Ryan Behie: 60 Days’ Notice After His Best Year

<p>Ryan Behie had just come off his best year yet.</p><p>Then, on a Tuesday morning right after the August long weekend, the phone rang: 60 days’ notice. No cause. No explanation.</p><p>He’d been with the company 11 years. He opened their Winnipeg office himself — first and only person there on day one.</p><p>At home: a wife, a mortgage and a first-born who wasn’t a year old yet.</p><p>He told his team himself. Then he called his clients.</p><p>One of them stopped him mid-sentence. They hired Ryan, they said. Not the company he worked for.</p><p>Two or three weeks later, he was filing the paperwork for his own brokerage.</p><p>A year after that, on his own, he sold a major shopping centre — representing both sides of the deal and helping the out-of-province buyer line up financing and property management.</p><p>In this episode, Ryan talks about starting out on a draw against commission, photocopying the Yellow Pages to find tenants on Pembina Highway, earning his CCIM designation, and why he still skateboards.</p><p>If you’re buying, selling or leasing commercial space in Manitoba, connect with Ryan at Behie Real Estate Inc.</p>