33: $2 Billion in Sales while Persisting through Tragedy & Towards Positive Change // The Story of Jas Takhar

Toronto native, Jas Takhar, has been in the sales and service industry for over 25 years. Soon after deciding to try his hand in real estate, he co-founded the REC, and in the course of 15 years, has successfully propelled his team to the 1st place position in Canada under Royal LePage.

With 25 realtors and 10 support staff, the team advises and assists over 700 buyers, sellers and investors, yearly, across the Greater Toronto Area, resulting in a total of over $1.5B in transactions. Jas’ area of expertise is in helping investors build out their real estate portfolios. Wanting to share his knowledge and experience with the masses, he wrote a book titled Real Estate Intelligence, which teaches others how to buy or sell real estate on their own.

Furthering his pursuit to educate and motivate, he now hosts one of the top business podcasts in the country, the REC Experience; here he interviews guests who share their success stories on real estate investing, entrepreneurship and leadership. He also hosts a daily Instagram Live show called “Nite Cap with Jas” where he answers his follower’s most frequently asked questions. His hope is to provide inspiring content to aid others in removing the friction for their own life, in order to help them get from where they are to where they want to be.

Time-Stamped Show Notes:

• 3:25 Jas Takhar runs a team of 41 real estate agents covering the greater Toronto area. They concentrate mostly on single-family homes and helping first-time home buyers.
• 5:42 For those aspiring to become content creators, Jas offers very sound advice.
• 8:20 Instead of focusing on his competitors, Jas gives more attention to his strengths.
• 13:48 Jas was thinking of quitting the real estate business and going back to being a car salesman but he chanced upon a seminar where he met his mentor.
• 17:21 According to Jas, to speed up your way to success, you should have a great mentor.
• 22:14 Jas shares his view about work-life balance and why it’s hard for him to achieve the perfect balance.
• 26:50 As his mentor and business partner was having dinner in a restaurant, someone walked up to him and shot him. Jas talks about this very rock bottom moment in his life.
• 29:34 Seeing the picture of his two kids, Jas decided he would not quit.
• 32:54 It’s not the end of the story, it’s just the end of a chapter is a saying that strongly resonates with Jas.
• 34:55 There are only two things that would derail and stop Jas on his tracks and halt his production.
• 38:39 Jas talks about being a little bit unreasonable and being able to take rejections when you are in sales.
• 40:17 Adversities and negative events that came flooding all at once became too much for Jas, which made him decide to quit.
• 46:59 For people who are in their rock-bottom moment today, Jas has a powerful message for them.
• 50:09 Looking at his past self in his rock-bottom moment, Jas would say to himself that it’s all going to be okay.

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Key Points from the Interview:

• “To speed up the process of success, get with somebody or people that are already doing what you’re doing. And most of the time, not every single time because some people might take advantage of the mentee, but most of the time they’re going to tell you the things where they hit their head against the wall so you don’t have to.”
• “In that moment when you hit rock-bottom, you don’t feel it, you don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, but I think we just need to sit back and realize that it’s not the end yet.”

Resources Mentioned:

• LinkedIn: JasTakhar
• Instagram: JasTakhar13
• Facebook: @JasTakhar13
• YouTube: Jas Takhar
• Twitter: @JasTakhar
• Medium.com: @JasTakhar13
• JasTakhar.ca
• Jas Takhar Podcast
• RECCanada.com