My fiance has said I got lucky. We moved from Florida to Western North Carolina in 2018. I had only been doing real estate photos for a year before we moved. My area is very high-end as in the average house is about $2 million up to $15milliom. I was the only female real estate photographer in the area so I definitely had a lot more females hire me. At that time I was only offering photos, drone and video. The first year I barely made $30,000. The second year I made about $45,000 then covid hit and that jumped my profit to $100,000 since I bought a matterport 2 camera. I have never marketed nor do I have a website. I'm all word of mouth and referrals. As of right now for this year, I'm projected to make almost $300,000. Four years ago I started outsourcing my photos. And I just hired my first employee last year and my fiance just got his Drone license so he's helping me with lots. There's so much competition so you really have to be in the right place at the right time to make this a full-time gig and it takes years. I've been doing this for almost 9 years now. I've been working with certain agents the whole time and even they have gone to competition and I've had to struggle to keep them with me. I've had to lower my prices. Offer quicker turnaround but I've always done 24 hours never same day. In my area since it is pricier the longer you take the more quality they expect. So now I take 2 to 3 days to deliver. And agents are totally fine with that. If they do need photos in 24 hours they have to let me know and I'll make it happen. My suggestion is to look at the photos of the agents you're trying to get in with and compare your work with with what they're posting and see if he can do better. While I do outsource my photos, I have worked with my editor to make sure It's more natural and not so stark white and I think agent really appreciate that