Today we’d like to introduce you to Sean Ray.
Sean, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
After college, I couldn’t find a job due to a recession. I had to move in with my parents and wait tables to make enough money to cover my $30k in credit card and school debt. I found myself treading water and only able to pay a little over my interest.
One night in 2012, I decided to pack a backpack and drove to Houston to sleep out of my car until I became successful. Turns out not knowing anyone in a new city and staying in a car with no A/C in Houston summer was a bad idea.
I went to the bars at night and drank water to network with people until I found someone willing to let me stay on their title floor in their kitchen. Then, I found a job as a waiter. Then, I was able to pay for a couch. I made more money to the point I could afford to live in a three bedroom for $1200 a month with six people splitting it (there was no furniture there for the first month).
One night while I was out drinking water networking, I met someone that was a trust fund person. We hit it off as friends and over time, he heard my story and decided to pay for me to get a real estate license and then got me an interview with his brokers.
I started real estate at the end of 2012 and made just under $100k in commissions in my first year. From that point on, I never left the leaderboard for the top earners in my company.
I moved to Dallas to be closer to my parents and start a family. I now work with my parents as agents at the Dallas Office and spend my time divided between work, family time, friends, fitness, travel and personal growth.
Has it been a smooth road?
I like the quote, “The easier you are on yourself the harder life will be for you. The harder you are on yourself the easier life will be for you.”
Post-college, my life was very difficult. I had a “take on the world” attitude. Then, I was knocked down and kicked into submission so often that I had to lose any sense of optimism, excitement, and confidence.
Then, sleeping on a stranger’s tile cold kitchen floor was pretty rough.
When we lived in the three bedrooms, we had tiny roaches by what seems to be thousands everywhere that would crawl on you at night or if you sat still long enough. No amount having people out killed them.
Not being able to afford to go on a date for 4+ years was tough.
Feeling like a failure and leaving Dallas was hard. Not seeing my parents for three years was hard. I dropped weight from 160lbs to 130lbs due to not being able to eat but once a day. I normally would just eat the bread or soup at the job I was working at.
So yeah, it was pretty rough for a long time but once 2015 came around my struggles in life were more mental hurdles I had to overcome and fewer hardships that were exterior factors.
So, as you know, we’re impressed with Sean Ray Realty – tell our readers more, for example, what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
I am a full-time real estate agent that does apartment location and home sales. For the longest time, I was proud to fight to be the best apartment locator in Houston, then Dallas once I moved here.
Then, I helped a few people get properties that became Airbnb rentals. Once word got out how much money I was making these investors I saw most of my home sales just be investors. Now, I have an assistant that focuses more on the apartment leasing while I focus on trying to my friends and clients as much money as possible. My new real estate goal isn’t how much money I can make but what really fired me up is helping my clients/friends retire early. If I can spend my late 30’s traveling with those people and not have to worry about cash flow, then that is a future that excites me.
Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
I like Dallas most of all because it means home. It’s where my family is and where I was raised. No matter what city I go to, be it the futuristic Tokyo to an untouched island in Thailand, when I fly into DFW, I feel like I am back.
I find that the thing I like least is tied between the fact that it is landlocked or that intend to meet people that don’t share the same values as I do.
With that being said, I have met some amazing people here and I do know they exist, I just need to make a more concentrated effort to find them.
Pricing:
- One bedroom apartments starting around $1200
- Three bedroom investment homes starting at $275k
Contact Info:
- Website: Seanrayrealty.com
- Phone: 2148081119
- Email: sean.ray@urbanleasing.com
- Instagram: @seanrayrealty
- Facebook: /seanrayreatlyfan
- Other: YouTube.com/Seanrayrealty
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