Personal Narrative: Real Estate Rental Business

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Fundamentally, I already had extensive prior knowledge of arguments and the need to present the best reasoning possible to convince another person that my idea or statement is correct. Having had to deal with legal issues, running my own real estate rental business, as well as being a lower level manager in a parts distribution warehouse, has given me plenty of opportunity to practice arguments, and persuasion. I wish I had attended college before these situations occurred. My biggest weakness is my communication skills. Verbally, written, and body language communication skills were very insufficient. Gaining the skills of being clear, and concise are two areas that I have been working on extensively. Although, these areas have improved

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