Inman Contributor Rachael Hite wrote “I’m a real estate agent. You can’t tell me what to wear on the job” back in February as a response to an agent-broker perspective article. She couldn’t have predicted the outsized response that followed.
Source: Inman News
You can’t tell an agent what to wear, I said. Then you responded
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