My friend is a real estate agent and started inviting me to their client appreciation events... but I'm not a client?
A good friend of mine recently changed career paths and became a real estate agent this past year. She's been inviting me to their quarterly client appreciation events, but I'm not a client of the brokerage group shes employed with so I'm a bit confused?
So far they've had a Sunday happy hour at a brewery, a lunch and learn of sorts, and the next event is a suite at the Rockies game (CO based) - which actually sounds fun. I haven't been able to attend anything yet because my husband and I travel a lot for work making our schedule fairly unpredictable unless we're on actual PTO.
For background, I bought my house back in 2020 with some family inheritance that fortunately set me up to invest in a slightly nicer home than I'd expect with my salary. I've been working on some big upgrades over the years that's increased the value as well.
That being said, my friend has me in their system so they know where I live and the estimated value of my home. I don't plan on selling until I retire in 25 years, you'll have to pry me from the house to go through the painful moving process again.
My friend knows I don't plan on moving any time soon but I have this odd feeling that the only reason I'm invited is so her coworkers could mingle about selling and using them as the listing agent.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but the agent I worked with back in 2020 only has annual holiday client appreciation events that I've been invited to every December which seems more reasonable since I am their client.
Is it typical for real estate agents to invite friends to their client appreciation events? Something just feels off