From Factory Worker to $300K Realtor | Milena Simsic

<p>Milena Simsic made $300,000 in commissions in her first year as a realtor, without any prior real estate connections, using nothing but TikTok and Instagram. She had no social media presence before she got her license. She figured it out in public. </p><p> </p><p>Milena is the founder of WindSocial Realty in Windsor, Ontario, and the publisher of the Windsor Real Estate Insider, a newsletter and magazine that grew to 9,000 subscribers in under a year. She also runs Windsor REI Social, a 3,000-member community that fills events with 100 to 200 investors. She is currently switching brokerages from EXP to Real and building a community for realtors who want to learn AI-powered marketing. </p><p> </p><p>In this conversation, we cover: </p><ul><li><p>Why Windsor&#39;s single-family homes have held value while student rentals and investment properties have softened </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>What the Gordy Howe Bridge delay and the EV plant mean for Windsor&#39;s growth trajectory </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>How Milena made $300K her first year as a realtor off TikTok and Instagram alone </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Why she replaced her virtual assistant with Claude AI and built her CRM systems in an afternoon </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>How the top agents implementing AI are going to absorb market share from those who are not </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Why she left EXP for Real, and what Real is getting right that most online brokerages are not </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>The health crisis that doubled her business once she fixed it </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>Why business owners are particularly vulnerable to loneliness and what she did about it </p></li></ul><ul><li><p>How Windsor REI Social went from monthly to biannual events and why that made it bigger </p></li></ul><p> </p><p>Milena&#39;s arc is the arc TAFI was rebranded to celebrate: a factory worker and ICU nurse who saw where the highest-leverage play was, went all in, and built a media brand and a business that works without grinding 60 hours a week. </p><p><br></p><p>CONNECT WITH MILENA SIMSIC Windsor Real Estate Insider: https://www.windsorrealestateinsider.comInstagram / LinkedIn / Facebook / YouTube: search &#39;Milena Simsic&#39; </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Chapters</strong></p><p>00:00: Introduction and Cold Open </p><p>01:20: Milena&#39;s background: factory worker, nursing, COVID, Windsor </p><p>03:00: Breaking news: brokerage switch from EXP to Real </p><p>04:00: Windsor Real Estate Insider magazine, 9,000 subs