Corcoran started her real estate empire with a $1,000 loan
Barbara Corcoran · Real Estate Mogul: Barbara Corcoran · Apr 24, 2017 · at 7:27
Barbara Corcoran recounts how her former partner Ramon Simone encouraged her to pursue real estate sales and seeded her first brokerage business.
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“And Ray gave me the thousand dollars I started in my own firm.”
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