Trystan Trenberth compares real estate agents at different career stages: younger ones start with fewer financial obligations, while agents in their mid-40s have decades of experience and networks. His son entered the business at 20, and Trenberth sees both groups as having distinct advantages rather than disadvantages.
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Yeah, I think for somebody that's been in real estate for, you know, pushing 5 years now, it is easy to, you know, looking at my earlier days, to see kids that are getting in young, they don't have the bills, they don't have the families and that kind of stuff, to think, oh, they got an unfair advantage. Well, if we look at the unfair advantage that I have in my mid-40s, I've got a whole life of experience to nail. I've got a whole life of networks and contacts that I have who, you know, I've built relationship capital with. And the power of that could be well beyond that 10, you know, the 50 or 20-year-old that's just getting into the business themselves. We have a different advantage, but we both have advantages and there's no disadvantage if we look at it in the positive state of being. Yep, 100%. I mean, my son started at 20, so basically 18 months before me, and he's on his own journey and it's been fun to watch and be part of. So yeah. Yep.