FEATURE ARTICLE
Caroline Gim
C
aroline Gim knows what it means to ‘come from a real estate family.’ As a California-
based residential real estate broker and property manager, Gim has worked
for
her
family-owned
company, Expert Real Estate & Investment, since 2003. Growing up, Gim said she was not ‘like other kids’ and did not receive an allowance. Well, in a traditional sense. “My mother would leave a dollar on the counter on Sunday mornings.
IT’S ALL IN THE FAMILY
I would ride my bike to the store
By Charles Peckman, Contributing Writer for Originate Report
Estate section that said, ‘For Sale
near our house and buy the Sunday LA Times for 75 cents,” she recalls. “With the remaining 25 cents, I would buy 5 Jolly Ranchers and head home. Sucking on my Jolly Ranchers I would circle anything in the Real by Owner’. I’d leave that section out for my mother and get to keep the comics and five Jolly Ranchers. For an hour’s work, not bad!” In addition to this weekly search through the For Sale by Owner’s in the LA Times, Gim said she also served as her mother's 'GPS' when previewing properties. “I was her GPS. I would sit in the front seat with a Thomas Bros. Guide in my lap,” she mentions. “I would look up the addresses of each stop, follow along with my finger on the map, and tell her when her next turn was coming. I became good at navigating Southern California, to the point where I could tell you
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which freeways to take to get to some cities.”
