Need advice as a new real estate agent (agents, broker, sales)

[Renz1088]

Hello everyone. I'm new to the forum and just recently attained my salespersons license. I've gone on a few interviews with different brokers and I've narrowed down my choices to two. I'd like some opinions from some of the professionals, and more experienced folks on here on what I should do.

First, let me give you a little background on myself. I'm 24 years old currently working a full-time IT gig in NYC. While i'd love to delve into RE full-time, I have certain financial obligations that do not allow me to give up my guaranteed income just yet. The good part about my job is that I only work 3 days out of the week (12 hour shifts) and I have my weekends available. That being said, i'm certainly not naive about the amount of work taht will be necessary to make this fruitful.

So, as I said, I've narrowed down the possible choices to two offices. One specializes in apartment rentals in Queens and Manhattan, while the other specializes in sales of residential property in northern Queens (Jackson Heights and LIC area). I'm not sure what route to take. If you were a 24 year old in NYC, given the state of the market, would you want to focus on rentals or sales?

Both offices are small, family-ran boutiques that focus on customer satisfaction. Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[KonaKat]

One of the most important questions to ask a prospective broker is, what kind of training they provide to their agents.

What have these two offices told you about education and training? Mentoring?

[mig1]

That Rapid place in NYC is a scam, you will have to work/hustle 25 hours a day and will learn absolutely nothing for meager wages.

[Brandon Hoffman]

Plenty of threads about this, do a board search.

[jdhall1]

I would focus in an area where your sphere of influence is