooting a few national spots for Wendy’s opposite Morgan Smith Goodwin. Hey, like I said I’m a SoCal native! Unless my cold weather is the necessary evil of a ski vacation where I get to spend my days on the moguls and it’s socially acceptable to wear SKI CLOTHES to stay warm, I’m out!) After a few agonizing years of getting my footing in the Film and TV scene, I booked my first big commercial gig. (You’d think a girl who grew up in Cleveland shouldn’t be fazed by the cold, but Chicago cold is no joke! And I’m a total wimp. I had had some success in Chicago after college, but a winter and a half there set my sights even more firmly on getting back out to LA. I moved back to Los Angeles in 2010 for my Acting Career. Five years turned into ten, ten turned into fifteen … fast forward a few decades after their move, and I’m the only one who found the road back to the beach. My parents figured they’d live in Ohio and enjoy the lower cost of living for about 5 years before they would bring the family back home to LA. My parents met in college at UCLA where my dad and uncle worked as hashers for my mom’s sorority Alpha Delta Pi! As the story goes, my mom was the most popular girl in the house, always tying up the phone lines with all her suitors, and my dad pined for her and persisted until, well … many years passed, she agreed to marry him and then had my brother and me! When I was four years old, my dad got a big promotion at work for TRW and was asked to relocate to the headquarters in Cleveland. I’m actually a native of Los Angeles, but I spent most of my childhood years in Ohio. So, before we jump into specific questions about the business, why don’t you give us some details about you and your story. Today we’d like to introduce you to Erin Barnes.
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