JOHN CARLE – REALTOR
| Birthdate |
 |
| Jan 13, 1975 | |
| Licensed Realtor Since | |
| February 1999 | |
| Hobbies | |
| Golf, Computers, Playing with my kids. | |
| Favorite Saying | |
| I’d respect you more if you made sense! | |
| Favorite Author | |
| I don’t read a lot of fiction. Sorry. | |
| Favorite Website | Married |
| www.Knock-Knock.ca (shameless plug!!) | September 7, 2002 |
| Favorite Movie | # of Children |
| Star Wars – the Original Trilogy. | 4 |
| Favorite Song | Most Hated Word |
| What a Good Boy – BNL | Retarded |
| I will retire when… | Favorite Charities |
| hell freezes over! (Or my wife tells me to!) |
Edmonton Down Syndrome Society |
| I’m addicted to… | Pet Peeves |
| electronics! Give me buttons & touch screens! | - people who take 2 parking stalls |
| What makes me most proud? | - when people don’t introduce themselves |
| Kim, Mom, Gabe, Jacob, & Becca | - Government of Canada Website |
John’s Story – His First Year as a St Albert Realtor
At the time, 23 years old, I was wandering through life aimlessly. I had the gift of being a salesman, but really didn’t have a lot of drive to do much of anything in life. I knew that an academic life was not for me; as evidenced by my disasterous 2 years in university. That’s when, while selling in retail, I met a real estate broker who was building a high-tech real estate office. I thought to myself, “Hey. I can do that. The commissions are bigger than I’m making now and people will always need a place to live.”So being me, I jumped into the real estate life with both feet… right into the deep end of the pool. And promptly sunk to the bottom. I didn’t have a tough start. I had a disasterous start. I sucked in a major way. I didn’t know anything, I looked like a geeky teenager, and I was in far over my head. Oh yeah, and I was broke. Really broke. So poor that I had to measure the gas in my old car to where I would be working; because I wasn’t sure if there was enough in there to get me back again. Many people in this business succeeded because of their knowledge, training, or skill. I succeeded because of sheer stubborness. I tried everything… and I did it all the wrong way. If you could advertise wrong, I would do it. If you could screw up a transaction, I did it in my first year. But eventually, through the process of elimination, I started to do it right. I’m not a successful St. Albert real estate agent because I learned to do it right. I’m successful because I learned the hard way; I learned through personal experience what not to do… and when the going gets tough I know how to turn things around. I’ve done it before, and I do it now for my clients. Thanks to the help of my great mother, increadibly patient girlfriend (now my wife) and some terrific friends, I was able to develop into a succesful Realtor. But not until I was done being the biggest disaster in the business. My name is John Carle. I’m a hard working St Albert Realtor.
