Hello ~

I am excited to be on board this site and for the enthusiasm and camaraderie this site exudes.

I was inspired to enter the real estate niche by a RE agent who enthusiastically promoted the career path of virtual assistant, particularly a REVA.

I registered my business name as a .com domain just yesterday, and I plan to take the summer to write a business plan, build my personal website, and prepare to launch my REVA business.

As indicated by my business name, "EcoGreenREVA", I am very interested in sustainability, everything "green", AND Real Estate. In fact, my first plan was to enter the Real Estate field, it was while exploring that possibility I learned about the career path of REVA and the more I thought about pursuing that path, the more it grew on me as an excellent opportunity. In fact, it appears to be THE career I have been, unknowingly, preparing to enter for many years. I bring to the table experience in everything from website design to working as a paralegal, with plenty of administrative assistant and entrepreneurial experience.

The career of REVA interests me because it appears to be a multi-faceted and challenging niche within the VA field. The geek in me can flourish in the nitty-gritty of web design & virtual tours and exploring/exploiting new-media technologies such as Facebook and Twitter. My past experience as a paralegal will come into play in preparing for closing transactions, and my entrepreneurial spirit will constantly be engaged in both my own career growth, but also as I support agents in obtaining their career goals.

Once I get enough business to justify the transition, my husband of 18 years plans to come on board and add his 25 years of sales and marketing experience to the "EcoGreenREVA" team.

We are currently living in St. Paul, Minnesota but plan to return to my husband's hometown of Atlanta, Georgia within the next couple of years. This career move into the world of REVAs is designed to help facilitate this move.

I am a third-generation entrepreneur, owning my own business and charting my own future is in my blood. I understand the commitment required to be successful as an entrepreneur, which is why I waited until my children were older and "trained" to "hold down the fort" as I dig in and work on building my/our dreams of financial and location freedom!

I look forward to finding friends and comrades on this forum. I will be posting to the Branding Forum next, I need help brainstorming a tag line for my business.

Sincerely,

Susan Davis, St. Paul, Minneosta
EcoGreenREVA.com

Welcome Susan -
Sounds like you are very prepared and have plenty of experience to draw upon.

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Valerie

Originally Posted by Uniquely Virtual

Welcome Susan - Sounds like you are very prepared and have plenty of experience to draw upon.

I am TRYING to be be very prepared

and I am TRYING to convince myself that I have plenty of experience to draw upon.


Starting one's own business is really a mind game, is it not?

I think my biggest challenge is going to be time management

Thanks for the Warm Welcome!

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Susan Davis ~ EcoGreenREVA

Welcome to the VAF Susan, We all understand the mind game your going through. Once you have made the decision to do it, it just seems like it snowballs out of control lol. Been there and still do it off and on.

I am so excited you chose the REVA. It is a great niche and can be a very lucrative one. Although they all can be lucrative it is all about what you put into it.

While your working on putting things together. Pick your friends brain. Ask her a million zillion questions. Such as: What kind of things can I do for you that would not go against the RE Rules and Regs?

My state has quite a few limitations on what an assistant can do. So visit Realtor.org and check your states regulations.

More questions to ask are? What can I do for you that you would love to not have to do daily? i.e. email campaigns, finding FSBO etc.

There is a lot of information in the REVA Niche thread. So check there to what others have to say.

I look there every day just to see what is new in the field.

Take care and again welcome

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Action Jackson Virtual Assistant|

Hi Susan, welcome to the forums It's great to have you here.

We have a small but dedicated section for REVAs here: Real Estate Virtual Assistants (REVAs) and of course, loads of great information in all of the other various forum topic sections.

Make yourself at home!

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Wow - it seems that you have a great start and good idea of where you want to go with things. The real estate side really intrigues me - I'm basically curious because I know nothing about it I am also new to the forum's, but hoping to focus my VA business on Bookkeeping. It's great that we all have our own "thing" but come together here. I hope to learn a lot.

Best of luck to you and see you in the forum!

-Kelli

You are most definitely well on your way! Everyone here is great and there's a wealth of information just waiting for you to reach out and grab it!

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Marjorie
www.aysvirtualsolutions.com