What's Working Now Interview Series - How Your Real Estate Business Could Create a Second Income Stream and Fun
Commission income can be unpredictable, especially in a slower market or during a personal interruption. In this interview, a working real estate agent explains how connected investment activities—including long-term and short-term rentals—created an additional income stream, strengthened his sales expertise, and built assets for the future.
The conversation looks at diversification through businesses that remain closely related to real estate rather than distracting from the core practice. Topics include acquiring and financing properties, evaluating opportunities through multiple lenses, managing rentals, dealing with risk, using personal experience to advise investor clients, and creating a longer-term source of stability and family wealth. The featured agent also discusses helping tenants move toward ownership and how operating investment properties can deepen practical knowledge. This is not a promise of passive or effortless income; it is a candid exploration of the work, judgment, and patience required to build a complementary real estate portfolio.
What You'll Learn
• How real estate investments can create a connected second income stream.
• Why diversification can support financial resilience and long-term asset building.
• What operating rentals teaches an agent about investment clients and property decisions.
• Why every opportunity should be evaluated for cash flow, financing, management demands, and risk.
Pause, rewind, and resume anytime. No scheduled start.
Sabine is an award-winning writer, producer, coach, and moderator who has delivered over one million courses and helped hundreds of thousands of agents—alongside her clients and partners—accelerate their success. As the founder and CEO of Hiveologie and a four-time running RISMedia Newsmaker Trailblazer, she is one of the original innovators and architects of real estate learning. Always looking to improve and links between business performance and learning methodology in the most practical terms, Sabine and her team began the task of reinventing elearning, with the Agent experience in mind.
