Real Estate, Lifestyle & More

My path to real estate is as funny as this picture of  me being locked out of a  Clinton Hill brownstone. After working in the beauty business since college years from business management to retail development, I left MAC Cosmetics in 2005 to work on building my first business, what would become Polish Bar Brooklyn. Over the next decade I built 2 free-standing stores, lead the brand, managed the training and development of our beauty teams of 22  along with all of the daily operations of my small chain. 

I was a local fixture in the Clinton Hill, Fort Greene and Prospect Heights community but I was slowly become a small time celebrity at Home Depot. Every day something broke, leaked or just fell off. Even now, I know my way around the Brooklyn Home Depots like a member of management. But it was through the many years of  running my storefronts that I learned the neighborhoods, met the home owners,  grew to know the families and ultimately created a beauty haven that provided for a small escape for our fellow neighbors. For many years I would joke about my useless talents, knowing the blocks and lots, being able to project what businesses were needed, which would fail or flourish. I knew how to read architectural plans, pick paint, repair any and everything and could snake a toilet in record time. I was a home owner, a business owner and more importantly a problem solver. Those are the skills that lead me to growing a successful business at the rate at which I did when I started my real estate career. I walked into real estate with my  existing clientele, continued to utilize my marketing and event skills and shared the knowledge that I had amassed about renovations, investments, rental properties and home buying through everyday life and business experiences. I improve on this  education  by continually making investments in my business, growing my real estate investments, continuing education and career coaching. Often people ask, how did I make the switch. I tell them what I know to be true. I have always been in real estate. It started the day I signed my very first commercial lease for my first business and continues today. Learn more about me and my approach to business by reading my client testimonials. 

xxo Tricia Lee