Naples Florida Real Estate: Selling Naples, Florida Real Estate - Look Ma, No Hands!

Look Ma, No Hands, A phrase deemed appropriate for those riding a bike for the first time with their hands off the handle bars.  Not a phrase deemed appropriate for professionally selling luxury real estate in Naples, Florida. 

I came from a surrounding where initially it was ok to dream...but evolved into an atmosphere where it was wiser to keep your feet closer to the ground.

What I mean by that specifically is when we get older, reality and the pressures of life takes prescience.  Sure, Shan, you may master real estate in Granbury, Texas in an uncanny way at record pace...but don't be so sure that you can compete in a "real" market such as Naples, Florida...as warned by a real estate company who refused three times to hire me when I first came to town.

I can see Julia Roberts starring in the movie "Pretty Woman" as she said those very words teetering on the side of a balcony of a hotel trying to get a rise out of Richard Gere.

Can I sell luxury real estate properties in Naples, Florida without any "hands"...yet?  No.  Will I ever be able to do that?  Maybe...is that what it's all about???  No.

What is it all about?  The fact that I was grossly underestimated when I came to town.  I obviously didn't fit the luxury Naples, Florida real estate agent profile.  Why?  I don't know...did I have too much of a southern twang coming from Texas?  Have too much faith in the "system"...not have the pre-required book of business???? All of the above?  

Did those people underestimate my will to succeed, my ability to adapt, my desire to excel?  Does it matter today? No.

When I did my first big deal did those nay-sayers take note?  Did they see that I accomplished?  Did they question their decision?  Who cares!

When I did it again...did they think it was a fluke...did they question my ability again did they even see my sales register? 

When their agents started talking about me and how I might know what I'm talking about and how I started showing their properties more and more and thought it might be important to include me on their important updates....did they waiver?

For the record, I'm here...I'm getting stronger. I'm getting smarter.   I'm getting better.  I didn't come here to back off or sell something that I didn't come here to sell.  I came here to compete.  I'm silent in your world...today...your world is newspaper print and word of mouth.  Your world is old school and proven...your world is current book of business....current contacts.  My world is tech and tomorrow and people who don't quite know what our world has to offer....but they're learning about us....I can reach them better than you can...I've proven it so far...and you don't stand a chance because it is my personality that you brushed off that attracts our next Naples prospect.

For those of you who have been scared to venture into other markets...go get what you want.  Don't let others tell you who you are or what you're capable of.  Go get what you want...go get what is rightfully yours. 

What I want is who's next in Naples, Florida Luxury real estate.