New Jersey Teenage Dealer Becomes Real Estate Broker

Not all news stories about drugs are bad news—an article recently appeared in the New York Observer about Jermaine Morrison, who transformed himself from a teenage drugs dealer into a respected and powerful real estate mogul. Raised in Somerville, New Jersey, Morrison said “We were really, really, really poor. Shit was hard. Really, really, really hard.” Morrison soon turned to selling drugs just for a way out of the oppressive poverty. He began at age 16, and was soon making $100,000 a year, he says.

The drug dealing life wasn’t for him, though. After his arrests and jail time, Morrison realized that dealing drugs was a dead-end lifestyle. He decided to move into a more acceptable career and made the switch to real estate. He had to get his criminal record petitioned in order to get his real estate license. Though he was once facing double-digit years in jail, he’s now a wealthy and successful broker. Proof that it is possible to turn a life around.

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