Q & A with Sylvia Elkin the Commercial & Industrial Real Estate Brokers, Inc.

Name: Sylvia Elkin Title: Associate Broker Company/firm: Keller Williams Realty Saratoga Springs Years with Company/firm: 4 Years in field: 27 Years in real estate industry: 27 Address: 38 high Rock Avenue , Suite 1 Telephone: 518-573-1230 Email: [email protected] URL: www.sylviaelkinhomes.com Real estate organizations/affiliations: Realtor.com, NYSAR, CIREB, GCAR, NAFE During the last 10 years of your career, which professional accomplishment, honor or achievement was most meaningful to you and why? Teaching other agents what I know and seeing them achieve their goals. A real accomplishment for me is to keep up with the technology advancements in real estate today. As a realtor who has been in the field as long as I, the technology has been a great bonus to mesince I know gow it once was. Which project, deal or transaction was the 'game changer' in the advancement of your career during the last 10 years? The "game changer" is the project that I am working on now, which is commercial condos which is new to our area of the state. Its a great concept of ownership for those who have a business but don't own their space. Now with the leasable condos, business owners can lease until their business gets going, then buy their space. How do you contribute to your company and / or the industry? I volunteer for our various projects which our company chooses. I also work with a project call El Camino which help Veterans find apartments and houses for Vets returning from active duty. What advice would you give to women just starting out in commercial real estate? Find a niche then learn, learn and learn about it. Think outside the box and ask question of other agent. Also find an agent which you can trail and learn from. How do you manage the work/life balance? Time management and sticking to it. Work at the things which make the best money for the least amount of time. Make sure work, family and time off is in balance because you need it all to be happy. Who or what has been the strongest influence on your career and why? Making a decent living, which makes me continue to work at learning how to make my career work in way to achieve all the balance in my life. How are you using social media to promote yourself, your products and / or your firm? My company is into technology all the way. They are all over the internet. I use Facebook, LinkedIn, Branchout, CoStar, to get my buyers and sellers information out. Where would you like to be 10 years from today? Retired and living off the profit share program from my company and enjoying the fruits of all my labor.