So You Want to be a Real Estate Agent

The Investor Advantage: How Alyssa Marquez Built a Smarter Business

Meredith Fogle Season 7 Episode 7

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In this episode, Meredith sits down with Alyssa Marquez, a top-producing agent serving both the San Antonio, TX and Fort Lauderdale, FL markets, whose career is redefining what’s possible when strategy, mentorship, and innovation come together.

A multi-year Thirty Under 30 award winner, Alyssa shares how she built her business with intention - starting with strong mentorship, recognizing when it was time to step into her own leadership, and expanding her vision beyond a single market. You’ll hear how she developed a powerful investor-focused strategy, transitioned from serving investors to becoming one herself, and scaled her business across two distinct markets.

Alyssa also reflects on the lessons she learned while building and leading a team, the mindset required to think bigger, and how approaching real estate as both an agent and an investor can completely change the way you operate.

 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

✅ How Alyssa leveraged mentorship to accelerate her early success

 ✅ The signs it’s time to step out on your own and grow into leadership
 ✅ Lessons learned while building and scaling a real estate team
 ✅ How to develop and attract an investor-focused client base
 ✅ The shift from agent to investor - and what to think about first
 ✅ Strategies for successfully expanding into multiple markets

This episode is perfect for agents who are ready to think bigger, expand their opportunities, and approach real estate as a long-term wealth-building business