
Her journey into the world of real estate began with an unexpected twist when her neighbor, a real estate broker, saw potential in her and urged her to leave teaching behind. That’s exactly what she did, taking those words as a challenge to embark on an incredible journey. “I wanted to stay home with my kids,” Erica recalls. “When my neighbor encouraged me, I decided to go for it. And he was right, I was pretty great at it! I was able to stay home with my kids, working nights and weekends at the very beginning, and by the time my kids were in school I had a pretty full book of business and eventually opened my own company.”
With 20 years of real estate experience under her belt in the Chicagoland real estate market, Top Agent Erica Cuneen has a motto: `relationship before transaction, every time.
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