Friends First, Clients Second.

I always try and just start a genuine relationship with people that I meet,

and the friends that have had for a long period of time it's always friend

first kind of client or realtor relationships second. If you kind of come off like hey

I'm a realtor I want to do business with you I just you know that's all you really

care about then you come off as salesy disingenuous and probably someone that you that they don't want to work with.

Welcome back real estate rock stars.

I am Shelby Johnson and I'm here with Connor Anderson, who is a solo agent out of Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Been an agent for three and a half years, but not always from Grand Rapids.

So, interested to dive into how you built your business from the ground up.

But in the past 12 months, Connors closed 32 deals and just under 9 million in volume.

He specializes in working with first-time homebuyers and investors.

And also I just like you as a person, Connor. We've been friends from 2019 now so

they welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Shelby.

I'm excited.

Whoa, whoa, yeah, me too.

Okay, Connor, so let's build some context here.

Did you, you know, you were born and you just, the first words out of your mouth where I want to be a real estate

agent or how did this how did real estate come to be in your life?

Yeah, so really good question so no those were not the first words out of my mouth. It was probably pizza or something like that.

But I've always had an interest in real estate, always had an interest in real estate investing, and that led me down the path of yeah just kind of

learned about real estate investing that lets me getting a job at bigger pockets but you know

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