Real estate has been a huge part of my life for years, but my role looks a little different than most agents. I spend most of my time in management, helping lead a team of 75 agents through roughly 800 transactions a year and around $200 million in annual sales volume.

Because of that, I have been lucky to see just about every situation that can come up in a real estate transaction. My job is often to be the person agents come to when they need ...