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Reffkin: A real estate brokerage's customer is the agent, not the homebuyer
“You can't work for everyone. And who's your customer? Your customer is the person that pays you. And buyers and sellers don't pay brokerage firms. They pay agents. And agents are the ones that pay brokerage firms. They split a percentage of what they make with…”
Reffkin: Veteran agents outperform hospitality recruits in real estate
“The people that are best at doing that, I could see were agents who had been doing it for 10 years, not people that we hired, you know, from restaurants or hotels that were really, really nice, and trying to train them to, like, meet someone on a corner and sh…”
Reffkin: Childhood loneliness from mixed-race identity drove my ambition to succeed
“One of the hard things about being A mixed kid is that you don't really feel like you belong, like you have no place, you have no community, and that feels lonely. So I do remember being lonely when I was younger, but those feelings are what instilled in me at…”