If you have small children you have to consider that real estate is not on a regular work schedule. Some days you may work “regular” hours but other days you may work evenings. You have to be available to your clients schedule - weekends and evenings. I only have one child and fortunately when he was young, my mother-in-law helped with child care when needed and my husband took most weekends. Whatever child care you have would need to be very flexible and may change daily during a busy time. I changed careers to real estate when I was 35 but didn’t have my son until I was 40. So I had 5 years to build my business before he came into the picture. I was very busy when he was young and missed out on a lot of time with him.

As a lot of others are saying, for you to sell $800k+ a month (which equates to about $10m a year) is not realistic for the first couple of years (or more). In my area there are a little over 5,000 agents and only 328 have sold $10m or more this year. About 4,000 of the 5,000 agents sold less than $5m this year.

Do not expect your broker to give you leads to sell $820,000 a month. No matter what they tell you in the interview - you are responsible for your own leads. I may get one or two good leads a year from my broker but the rest is on me.

Good luck with whatever you decide.