Lynette Wilson of Auburn, New York, has spent twenty-five years growing her real estate career by turning personal adversity into fuel for empathy, compassion, and infinite interpersonal understanding. “I really care about people. I think when you lose a child, or you’re going through something very difficult with a child, you just look at life differently and you look at people differently. Real estate can be a rough business with people driven by numbers and transactions – but that’s just not me.”

Before formally entering the industry, Lynette was exposed to real estate through several generations of agents. “My mother and grandmother are both native Italians,” she recalls. “When my grandmother moved to Auburn with my grandfather, they started buying up property together, and my mother started selling real estate in the eighties.