Episode 8: Angry Property Agent Stopped Believing His Upline’s Lies After This Happened…

[Summary of Audio Transcript] She lied to me. I didn’t recognise it at the time but my team manager had been telling me lies from the very first day. She pulled me aside and said to me: You’ve got to work harder than the next agent! I was brand new. Besides, I had recently quit MLM. I thought Property was a different animal because this time I had a leader guiding me. So I thought I should listen to her. I didn’t have much confidence in myself because I hardly had real sales experience. Honestly, hard selling in MLM to my friends and their families had broken off my friendships. No one was answering my calls. I had few friends left. This left me feeling depressed and I was constantly worrying about what people would think about me. But because I was starting my property agent career from scratch and also without a job, I struggled to reach my upline’s HDB HUB office daily. I was embarrassed to ask my hard working mother for money for daily transport. So my upline advised me to come down to her office only for team meetings, closings and submitting sales documents. But I found the team meetings to be a waste of my time and money. Most of the time they were complaining about their clients (if they had clients) or complaining about money (if they didn’t). I witnessed that my upline was busy half the time fighting fires and the other half chasing her downlines. But since I showed initiative and was willing to learn, she took me under her wing to groom me as a realtor. So for the next 6 months, I did everything she told me to do: Called my friends and family (the ones I hadn’t spammed yet) asking if they needed help selling houses (most didn’t, but I got 1 rental worth $700) Threw 1,000+ flyers at the MRT every day for 3 months straight (0 calls) Knocked on hundreds of HDB doors running up, down & around my estate Attended many networking events as an excuse to chat up total strangers Ran ads on Straits Times using borrowed money (7 calls, but no closings) But after doing all the above for six months straight, I got severely burnt out working crazy 16-hour days, including weekends & Public Holidays.   I just didn’t have the the motivation any more. That was the day I realised that hard work was actually a big, fat lie. I doubt if I would have found the time to even enjoy whatever little money I earned, but the embarrassing, cold, hard truth is that I hardly earned much.  Hard work + low income = burnout I ended up hated selling and almost wanted to quit being an agent. But there were other lies too that I frequently heard as an agent. 1. it's a number's game 2. always be prospecting 3. time is limited 4. you must be on call 24/7 5. they will call you if they know you 6. get a great team leader So I got tired of hearing these lies all the time. Even my own agents believed them. That’s why I wrote a new book exposing such lies that every upline tells their agents all the time. It’s called Property Agent Secrets. It uncovers the layers and layers of B.S. surrounding the Singapore real estate industry. And it turns the failure equation I wrote above totally upside down on its head. In my book, I take a deep dive and explain everything in much greater detail. You’ll never again accept a lie from another property agent, especially your upline. I wish I had this book as my guide back when I was a new agent myself. Want a FREE copy? Let me know, but you’ll have to pay for shipping in Singapore. Fair enough?