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When A Man Meets A Woman
# 24 Real Estate Man
Real Estate Man likes his career as a real estate man. He doesn’t give a damn about the bricks and mortar. What he realized, rather early on, was that real estate, contrary to many people’s impression, is a people business. Flowing through every residential property, every office, every store front, every parking space, is the life blood of people. Without people there’s no demand, no value, no energy. It’s all people driven: most of us have similar destinations but are worlds apart on the journey. That’s part of what make’s the business…..interesting
Real Estate Man’s Story:
I had a young man living in an apartment who was part of the Temple Foreign Exchange Program where, according to the literature: “Students can learn a different culture, make new friends and discover new ways to look at the world and themselves.” The tenants in 2331 Brown St were part of that very exchange program. There were 3 students living there. One of them was named Aarav. If he was learning a different culture, making new friends and discovering new ways to look at the world and himself — he kept it to himself. Unlike most tenants who like nothing better than to somehow get the opportunity to talk to me , Aarav seldom talked at all. For all tenants, if it’s a question, comment, observation or to just to make plain conversation out of…