Her Story
About Mariya
Mariya Fuzaylova serves as a Real Estate Advisor and the owner of Value Truth Real Estate Advisors, a brokerage she opened three years ago in Forest Hills, New York. She has over 11 years of experience in real estate, with a focus on Queens and Long Island as her primary comfort zones, along with Brooklyn and Manhattan. Prior to entering real estate, Fuzaylova worked in hospitality, beginning as a bartender and advancing into hotel and restaurant management, after earning a bachelor's degree in business management in 2004. She is actively building a team at her brokerage and mentoring new professionals in the industry. Fuzaylova holds memberships in the National Association of Realtors, the New York State real estate association, and the Long Island Board of Realtors, and she has applied for women-owned business certification.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Mariya
01What do you attribute your success to?
My husband did a lot of the pushing, so he was a lot of the motivation, I want to say, that kind of did all the believing, and he said, you can do it, you can make it happen, and then many times when I was just like, I can't, I'm gonna give up, it's too hard with the kids and everything else, and he was like. I'm not even trying to hear this right now, like, this is not. He gave me the toughness I need.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Not to let other people influence you, to kind of go after what it is you want. Because I feel like people could be so influential, and they just knock your dream right off of the rails, and then next thing you know, you're changing your mind about wanting to do something that you were so passionate about. Especially with women, too, because we're always hearing, like, from other people. If you really want something and you're passionate about something, you make the time for it.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would tell them not to make it their primary career right away, because sometimes a second source of income, especially in the beginning when you're getting established, and you're trying to really visit it. Not as easy as it. And if it's really your primary source of income, then it kind of makes you fail, opposed to making it work. Real estate is a great thing, but you can't make it your like, primary source of income. The money does not come as fast as people think it does, and it's not as quick. It takes time.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
Challenges would be that the rules are changing all the time. The laws are changing, so you have to keep on you have to make sure you do everything the right way. City and state guidelines. The opportunities, it's real estate, the opportunities are endless, because you get to meet all different types of people, not everyone's looking for the same thing. And you get to build relationships with everyone. So, the opportunities are endless.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
To be just a normal person, to be a good person, to try to really see it from other people's perspective. Everybody has a good day, a bad day, and sometimes, when you're speaking to clients, they feel a certain way, and they're almost, like, lashing out at you, but they're not. So it's not cooked. Read into things that's It might not be the way it sounds, you know what I'm saying?
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