Today we’d like to introduce you to Joe Killinger.
Hi Joe, please kick things off for us with an introduction to yourself and your story.
My entire career has been in the real estate industry, I started as an Investor by partnering with several friends in buying residential properties and flipping them around Los Angeles. We successfully flipped for a few years but I felt I wanted more so I decided to get my real estate brokerage license and quickly threw myself into learning how to be the best broker, I studied constantly and asked anyone in the industry that would listen questions about how they achieved success. I loved doing the deals and I now have my own company Commercial Brokers Int., we are a full service brokerage that transacts around the country. We also have invested in real estate related startups that we feel can help our industry evolve.
When I was getting started it was difficult to find experienced Investors or Agents to speak with me about the industry as they saw me as their competition, I can tell you now there is plenty of business for everyone. It frustrated me enough that I vowed that when I could I would create a website that I could post information on how to find success in real estate as an investor or agent. I now have our website www.joekillinger.co and a youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKillinger everything is free and we are not selling anything. On the channel we interview top real estate entrepreneurs, investors,operators and agents and they tell us their success stories and what they learned from their mistakes.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
I know very few people that have found their career in real estate easy to get started, it’s a great industry but if you are not sure how to get started it can be difficult. This is what I learned from my struggles… If you want to become an agent you will need to find a great company with a solid mentoring program or classes and be aware that if you chose a large firm that you do not get pigeon holed into an asset class that is struggling or put on a big team that divvys up all the commission leaving you with little money. If you want to become an Investor find a great mentor that is doing exactly what you want to do and bring them value ie: find something they are not good at and help them become better at it or take it off their list of things to do by doing it yourself BRING VALUE.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know?
We created this website to help guide individuals that want to become a real estate investor or agent, we also created a youtube show called REAL ESTATE JAM SESSION, we use these platforms to educate individuals on the real estate business by posting articles for our blog and creating video for the youtube channel.
We have helped investors and agents around the globe find their path to success in the real estate industry. We feel that finding entrepreneurs that want to be in real estate will help our industry evolve and create more opportunities for everyone.
Is there a quality that you most attribute to your success?
I can tell you that work ethic and patience are two keys to success. There are many individuals that want to be in our industry but the ones that truly find success have had a solid work ethic, you can rise to the top in our industry by bringing value on a daily basis but it will not happen overnight.
Contact Info:
- Email: joe@joekillinger.co
- Website: https://www.joekillinger.co/
- Instagram: @joekillinger
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JoeKillinger1
- Twitter: @joekillinger
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/JoeKillinger
