Real Estate Weekly featured our very own Jed Garfield in this weeks Brokers Weekly.

Jed Garfield currently holds the title of managing partner at Leslie J. Garfield but he’s been immersed in real estate since he was a young boy.

“It’s something I ended up doing by default,” said Garfield while discussing his real estate career and reminiscing about “racing to keep up with my father as we went up and down Madison Avenue.”

Garfield’s father, Leslie Garfield, started the firm in 1972. For nearly five decades, the company has been focused on the brokering of townhouses and smaller buildings.

But while Garfield’s early exposure to the business certainly lent him an advantage over other young professionals who were just learning the basics as they launched their careers, his family background did not give him a free pass to success. There was a long road between boyhood apprentice and top brass.

Read the full article at Real Estate Weekly