Real Estate Investing “Celebrities”. Puh-leeze.
From this months issue of Business Week:
The theme music from Star Wars played as Bill Rancic, the first winner of TV's The Apprentice, bounded onto the stage. Rancic told his life's story. How he made money selling pancakes to his grandmother's friends as a 10-year-old. How he quit his dead end job selling commodities and built a successful cigar-of-the-month club, despite snickers from his old bosses. Then, facing off against Ivy Leaguers and MBAs, he came out on top of one of the most popular reality shows in the country, winning the right to supervise the construction of a 90-story condo building Chicago for none other than Donald Trump.
I've got nothing against Bill Rancic. In fact, I'd probably say I'm pro-Rancic. The part of the article that bugged me was the next paragraph. Read more »
About Will Hicks
Will Hicks is an affiliate real estate broker licensed in the State of Tennessee. Prior to his career transition into real estate, Hicks was a SCUBA Instructor with the International ALERT Academy of Big Sandy, Texas and the National Academy of Police Diving, based in Miami, Florida.
Hicks says he’s been asked many times about the odd transition from SCUBA Instructor to Real Estate Agent. “Teaching people how to SCUBA dive was the most fun 10 years of my life. But you can’t eat fun.” You can’t pay the rent with it either.
You can reach Will Hicks in Memphis at (901) 758-5670 or (901) 828-9200 or on Twitter at TheWillHicks.
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